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Invasions from the Deeps

"The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled"
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

The new Deeps mechanic by CA allows the dwarfs to delve deep…
…This mod adds the old enemies who sleep in darkness, waiting to be awoken.

This new mechanic affects all playable Dwarf factions (vanilla or modded) with access to the Deeps.



When you launch a new campaign, each region is pre-seeded with 1 to 6 invasion events. Starting when you enter the Deeps, an invasion event has a base 25% chance to spawn. The invasion event marker then appears by the settlement and will trigger after a timer of 2 to 5 turns.

You can choose to fight the invasion battle early. This does not reduce the strength of the invasion but may be more convenient.

After all the pre-seeded invasions in a region have been defeated, the region gains a 100% buff to Oathgold production, and no further invasions will spawn.

When you build an entrance to the Deeps, you will see all the buildings in that menu have had a new warning tag added about their effects. Depending on the tier of the building, they can potentially disturb a Strong, Very Strong, or Extremely Strong enemy invasion.

More specifically: if you have only built tier 1 buildings, you will only trigger a Strong invasion. If you have built any tier 2 or tier 3 buildings, you will instead trigger Very Strong or Extremely Strong invasions, respectively.



Invasion armies always spawn as a 20-stack army (except the dragons). The army will consist of early, medium, or late-game units, all themed around factions and subfactions of daemons, dragons, greenskins, or skaven.

THESE INVASIONS ARE POWERFUL! A vanilla garrison will definitely struggle, so fighting the invasion battle with an army or having reinforcements nearby is recommended.

• Building the rangers' building in a region will change any invasion timer in that region to 10 turns, instead of 2-5 turns. (Image 4)
  
• When upgrading the main deeps building getting that way more slots there is a 1/4 chance that a enemy encampment building spawns. These encampments cause various negative effects, and dismantling them triggers an invasion battle (these battles don’t count against the pre-seeded invasion count).
  
• This mod also connects the Deeps mechanic to the Underway mechanic. When you build the Grand Entrance Halls (a tier 3 building) in the province capital, you will then have access to that underway node. The regions affected are Karag Orrud, Karak Hirn, Karak Vrag, Khazid Irkulaz, Karak Azul, Karak Zorn, Karak Dum, Zhufbar, and Kraka Drak.

Because this mod relies mainly on scripted events, it should be compatible with everything up to and including overhauls.
Should require a new campaign.
Questions, Bugs, and Incompatibilities with other mods are in the comments.


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Does the AI use these mechanics?

No, the AI will never be invaded. The poor AI would get wrecked, and it isn’t good enough at investing in the Deeps to be comparable with the Player.

The Deeps for Chaos Dwarfs?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366938053


What happens to the Underways’ mountain home?

I was waiting for the last DLC to see if dwarfs would get a Deeps-like mechanic, and they didn’t. So I worked on making the mod way, way, way better, including a generic hero Master Miner that would spawn in the underways settlement (instead of stealing from Oxyotl he has VO and was waiting for the VO to be implemented since it is quite the process). Anyway, CA released the Deeps in the last patch so my mod that was finished just waiting for VO is now scraped, and I removed 90% of it, just leaving the invasions and the ability to unlock more Underway teleportation by building the Deeps, that is what happen to the previous idea mod.



For the mod that wasn’t:

• Thank you to Phyrex for the assets for the Master Miner.
  
• Thank you to Partypus for 15 building icons and UI 2D art.
  
• Thank you to Grakul for allt eh scripting help and for giving the idea would have never thought of vampire Coast as the answer to my issue.
  
• Thank you to Arthur and Tristan for VO work and for editing and cutting the voicelines, thankfully those will be relessed in another mod.
  
• Thank you CA_Mitch for helping with the better implementation of the vandal buildings can't wait to make them better.
  
• Thank you to Based Memes and Pear for taking care of Audio Mixer.

For the original underways mountain home mod for wh3:

• Thank you Da Modding Den for helping me with modding in general.
  
• In specific thank you Groove Wizard, Zarathustra_the_Godless, alekve and Anndgrim for helping me convert this mod for wh3.
  
• Thank you to freakpear, CraigCA, Ulrik H.D, Acephelos, Rhox for helping me script the invasion stuff.
  
• Thank you to thesniperdevil to use his script from his gate invasion mod of wh2.
  
• Thank you, Cláudia Delaunay, for some of the art.
  
• Thank you Rhox for fixing the confederation script.
  
• Thank you Partypus for the cool new artwork and the screenshots that show it.
  
• Thank you to Great Books of Grudges for the mod review.
  
• Thank you to Frodo for RPFM.