I haven't looked at the code but it could also be possible to make the elevation of the spotter and the terrain and type of the unit being spotted affect the ranges. That could add a lot of new dynamics to the game even if rather gamey.

The game's engine doesn't support more than one type of model per unit. The mixed archer and some other complex units have been done with animation tricks as a workaround, and I guess turning off the animations restores the unit to its default state (which in this case is the "main" spearm...

I haven't played the epic battle since the DLC was in beta but I took a look at the old beta forum discussion on the subject. The scenario is purposely difficult for the Byzantines and one of the hardest in the game in my experience (there are also a few random factors that may make this scenario a ...

Couple more comments on the latter post. 2) Cavalry were sometimes instructed not to engage in order to play a crucial role in the immediate aftermath of battle : covering the retreat or chasing the routed enemies This is indeed a vital role that any cavalry is capable of executing. During cursades ...

Everyone is of course entitled to his opinions. A couple of things bother me in your reasoning though : 1) your only source is Armies of the Greek and Persian wars (1978) by Richard Bruce Nelson, That was not the point I was trying to make. My overall impression of the Greek cavalry's low performan...

In FoG2 terms, I would prefer a lower quality non-light cavalry for the non-Thessalian (maybe non-Theban/Syracusan) Classical Greek cavalry (unmaneuverable, average, light-spear, 50% swordsmen would be my pitch) instead of the usual light javelin and the non-light light-spear cavalry. To clarify, I'...

My imperssion is that the in-game light cavalry and light-spear armed cavalry are (through most of the game) essentially a representation of one and same type of historical cavalry. Through light and non-light formations they are mechanically assigned to the two extremes of of their role and capabil...

Irregular Foot mostly represent loosely formed javelin throwing infantry. (In fact they used to be called Javelinmen in the game until some people found that description confusing and persuaded us to change the name to Irregular Foot). Not much need of formation there. And they are surely bad enoug...

I guess it's pretty unlikely that something this major would be patched in this late in the development but I do like the idea. I wouldn't recommend unmaneuverable as a "default" for the cavalry but there are some that the trait would fit. For example, the Early Cavalry always seemed like ...

Thanks for the update! The new late Teutonic list is really nice. It now feels like an interesting hybrid of German and Polish lists and seems to work nicely against the Polish with Lithuanian allies (not that those wars historically went that great for the Teutons but it seems very sensible for the...

Yeah, inflicting casualties alone isn't that important. Always try to shoot the same enemy enough to get a cohesion test (held firm, disrupted, fragmented) and once you see a cohesion test, switch to another target. Try to avoid wasting ammo on pot shots that don't work towards a cohesion test on th...

Realistically the best and latest armor would likely be adopted first by the wealthiest nearer to the centers of armour-making innovation while the less wealthy warriors could use the same armor for generations and maybe upgrade piece by piece. The equipment of an army would not be uniform. For pers...

You can look into Field of Glory tabletop wargame rules for some further army list details: https://www.slitherine.com/game/field-of-glory-ii (see the downloads section). One source widely used in making of FoG2 are Ian Heath's books on Armies of Feudal Europe, Middle Ages, and Crusades which may of...

If the actual combat and morale rolls were averages of 100 the results would be borderline deterministic.

I remember reading the combat routines are run 100 times. Is that also true for morale checks? The combat result prediction percentages are formed by running the numbers a number of times. The combat and morale rolls are only done once (the latter is only done once per turn regardless of how many t...

For me, the only new thing I'd really like to see done with the current game engine is the inclusion of far east and other regions still missing from FoG2 Ancients and Medieval. I'd love an early modern period FoG game made in another engine like Unity or Godot that would be less technically limitin...

I'd love to see FoG2 expanded to the East and other so far unvisited areas for the entire duration. As far as I understand, such expansion is already ruled out because it would require too much assests for being an expansion. I think it could probably be done as a 3rd game though, itegrated with Anc...

Good looking lists.

I suspect ability to dismount and remount during battle would either be used for gamey POA optimisation, or it would have such prohibitive requirements (cooldown, distance from the abandoned mounts etc) that it wouldn't be useful at all. If a feature is redundant or makes the battles less realistic ...

The lancers are good when you just really need your cavalry to be less evasive. If you are facing superior quality cavalry, the lancers will also stick to melee much better which allows you to get the auto-cohesion drops with other flanking cavalry units. When you have to frontally impact using cava...