Pirates of the World (w/ OvN Araby support!)
To encounter Araby pirates you must have OvN Lost Factions. To encounter Tomb Kings pirates you need both OvN Lost Factions and Chaos Robie’s Tomb Barque. These are optional.
You know those sea wreckages where you battle enemy pirates so you can claim all the loot?
Why are they always zombie pirates? Outrage!
We want diversity!
End the monopoly!
Open up the piracy business!
Pirates of the World changes the sea encounters to offer combat with pirate armies from 9 factions, including Araby! Now you can find and murder hardworking corsairs just trying to making a dishonest living, or renegades from the Empire looking for fame and fortune, or resurrected slavers from the sands of Nehekara, or gits out to bash some skulls. The opportunities are endless!
Functionally this is an upgraded sequel to Anyndel’s Varied Encounters at Sea.
Main differences and improvements:
- Faction count increased from 6 to 9. Did I mention Araby yet?
- Pirate army lords are lords of their own faction instead of Vampire Coast Admirals.
- Themed names
- More pirate-y army compositions! If I were to narrow it down to 4 words:
⠀Gunpowder 🤗
⠀Shields 🙅 - Much less memory usage. Loads 170 animations vs 600, because I went through every unit by hand to only load the required animations. On high-end PCs this isn’t a majorly noticeable difference but on lower PCs it can make the difference of *minutes*.
- New faction frequencies
- Recolored the pirate encounters faction to a pirate color scheme that works well enough on all races. The dull greys just weren’t cutting it. Now your enemies will be a solid dark purple, a bloody red, and a nice gold.
Common: Dark Elfs, Vampire Coast, Araby*Less Common: Empire, NorscaUncommon: Greenskins, Skaven, Tomb Kings**
Rare: Dwarfs, Ninja-Pirates
Each army is semi-randomized to focus on units that make thematic sense: cannons… the odd sea monster… wait did I say NINJA PIRATES?
Yes-Yes. I did!
There are two rare armies that have a specific army composition every time. Visktrin the Ninja-Pirate and Morgrimsson the One-Eyed lead their legendary crews across the Great Ocean in search of plunder. They *will* beat you if you encounter them early in the game, and the Dawi have the most challenging force of them all. If you ever find and defeat one of these legendary crews, post a comment to tell of your tale!
Pirates of the World is highly compatible. The only conflicts it will have are with mods that either overwrite wh2_campaign_encounters_at_sea.lua or alter DeclareArmyEncounters(). I don’t expect many mods do either. If it doesn’t seem to work, the first thing you should do is move the load order of this mod to the top. If it then works, that means one of your other mods has a conflict.
For now, this needs to be loaded HIGHER than the Community Bugfix Mod. Vandy & sm0kin will have a fix to Community Bugfix so that the load order doesn’t matter soon™. Other than load order the two mods work fine together.
Incompatible with LordOmlette’s Encounters at Derp.
To encounter Tomb Kings pirates you can also use Tomb Kings Extended instead of ChaosRobie’s Tomb Barque mod, as it has the Tomb Barque inside it.
This mod took a long time to make (57 hours). But it would not have been possible without the help of the kind folk at The Modding Den[discord.gg]. If you want to get started in modding, there’s no better place to be!
Thank you Vandy, Flamingo, Mixu, Zeldrake, FiftyThifty and especially LordOmlette for answering my numerous Lua questions and figuring out how to get the pirate names to work.
I mod for fun, not a tip jar. But if you’re feeling charitable, look up k9sforwarriors.org. They’re really cool.
Think this is cool? You might like my other stuff, too. Check out my workshop or these mods:
Reporting For Duty (with 16(!) custom faction mods supported)
