I first downloaded this mod about 3-4 years ago. I still use the archer texture.
It was an interesting mod to play. The archers from this look great compared to the original. Also, the darkened weapons looked cool with certain units and resembled Damascus steel.
However.
The textures for some (not all) of the dark areas appeared just black without any sort of wrinkles and what-not that might indicate it to be leather, cloth, etc. Also, in the original files you added a swordsman texture that was doubtlessly Gondorian (Yes, from the Lord of the Rings). Next time you should make sure that the backup files you include are the original files that came with Stronghold 2.
I realize that this is a beta, but you haven't updated it in some time so I figured maybe you weren't planning on improving the mod. Thus I give a 3. It would have been a 3.5, but the bad swordsman texture caused not only myself but many others to have to re-install Stronghold 2 in order to return normality to their swordsmen. Very annoying. However, it was a good mod, it (apart from the swordsman) did what it was supposed to do, and I'll be looking forward to more.