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Farther Fighting

A mod for Farthest Frontier that re-balances multiple aspects of combat to make it more engaging and offer more ways of balancing threats. In vanilla, towers and walls are extremely weak, and only heavy soldiers can put up any real fight against tough raids. This mod gives fixed fortifications more of a role, as a safe point that soldiers can fight from (or retreat to); without turning the whole experience into a tower defence game.

The changes are:

• Friendly archers (with bows or crossbows) can now "shoot from battlements" (represented by being able to shoot through walls). To counter-balance this, bows have been made weaker (and no longer armour piercing), while crossbows are much slower to reload.
  
• Archer AI has also been tweaked to attack enemies as soon as they come into range.
  
• Defensive buildings have been strengthened, with more armor and a little more HP. Upgraded towers' attack is now armor piercing.
  
• Friendly soldiers have had their HP reduced a little to compensate (especially HI and Lancers).
  
• Raider battering rams and catapults move slower so they stick with the rest of their army. They've also had their HP doubled and their attack slightly reduced. This combines to make them harder to snipe with cavalry from a distance, while giving more time to deal with them once they reach the walls.
  
• Raider cavalry is no longer (functionally) immune to ranged attacks, and have only very weak attacks against walls. This is balanced by making them tougher and harder hitting in melee. Cavalry is to be feared in the open, but are no longer battering rams on horseback.
  
• All soldiers and raiders now have their health bar visible on the "normal" unit widget setting (F3), even if they are at full health. This doesn't affect the "none" and "full" toggles for this widget. This makes large battles much easier to keep track of.
  
• [NEW] Raiders will now target your livestock. Protect your precious herds... or use them to distract the enemy. (Invaders, intent on razing your city, will ignore such distractions)

For a mod that makes raider attacks significantly harder, consider using Raging Raiders in addition to this.


Built for version 0.9.7 (and patches) Mono. Installation instructions.