Total Levy Combat Overhaul
In vanilla, levy combat efficiency double dips. It penalizes levies with a damage malus and simultaneously gives regulars a damage bonus against them, but also doesn’t apply those stats to levy vs levy fights. The result is that levies melt only on contact with regulars in ways that are disproportionate and hard to predict. This mod nullifies levy combat efficiency entirely and replaces it with a straightforward static discipline penalty that applies to all levies at all times.
Levy combat efficiency as a modifier is neutralized. Every nation receives a baseline advance that maxes it out, so the hardcoded damage formula no longer creates any disparity between levy and regular units. Instead, levies carry a heavier discipline penalty than vanilla. They are worse than regulars because they lack training and cohesion, not because the combat engine is doubling the math against them.
Every source of levy combat efficiency in the game, across estates, privileges, laws, reforms, religions, and societal values, has been replaced with global discipline and morale. Levies are now more useful and fights are more predictable.
- Levies fight worse than regulars by exactly what the tooltip says. No more, no less.
- The replacement bonuses are country-wide discipline and morale that improve all your forces equally.
- Safe to add to existing saves. The mod initializes itself on load and cleans up if removed.
This mod pairs well with the following for a more comprehensive military change, but all are standalone:
Every source of levy combat efficiency has been replaced with discipline and morale:
- Per 10% levy combat efficiency: +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Per 5% levy combat efficiency: +2.5% discipline
- Nobles Estate high power: +100% levy combat efficiency replaced with +25% discipline at 100% estate power
- Commoners Estate high power: New +50% land morale bonus at 100% estate power added to commoners instead of nobles to avoid making nobles totally OP.
New baseline advance: The Nature of War
- Granted to all nations at game start and to any new nations on their first month tick
- Sets levy combat efficiency to +100%, neutralizing the hardcoded double dip
Levy base stats:
- Discipline: -10% → -25%
Advances:
- Regular Levy Training: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Appointed Chain of Command: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Drafted Hatun Runas: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
Estates:
- Nobles Estate high power: +100% levy combat efficiency → +25% discipline
- Commoners Estate high power: (nothing) → +50% land morale
Estate privileges:
- Auxilium et Consilium: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Peasants Allowed Weapons: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Land Owning Farmers: +5% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline
Government reforms:
- Magna Carta: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Noble Elite: +5% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline
- Military Order: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
Laws:
- Medieval Levy Law / Peasant Levies: -10% levy combat efficiency → -2.5% discipline, -5% morale
- Medieval Levy Law / Longbow Competitions: +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
- Republican Electorate / Landholders: +5% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline
- Republican Electorate / Citizenry: +5% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline
- Republican Electorate / Military Rulership: +20% levy combat efficiency → +5% discipline, +10% morale
Religion:
- Imunu: +5% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline
Societal values:
- Free Subjects (right side): +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
Static modifiers:
- Support of the People (character): +33% levy combat efficiency → +7.5% discipline, +15% morale
- English Backing (country): +10% levy combat efficiency → +2.5% discipline, +5% morale
