It's a bit weird that, from the Bronze Age (not realizing that more weapons beats fancier weapons) to the Steam Age (finally using gunpowder and just starting factories), Primitive Worlds have the same tier of armies. Is this because the advancement isn't uniform in those time periods?
My suggestion is to have a gradual improvement from the era of Knights to the era of Tanks. Maybe muskets and cannons matter, like in EU4.
-> A "Gunpowder Army" type could be halfway between Primitive and Industrial Armies in power.
-> There could be an event with losing (or simply performing, since I don't know if it's actually possible to lose to Primitive Armies) an invasion of a Steam Age or Late Medieval planet, where the primitives attribute their victory to gunpowder and rapidly switch to the "Gunpowder Army" or the "Industrial Army" type; the second option could be a simple as replacing the Warrior with Soldiers. This could be framed as the Death of the Knight, like how chivalrous knights lost their aura of invincibility in the Hundred Years' War:
"A great error has been made. In our endeavors to expend as few resources as possible for the conquest of [INSERT PLANET NAME HERE], we thought that our powered armor would hold against their bladed weapons and projectiles. Unfortunately the [INSERT PRIMITIVE SPECIES NAME HERE] had another weapon, a rudimentary variant of our mass drivers that propelled shots with the combustion of somewhat-volatile powder. The few shattered facemasks and impacted breastplates caught our soldiers off-guard, cascading into a complete loss of resolve against the enemy's superior numbers.
Our most grievous fault has shown the [INSERT PRIMITIVE SPECIES CIVILIZATION NAME HERE] which weapons work best for the investment put into them. Their nobles now put greater funding into mercenaries with those weapons, and the more powerful lords have begun to arm more of their peasantry with such weapons. Our second attempt may not be as easy as our first."
Alternatively, this could make the Primitives advance much more quickly; it could even be a Unity-tanking event, sacrificing some of your armies to make the Primitives pick up the pace.
I can see why the Primitives have as little to them as they do, since they're just that weak, but there's a lot that could be done with them.
My suggestion is to have a gradual improvement from the era of Knights to the era of Tanks. Maybe muskets and cannons matter, like in EU4.
-> A "Gunpowder Army" type could be halfway between Primitive and Industrial Armies in power.
-> There could be an event with losing (or simply performing, since I don't know if it's actually possible to lose to Primitive Armies) an invasion of a Steam Age or Late Medieval planet, where the primitives attribute their victory to gunpowder and rapidly switch to the "Gunpowder Army" or the "Industrial Army" type; the second option could be a simple as replacing the Warrior with Soldiers. This could be framed as the Death of the Knight, like how chivalrous knights lost their aura of invincibility in the Hundred Years' War:
"A great error has been made. In our endeavors to expend as few resources as possible for the conquest of [INSERT PLANET NAME HERE], we thought that our powered armor would hold against their bladed weapons and projectiles. Unfortunately the [INSERT PRIMITIVE SPECIES NAME HERE] had another weapon, a rudimentary variant of our mass drivers that propelled shots with the combustion of somewhat-volatile powder. The few shattered facemasks and impacted breastplates caught our soldiers off-guard, cascading into a complete loss of resolve against the enemy's superior numbers.
Our most grievous fault has shown the [INSERT PRIMITIVE SPECIES CIVILIZATION NAME HERE] which weapons work best for the investment put into them. Their nobles now put greater funding into mercenaries with those weapons, and the more powerful lords have begun to arm more of their peasantry with such weapons. Our second attempt may not be as easy as our first."
Alternatively, this could make the Primitives advance much more quickly; it could even be a Unity-tanking event, sacrificing some of your armies to make the Primitives pick up the pace.
I can see why the Primitives have as little to them as they do, since they're just that weak, but there's a lot that could be done with them.
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