Dieu et Mon Droit

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by Crunbum and NaniteSystems

Dieu et Mon Droit is a comprehensive overhaul of CK3’s economic and warfare systems focused on improving historical immersion and AI quality. It is a merger and expansion of Sane Warfare, City of Wonders 2, and More Unique Buildings. A summary of the feature list for the initial release is below.

• Dynamic and Balanced Metropolises: The great cities of the world are no longer limited to preplaced locations. Metropolises can also emerge organically: AI realms now can and will build and upgrade them, just like the player. These crown jewels also come with a new and improved set of buildings unique to them.
• Economy Overhauled: The AI will perform much better economically. It will build up its holdings with an eye towards achieving synergy, rather than selecting at random as in vanilla, and will focus on constructing buildings that improve their cultural men-at-arms unit. The economic death spirals of vanilla are a thing of the past. All building effects have also been rebalanced, and new Tier 5-8 main chain buildings for city, castles, and temple holdings were added. Most vanilla special buildings have been rebalanced as well, and you – as well as the AI – can now found universities in any metropolis you hold.
• Flavor : Dieu et Mon Droit is guaranteed to breathe new life into CK3 with 200+ unique special buildings spread across the world, 25+ thematic illustrations for men-at-arms regiments, 700 KB of brand new localization, and many gorgeous new loading screens.
• Warfare Overhauled: the AI will now better pursue war objectives and recruit men-at-arms in a logical and systematic way compatible with their cultural strengths, resulting in much larger and more effective retinues. An algorithmic rebalance of men at arms and building changes reducing their power potential relative to levies ensure that strategy has a place in wars again!
• Religion Overhauled : AI realms found Holy Orders much more frequently and regularly lease them extra holdings via decisions, as can the player. By late game, the holy orders of a major religion are often greater than 50,000 men in total – and always join all great holy wars of their faith! Whether it’s Deus Vult or Allahu Akbar you’re after, our mod has it for you in spades. Fixes to vanilla issues regarding fervor collapse from holy wars and corrupt priests have also been applied.
• And much, much more!

DEMD: Warfare Realism

Load this mod last (bottom), except for submods to this mod, which go after.

Dieu et Mon Droit features five difficulty settings : Baron, Count, Duke, King and Emperor. At present, King difficulty is what we are balancing around and is the intended experience of the mod.

We can’t absolutely guarantee the continued compatibility of the mods listed below, nor do we recommend for or against their use with DEMD. They are solely listed for your convenience.

• Rhomaioi: compatibility patch (Note: Rhomaioi compatibility patch has a visual bug resulting in excess notifications regarding succession. We are working on addressing this issue as part of the next update.)
• Improved Genetics: compatibility patch
• Raider Kings: compatibility patch
• Qarmation Overhaul: compatibility patch
• Christology and Communions: compatibility patch
• VIET events
• All Visual Mods
• All Audio Mods

• More Unique Buildings
• City of Wonders 2
• Sane Warfare

• More Building Slots (and similar)
• More Game Rules
• Mods that add new buildings or alter existing ones
• Mods that add new men-at-arms types or alter existing ones
• Mods that affect AI decision making
• Any mods that make significant balance changes

Many thanks to our contributors, without whom the mod could not have been made:
Kurthakon: allowed us to package a custom version of City of Wonders with our mod
Nil: unique wonder icons
Kersplosion: several unique buildings
PRICEless: custom men-at-arms artwork
All artwork in DEMD belongs to the original authors.
See "Credits" in the discussion section for further details.
We also owe a heavy debt of gratitude to earlier mods who implemented various fixes to the vanilla game and guided and inspired the development of this mod.
Male Preference Female Primary Heir
Fervor Midpoint Rebalance by Morven
Fervor Inversion by Morven
Less Sinful Priest Scandals
Greater Peasant Pacification