Herald’s Start Positions – Mod Compilation
Herald’s Start Positions is a series of lua script based mods which provide alternative start positions to hand-picked Legendary Lords and nearby minor factions on the Immortal Empires and IE Expanded campaign map(s).
They are continually developed with the purpose(s) of enhancing world immersion and improving campaign balance, while maintaining overall polish.
Herald’s Start Positions – Mod Compilation brings together all currently available Herald’s Start Positions mods in a single Steam Workshop subscription. With the growing number of HSP and other mods that I make, this and Herald’s Other Mods – Mod Compilation have become essential in providing a streamlined setup for delivering the complete Herald’s Mods experience.
All future HSP mods and updates will be included in this compilation as soon as they are released. If there would be exceptions due to incompatibilities between my various mods or other valid reasons, such mods would not be included and they would be listed as not included in this description.
The first image[i.imgur.com] of the mod preview shows the starting positions of all the Legendary Lords affected by this mod compilation, even in the slighest way. One such example is Wulfrik the Wanderer who has only been affected by an additional starting war with the Skaeling when he’s controlled by the AI. The faded grayscale faction icons represent the LL’s vanilla starting positions which have been changed, and faded coloured icons represent player-only starting positions, which is the case only for Wulfrik.
The second image[i.imgur.com], created using http://nopeace.net, shows the starting regions of ALL the factions in Immortal Empires. Legendary Lords which start without a settlement are represented owning the region they start the campaign in.
The Herald’s Start Positions mod collection links to all HSP mods currently available, which have been used to create this compilation.
You can also use my mod compilations to simply test all of my mods at once, and then pick and choose the ones you like by subscribing to them separately.
For easier access, I’m listing all HSP mods with hyperlinks here as well, grouped by their year of standalone release:
2024
Ostankya in Kislev
Kislev & Norsca
HSDM – The Black Pit Tribe
Gelt in the Empire
Drycha in the Forest of Gloom
The Changeling in Cathay
Yuan Bo in Cathay
Alberic in Bretonnia
Morghur in Bretonnia
Athel Loren
2025
Grom & Eltharion in Ulthuan
HSDM – Golg Maneater
Northern Chaos Wastes
Volkmar in the Border Princes
Skarbrand in the Empire
Skrag in the Mountains of Mourn
Belegar in the Badlands
The separate Steam Workshop entries contain information about each of the mods, their screenshots, changelogs etc.
Keep an eye out for the HSP mods I plan to make in the future, which are listed in my complete mod collection’s description, and will be included in this compilation when they are released.
The compilation and all of its mods are compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded. For an expanded list of compatible mods, visit my website, Herald’s Journal.[heraldsjournal.com] The list will be further expanded with time.
I’d like to thank Porkenstein and Swissbob for the script framework which I’m using across my start position lua script mods, and nopeace.net for providing the Immortal Empires mapping tool which is of great value in showcasing these mods. Other credits are listed in each of the individual mods’ descriptions.
If you want to configure which of my mods are being used, you can subscribe to them separately, and organise them using Prop Joe’s Mod Manager’s Categories feature. It will make it easy for you to turn all or some of my mods on or off for your campaigns at once, without losing any of the features or polish of my mods.
Talking of polish, some things are impossible for me to polish without start_pos modding, which is a different world of Total War modding and would significantly decrease the modularity and compatibility of my mods.
You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.
If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook[www.facebook.com] and X.[x.com]
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If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.[heraldsjournal.com]
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