The new elite janissary skin is glorious, however the regular one still lacks his hat, which appears for the special royal janissary.
The reason why he doesn’t have one is quite dumb : some testers in the CD version thought the hat was some KKK hoods so they removed it. Not only did it feel like an over reaction at the time, but the game now has a much higher level of details than it used to. So the royal janissary’s appearance wouldn’t cause issues, even for people whose historical knowledge stops at late-19th century USA (you see it’s a hat, not a hood)
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This is nitpicking. The one without the hat version could be used for a specific scenario, and isn’t a big deal. The unit having a hat would have cause some confusion if it’s an elite or not.
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No risk, the elite one also has a coloured coat (with gold facings) as opposed to a mostly white one (with player colour facings)
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There’s a mod for that, which I use.
Yeah, the Royal Janissary skin could’ve easily been used for the regular one, and the Royal Janissary could use the new elite skin instead.
Sadly, the Elite Janissary upgrade is still too costly, and the unit has kind of become a victim of power creep. The Hindustani Shatagni tech costs half as much as the Elite Janissary upgrade, yet their Hand Cannoneers massively outclass the Elite Janissaries.
Just use the mod, I’ve been using it since DE came out more or less