Distinguished Service 1.3+ Warsails

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Author: Howl

Last revision: 11 Dec, 2025 at 14:04 UTC (2)

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Description:

For those without Warsails DLC please use:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3621845412

Big new version out:
Re introducing AI Companions, AI will have a chance to recruit companions from their party pool after every battle currently set to 2% chance (Bare in mind tons of battles happen across the map), Each AI clan will be allowed 1 companion unless increased in settings. To avoid lots of companions sitting in taverns at the end of battle, they now have a 25% to die from lost battles, 25% chance of being recruited by the winning party and 50% chance to escape to another lord in the clan. Try this at your own peril, i’ve only managed to do short campaign testing first 100 days haven’t seen an issue

I’ve rejigged the way stats are distributed to companions so finally you should be able to choose perks and even give a few attributes and focus points to your new companion unless you have chosen to automate it in the settings.

Cultures like calradian and all the bandit types have been changed to a major cultures so issues when gifting fiefs and vassals etc are resolved.

Bonus stats have been slightly nerfed to and capped to avoid scenarios where you have hundreds of points to distribute.

Naval DLC skills added to the options, please be careful and choose the right file, please test it out and let me know if theres any crashes or other issues.

I am not the creator of the mod, all credits goes to Vaskebjorn

Thanks to PapaOurs for the 1.1.0 version

In case the original mod is updated, this one will be deleted.

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Have you ever decided that the random people you pick up in taverns aren’t right for you? Wouldn’t you rather your close companions have earned their place and your trust? Wouldn’t you prefer to have some say in the sorts of skills they bring to the table? Well this mod is for you!

Distinguished Service allows you to promote soldiers from your ranks to companions, if they distinguish themselves during battle! Criteria are laid out in the settings, but the defaults requirements are:

+Top-tier unit (no available upgrades)
+ 5/6/7 kills at least for Infantry/Cavalry/Ranged
+Top 68th percentile in kills across the battlefield (e.g. top 1 sigma)

Once nominated, you can select up to 2 (by default) soldiers, and select skills for them to have developed while they made their way up the ranks in your army.

You can groom them for leadership – of a party, and army, or a city – or you can make the ultimate killing machine/captain(/waifu?) for your own party.

They will be given names based on their Culture, however you can use a namelist instead. It is located (by default) at:
steamappsworkshopcontent2615503055496231external_namelist.txt
However you can copy it to "ModulesDistinguishedService120external_namelist.txt" where it will be preferentially loaded from!