Viking Conquest Tweaks
UPDATE: This mod deliberately does not change the new Viking CBs added with 1.3/Flavor Pack 1. Frankly, it is generally dormant/on maintenance mode, as I’m happy with where the Conquest CB now lands.
Like seemingly everyone else, I think that Vikings at launch are way too prone to end up bloody everywhere, but I also think that the initial mods to fix this have gone a bit too far and the changes in patch 1.1 didn’t go far enough. So I broke out a scalpel instead of a warhammer to make my personal tweak, and I thought I might as well share it with the world.
The mod changes the Conquest CBs in the following ways:
- Vikings can now use Conquest "over sea" only up to 700 distance (basically, Denmark to Somerset or Norway to Norfolk) – in vanilla this was allowed on any coastal county within diplo range
- Everybody else with access to the Conquest CB can only use it on land neighbours and sea neighbours (it is not documented how close over sea counts for this, but in my tests suggest "within a distance of about 300" – ie, from Leinster to Cornwall, or from Odessa to Burgas).
The only change from vanilla here is that non-Viking human players are now subject to this limit, where they were not before (which meant that they could use the Conquest CB on literally anyone within diplo range whether they bordered the player or not, which seemed really weird!)
There are no changes present or planned to anything else, and in particular no changes to the Exclave rules. (but for that I recommend Exclave Independence Enhanced: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2229418013)
A couple of compatibility notes:
- This mod is not achievement compatible.
- This mod is not compatible with Viking Bordergore Contained. It will work if loaded after it, but it reverses VBC’s changes (VBC limits the conquest CBs, which are used by Tribals, clan governments, and a ton of religions besides Asatru to "land neighbours, full stop" for everybody).
- This mod is compatible with Better AI if loaded after it, since it includes a copy of the vanilla 00_conquest.txt file in order to reverse the VBC changes (if you don’t play with VBC, Better AI or anything else that changes that file, you don’t need this and can delete it. For now I’m more concerned with compatibility with the extremely popular mod that makes one change I don’t like, so I’m including it).
- This mod is compatible with anything else that doesn’t change the CBs in 00_conquest.txt. (In particular, it is compatible with Dieu et Mon Droit,) For anything that does, it’ll depend on what it does.
Please feel free to report any bugs you find and otherwise, have fun! Unless you’re a Viking, in which case have slightly less fun!
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
