OvN Lost Factions: Araby

This mod is part of the OvN Lost Factions mod series which adds new and interesting races to the game and requires Mixu’s Unlocker to work. These races are available to play in the Immortal Empires campaign, Immortal Empires Expanded, The Old World and custom battles.

For the custom siege map to appear use the Map Replacer Framework mod.

• Major Playable Factions
  • Sultanate of Araby – Led by Sultan Jaffar starting at Al-Haikk, Araby
  • Aswad Scythans – Led by Fatindira starting at Karag Orrud, Worlds Edge Mountains
  • The Golden Fleet – Led by Golden Magus starting at Copper Landing, Western Lustria
• Minor Factions
  • Sultanate of El-Kalabad – El-Kalabad, Araby

• Complete New Race ‘Araby’ – Like the Wood Elves, Chaos Daemons or the Empire, Araby is its own distinct race. In general a new race will have it’s own unit roster, legendary lords, mechanics, diplomatic relations, technology tree, magic lore, spells and everything else you might expect from a distinct race.
• Full Custom Roster – The Araby race has a fully custom roster, the custom units all draw from the tabletop, lore or the OvN team. This not only includes units, but fully custom heroes, lords and legendary lords, all with unique visuals and using custom made models, assets and animations.
• Three Playable Custom Factions – There are three unique faction from the Araby race to play as ‘Sultanate of Araby’, ‘Aswad Scythans’ and ‘The Golden Fleet’, there are additionally a number of extra custom battle factions to play as.
• One Minor Faction – Additionally there is a minor factions, to expand the presence of this race on the campaign map, these being the Sultanate of El-Kalabad.
• Custom Mechanics
  • Jaffar’s Revenge – The ‘Sultanate of Araby’ faction has a unique faction mechanic which see the player enact ‘Jaffar’s Revenge’ by uniting all of Araby and conquering all of Estalia, Tilea and Bretonnia which in turn provides various rewards.
  • Fatandira’s Allegiance – When playing the ‘Aswad Scythans’ the player must decide Fatandira’s Allegiance and side with either theTomb King God Tutankhanut, or the people of Araby. Both sides offer unique rewards for your faction, from campaign buffs to powerful Royal Djinn or Tomb King Construct units. Your allegiance shifts by constructing certain buildings, winning battles and other deeds.
  • Pirates Delights – Like any good pirates ‘The Golden Fleet’ faction can enjoy a host of pirate mechanics such as Infamy, Pieces of Eight and Magus comes with an upgradeable ship.
  • This is just a few of the mechanics for Araby, explore the Bazzar, side with the Nomads or Urban Elites and much more.

Mod Won’t Start/Missing Updates
There is a chance after the mod gets updated that steam will fail to download the update, possibly corrupting your version of the mod. If your game crashes on game start, you are missing something from a recent update or have some other issues try this;
1) Restart Steam – This can kick start the process of checking for mod updates
2) Unsubscribe and resubscribe to all the required mods – To properly unsub, unsub from the mod, start the game launcher, quit and resub. This will give you a fresh install of the mod and often fixes problems for people.
3) Use PropJoes WH3 Mod Manager

Is this mod lore accurate?
As many of you know, for a place of such close proximity to the Old World, Araby has not a whole bunch of lore talking about it, and what little there is, is scattered across the very, very different eras of Warhammer Fantasy. For Araby’s depiction in this mod we have mostly ignored the dated (and honestly, unimaginative) second edition lore, and most of the ‘official’ lore we have based Araby on its more modern incarnation from sources such as the Two Crowns of Ras-Karim novella and the fourth edition of WFRP. That still left us with a bunch of blank spaces, so we filled them out with our own original lore where such gaps ramained. Visually our Araby draws a little from 2007’s Warmaster Araby army while the rest is a mostly original “Warhammerised” take on various One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights fantasy tropes, with a lot of the visual cues for OvN’s Araby designed specifically for it by our main 3D Artist, BarboMarsh. We hope that this sets our Araby apart from other depictions in WFB fan projects while still remaining somewhat consistent with the greater themes and visual cues of the setting itself.

Mod Compatibility and Compatibility Submods
It’s been reported that these mod conflict.

• Nothing yet

Here is a list of Compatibility Submods
Will update section when compatibility submods are released.

Before reporting a bug make sure you have done the following;
1) Subscribed to all the required mods.
2) Turned off all other mods and replicated the bug.
3) Unsubscribed and resubscribed to all the required mods.

If you still have a bug post it to discord, ideally with a screenshot – at the OvN channel on Da Modding Den[discord.gg], Lost Factions[discord.gg] or if it is a small bug you can post in the comments but please try the above at least before posting. This helps us out and saves us time so we can concentrate on genuine bugs.

Will update section when recommended mods are released.
For the custom siege map to appear use the Map Replacer Framework mod.

Please find a list here of the OvN team, thanks and credits.

The mod is reported not to work in multiplayer campaigns.

For update notes or bugs, compatibility issues, feedback & questions go to the #ovn channel on ‘Da Modding Den’[discord.gg] or ‘Lost Factions’[discord.gg]

It’s easy to miss Steam comments, so for a better chance at a response post on Discord and someone from the team or someone familiar with the mod will be able to help.

Please rate up if you enjoy, upvotes feed the Hell Forges of Zharr-Naggrund so the Daemonsmiths can continue their unholy work!

If you want to donate to OvN Lost Factions project Buy us a Halfling Honeypot[www.buymeacoffee.com]. All donations received are shared with modders who work on the mod, for larger donations please feel free to contact us on the ‘Lost Factions discord server’[discord.gg]. A number of the modders on the team also have patreon accounts so you can support them directly, you can find links in the "OvN Team, Thanks & Credits" section linked above.