According to Wikipedia:
German and Scandinavian medieval armies made extensive use of mounted crossbowmen. They would act not only as scouts and skirmishers, but also protect the flanks of the knights and infantry, chasing away enemy light cavalry. When the battle was fully engaged, they would charge at the enemy flank, shoot a single devastating volley at point-blank range and then attack the enemy with swords, without reloading.
This seems like it would be quite a cool unique unit for the HRE. Heavy cavalry that fire a crossbow bolt as they charge. Just wanted to mention it!
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Not really, most Central and Western European armies included some form of mounted crossbowman. so it really isn’t anyhting unique to the HRE or Scandinavians.
Well, first, it wouldn’t need to be a unique unit. I wouldn’t mind giving it to other civs.
Second, many of the civs unique units, especially in AOEIV, aren’t technically unique to them. Other nations did have longbows, they were a bronze age celtic weapon that were most strongly associated with the English but found all over the place. The Chinese “nest of bees” style weapon is often more closely associated with the Korean military (the hwacha) to the degree that I imagine its status as a Chinese UU might offend some Korean players. Camels weren’t used exclusively by the Abbasid. Elephants by the Delhi. Arbalests or cannons by the French. So in AOEIV terms a unique units is really only unique to the civ in-game; it doesn’t mean it was unique in the real world.
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听上去很不错，但是 在马背上射箭和射弩箭，几乎所有民族都有。如果所有人都拥有弓骑兵，平衡可能会很混乱。
我是中国人，我们的历史记载，蜂巢是由中国传入朝鲜，并且被朝鲜人用来对付入侵的日本人。朝鲜人的蜂巢是简化版本，实战效果并不好。日本人轻松碾压了朝鲜，中国明朝收到朝鲜的求援，于是派军队去攻击日本，保护朝鲜（中国一直是朝鲜的宗主国），其中包括火绳枪和更强大的蜂巢。当时的朝鲜还在用中国字，他们的史书记载，同样是使用蜂巢和其他火药武器，中国的武器杀伤效果远超朝鲜，和制作工艺有非常大的关系。