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Cataph's: The Southern Realms (TEB)

-- WH2 counterpart: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1158737832 --

After hours of sweat, blood, probing of aliens (I do that), throws of rage, generic WAAAAGHing at nothing and, finally, much rejoicing, here comes another mod by your favourite (?) grumpy grumbler.

This time, it’s a faction expansion for the Southern Realms, Estalia, Tilea and Border Princes (in short, TEB), encompassing new units, techs, lord traits, building chains and stuff.

(previously featured in MODS WEEKLY Episode III! Embedded video by milkandcookies TW; DahvPlays 1-2)

- recommended vanilla tweak pack!
*see tech info.


Textures, unit cards and variants were personally made or otherwise edited with my own big sweaty hands (or otherwise credited; yeah some are recycled bretonnian vanillas).
Also renames the “Estalian” docks into “Southern”, because marginalizing an entire region under the name of one nationality is a hateful and stereotypical microaggression (I’m PC, brah). Similarly, Estalians now have their own names list rather than the german-sounding default one.

Space not found, read it here with short descriptions!

(statline screenshots towards the end of the gallery)
Aside from a few elite units and specialized counters, these rosters are not supposed to be stronger than, say, the imperial one. They lack fear/terror units and their strong assets are balanced by harder recruitment/replenishment, but they should be able to fight well with combined arms and, in time, tech-buffed veteran armies that can bloody well teach the moustached northerners what a merc host can do.
Estalia specializes in tough and versatile veterans (think Conquistadores), Tilea on armoured units, Border Princes on agile irregulars helped by warrior elites. All of them can also count on restricted dwarfen allies.

(related screens at about half gallery)
All three factions share 12 tech nodes you can pick at whatever time. Loosely, 4 military, 4 leadership and 4 civil techs. In addition, three unique techs each that become available when the preceding row is completed.
All of them also get a unique recruitment building (Mercenary hubs) and economic upgrades (Art Workshops, on Marble&Dyes resources).

- Some imperial units were removed from their recruitment (e.g., Greatswords, pistoliers/outriders) but still show up in custom battle (marked them).
- The mod is compatible with pretty much everything vanilla-friendly. Balance overhauls may be a problem. See FAQs for more from our field reporter, or the collection above for examples of what's surely compatible.
- The unlock is kept separate so you can keep this mod in background for the AI and play anything else.

All in all, I consider this as lore-friendly as it can go with armies that almost never had official rules. I expanded these rosters based on what I could grab of the official lore (mostly pre-6th ed), fan-made army books and historical XVI century stuff, mediating to keep it balanced and interesting.

Expected F.A.Q.s

Linked, I ran out of space again.

- Ditto. Most rough edges can be read of in the FAQs.

No claims on Games Workshop content and concepts.
Some unit icons adapted from art by Pierre Bertin[www.pierrebertin.com], Perun Tworek[perun-tworek.deviantart.com], Dariusz Bufnal[dariusz-bufnal-imaging-battles.blogspot.com] and possibly other sources I couldn’t identify; cover image adapted from Rocroi, El ultimo tercio by A. Ferrer-Dalmau.
No claim intended here either.

Some features modelled after the example given by:
- Mounts for LLs
- Brujah’s slayer tweaks
- Bretonnia by Prater
(said mods are NOT included here, but were very useful for inspiration and references, so I recommend giving them a thumbs-up)
Screenshots taken with other mods up, so for example you might notice something from various kinds of reskin within the collection.

Special thanks to my buddy Dreamlore (which is also my pal) for battle and variant testing, and to Crynsos for the external startpos components.
To Dontfearme22 for his custom textures for tilean and estalian shields, to Black Rabbit for his texturing support, to Frenchiest Fry and Bencroff for some of the screenshots. Usual thanks to the PFM crowd.

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