A Shieldwall Companion for New or Hurried Players
The Shieldwall campaign is built for veterans with a lot of free time on their hands to endure 300 plus turns to victory.
The purpose of this mod is to accelerate the player to victory conditions in half that time.
Difficulties are set so that Veteran players can experience the original Shieldwall campaign at difficulties of Very Hard or Legendary.
The base income for humans has increased from 250 to 400 for players and for AI (originally had 1500 base income).
Players also get several bonuses (see handicaps) that add a small amount of food and gdp so that key buildings can be built up within 15 turns.
AI gets the same food and gdp bonuses, but at about double the human per difficulty level.
For Hard to Legendary players, unit food upkeep has increased to six to be more in line with Vanilla and realism.
Isolated city-factions and cities cannot sustain small armies without owning a city or food-producing region, which isn’t possible much of the time.
In this first Beta, the following have been modded:
In SW, having a province where the 1 food-yielding is held by a non-enemy makes the settlement non-viable for supplies and other things. The building changes here make them viable.
Granaries are currently storage buildings in the countryside.
A new granary building as been added called a Feudal or Smallholder Granary that can be built in the cities.
It works like a combination of a small warehouse and a food producing building as in Vanilla.
Because the food is taken from "small-holders" it causes a hefty public order hit and has significant upkeep.
Souterrains are now designed to be like the new Small-holder Granaries in effect and location.
They cost 50% more but provide more food, storage and supplies than the other new granary type to compensate for the low food-levels in Scottish lands.
Garrisons are much cheaper and build quickly. Their upkeep is almost the same.
In SW, garrisons are much more expensive than the equivalent standing army even though they deliver no bonuses as in Vanilla.
They are meant to be a temporary building in lands distant from ones’ armies.
The unit makeup has not been modified in this mod.
The cai building value has been reduced to make it less likely that the AI will spam them.
Seriously, use the garrison mod for minor towns at the bottom of this description.
Low food income is the main limiting factor on armies in SW. To enable easier army support, the following have been changed:
Dedicated food buildings (farms, pastures) deliver 33% more food
Other food buildings deliver 20-30% depending on whether food is the primarily income they bring in.
Sheep farms give a small food return per level.
Removed or pushed up many building technology requirements.
Faster Research
Larger base income for all factions (SW penalizes human faction and major factions for some reason).
Easier supplies
State Gifts cheaper
Faster unit pool replenishment
Other changes readily viewable in Campaign Variables and Handicaps
Units (for hard and easier) have slightly cheaper unit gold upkeep
For areas where challenge lacks:
–More corruption for human
–Base happiness decreased by 5-10 for human
–Higher construction costs and military upkeep for human
