Nomadic people - race specification
Social structure
Nomadic people are divided into clans. Each clan live quite independent, mainly leading war with neighbors. Their military power is much lower than it should be, just because arguments between clans. If anyone is strong enough to unite clans, there would be no opponent outside nomads to him. Nomads don't like fighting in the name of their chief, so without good salary they wouldn't fight. In game it means high costs of maintaining army.
War doctrine
Nomadic people prefer fast moving army on horses, equiped mainly with light weaponry. This extremly fast formation could plunder enemy villages and demolish enemy structures before answer from enemies army. They hate fortifications and prefer sieges to storms.
Weaponry
Because of lack of minerals (especially coal and iron) in their homeland main weapons are - short bow, short pike and spear. They use mainly light leather or piked armours and small shields.
Colours and clothes
Main colors are brown, light red, dark yellow, black etc. They wear piked helmets with horse hair on top, leather or fur clothes. They use small but fast horses.
Buildings
They mainly live in tents (it means ALL military structures such as training grounds can be moved - it makes them hard to find).
Units
Possible units are:
Normal units (made from peasants):
- Short pikeman - very weak and cheap unit. He wear fur clothes and piked helmet. He has got short pike (in two hands) and small shield placed on back.
- Light horseman - also weak but much faster unit. Equiped similiar to previous one.
- Light horse archer - equiped with short bow, dagger and fur clothes. Generally for making enemy units nervous.
- Standard horseman - wear piked armour and piked helmet. Equiped with short bow, short pike and shield placed on unit's back. Main unit of nomadic's army.
Nobility units (made from clan cheifs):
- Heavy horse archer - equiped with short pike and composite bow can fire from greater distance than normal horse archer. Not so heavy armored, but powerful weapon (looks similiar to light horse archer, but wealthier - some steel and brighter colors, also horse has got some decorations).
- Scout - fast infantry (mainly invisible). Usefull for scouting. Wore green coat. Equiped with sword.
- Assasin - expensive and powerfull unit. Used for opening enemy fortification gates. Invisible. Equiped with poisoned dagger. Wore black hooded coat.