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Actually, there are a couple of things where I agree with Tuidjy, namely about the medium infantry. MA Ulm currently has essentially 10 varieties of same heavy infantry and only one or two of them are ever used (3 or 4, if you count black plate and chain mail of same type as separate ones).

A couple of varieties of plate cuirass medium infantry with short swords/axe/hammer/hatchet/morning star and kite shield or normal shield and half helmet or iron cap for helmet and perhaps mapmove 2 wouldn't be bad. Of the weapons, hatchet and short sword would be the most appropriate, axe is the most problematic due to both attack and defense penalty.

That would give MA Ulm some flexibility, though there is the danger of the medium infantry being used as the main troops due to greater movement capacity. On the other hand, if the medium infantry were to use some two-handed weapon like battle axe, halberd, bardiche, claymore or greatsword, they would not be such an obvious choice all around as the lack of shield and lower overall protection would really start to hurt them against archers and especially crossbowmen. Sure, they'd hit hard, but their survivability would go down a lot and their defense woul still stay in the average range instead of shooting up to 14-16 range.

The heavy infantry still suffer from relatively low defense values and for the black plate infantry, knights and guardians, the helmet could be changed to black steel helmet to complement the full plate of Ulm. That would increase def by 1 point, which is not an unreasonable boost at all, they'll still get hit all the time.

Another thing I'd really like to see is the master smiths get their random chance upped to 15% or 20%, because they still won't get them too often. Maybe jack up the price by 10 to count for that.