Sartosa free company should be empires free company militia

[Scar]

Think thats the name of them, armed with sword/cutlass with a handgun, instead of the two handed small axe they have.

[A_COOC]

They're getting something else later apparently, I hope it's the more traditional free company. The current ones gameplay wise fot a nice niche for the faction. Since they use what should be boarding axes

[A_COOC]

Actually as I think on it. I think it should be an entirely new unit that uses blunderbusses.

[Scar]

Originally posted by 🎀 A_COCO 🎀:

Actually as I think on it. I think it should be an entirely new unit that uses blunderbusses.

or matchlocks

[Harmania]

Originally posted by 🎀 A_COCO 🎀:

Actually as I think on it. I think it should be an entirely new unit that uses blunderbusses.

I like them having a cheap AP unit.

Personally, I think they should have, as a faction, a special landmark building that lets them hire Empire Handgunners, and a 'unique' hero unit, a "Vampire Hunter", Which acts like an Empire Witch Hunter crossed with a 40k Commissar, and applies leadership bonuses, and has the ability to pistol execute friendly--and hostile--undead, below a certain leadership score to apply global leadership and combat bonuses.

I think it would make the portion of the community that hates her having undead units feel a lot better if she has an enforcer hero or two holding guns to the back of the heads of the vampiric necromancers, keeping them in line.

[Harmania]

Originally posted by Greynaut:

I just feel like they are really letting Sartosa down as a whole.
Zombie pirates in vampire coast makes sense, zombie pirates in the pirate living haven of Sartosa does not.
Like that was the opportunity to pull out some major history books and PotC stuff and really go for it.

IIRC, she canonically allied with vampire pirates anyway to beat Nicky--which I think is her campaign here anyway.

It's also worth noting this is a Vampire Coast DLC. This isn't the last faction that will ever be added to the game. This isn't the last patch that will affect the game. This isn't the end of everything. This isn't the end-all of that entire region. Stuff can get moved around, as factions get added, she can get updated. Hell, Lizardmen got a minor mechanic rework this patch. And Skaven got a rework earlier, and are likely getting another one with their DLC.

[A_COOC]

Originally posted by Ineffable Cupidity:

Originally posted by Greynaut:

I just feel like they are really letting Sartosa down as a whole.
Zombie pirates in vampire coast makes sense, zombie pirates in the pirate living haven of Sartosa does not.
Like that was the opportunity to pull out some major history books and PotC stuff and really go for it.

IIRC, she canonically allied with vampire pirates anyway to beat Nicky--which I think is her campaign here anyway.

It's also worth noting this is a Vampire Coast DLC. This isn't the last faction that will ever be added to the game. This isn't the last patch that will affect the game. This isn't the end of everything. This isn't the end-all of that entire region. Stuff can get moved around, as factions get added, she can get updated. Hell, Lizardmen got a minor mechanic rework this patch. And Skaven got a rework earlier, and are likely getting another one with their DLC.

I don't believe she allied with the Vampirates, but she's not exactly a good person. Apparently CA has said that her campaign in this involves the sea god Mannan telling her to take over the seas in anyway she can. And as such she manages to get vampires on her side because she sees the value in a largely expendable army to get the job done.

[DaBo81]

I'm hoping there is a mix of Sartosa human units but the boarding axes pirates will actually be quite useful - there's loads of ranged zombies in the roster already so how much use is another ranged unit? Melee zombies are going to be lame fighters but the human fighters will be much more effective I'm guessing - plus they're an early AP unit

[A_COOC]

Originally posted by DaBo81:

I'm hoping there is a mix of Sartosa human units but the boarding axes pirates will actually be quite useful - there's loads of ranged zombies in the roster already so how much use is another ranged unit? Melee zombies are going to be lame fighters but the human fighters will be much more effective I'm guessing - plus they're an early AP unit

Outriders with grenade launchers could actually be quite nice. Issue is it might overlap with the Promethians. I think this is partially why they initally only got one unit. A bunch of the units that it would make sense to have already have their role covered.

[kazjun]

I think she should have been able to recruit 4 empire units. The free company militia, handgunners, mortars and cannons.It would mostly be cosmetic. Human mortars instead of undead mortars, human handgunners instead of undead handgunners and human cannons instead of undead cannons. I wouldn't say no to empire swordsmen either. Just call them swashbucklers or something.

[Ninjasquirrel]

Yeah we need some live pirates to match up with the dead ones lol.

[IWESTERN]

They should have added southerns realms and included Sartosa with a couple of unique units and added Vampire Coast as preorder bnous with two lords(as Norsca).
Now you have an invented lord , lords with zombie and human units and all this for a minor faction while ignoring more major factions just to sell dlc with monsters.

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by 🎀 A_COCO 🎀:

They're getting something else later apparently, I hope it's the more traditional free company. The current ones gameplay wise fot a nice niche for the faction. Since they use what should be boarding axes

This way we can get another FLC for our DLC on the banner. Just like the bone giant lol. (not that I care, I just found the other thread about it funny)

[Major Moolah]

They already have lots of gunpowder zombies, it would be redundant to have the Free Companies from the Empire roster. They do look stupid, but at least the option for great axes on the low tiers give them a niche.

[A_COOC]

Originally posted by Ming:

Originally posted by 🎀 A_COCO 🎀:

They're getting something else later apparently, I hope it's the more traditional free company. The current ones gameplay wise fot a nice niche for the faction. Since they use what should be boarding axes

This way we can get another FLC for our DLC on the banner. Just like the bone giant lol. (not that I care, I just found the other thread about it funny)

Yeah pretty much. It's not the incomplete product now being finished. IT'S A BONUS FOR ALL DLC OWNERS!