Mount and blade warband mod china4/16/2023 THE SONG DYNASTY (Northern Song 960-1127, Southern Song 1127-1279)Įarly Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1453, Jingtai reign)Īfter a period of upheaval and unrest that was the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty rose up and reunite the Chinese people once again. Jurchen Dismounted "Iron Pagoda" Cataphract Jurchen "Iron Pagoda" Superheavy Cataphract (鐵浮屠) Javelin Pavisier (鏢牌手) - Very tough meatshield/tarpit infanty. Glaiveman (刀斧手) - Fragile (by Chinese standard, they are still heavily armored infantry) anti-everything heavy hitter. Vulnerable to ranged unit. Spearman (槍手) - General purpose infantry. * Forbidden Army units cannot gather resource or construct building. While this is somewhat true for Christian faith, Chinese medicine for the most part was very secularized.) Healer - (Personally I oppose to the "religious personnel as healer" approach. Military Laborer (廂兵) - Only unit in the entire civilization that can build military building. Unlock technology: Watertight Compartment Unlock technology: Advanced Agriculture 3 History: Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, only to be replaced by Southern Song Dynasty.Įffect: Drastic restructuring of the entire army and access to many new weapon, technologies and upgrades. (Ironically, this has nothing to do with navy) History: Northern Song Dynasty formed an alliance with the Jin Dynasty in order to destroy the Liao.Įffect: Access to powerful but expensive Jin Dynasty units. * Civic center, house and defensive tower gain additional arrow attack. History: A massive centralization project conducted by Northern Song minister Wang Anshi. History: The Chinese invented a variant of the Greek Fire that can spill out continuous flame.Įffect: Song Dynasty defensive tower gains a devastating flame attack. History: The first detailed formula of gunpowder was recorded in the Northern Song military encyclopedia Wujing Zongyao.Įffect: Song Dynasty siege weapons gain explosive ammunition. To the Chinese, this only makes their cavalry somewhat more viable.) (To other civilizations, this could be a borderline OP upgrade. History: The Chinese traded tea for horses.Įffect: Reduce training cost of cavalry. History: During the Northern Song, introduction of foreign crop from Champa (modern day Vietnam), Korea, India and Middle East greatly improved food producton, while the invention of Yang Ma (秧馬) or 'Seedling Horse' made planting and harvesting crops faster and easier.Įffect: Increase farm yield even more and reduce harvest intervals. History: The combination of odometer and compass makes charting map much easier.Įffect: All Song building and land unit gain +25% vision range. Not applicable to Song civilization itself. Although Song Dynasty was the one that was receiving tribute, they tend to give more than they receive.Įffect: Allied traders and merchant ships gain +60% trade profit when trading with the Song civilization. Tribute mission of this period was useful to put up the facade that Song Dynasty was still powerful and, more importantly, to maintain foreign relationship as (more or less) equals. History: The Chinese were no longer the dominant superpower of the Far East that could automatically attract tribute from the so-called 'lesser' countries. However, their overwhelmingly powerful economic technologies ensure that they stay ahead of their opponents economically without expanding territory. * Slow expansion: The general slowness of the Song army means that they also cannot expand effectively. * Slow infantry: Infantry of the Song Dynasty are weighted down by their extra-heavy armor. * Overpriced cavalry: Cavalry of the Song Dynasty are massively overpriced, but only of moderate quality. History: The main export of the Chinese since the Han Dynasty.Įffect: 15% gain to both trader and merchant ship. (And these are just the inventions of the previous dynasties) They had farming treaties, multiple-tube seed drills and curved iron crankshaft plow, to name but a few. History: Chinese mastery in agriculture was unsurpassed up until early modern period (don't quote me, but they were quite far ahead of the rest of world during our time frame AFAIK). * Defennd oriented - The Song Dynasty defensive strategy was heavily reliant on passive defense and developed superior defensive construction as a result. However, they cannot perform economic task. Most Song infantry are cheap, train fast, and extremely tough for their price. * Forbidden army of eight hundred thousand - The Song Dynasty was able to maintain a truly mind-boggling amount of full-time professional troops, but not all of them combat worthy. Song civilization start with the usual civic center building instead of castle/fortress typical of Millennium A.D. * Imperial society - The Chinese did not live in a feudal society.
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