High Middle Ages - Calradia

After a few months of it consuming my life, I’m excited to finally present “High Middle Ages — Calradia”.

At its core this mod converts Bannerlord from the Dark Ages setting up to the High Middle Ages period (1000-1300ad).

Although in the early stages I was building this off the bones of my High Middle Ages mod for Crusader Blade (a mod for Crusader Kings 3), I have pretty much rebuilt everything from scratch and created many new units specifically for the Bannerlord campaign.

Please note I haven’t removed any items from the game. So even though you won’t see any units wearing the early period gear now, you can still acquire it yourself.

Requirements:

For the correct balance the Realistic Battle Mod AI module is strongly reccomended. (NOT compatible with combat module)

Key features of the mod:

• All new unit trees created from scratch (including minor clans, mercenaries, bandits and lords) with visuals that evoke the High Middle Ages setting. Although not historically accurate I’ve tried my best to make it feel immersive. I’ve avoided items like Warhammer style pauldrons that spoil any sense immersion.

• Armour and weapon variety within each unit:

All units now have a large pool of items that will be equipped. No longer will you see clone armies, especially in units such as Levies where a range of equipment makes sense.

• Unit trees have been refined so that a rock paper scissors balance is achieved. This can be utilized in battle tactics. Each faction also has a few higher tier units that reflect their unique military prowess.

• Each faction has access to most classes (with variable effectiveness). For example, now each faction has a pike/spear brace unit. Please see the “Basic unit types” section further below for a breakdown.

• Armour values have been equalised within each unit. This meant I had full creative control of the visuals in each unit while still maintaining unit balance relationships.

• Shield HP values have been lowered over all units to make anti-shield units/tactics feasible.

• Armour colours improved to create a less saturated colour palate that suit the equipment of each faction. Flags have also been adjusted to complement these.

Basic unit types

All units broadly fit into one of these classes below. Faction specific units can have unique characteristics that often counteract the usual class downsides.

Levies and seasoned levies:

These are the backbone of armies. Poorly armoured and poorly skilled these units are best used as cannon fodder holding enemies in place while the better units flank. They are equipped with a whole range of melee weapons.

Light footmen (shieldbreakers):