Gift Troops

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Author: SaltaNG

Last revision: 25 Mar at 15:16 UTC (2)

File size: 1.12 MB

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Description:

We’ve all been there. Your ally is losing a crucial war. You send them a generous gift of gold to help them hire mercenaries and turn the tide. And what do they do? They build a cathedral. Or upgrade a farm. Or just… sit on it while their enemies siege their capital.

No more. This mod lets you cut out the middleman and send the troops directly. Your gold, your choice of warriors, spawned right in their capital and ready to fight.

Gift Troops – A generous gesture of military aid

• Send warriors to fight under allies, friends, vassals, and relatives’ banner at no strings attached
• Build goodwill and strengthen alliances through martial generosity

Offer Troops for Favor – Strategic military diplomacy

• Provide military aid to anyone in exchange for a favor hook, if the troop you send if high enough quality and quantity
• The recipient would send back a request with a specific type of troops and amount they need, you then can accept or refuse this request

Choose the quality of troops you’ll send. The system automatically adapts to your culture’s technological level (Era):

Tier 1: Levy the Commons – Peasant Levies

• Cost: 50 / 100 / 200 Gold

Tier 2: Professional Infantry

• Tribal / Early Game: Sends Skirmishers (Light Footmen)
• With ‘Quilted Armor’: Upgrades to Men-at-Arms (Heavy Infantry)
• Cost: 150 / 300 / 600 Gold

Tier 3: Elite Cavalry

• Tribal / Early Game: Sends Light Cavalry (Horsemen) to flank the enemy
• With ‘Arched Saddle’: Upgrades to Knights (Heavy Cavalry) for devastating charges
• Cost: 300 / 600 / 1,200 Gold

Perfectly balanced for both 867 and 1066 starts!

Your character’s personality matters!

• Generous/Compassionate: Lose stress when gifting troops to help others.
• Greedy/Callous: Gain stress if you give away your gold/soldiers for free!
• Arrogant/Ambitious: Gain Prestige or Piety when flaunting your military might.

• A Modest Company – 500 Warriors
• A Formidable Host – 1,000 Warriors
• A Grand Army – 2,000 Warriors

War is not without risk. Interfering in foreign conflicts can make you powerful enemies.

• Diplomatic Fallout: The enemy war leader will know who funded the army crushing their troops. Expect a significant opinion penalty unique to the war leader you opposed.
• Punitive Expedition CB: If you aid their enemies, the opposing war leader gains a Punitive Expedition Casus Belli against YOU.
• High Stakes: If they declare a punitive war and win, you will be imprisoned, stripped of gold, and forced to owe them a Favor. Tread carefully!

Languages Supported:

• English
• French (Français)
• German (Deutsch)
• Spanish (Español)
• Russian (Русский)
• Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
• Korean (한국어)
• Polish (Polski)
• Japanese (日本語)

Savegame Compatible:

• ✓ Safe to add to existing saves
• ✓ Safe to remove mid-game (spawned armies will remain until they disband)

Mod Compatibility:

• ✓ Compatible with most mods
• ✓ Does not modify vanilla files
• ✓ No known conflicts
• ✓ Achievement compatible (does not disable achievements)

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Found a bug? Have a suggestion? Let me know in the comments section below – I read every comment and will do my best to help.