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Terrain Dependent Animal Summoning

With this mod list of creatures of random Archdruid summon spells is affected by terrain they're cast on. Sorcerer spell may come later, we'll see.

Not all terrain overlays/themes are affected, for example grassland fertile plains and barrens are not.

It just happens all 3 spells have their list with size 10. I wanted the change to be significant so any terrain that's affected will have about 10 extra entries. Exact number of extra entries depends on number of units with increased chance to be summoned and on proportions (some units can get bigger summoning chance boost than others).

For example 2 units get increased chance, one gets 3 extra entries, other gets 6.
Another example - one unit has increased chance so it gets all 10 extra entries, boosting chance to be summoned from 10% to 55% (usually). It looks big but it's still far from 100% all other classes get for their units production.

Some (most of them, actually) examples of changed overlays/themes:
- more penguins on arctic terrains
- more lions and elephants on tropical barrens terrains
- more boars and wargs on forest terrains
- more penguins, boars and wargs on arctic forest terrains
- more blighttusk boars on blighted terrains
- more spiders (babies and mothers) underground
- more griffins on mountain terrains
- more reed serpents (all kinds) on wetland terrains
- swimming creatures in water (NEW!)

Water lists are the only ones with some creatures removed from them. It is technically possible to summon land creature by casting this spell on water hex but it will be transported to nearest land, so i ruled them out. Water lists are about 10 in length.


Because someone is inevitably going to complain about spiders on surface only maps, I'm considering increasing their chance in blighted forests.