Active Defenders of the Great Plan (Allow Defenders to function like a normal faction)
Mods are all about choice, and the way Nakai was handled made me want to try different things with him as long as its not the vanilla experience, so this is another choice on how to handle Nakai. This mod is an alternative to my other mod "Nakai, Hound of Tlaxtlan", for those who like to upset balance as little as possible but still hate the Defenders of the Great Plan’s passivity.
With this mod, the player gifts settlements and temples to the Defenders of the Great Plan faction just like he would in vanilla, but this makes it so that Defenders actually build buildings and field armies, making the faction a bit more able to defend itself and boosting Nakai’s income because now the Defenders actually build income buildings and such, which indirectly means Nakai will end up earning more from vassal income.
Them being able to field at least one army also has a very positive effect that it gives them at least SOME value in the balance of power, meaning less AIs should randomly declare war on them. Usually AIs use many indexes to decide to declare war on x faction, and their relative strength relative to another faction is an important thing in their decision making. Since Defenders never fields any armies in vanilla, its power balance is always 0, which makes other AIs see them as a punching bag, which forces the player to enter wars in their name constantly. This should improve that to some degree.
I’ve modified the Defenders’ personality to be a bit more aggressive than usual but they’re still a minor faction and they usually only like to field few armies at a time, so in early game they usually run around with just one, for example. This means the vassal faction is less active than Tlaxtlan is on "Hound of Tlaxtlan", but it should upset balance less.
Obviously not compatible with "Hound of Tlaxtlan".
In this mod, Defenders of the Great Plan are only allowed to sack settlements, if you would like them to also occupy lands by themselves, you can use this submod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1871036124
POSSIBLE BUGS
-Some people are showing Defenders to have a strange behaviour in which they can get stuck in mustering stance. Its hard to say what set of conditions causes this, but trying to look into it.
–If you have any mod ideas for WH2 you can let me know in the comments and I can see wether its doable/have time for it, I enjoy modding and solving stuff–
