Total War: WARHAMMER II

Total War: WARHAMMER II

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May 31, 2020 @ 6:52am
Aug 17, 2021 @ 12:44pm
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War Lion Monster

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My mods:

War Lion Monster: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114775538

Dark Elf War Lions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2121024978

Knights of the Blazing Sun Reworked: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1994568906


Credits to revolut1on and his War Lion Variant mod. With his permission, I've used his file as a base, particularly his unit cards and names of the lions to bring you this mod.

His page: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2105832177&searchtext=war+lion

Change log 6/10

After the battle entities changes and animation becoming smoother, these guys are just way too op. I took out poison and replaced it with frostbit and nerfed their melee defense a little and gave them extra charge bonus. They're still incredibly strong, but not oppressively so. When I tested them vs shaggoths recently, they sometimes left with 4k hp intact while the shaggoth routed. That is unacceptable. I'm much happier with where they are now See last image for full changes

Change log 6/7

Nighthaunt

Mass - 800 to 2700
(was using original war lion mass. Now correctly reflects mass of a proper monster. For context, shaggoth is 5500)
Run speed - 82 to 73
Charge bonus - 20 to 30
Better reaction overall in combat


Peakprides

Mass - 800 to 1400
Run speed - 82 to 63
Armor - 60 to 75

BIG FRIKKIN LIONS. This mod makes 2 variants of war lions and fill in unit types that are missing in the High Elves' roster: Monstrous Infatry and a big land monster. For the past few days, I've tested this mod to be as balanced as possible without breaking the game.


Lore background: Basically chaos infused lions that were captured by Morathi as she's always invading Ulthuan in my playthroughs after the patch. She tortured and experimented on the poor cats. After you screw your own son, there's basically nothing she won't do. They grew too big and powerful so they escaped. Some stayed with Alith Anar, some swam home to Ulthuan, but they're coming back for that Druchii ass.


Peak Pride (Tier 3 - 16 unit monstrous anti infantry unit): Balanced around the Ushabti unit, but with less armor and more speed and slightly more expensive (at least in custom). They're even against the Ushabti in a really close 1 on 1. Their main role is to flank the front line and stay there. There are 2 reasons for this.

1) They have a rather low charge bonus for their speed (20 charge bonus, 82 speed).

2) They have "The Hunger" ability and regens while in melee combat.

They are surprisingly tanky in addition to being a really fast, but suffer from being weak to fire (-25%)

See pics for result in fight vs Ushabti.

Cost: 1000g, 250 upkeep


Night Haunt (Tier 5 - 3 LARGE Monstrous Anti Large unit): These guys are huge, as big as Dragon Ogre Shaggoths. And they will kill absolutely anything on the ground minus dread saurians and the new mistwalker flying cavalry, although fire attacks hit them hard. Not quite king of the jungle, but pretty damn close. Primary role is to snipe big important targets or slow them down/weaken them. They also have the hunger ability (weakness to fire) and they come with poison attacks as well. However, they don't come with missile resistance that many large monsters have. They compensate for this with fast speed (82 again). See pics for result in fight vs Shaggoth.

Cost: 2000g, 500 upkeep

Hope you enjoy them!
22 Comments
SOCJBY Dec 1, 2021 @ 6:48am 
awsome bro thank you for your update
Nighthawk  [author] Aug 17, 2021 @ 12:46pm 
Updated and no SFO version. I don't know how to convert to SFO but if you do, feel free to make a SFo version of the mod
Aiozaki Mar 23, 2021 @ 11:48pm 
Is there a SFO version?
djdomi44 Dec 15, 2020 @ 12:44pm 
update please and add DEwar lions to black ark buildings.
Nighthawk  [author] Jun 10, 2020 @ 1:57pm 
See comment below
Wicked Jun 8, 2020 @ 2:14pm 
is it compatible with the mod War Lion Variants?
Nighthawk  [author] Jun 8, 2020 @ 1:42am 
Yeah they work in custom battles
Wicked Jun 7, 2020 @ 11:26am 
does this work in custom battles any chance?
Nighthawk  [author] Jun 6, 2020 @ 12:22am 
@GibbyDAMAN, @Fen'Harel

Check this out:
Dark Elf War Lions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2121024978
Nighthawk  [author] Jun 5, 2020 @ 4:23pm 
@GibbyDAMAN, @Fen'Harel

Good news. I was fiddling around the files and, yes, it is possible to bring lions to the dark elves. I'm making a mod at the moment, not sure how long it will take since I have to do balancing, but I am going to bring lions to DE faction. However, since DE already have kharibydiss for an anti large slaying monster, I'm going to change the DE lions into something else. I'm currently thinking more of a debuffer role.