Pure Pagan Viking Mod/Campaign

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Anyone know of a good mod to allow the player to go through a story as a true Pagan Viking?

I don't like the story how it is making you work for fake Vikings that work together with the Christians, that isn't really the kind of immersion I was looking for from a DLC called Viking conquest.

[cocapelli]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/48700/discussions/6/3397295779062414123/

third post down has a bunch of mod lists. i have been looking specifically at the VC Balance Mod. it looks more like what you are looking for.

note: i havnt tried it yet. playing a nice viking right now, because being a king without being nice in M&B is hard and playing M&B without eventually being king seems pointless to me. Next time i play i may try a mean viking playthru and make a claimant king. ill use the VC Balance mod for that

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yeah the entire early game kind of requires you to be a nice Viking, and build up businesses to sustain your band of raiders, and have good relations for trade, and if you raid the christians as your money maker it is insufficient and then you become enemy of all christians and they have huge Armies that will destroy you easily if you don't play nice first and build up your economy first.

Really feel like they missed the mark with the idea of how a Viking operates.

We should have a way to still trade and do business through other means, for example we could have someone do it for us without anyone knowing they operate in our interests. It's weird that in some aspects they instantly recognize you and others they don't know you. LIke the village elders and mayors, for one thing they will say you are enemy of the realm and can't do business with you, but then will still sell you goods and treat you like a citizen. There is just no consistency.

Will check that out, thanks

Edit: Going to try out Blood Eagle mod, hopefully that will be better

[Hooded Horse]

VC Balance Mod raises the gold from monastery raiding (by about 10x vanilla amount, so quite a lot), and lowers the speed of the faction relations drop somewhat for having a negative relation with a religion. However, local towns/villages near the monastery will still hate you. Balance Mod also gives you more quality loot by fixing the warband kill-order loot glitch (where killing a low level unit first can block high level unit loot), but it also fixes the excessive sale prices for loot in new shops (bandit camps being one example). It also lets you upgrade basic vikings to elite vikings. Some aspects of the norse troop tree are buffed by Balance Mod (spearmen mostly, as well as a new dane axe wielding troop replacing the standard bearer, while the bonus from standard bearers is made part of the huscarls, with them serving to show the prestige of a chieftain), though it is harder for a pagan to recruit christians, as religions are made much more polarized.

Blood Eagle 4.0 has (with permission) integrated most of VC Balance Mod 12.0, so it probably has the same changes as the above.

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thank you for telling me that, appreciate it

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Loving that mod by the way, thanks again