GCCM: Naval battles [BETA] part 2
Hello everyone, it’s finally here, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: The (beta) release of the ‘naval’ combat mod.
We couldn’t have known it would take this long when we first started on the mod, but we’re pretty sure it was all worth it in the end. I’m going to start this mod description with a short story about the work that went into this mod. If you don’t want to read that you can just skip to the ‘features’ part below.
It all started with Maruka’s discovery of how to turn all sea into land in my quest to enable naval battles. This resulted in the rather funky situation where all generals suffered from a jesus complex – they all walked on water as if it was land. Though this looked somewhat rediculous, it did enable ‘naval’ battles of a sort, and Maruka was pretty pleased with himself. Excited with his discovery he immediately posted about it in the map making discord channel, and launched a naval themed map making competition so that we would have some nice maps to work with. The competition was a success, and we got some really beautiful maps (see below), so at this point he was considering just adding these to regions and releasing the mod in that state. Goofy, but functional.
But no. He showed his discovery to me, and I was determined to find a way to have naval battles without jesus-generals. Thus begins our story. We came very close to finishing the mod with several -very- different solutions, all with their own unique drawbacks. As a result of that there were at least three moments where we thought we were within days of releasing the mod, only to find another issue which turned out to be a blocker.
The most annoying part of all of this were the black arks (blarks). Blarks have been a very consistent source of annoyance throughout these nine months, because as it turns out, they don’t want to move when you turn all sea into land. I hate blarks. In the end we, or mostly Marthenil to be honest, managed a pretty acceptable solution for the blarks, and the mod is now at a point where we feel comfortable enough releasing it in a beta state.
It has been a grueling nine months of labor, but it was all worth it in the end for our baby is finally here. Despite the flaws and the bugs we feel that it’s innovative enough for you all to enjoy, and we certainly hope that you will enjoy it.
The main feature is the addition of ‘naval’ battles – instead of autoresolving all battles fought at sea can now be fought on islands instead!
This also comes with new sexy battle preview scenes!
Aside from that, no other major changes in the campaign have been made.
The Black Ark is essentially a horde now, that can go both on land and water. While on land, it’s called a Black Ark Raiding Party. It cannot grow, and it cannot build upgrades, on top of having only one recruitment slot and a 50% movement penalty. It can siege and occupy settlements. It can also recruit directly from owned province pools so no longer do you have to juggle with a second general to get troops in the black ark.
While at sea, it functions exactly like the black arks in the vanilla game with the added bonus that you can replace your general (so you can place a LL as the leader of the Black Ark).
The lord can now level up as a normal lord.
It can no longer grant bombardment to friendly units in the area of influence, but it can use them itself. This is sadly a limitation that cannot be worked around.
There are currently 9 maps included, with more to follow soonish.
The ‘naval’ battle mod is split into two parts. This one, and part 1 from Maruka. You will need both. In addition to that, you need to subscribe to the main GCCM mod, the GCCM asset pack, and the two GCCM settlement packs.
Required items:
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GCCM2: Custom Assets — Steam Workshop
GCCM: Main mod [Naval battles!] — Steam Workshop
GCCM: Settlement Pack 01 — Steam Workshop
GCCM: Settlement Pack 02 — Steam Workshop
GCCM: Naval battles [BETA] part 1 — Steam Workshop
