Better Varangian Guard

Updated to 1.7.* patch

Version 1.2

now son grandson and great grandson can’t join varangian guard because decision for them is bugged. They cant leave courts and I like more this option. Events fix

Version 1.1

Muslim rulers cant use interaction and muslim charachters can’t join varangian guard. I can consider now mod completed. If someone has new ideas to add ,we can discuss. Enjoy

Version 1.0

Updated to 1.7.2 , compatible with all mods except for other varangian interaction mods.

A MOD to make varangian guard interaction more interesting and more historically accurate.

1) Varangian interaction now costs only 50 prestige and 25 gold . Only one year of cooldown.

You can send to varangian guard now also if you have a truce with ERE. This is really important to be compatible with Dynamic trade Routes. But it’s also moreaccurate.

2) Now east slavic cultures can send people to varangian guard (without the norse required legacy of course).
Ruthenia vanilla culture is not accurate at all. At least for the purpose of this little mod , this is a fix.

3) About anglo saxons, at the end my decision was to make varangian guard avalaible only in the second bookmark, in general if your start date is after 1.1.1000.

Pay attention: culture requirement is only for recipient! You can use this interaction also if you are for
example frankish but you have a russian or anglosaxon charachter to send for some reasons.

4) Varangian guard decision now will be possible only for charachters with prowess > 10 . Give artifacts to achieve this value
Other informations:

a) In the first version for AI only norse charachters with correct legacy will send charachters .

The reason is simple. Mod is more intended for RP purpose and AI modifications must be very carefull and only after a long beta testing. In the future I’m going to expand decision also to the AI.

b)In general, AI ERE collapses a lot of times. So, according also to Nicean and Latin empire tradition, In the futureI want to send varangian guards also to greek kingdoms after ERE collapse

c) Decision now is avalaible only for dynasty leaders. I dont know if we can consider this gameply decision fun and hitorically accurate. In general this game doesnt give many opportunities for little dukes. So it would be interesting to design this feature for little landowners.

Check my revamp collection, a list of my little mods to make more interesting some vanilla features