Children of Storm Mod: Demon Soul Harvesting?

[karmavirus]

First off I want to tell you all that I LOVE this mod and highly recommend it! It opens a world of new races and factions that add so much to this game. Read more on it at http://childrenofstorm.wikidot.com/ !

Now one part where I'm in a pickle is with the Chaos Spawn faction and their recruiting. I can't recruit anything but champions and special quest units because the game says I require "Demon Souls" to train them. I keep looking over the game and can't for the life of me find where I get these demon souls! So far I've tried playing them with a custom faction I created using their template with the "Binding" feature, so that all the shards I gather spawn demons and elementals to add to my army, and have been making heavy use of the wildland allies spawns. Sadly, I still cannot train basic units such as pioneers! I'm winning at least, thanks to diplomacy and my wildland spawns, but I'm kinda stuck on how to make new cities without pioneers and the demon souls needed for them.

[karmavirus]

OK, I figured it out. Need to research the Death Forge first, which takes quite a bit of research when you're founding your first city! And my custom faction based on Chaos didn't have that trait, so they were kinda screwed. Once you have the death forge you get a unique "demon soul" resource at a rate of 0.2/city, so you have to play very conservatively to keep those precious units from dying. Luckily I managed to wrap up a diplomatic victory by being the nicest most polite little demonic overlord ever, and convincing my buddies to attack anybody not so nice. Overall the chaos legion has some interesting death scath mounts and hellhounds to ride which is fun. Replayed as the Chaos Legion proper and that time did the master quest. It still took many many turns before I could recruit anything.

My best advice in playing them successfully is to blitzkrieg through research buildings and tech ASAP and anything that boosts mana/round, then use summon spells to flesh out your initial, pathetically weak army (militia and spearman with no reinforcements for over 30 turns!) I came to know the shadow warg very intimately, and every city was built on essence tiles with mana boost on them to keep a heavy summons army. Sadly the Chaos Legion doesnt have "Binding" like like custom faction did, and I wish they had it since I love when those demons and elementals spawn from the shards. My custom faction relied almost entirely on those shard spawned demons and the Arcane Monolith spell to grab shards (for total lack of pioneers), and it worked!

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Haven't used that particular faction myself. You may want to try posting any problems you have here. Heavenfall (the mod author) still posts there regularly, and definitely still looks into issues. He is not promising to fix them all anymore, but it certainly couldn't hurt to ask. If it's something quick and easy, you may get either him or someone else to show what exactly the problem is in the xml that you can quickly change yourself to fix an issue, so as to not have to wait for a new release of the mod.

Here is that thread on the main boards: http://forums.elementalgame.com/443960

[Literally deaf]

If you play the normal chaos legion, you get demon souls from your cities based on production. Since you made a custom faction you won't get them from the cities. You need to add this to your new faction's raceconfig:

<SelAbilityBonusOption>DeathLegionLimit</SelAbilityBonusOption>

[karmavirus]

Awesome, thanks Heavenfall! Now I can make the Spawn of Avernus summon their pitfiend buddies from the portals as I envisioned.