Legendary Diversity (Dwarfs)
“For the eternity of my reign I have desired to march out with the axe-hosts of the dawi kingdoms and exterminate the skaven. Time and again I argued that this alone would save our kind. But you counselled against it, […]. And so we find ourselves skulking like trapped badgers in our hole, while our enemy, allowed to grow unchecked to uncountable numbers, plots our final demise” —- Thorgrim Grudgebearer
I know people don’t love ET, but isn’t this exactly what is happening in TW:WH2? The dwarfs can no longer rely on their traditional tactics any more. Not only do they suffer from enemies that outrange them, the player is also made to fight the same battle over and over again. This mod aims to change that.
While there are already great mods out there that make people use different army compositions, most of them punishes or outright forbids player from spamming out certain units. This mod takes a different approach. Upon reaching level 10, 20 and 30, your LL will be given a trait that improves certain units in his/her army. This will hopefully encourage players to use these units in this LL’s army. The script runs for both player and AI, so confederated LLs will come with the correct stage of their trait unlocked and AI will benefit from it.
One of the issues I had is that leveling every single LL to level 30 tends to be an unnecessary grind, in this mod I have added a new feature which unlocks the final stage for all LLs once any of the LL reaches level 30. Let me know what you think about this and tell me if it works properly, I do want to integrate this feature into other mods retroactively.
This Feature can be configured using Mod Configuration Tool: Reborn, not only can you choose if you want to activate this feature, you can also decide at which level you get to unlock all the benefits. (I do not know what will happen if you change the settings in the middle of a campaign, it is recommended to start a new campaign if you want to change the settings)
“Take out the weapons of our ancestors. Let them sit in prideful peace no longer! Dawi and treasures both to war! To war!” —- Thorgrim Grudgebearer
Gyrocopters/bombers, Hammerers, Miners, Rangers and Bolt Throwers. Under the command of the correct LL, they are now revamped to give them a chance to shine in your campaign (And trust me, they will). Every variant now have their own personality and role in the army, so Miner(Blasting Charges) is no longer a straight upgrade for Miner, giving all mentioned units a place in your army.
These changes are applied to the whole faction since some effects cannot be added via Traits:
After acquiring the first stage of his Trait, Thorgrim has access to immediate siege battles without any siege attacker in his army. (You no longer have to bring an artillery for that, gyros can handle sieges well)
Bolt Throwers now have a second fire mod (It is a straight upgrade to the normal fire mode, but it is necessary to achieve the effect I desire in Grombrindal’s army)
Follow the link below to find out what effect each stage of trait has along with the new abilities added in this mod:
Click Me[github.com]
I do consider these armies better than a usual dwarven doomstack, but let us not pretend that the vanilla game is balanced. If Skaven and High Elves can get OP stuff, surely other races are allowed to have some fun as well. I do not think these armies are as OP as a weapon teams stack for example.
This mod should be compatible with any other mod, including SFO. This mod can cause UI confliction with mods that edit shot types. (AFAIK we cannot add custom shot type so we are only given so many tools to work with, however it is just a UI confliction and does not affect functionality)
This mod is save-game compatible. If you load into a pre-existing save with this mod enabled, but this mod was not enabled for this save, the mod will give LLs traits depending on their level. For example, if you have a save game and your LL was level 23. Once you load the game with this mod enabled, your LL will automatically be awarded with the second stage of the trait.
Thank you @EvilVictor, @benettonkkb, @Firehawk and @darthdud0 for great ideas that improved the mod.
If you have any suggestions or feedback, just let me know. But please be polite and constructive, and make sure you have read the "About Balance" section.
Ah, and one last thing (If you made it this far): King Malekith told me to send the honorable dawi his regards and hope that they will strike out a grudge in acknowledgement of a Druchii’s hard work for them. <3
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
