LoW – Black Guard Legion

"If you are called upon to fight directly for the lordly Malekith, he may deign to send you a contingent of his personal guard. These are the Black Guard, the soldiery of our capital Naggarond, and they are the fiercest fighters in all of the Land of Chill. Wondrously ruthless and efficient on the attack, and immovable in defence, the Black Guard are the terror of our enemies. However, do not misuse their abilities, for they owe loyalty only to the mighty Witch King himself, and should they judge you to be at fault, you will answer to their deadly captain, Kouran. Such unpleasantness is to be avoided if you value your life and soul."

After some time i decided to start porting over the original mod to WH3 aswell. So far it still missing the Tower Master Lord and a building chain(still deciding if it should be a new building) but they will be added soon as i have time.
I also added an new unit of archers for the army in case you want archers similar to the Lothern Seaguard.
This is themed army this time for the Witch King of Naggaroth, adding his own famed Black Guard to his faction and the major Druchii ones. You will get a new type of lord, new units and a new building related to the Black Guard. Check down the lists for more details.

NEW LORD STILL WIP WILL BE RE-ADDED LATER
Tower Master being one of the heads of Malekith’s Black Guard, check this bit:

The barracks of the Black Guard are divided into twenty Towers, which compete against each other in contests of war and torture. The Witch King grimly encourages competition between the Towers, and each year, at the beginning of the Season of Blood, a tournament is held to determine which Tower will hold dominance over the others for the coming year. The leaders of these factions are the Tower Masters, veterans of the Black Guard so inculcated with death and battle that they choose to continue in Malekith’s service after their two centuries of duty have been completed. These hardened warriors rule their underlings with a will of iron, determined that their Tower shall not be shamed by a lack of discipline — or worse, a glimmer of mercy — on the part of their charges.

As such Tower Masters have the following perks:

• Exclusive to Malekith only, other factions will not be able to recruit them
• Loyal, they won’t be affected by loyalty mechanics, they will not betray you but neither will they get loyalty events so no items or various bonuses
• Black Guard buffs, they can make the Black Guard even more effective and stronger than before
• Bad and mediocre traits begone! The Tower Master has a selection of only the best traits available when recuitred and a bunch of custom made traits that are exclusive to them.

• Infantry
  • Blackspears, Blackswords, Executioners of Naggarond are the self explanatory melee infantry options
  • Blackshards, Shielded Blackshards and Black Arrows are the ranged options, Blackshards have the same potential as Shades while Shielded Blackshards have less firepower for a better defensive option.
• Cavalry
  • As cavalry the Black Guard has 2 variants of Cold Knights, equipped with Halberds or Swords they are anti-large and anti-infantry and don’t suffer from their mounts goind on a rampage.
• Artillery
  • Shadowfire Throwers, infused with dark magic they have better range and can devastate infantry units

The AI will also use these units, so it might make the Dark Elves stronger probably.

All the units will benefit from standard Black Guard red skills and other buffs or techs. Missile units benefit aswell from Blackguards buffs but will also have only their missile damage, ammunition count and range scale with everything that would work on vanilla Darkshards.

If you like this kind of mods check my other stuff too, you might find something to your liking and leave a rating to help others see them aswell:

1. No taking of any assets in this mod unless you ask for permission, it’s kinda rude to take stuff without asking.
2. I will not personnally make compability patches with other big overhaul mods, if you want to make your own patch feel free to contact me, i’m easy to reach.
3. Translation mods are welcome just link and have the original mod as a requirement.
4. The mod will work 100% of the time in vanilla, crashes when using other mods are not my responsability. I try to make the mod as compattible as possible but something can go wrong, if it crashes try launching the mod on it’s own first and then see what mods you could be using that conflict.
5. Mod works fine with my other mods from the series.

If you want to donate something to help while i continue modding you can do so here, even a bit will be appreaciated(will be used to buy more dlcs for the game xd):
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