Stronger Garrisons Overhaul for Thrones of Britannia
The goal is to make town and city battles real events the highlight the excellent settlement work of the creators.
This mod significantly strengthens garrisons for both minor cities by 30-40% depending on level.
The town garrisons are 50% stronger than the other Town mod.
This mod is compatible with all known TOB overhaul and garrison mods except Shieldwall (for now). It has been tested with Radious, Crucible, Zinn, Kings and Politics, etc.
It replaces the famous Minor Town Garrisons mod and overwrites the garrisons completely in overhaul mods listed above.
There is no startpos to make it compatible with overhaul mods. This means that garrison units will start the game at half-strength.
TOB siege battles can be Epic without the boiling oil and the siege engines that go up in fire like paper. The size of the walled seige maps deserve larger garrisons. Several mods fix these. ]
This mod adds: 1) a 95% nerf to the boiling oil;
2) and 10% nerf to the arrow towers.
3) Siege machines have more hitpoints and are less likely to go up in flames .
A level 5 town should stand a chance against a half-stack rebel army or repel an enemy stack with only a half-strength stack of a general.
Building out your countryside is worthwhile early-game, especially with double-industry villages.
More interesting battles makes the game more playable.
For cities, the sizes are only slightly larger to fully accommodate units from the garrison building without hitting the cap.
The cities thus have some elite units.
Garrisons for minor towns are all +2 the level. So minor 1 will have 3 units while minor 5 will have 7 units per building. Double-building towns get up to 14 units.
For Cities, the sizes are:
Major 1: 9 units (mostly levy)
Major 2: 11 units (mostly levy)
Major 3: 12 units
Major 3: 13 units
Major 5: 14 units with cavalry
Garrison 1: 1 unit Garr2: 2units Garr3: 3units w cavalry Garr4: 4 units w cavalry Garr 5: 5 units with cavalry
Fixes the disappearing garrison unit bug found in Radious and Zinn.
Uses copy garrison units where the merge-unit bug would appear.
Almost all units are available without tech except as described below. This is a step up from several popular garrison mods that are missing key units at levels 1 and 2.
The units rely heavily on normal TOB units instead of copies. This incentives military research as your garrisons will strengthen as your troops upgrade.
Your non-copy units will also gain experience through the game by surviving battles.
Each villages will have a mid-tier unit for levels 4 and 5 as if the manor lord were going into battle. This means that some factions will need the appropriate military technology for that unit to appear.
For example, the English factions have eng_thegn_spearmen which requires the level one spear technology to unlock.
For now, Irish will need to research wolfhounds for minor 5 and Welsh will need to research Spear 1.
The Danelaw factions will need to research huscarls to make the most of tier 4, 5 cities.
Scottish need to research cavalry tier 1 for a full garrison in Garr5 and Major5
If the mod’s name has precedent over 00 you will need to use a load order launcher and load this one first.
If you are playing an overhaul mod other than Radious, I recommend that the tables technology unit upgrades and unit_required_technology_upgrades be removed.
It is not critical, but having these in the mod fix a major bug in Radious.
Do not rename armed_citizenry_units to_units or building_level_armed_citizenry_junctions.
I found that you can even switch garrisons early game, but haven’t tested late game. Removing garrisons will cause save game problems.
I have built numerous garrison mods for Attila and its DLC’s using some of the latest techniques.
There are several overhauls in the works for Attila and Troy.
