The Nanman Chiefs

45 new faces and 8 updated armor styles have been added. Collect different looking heroes and swap armor styles to create unique look and feel for your generic Nanman chiefs!

Also, in this update is new art for Jinhuansanjie and updates to Yang Feng and Tu An.

Plus other various fixes and balance changes.

Make sure to check out my new Nanman Chiefs Sub-Mod: Unit Flavor Pack-Nanman. Adds 16 new units to the Nanman factions.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2851238089

It was very strange. CA made Meng Huo, Duosi, Wutugu, Shamoke, Mulu and Zhurong as truly unique characters, complete with Art, 3D model and Bio. However, there were 10 characters in the game that they gave unique bio and even went thought the trouble to make unique armour to tie to them, but…they stopped there and did not make them unique, with art 3d models. In fact their supposedly unique armour just had a generic skin and very basic stat buffs.

That all changes in this mod. Ahuinan, Dailaidongzhu, Dongtuna, Jinhuansanje, Mangyachang, Meng You, Meng Jie, Tu An, Xi Ni and Yang Feng are all made unique! Complete with art, 3d model and unique bio’s and abilities to match their character.

The artwork is meant to be very much like the vanilla game. It is made using the puzzle method and a lot of creativity to make them feel like Nanman barbarian heroes and not re-skinned Han heroes.

The 3D models are all carefully made to match the 3D art. Other mods sometimes add unique art but then you get in battle and your general looks nothing like it. I wanted that to not be the case in this mod.

These 10 heroes had unique bios already but they were very generic and are updated now to match their new personalities. Some are derived from the novels/history. For example Xi Ni and Tu An were lieutenants in Wutugu’s Rattan Army, now they are in the game too. Where as Meng Jie little was know about except that he wandered the Han territories. Now he is a ranged focus archer hero.

Also, most of these heroes have been given better voices to fit their character. (Tu An will sometimes say he is Sun Jian, he has suffered many blows to the head in battle, just ignore that line)

As you level up your heroes their bio’s will change at level 4, and final one at 7. In addition to a new title representing their new rank, they also acquire new skills to make them stronger!

Existing heroes like Zhurong and Duosi get changes to their skills and mechanics. For example; Duosi was know for his using poison archers to assault and sneak around Han armies. Now in game he buffs poison darts units better and he himself gets a poison range ability!

11 New Nanman Themed Weapons

This includes 4 Tribal Spear Staffs of 4 rarities(unique to Nanman), Poison Maces, War-Clubs, Bronze Axe, a Flaming Mace and more!

New Unique Events

These events will only occur for Nanman player Factions. Some of them will trigger as events and give you weapons, others have stories to them and require you to choose which items you’d like to receive. No hero starts with their lost weapons so keep an eye out for the events and the items you want. There will also be a large celebration event at campaign start that will give you some Nanman weapons to start. If you don’t find the weapon in these events, many of them can be crafted at the Armory Settlement and looted from other factions.

This mod does use and edit the CEO files. This was necessary because of how the Nanman generics use the PUZZLE art style. This means that THIS MOD IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OVERHAUL MODS including MTU, TUP or WDG. I am sure a compatibility mod could be made easily but i do not know how to do it. If you use this mod with other mods mentioned it will have weird issues and many features will not work at all. Not recommended. But ask yourself, if you are subscribing to this mod you intend to play a Nanman campaign and try to collect these new heroes so why do you need mods that give tons of uniques to the HAN factions? I advise enabling this mod when you intend to play a Nanman campaign. Which I hope many more people will do now that they have an upgrade to the amount of uniques.

This mod is also a larger file. Mostly due to the 3d model assets. In the future i will look to slim it down if i can.

Unique weapons, abilities, mounts, units and 9 new heroes(including female) are all planned. Plus more…

I’d like to thank Salamarder with his help in this endeavor an his mod templates, some of which are in this mod. Also the makers of Make them Unique for laying the groundwork for the inspiration for mods like mine. I will post links to their mods soon..

Due to conflicts with new art, some generic Nanman heroes that spawn will have a missing face in the hero detail tab. (the one that opens big when you right click on them). This issue will only happen with very few generics and there is no fix for it as it stands.

Some ‘floating heads’ will appear behind heroes heads when on the war declaration screen.

Some clipping may appear on character panel with small artwork or artwork that is too big. It is being worked on and fixed shortly.

***Credit for some of the weapon models
The artwork for the new weapons I created. The credit for the wonderful 3D models I used for some of the weapons belongs to the great: harrylee95. He has made so many lovely mods for Three Kingdoms and especially his historical unit and weapon re-skins. They are all amazing. You can check out his mods on his workshop page:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/harrylee95/myworkshopfiles/?appid=779340

I really hope everyone now can enjoy a Nanman campaign and have as much fun with this mod as I did making it. If you discover any bugs or things you’d like to see changed please post in the comments.

Now….

Unite the Tribes!!!!

And enjoy these new Heroes! They have fought hard to be here.