Updated for 6.2.

Does this affect AI vs AI auto resolve ( does it give a bonus to the defending a.i's chance/kill count) and possibly slow the A.I expansion,) or are settlement battles calculated exactly like field battles in auto resolve. I'm a big immersion fan so I Like to see expansion slowed. either way this is a great mod Stubby

I would like to know too. @dushan830

Anyone know the difference between this mod and the tier 3 walls mod ?

Updated for 6.1.

Can you make compatible with Albion mod please?

Is it possible to add kind of button in skirmish vs AI to choose between minor settlement with and without walls? Like how it is possible to choose level of major settlement (rather their towers) in siege battles (somewhy 4 instead of 5, but still). Currently minor settlements in custom battles remain without walls.

This mod alongside the ones allowing build tower only before battle start and turning siege ladders into siege equipment shall become options in vanilla game for both campaign and multiplayer/custom battles :)

Recommend resubscribing if this mod isn't working properly after the update; minor settlement battles weren't appearing but resubscribing fixed it for me.

Okay, thank you!

I cannot replicate the issue so I believe another mod is causing this problem.

I have the following problem. When I play a Norsca tribe (Dolgan) using the mod "Mixu's Unlocker", the description at the start of the campaign says something about Tomb Kings, which is not a problem as it is just text. However, when I then defend one of my settlements in the northern steppe using your mod "Minor Settlement Battle Returner", the battle then takes place in a Tomb Kings settlement in the desert. I immediately stopped playing to identify the problem. Either it is the fact that the faction is counted as Tomb Kings as in the description, or the error in this mod. What do you think?

YOU ARE A SAVIOR, ALL HAIL THE MINOR SETTLEMENTS

Updated to add the new Khorne minor settlement building line.

If you need to finish your old campaigns here's the 5.3 version of the mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383370525

Updated for 6.0.

Yes.

Mod works with GCCM, custom maps?

thanks, i sought out this specific mod when i realized defending downhill and starting inside a forest is garbage and not designed by the smartest or well meaning person

@Stubby, Sorry, I found a mod that introduces randomness in battles for settlements, it's an AI mod.

@Eugentz It works fine with IEE.

@santyk-lerano Everything is working fine for me. It's possible something went wrong with the mod download. Unsubscribe from the mod, open the game, close the game, then resubscribe to download the mod again.

can this mod conflict with IEE?

No, in any city with the empire the level 3 garrison building no longer has walls after the update of this mod (it is an ongoing campaign from before and before it worked fine), and in my other campaign with the dwarves it does work fine, from what I have seen it only happens to me with the empire.

Either another mod is causing the problem, or you're trying to build walls in Norsca or the ogre mountains. No factions can get walls in those places.

Hello, first of all thanks for the mod, but now the empire has lost its walls in the minor settlements.

@Eugentz Well I have no idea what's going on. God I hate modding sometimes.

@DoubleFishes Don't know, I don't play SFO.

This is, in a way, integrated in SFO, is it not?

@Stubby Sorry, I tried to start new companies and every time there was a random battle in a settlement or in a field in the same settlement. If this were a mod conflict, the result would always be the same (((

Probably, I just too lazy to find out which one but thanks for the help so far.

Everything is loading normally for me now so it's one of your other mods.

I can now load the game but know if i tried to load a save or start a new campaign, It CTDs again.

Yeah I messed something up, should be fixed now though.

Your fix you implemented is probably causing some kind of conflict with one of my many other mods. I use like over 150 mods so god knows which one. But I'm getting a CTD on start.

I have implemented something that might fix it but I really have no idea what could be causing this. If this doesn't fix it try verifying the game files.

when I attack any first settlement - the battle takes place in the settlement, but then, when I attack the next settlement, the mod seems to turn off and the battles take place outside the walls. As if there was a chance for a battle in the next or outside the walls.

@Stubby I tried to disable all mods and started a new campaign, and every time the battle was random in a settlement or in a field.

Everything seems to be working fine on my end, so it seems another mod is causing this issue.

Not working for me either. Just did a few battles vs ai in minor settlements with tier 2 and they "sallied out."

Hello, please check, your mod suddenly stopped working for me, unsubscribing and subscribing did not help me

Updated for 5.3.

“Also I know returner is a silly name but it's too late to change it now. Don't make mods after midnight.”

Any load order should be fine, no idea why it would suddenly stop working. Make sure you didn't turn it off by mistake I guess.

@stubby Does it need to be at the top of the load order? For some reason it's not working anymore.

They're normally pretty rare, without this mod they only show up when attacking a minor settlement with the defence building built, or a chaos dwarf factory settlement.

Did they remove minor settlement battles completely? I thought it was just decreased? I haven't seen one yet after a handful of minor settlement sieges.

Updated for 5.2.

That makes a lot of sense. Thank u very much for your investigation! In the end this mod works perfectly then :)
I appreciate your hard work!

Okay I think I figured it out. According to the comments on the GCCM mod page something in the 5.1.2 hotfix broke GCCM, causing crashes when attacking settlements with walls or settlements with minor settlement battles. Because this mod adds minor settlement battles to all settlements, the crash is much more common.

Yeah in this case i bet its some incompatibility, but it's hard for me to find what it is. If you would like to take a look / play detective a little here is my modlist:
https://pastebin.com/m7UcDWuu
When i have more free time i will try to do some deeper verification, but in reality it should be some mod that affects settlements or battles

I cannot replicate the crashes at all, all settlements seem to be working fine. My only guess is that a popular mod has become incompatible for some reason.

Hi @Stubby! I confirm that crashes occur when you try to besiege a settlement. The easiest example i can give you is Fortress of Eyes (The first settlement you conquer as Zhatan the Black). hope it helps reproduce the issue!
If you have any other questions regarding modlist etc feel free to hit me up