Making early infantry useful

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As-is, infantry are basically worthless before land tech 9, while cavalry are the be-all and end-all. You can charge your cavalry across a river into mountains and still win just on morale destruction.

I think this is meant to simulate the just-coming-to-an-end age of the Mongol Hordes, but it leads to silly stuff like fielding an all-cavalry army as the city-state 1419 Byzantium.

Will increasing the morale of early infantry to land tech 9 levels correct this some? I don't want to totally neuter the power of early cavalry, just make infantry useful at all.

 

[Neckkit]

Infantry does have some value (just not combat value)even early on. While cavalry dominates battles, adding infantry can help absorb casualty because they are much cheaper.

 

[Toio]

you can change the quality of infantry form start of game .

look in combat folder of Eu2

you have 5 files ( plus a few naval combat files)

Assault shock
Assault fire
Assault defender
Landfire
Landshock

Having a quick look, you only need to amend Landfire and AssaultShock to give infantry closer parity to Cavalry earlier on