Hardcore Vanilla WRE/ERE Camgpain Rebalance

Hi everyone, this mod is for my personal use, I combined several mods and made some changes to make the vanilla game more challenging and fun for WRE and ERE campaign. I am here to share this mod to anyone who like Fote campaign design but prefer vanilla battle experience, or want a hardcore vanilla experience for WRE and ERE.

Load order:
1. Performance maker/ graphic enhancement/ lighting adjustment/ camera mods
2. Hardcore camgpain mod
3. Hardcore reskin mod
4. others

Recommend difficulty : Very Hard/Legendary

Compatibility:
NOT COMPATIBLE with "levy more elite troops from puppet state" or any other mods that changed unit states.
NOT COMPATIBLE with other vanilla reskin mods if you use hardcore reskin mod!!!
NOT COMPATIBLE with Athanasios’ Attila Ultimate Fixes

If you are interested in this mod, happy to see you to use it.
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What this mod does?

campaign :

1. Inspired by Fote mod, increase public buildings upkeep cost. It is historical accurate to add upkeep cost to all public buildings, including court, palace, library, sanitation buildings etc.

2. Military buildings now are more useful, but they also need more upkeep cost.

3. Water buildings now can increase land fertility, also require higher upkeep cost.

4. ERE and WRE now can recruit more elite foederati units, separate mod is here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3727502755

Frank, Goths, Alamani now can recruit Romanized swordsmen, foederati spear and Auxiliary platina spear.

Most of ERE and WRE units now will not be replaced by technology upgraded units, you can keep your lower tier units to make the game more authentic and historical accurate. Added a bit garrison troops as they will not be upgraded automatically.
Original mod for no unit upgrade is here:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3433375857&searchtext=unit+upgrade

5. Ai will recruit better army! now major city can be used as barrack, both ai and player can recruit units from city buildings. No more Ai trash levy armies!
This mod also combines "Ai better economy & military " mod which makes ai factions stronger. Original link is here :https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2836499101

6. Higher level buildings now will consume more food, be careful and make economic balance when you build your empire!

7. Food distribution. By building food market, now you can distribute food to provinces that have famine.

8. Resource buildings now are more useful and more profitable, now resources are worthy to fight for ! Trade now is also more important, be careful to declare war on your long-term trade partner.

9. Rework of political power effect and world wonder, double governors.

Prepare yourself for hardcore vanilla campaign !
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06/06/2026 Updated
Frank, Goths, Alamani now can recruit Romanized swordsmen, foederati spear and Auxiliary platina spear.

Remove food consumption for units to make other factions playable, increase food consumption for high level buildings