Cloak and Dagger Tomes [3.0]
A collection of Tomes inspired by the Rogue class from AoW3, themed around in flanking, blinding, deception, debuffs and shadow magic. In addition to paying homage to a classic AoW archetype I also wanted to enable a Shadow Affinity playstyle that is independent from necromancy and ice magic.
- Tome of Whispers – tier 1 – Employ infiltrators to sabotage and spy on your enemies. Specialize in underhanded Flanking attacks. Features the Lesser Shadow Stalker and Cutthroat and Charlatan units.
- Tome of Darkness – tier 3 – Wield darkness to conceal your forces and torment your foes. Specialize in preying on isolated enemies. Features the Shadow Stalker unit.
- Tome of Temptation – tier 4 – Embrace crime and depravity to exploit your people and subvert your enemies with sinful temptation. Features the Succubus unit.
No changes to any of the base game .rpk files.
The Tome of Darkness includes the Veil of Darkness spell which I copied from the Tome of the Cold Dark. I have made a small optional mod for the Tome of the Cold Dark to replace this skill with a new one and rename the Tome to make it purely ice themed. Using this mod is entirely up to preference, both are fully functional as standalone mods.
The Cutthroat unit evolves into the Shade unit from the Ways of War DLC. For users without the DLC the Cutthroat will show that it has an Evolve property but it will not be functional in game, and it will instead gain the standard rank-up bonus at Legend Rank. This is the only part of the mod that requires the DLC, everything else should work without it.
If this mod is causing the Tome of Shades from the WoW DLC to be replaced then you are either stuck on an older version of this mod, or you have a leftover backup .zip file from an older version of this mod somewhere in the mod folder.
I have removed the backup file on my end but this will not automatically remove it from your workshop folders. So this problem will unfortunately need to be fixed on your end; my recommendation is to check the folder (Steamsteamappsworkshopcontent16690002989849682) to check if it has a "Rogue_Tomes_v1_backup" folder and delete it. Or just delete the entire mod folder and redownload a fresh copy of the mod. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I would like to shout-out the helpful folks at the AoW Official Modding Discord, especially
Lord Vectra, Visie Maigo, Revnholme, Daverin2112, Knave and Shadow Rytes for their playtesting and feedback.
If you liked this mod, consider checking out my other tome mods:
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
