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Hellbent's Traits, Talents, and Toadies: A Character Mod Overhaul v.1.6

v.1.6 is out! (10/29) - Greek/Eastern/Egyptian Ancillaries Done! (See changes tab for a full list)

Just a note that the range increase fix for "Experienced Archer" and "Tenacious Defender" might seem like a lot, but there's a vanilla bug in which you need to have very high values for this to take effect. So 500% is actually only 5%.

Hey all.

Like most of you, I've been wholly disappointed with the way generals and agents have been portrayed in Rome II. The family tree is gone, marriage is currently broken, and characters die much faster with CA's decision to make the game 1 turn per year. Besides those, a lot of their retinues, traits, and skills had very negligible effects; 5% reduction on building temples? How useful is that exactly?!

The aim of this mod is create a more immersive system for character management, in particular by revamping the traits, skills, and household of generals and agents. Family trees might be in CA's hands for now, but I was playing around with the files and discovered that the values for several retinue modifiers can be changed, so that's what I did. In v1.2 I've also come up with a completely new skill tree overhaul that aims to replace the vanilla skill "ladder" for a skill tree with more branching options and more player choices.

Features:

1. A completely overhauled skill tree for generals:

*Color-coded and unique skill cards for ease of use
*Increased skills per general level from 1 to 2
*Streamlined most skills and combined similar skill effects
*A separate skill tree dedicated to city management and politics
*Took out boring and redundant skills
*More RPG and immersion options!

The problem that I've found with the vanilla skill trees is that it was too limited and becomes redundant across a long playthrough; you start off with the same basic skills, and it wasn't really a skill "tree" as much as it was a skill "ladder." I've tried to remedy that with this overhaul by giving the player more options from the outset.

After ranking up, each general will have access to all the red skill cards. As of now, this only gives the basic authority/cunning/zeal increases. After investing a single skill point in a red skill, all of the branching skills from that will open up to the player.

Each skill still has 3 levels each and each rank will yield 2 skill points, with each general at max level theoretically being able to gain 6 full skill cards. Each level 3 skill gives it's corresponding attribute increase along with its powerful bonuses. This new system allows the player to have more options for specialization and RPG purposes. A general might be heavily invested in tactical skills (affecting the battlefield map aspects of war) while another might be more inclined for logistical capabilities (affecting the campaign map aspects of war).

2. Governors and Generals:

To complement the civil skill tree, generals can now be governors! They can gain slow but steady experience just by being in a settlement, facilitating trade, building structures, and keeping the peace!

1) +1 XP for just being in a garrison
2) +1 XP for having the second to the highest tax level
3) +1 XP for having >25 public order in a region

3. Ancillary Overhaul (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Most basic combat values from retinues/ancillaries have been doubled from 5% to 7%-10% (morale, melee, defense, charge, etc.).

Slight variations exist; for instance, the 'loaded die' gives a much lower morale bonus than a 'barbarian hero' retinue (as it logically should), charge-modifying retinues for Germans are higher than their Roman/Greek counterparts, while Greek defensive retinues are also higher than Roman/Barbarian counterparts.

If a retinue is highly specialized, as in the case of values that modify temple construction costs or attack values for generals, their values have been upped significantly (sometimes from the meager 5% to upwards of 20%-30%)

The modifiers that increase chances to evade/wound agents that harm your generals have also been upped significantly from 5% to 10%-20% depending on the quality of the retinue. For instance, the 'slave bodyguard' might have some issues of loyalty in terms of protecting his master, but a 'roman veteran centurion' should be able to lay down his life for his master willingly.

As you can see from the sample images above, I've further revamped the effects for each ancillary. Although it might look like a lot, the stats are really aimed for flavor while still providing slight bonuses. After all, 'Gallic Bards' tend to increase public order and spread some culture when in towns and taverns and not on the front lines.

To recap, here's the overall goal for each ancillary:

1) Edit scripts/triggers to fix ancillary spam
2) Revamp effects to add more flavor
3) Create new ancillary portraits to cut down on reused pictures

So far, I've managed to script the 'ALL' ancillaries (applicable to all factions), the 'Barbarian' ancillaries, the 'Roman' ancillaries, the 'Eastern' ancillaries, the 'Egyptian' ancillaries, and the 'Greek' ancillaries in time for v.1.6. This means that (theoretically anyway) ancillary spam as well as revamped effects is currently fixed for barbarian, Roman, Eastern, and Greek factions! The only drawback to this is that the new portraits art style might clash a bit with the vanilla ones since they're all not replaced yet, but I don't think it's that much of a bother, and they will all be eventually replaced.

This particular part of the mod is a WORK IN PROGRESS and that means balancing changes will happen. And ancillary spam still occurs for non-barbarian factions until I can finish all of them!

So please, bear with me as I finish all of them. You can help me by reporting any ancillaries that tend to be spammed or if those that I've fixed don't trigger.

By my last count, that's 600/800. 200 more to go!

4. Cursus Honorum Changes

*Each rank will now retain the bonuses of the one before it
*The first cursus honorum rank is now accessible from level 1
*This is still experimental and is open to balancing tweaks.

Recommended: Dresden's 2TPY mod goes really, really, really well with this mod.

For more information (really, you should check this thread out first):
Full Features at Total War Center[www.twcenter.net]

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