This mod seams good, but many features where outdated by even 1.2,
messy weapon balance, outdated art, unpolished mechanics,
Generally an mess of an mod that absolutely does not hold up to current standards

I would generally suggest ether Settler's 2 or even VEF: Industrial expanded?
look at VEF: Medieval 2, then look back at this mod, it looks like an meme,

I will give some suggestions
maybe giving settler factions some more unique mechanics,
maybe bounties, maybe they only use chem power, anything works.
prehaps merge it with quickdraw weapons, they fit right in.
remove chemroot, seriously, mod based on historical ranchers adds an option to ignore an major source of ranching?
alot of features could become ideology styled versions of existing content,
just like what happened with vikings content becoming the norse style in medieval 2
generally more unique features.

concepts range from an infamy mechanic that tracks how "infamous"
an pawn is, ranging from awful to legendary, that can give that pawn some buffs,
but will lead to increasingly stronger bounty hunters trying to to take them down
An ovehauled bounty system, where you can put in your own bounties,
hunt down infamous outlaws, and more

generally, out of every remaining vanilla expanded factions mod,
this one is most desperate of an remake