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Double upkeep and double background income - for small armies campaigns

This mod is intended for people who likes small scale army battles.

An important component in having less armies on the campaign map is the upkeep of the units. So this mod doubles the upkeep for both player and AI meaning that in the end there will be about half the units running around on the campaign map. As this is too punishing for the start of the campaign I have also doubled the background income.

This mod is compatible with everything that does not tamper with upkeep and background income. This mod does not touch any individual unit.

The mod is safe to add/remove at any time, though the impact on economy is significant, so better to have from the start of a campaign.

If you worry about tomb kings and beastmen because they do not pay any upkeep, you can consider using this mod to limit their army size:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2582101485

If you think double upkeep is not enough, try triple upkeep:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2572114261
Or quadruple upkeep:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2572308664


How to play with small armies:

Start a new campaign and immediately save the game before doing anything else. Quit out and load up a save parser to edit your save file and edit the maximum units per army to for instance 12. You find a save parser here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/saveparser/

If you have small armies you may want small quest battles, for that look here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2580777533

Subscribe to the CTT mod if you want your lords and heroes not to be as dominant as in vanilla. I kinda like the CTT balance. YMMV. The CTT mod is here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1214959308

If you don't like doom-stacks you can also install a cost-based army caps mod and set the cap to for instance 10000 points (in CTT scheme that fits well with a 12 unit army limit). A cost-based army cap mod working with CTT can be found here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2567072786