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Loose Unit Spacing

This mod makes it so that certain units don't line up in straight columns and ranks. This mainly affects orc, beastmen, and chaos units. Zombie and crypt ghoul/horror units are also affected. Bretonnian peasants are also more mob like. Bretonnian men-at-arms have normal rows and columns.

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It makes the following changes:

This does work with the new Bretonnia FLC. Peasant mobs will be a gaggle, while the men-at-arms have ranks and columns.

Chaos, orc, and beastmen units nearly across the board now look like more of a rabble, they no longer appear in completely square formations like dwarfen and empire units. This mod works by altering the unit_spacings_table, and nothing else.

Zombie and crypt ghoul/horror units are also affected. Skeletons and grave guard will still appear in their normal blocks.

Note, unit spacing is determined by spacing archetype. For example, all ungor units use the same spacing template. Same for minotaurs. Same for all chariots regardless of race. This oddity is why all empire units minus Demigryph knights will appear in their regular formations. Demigrpyhs use a 'monstrous cavalry' template, not a professional calvary template.

Another example is that chaos marauders and chaos warriors share the same spacing, but not chaos chosen. Therefore, both warriors and chaos will not be in perfect formation. Neither will chosen, for the sake of aesthetics. One could argue that chaos warriors are disciplined enough to line up, but I had to choose between loose marauders and warriors over professional looking warriors and marauders, and I found professional looking marauders more of a visual break.

It's possible my testing has been off, but these have been my findings so far. Any help is appreciated.

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Compatibility:

This mod should work with just about anything that doesn't also change the unit_spacings_table. Very few things do.

This mod should also be compatible with all game updates that don't affect the existing tables. That being said, I will try to update it every patch, but it shouldn't break your game if the 'out of date' caution sign comes up in the future. There is another loose spacing mod on here which changes a lot more (open up each in the editor and check it out). Mine has a smaller scope of affect, which helps.

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This is another personal preference mod. Playing with loose unit spacing for the less disciplined forces makes sense to me. Visually, it just *feels* right. If you don't have the same taste then that's cool too.

Balance wise, it's a crapshoot. Sometimes ranged and artillery will hit fewer units than it would have, sometimes it will hit more. That's the nature of a more randomized spacing. This RNG was probably a factor in making all factions have uniform unit spacing. As someone who only plays singleplayer and prefers a more cinematic experience this isn't a huge concern for me.

Enjoy, let me know if there are any issues. Ideally, as more factions are released that could conceivably have more loose formations of troops I will update this.