[SFO] Dracarys – Improved Dragons

A unit improvement submod for Steel Faith Overhaul that aims to make dragons the costly yet terrifying superweapons that they ought to be.

Dragons are the quintessential mythical monster present in just about any fantasy series. They made a welcome entrance as standalone units with the Total War: WARHAMMER franchise with the Wood Elves and then with the High Elves and Dark Elves in the sequel, but unfortunately in many situations these units, reknown in the lore for possessing almost impenetrable armoured scales, get cut to ribbons by spears and projectiles.

SFO went some distance to buffing up the dragon’s other main weakness, their rather pitiful breath, but they’re still made of paper when facing any sort of significant missile resistance. This mod seeks to change that by improving their armour and general tankiness as well as other small tweaks to make them feel more ‘dracarys’ and less ‘meh’ – at the cost of making them significantly more expensive, as such a mythical super-unit ought to be!

♦ War Hydras, Black Dragons, Sun Dragons, Moon Dragons, Star Dragons, Forest Dragons, Chaos Dragons, and Zombie Dragons now have significantly increased armour, hit points, and damage resistance.

♦ These changes also apply to lords riding these dragons as mounts!

♦ The breath weapons of these dragon units have been slightly buffed (although not especially much as SFO already did a relatively good job with this!)

♦ Dragons are much swifter when flying through the air and attack more viciously in combat.

♦ The recruitment costs and upkeep costs of the dragons have been sharply increased to compensate for their enhanced power.

This mod was made with SFO as the baseline for unit stats, so it’s compatible with it. Definitely recommended you use the mods together so that the dragons don’t end up being ridiculously OP when compared to vanilla unit scaling. I might release a vanilla version of the mod on request but I mainly play with SFO enabled so it’s not terribly interesting to me unless other people really want it.

This mod should be totally savegame compatible.

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