Arthanor’s Questing Rangers
Instead of heroic adventurers who go hunting treasures in the world’s darkest places and defeat evil on the way with sword and magic, vanilla elven rangers are a low-tier infantry mob. This is an unworthy assignment for my favorite warhammer quest hero! To address this, here is a ranger re-imagining that add two units akin to Aspiring Champions. These new heroic rangers are:
– Ranger-Knights: Competent armored fighters with magic to help.
– Ranger-Mages: Magic users that can hold their own in a fight.
– Recruited from the gardens/court building chain (same as nobles since they are supposed to be nobles). Ranger-Mages can be recruited at T4 and also require an archive.
– Priced around T3-4 units.
– Fewer in numbers: 20 Knights and 15 Mages per units.
– More powerful individually, with better stats and knockbacks on attacks.
– Able to cast magic on their own! Magic is mostly handled automatically, depending on circumstances. No added micro required!
Ranger-Knights can cast:
– Mists of the Isles: +25% missile resistance when out of melee
– Fury of Indraugnir: Area of effect magic damage when in melee
– Hand of Glory (Passive): Same as the spell, cast on themselves when charging
Ranger-Mages can cast:
– Aura of Vitality: Bursts of healing in an area activated as long as the rangers are hurt and morale is holding
– Storm of Vengeance: Area of effect damage when in melee, with -5 Melee Attack and -10% Vigor debuffs
– Hand of Glory (Bound): 3 charges of the baseline spell
If you have any suggestions in how to make rangers stand out more, I will happily consider them.
To do, eventually, maybe: A high elf warrior unit, essentially sword and shield spearmen equivalent or HE bleaksword, to replace rangers in their T1 anti-infantry role.Mods to do that probably already exist, so I should just find one to recommend.
Very nice high elf warriors mod for those who, like me, dislike vanilla rangers:
High Elf Swordsmen
If you are interested in lore friendly high elf unit tweaks, also check my workshop
Particularly, if you don’t want vanilla rangers, you can remove them.
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Warden & The Paunch
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
