Thank You Anyndel for this mod :)

for anyone that want to use this mod or similiar one that Anyndel make about vassal AI, You need this mod below or similiar to make it works. I hope this will help you coz I'm heavy fans about Vassal AI (For using The rebel faction becomes Ally)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1155808469

Does this still work?

THANK YOU SO MUCH

-THIS MOD IS DISCONTINUED-

It might still function but you are better off not trying it. I havent got the time anymore to update my mods unfortunately, but they are up for grabs if anyone wants to continue them or make their own versions, anyone is allowed to do anything with any part of any mod I made.

Tried beastmen for like the first time in a millenia and jesus what a nightmare it was.

The income sucks and its impossible to kill anything cause they just resettle everything faster than you can destroy...

hey instead of making seprate mods can u make one with a dilemma where the player can chose the vassal faction

Hi, I love this mod but could you make a version where they're more defensive and own't claim settlements? I have a combination of mods meaning I do want to claim territory and build a little bit inland, and then have my borders defended by the great herd because the AI is very powerful and aggressive.

@Victor Thank you <3

please make the same mod for lizardmen and skaven faction!! :)

Thank you very much Victor!

There seems to be a problem with doing the quest battles where you fight other beastmen. I guess it's because the beastmen in those battles are also considered as belonging to "The Great Herd" so as soon as you get out of combat it causes your Great Herd vassal to secede and be at war with you since you technically attacked them.

The funny thing is that you can then make peace, confederate "The Great Herd", get all the settlements and then you can resume gifting settlements to "The Great Herd" and they'll be back as a fresh new vassal.

@Pollen121 Non-Horde Beastmen? Well, I think this is what you're looking for then:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1645154928

Is it possible to make the AI herd faction actually construct buildings and upgrade settlements? All they do is build one stack of spears/archers that gives free xp to enemy factions, and they have garrisons so weak they are immediately re-taken. I love the idea of this mod but if the faction doesn't do anything it actually makes the game a bit harder as the AI immediately gets their walls re-built and on higher difficulties, fully replenished garrisons. It's better to leave them in ruins in that case.

Pollen121 you already can play that style the mod is called Blood-Grounds (Updated!)

OMG, can you make it so you can play "the Great Horde" faction? Beastmen non hord is my dream, this seems so cloose, pleaz is it possibel to do? Can i do it in PackFileManager? im begging on my knees is it possibel?????

please

want more slots, can built more bulidings and can uograde settlement

seemed like a good idea, but for me, it seems to only create more problems in campaign. Just like the lizardmen, the power rating of the the great heard is so low, that everyone and theyre mother wants to fight them, so all the factions that i was able to avoid fighting and play wakamole with, instantly became enemies through the vassal. It may work better at different points of the game, but if you appoint the vassal in the beginning, you will have more enemies coming after you then you can contend with.. I'll try some different things, but atm, it seems to be a hinderance instead of a help. (Note: new Empire cheating doesnt help the situation 1 bit, since the AI Empire doesnt need to follow the all the new rules = Empire has 2 cities left before death. then proceeds to confederate twice in 3 turns, all of Chucky Franz's new armies crush vassel, then turn toward me)

great! now when i cross a settlement off my destroy list, i don't have to worry about a different faction coming and colonizing it 1 turn later

It uses many things from Blood Grounds and I tried to make them in a way that were compatible with each other, so I think it should be.

@Anyndel I'm not technical like that. But this should be good information for people in the future as well. And is it compatible with the Blood Grounds?

If you know how to edit mods, you can open the .pack file with RPFM, and replace all mentions of wh_dlc03_bst_beastmen with wh2_main_bst_manblight and that would make it work for Taurox.

@Nico
It only works for LLs that are part of the main Beastmen faction, so basically not Taurox nor Gorrox unfortunatly, due to the way the mod works. Otherwise more than one faction would try to have the faction as a vassal and you can imagine what trouble that might lead to.

@Anyndel I was using the Brass Beast, Taurox. And the first settlement I attacked belonged to Ostland. Does it not work on modded LL's?

@Nico
Should work on all towns, what town did you fail at and with which beastman LL?

Does it only work on Capital Settlements? I destroyed an outlying town and all I got was Search Ruins or Do Nothing.

That whack a mole feeling is the worst part about playing the Beastmen. I'm installing this now and will give it a go. This could potentially be the solution I've been hoping for since WH 2 launched.

@Gosudar
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1902709151

I believe that beastmen are very weak as a nomadic fraction, this is why this mod suits them perfectly. I also think that we need to make a more aggressive ally, and believe me, it doesn’t hurt a lot, just play on a legendary difficulty level like me =)
(I ask the creator of this masterpiece to make another variation of this mod but with a more aggressive one, responsive to AI orders)

huge thanks for this

Thanks for the set of great mods, but not a version for the vampire counts planned?

@Elspeth
My main goal would be them being very defensive rather than passive, but yeah, definitely not offensive. Main objective of the mod is to provide garrisons and stopping the whack-a-mole and I definitely dont want to make an AI faction that kills things for the player since thats boring and would take away content from the player. Will still take another look at their behaviour to make sure they do that.

I think it's perfect as is. The more passive the better. We already have brayherds.

I propose to solve this in the following way by unconditional submission to the order (like a roaring herd). It will be very convenient and useful in battle, as well as a good solution for the first time.

@John
Thanks for input, have been thinking about that as well. Its a bit of an underlying issue with beastmen AI really, they are so used to dying fast that they dont really know what to do with themselves if they dont from what I saw... Will try different personalities to see if something fits them better.

Thank you for your work. Could you make the AI more aggressive, for 40 moves it behaves too passively and does not obey orders. Also, the set of units is very weak.

Been waiting on this one. Thanks!