This is not a critique of your mod, but a funny quirk of OWB that I found hilarious and thought I'd share.
So, the Mojave Brotherhood and Mojave Territory were trapped in a brutal trench warfare type fight to the point that the Legion is suppost to attack the Dam the first time, and since the Mojave BoS was still there it was a declaration of war instead of a border war. However they declared war on the the Mojave Brotherhood AND Mojave Territory which brought in the NCR. A war with the Legion steamrolled the NCR in. So by late of 2077 the Legion won the War and annexed the ENTIRE NCR leaving both my Bone Cohort and Lanius' Cohort sitting there like "What now what? What was the point of us?" XD
So, that was an unintentional, if hilarious, run ender.

loving the mod and I understand that its meant to be hard but the amount of different time countdowns and things you need to track and potential hidden issues is really offputting I think they should be better consolidated somewhere or toned back, I had about 4 ticking events I had to keep track of and it just became too much to do and it locked me out of a run.
I would argue to make a decision tab where you can spend money to have equipment shipped over from the legion major whilst youre still loyal and have differing tiers, perhaps even buyable troops as equipment became such an issue on the basis 250/500 equipment is nothing and the slaves have to be invested elsewhere imo

There it is, sorry for the lateness, going in a trip soon, so please DO NOT BREAK THE MOD.

As always Eluxor:
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢄⡒⠒⡒⠀⢰⠒⣒⢶⠤⡀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⡩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⡊⠙⣷⢱⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⡑⣀⣂⡠⢀⠀⠀⠄⡀⡌⡃⡽⢽⡆⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣦⡤⢄⣌⣻⣇⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⠟⠻⣿⡿⠛⠁⠀⢷⡄⣿⢿⢿⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⡘⡠⢀⣠⢲⠃⢁⠀⠀⢠⠖⠛⠓⢸⣼⡄⠀
⠀⠀⠀⢰⢋⡴⢋⡏⡜⠐⠁⠈⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⢮⣻⣧⠀
⠀⣀⠔⠕⠒⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠐⢻⡟⢹⡀
⠰⣷⣶⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣴⣦⡆⠀⠀⠀⡠⡂⠀⠈⢷⡴⡇
⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠀⢀⠇⣴⣿⣶⣾⣿⣧
⠀⢰⣯⣭⣭⣌⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡿⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⢐⣿⣿⣿⡇
⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣥⣄⣰⣊⣤⣀⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠁⠀

any prevision of when the hotfix is coming? I'm wondering if I should start playing now

fantastic mod

@Effigies As i undrstood by events, it's connected with Marrow Drinkers mirror device

@Effigies I found the problem and I am releasing a mini patch fixing some issues pretty soon!

After i complete focus to hela region i cannot use it on the core lands

Hey guys! Remember to join the discord if you have short questions!

@BluFIre What do you mean? The music is great!

@Effigies You only unlock repairing a state later on :)

Don`t have button to repair state after enslaving it . Maybe bug

@Effigies give wife.

how i can bribe defectum

this is a great mod but i hate the main menu music lol

How i can get mom of the twins , what should i do ? Do i need to give women rights ?

Yes, it will be updated. The mod DOESNT work for now and I could throw a quick fix, but we are working the last kinks of the update and a few things.

Will this be updated to OWB: Rocky Mountain High update?

holy fucksical this mod is amazing 100/10 wish i was better at the game to enjoy it better

Absolutely love this mod. I honestly have 0 criticisms or even nitpicks for it, as literally every single aspect of this is great, and it makes for an all around, solid and enjoyable experience.

@ziege I am very glad that you are happy, if you got more questions, join the discord!

See ya!

ahh, worry not mate! also i may or may not have confirmed that it was playable myself, and may i say its bloody amazing!

@Ziege It's still playable! Of course not updated in a while, because I was going to release an update soon, but due OWB updating this 7th of May, it will take a bit more, so I can make sure everything works wonderfully!

Is this playable still or not?(because it says it hasnt been updated since 2024)

@Mezner Be free to join the discord, you dont need to join every single ass random discussion, but its a good place to ask things related to the game and see the teasers :3

But its something I have noticed too, that you cannot build at all. It's a bit strange and I need someone to send me a savegame so I can check it out. (It doesnt matter because at that point of the game, you have all the mils you would ever want.)

Also. I am playing your mod with better Ideas. Maybe this is the cause of some of my problems. Either way one more question. I cannot "build" any Mils or Civilian factories. Even as the Hegemony.

Alright. Maybe... Maybe I'll join the discord, lol. I'm sorry but I'm in like 10 mod discords for games. I have another question / update. The Washington Brotherhood for some reason could never finish its war with its native neighbor to its immediate east. I was able to aggressively push and take most of Oregon. NCR had a civil war. Ceasar never declared war on them? I had to. Then I went my own way. I am now the Hegemony. Ah.. Some questions. Some of the immediate choices relating to the constitution and other focuses. They hit Stability and War Support VERY HARD. -50% to both for one focus? Jesus. I'm curious as to how that makes sense. Mod is still fun, very much appreciated. I enjoy creating the synthesis that The Legion main path never offered.

@Mezner Sorry for not replying to you! I thought I did, but ALAS, I did not. Deadbeat joined the discord and we sorted out his problem there.

About your point of the Deadline and removing the northwestern slavery, Its simply to make you hurry up if you want to get all the advisors and events. They aren't really needed.

So they are a reward for you conquering everything before the deadline. After it ends, that's over. You got the task of dealing with the NCR.

@Deadbeat Click on your national flag. There is a little box to the bottom right when the menu for your nation comes up. Its black with white lines. At first it'll say like 0/3 and a Percentage below that. Click on that and it will open the centurion council "tab" or "box".

One question. After the deadline / Dealing with the council. Why does the Northwestern slavery tab ( the box that pops out so you can click on individual tribes and nations ) disappear?

Sorry if this has been asked before, but how exactly do I deal with the other centurians? I don't see an option in the options tab but when I hover my cursor over the decisions icon it tells me I can do something. Do I need to roll back my game version? It's running just fine on the current version maybe it a ui glitch?

Now I play as the Legion, which is nice. However there is no heir tree for the Bone Cohort. I was looking for something like what Caesar talked about. What he wanted to do with the NCR / Legion as that path isn't really offered in the base OWB mod without Caesar dying and picking Pheonix / Sons.

There was some strange stuff with the divisions at first. Clicking on some would exclude others from even being seen. Unassigned everyone and it was fixed. So while yes this is a "satisfying path". Integration into the legion, thus far hasn't offered a transformation of it. Infact I lost some tech I had. Gained some I didn't. The same way you can marry the merchant queen of Pheonix I was hoping to marry hanna still. However my choices removed that. Still, I think the mod is good. It just needs some tweaking here and there. As mentioned with previous posts about some things. Those are still there. However there is a narrow, and luck/skill based path to a sort of victory.

Part 2

So as far as joining the discord. I am on the OWB discord, and I have like 20 others I am in. Its a lot to try and track. Alight so I was able to integrate into the Legion. Here is how it happened.

NCR had a civil war. It lasted a long time. The California way and the Cali Stat were stalemated for a long time. As this happened, I was never called to declare war on them, despite dealing the my centurion council and what not. Extra time to take focuses and what not, still constantly fighting the -1k slaves thing. Killed Redding, then CW and what was left of CS. CL then wanted me to help with their mexico war. BTW they never declared on either Cali faction? Anyway after joining forces in mexico the integration focus was auto completed.

part 1

@Mezner I am sorry you are having such a hard time, as I said previously, you could join the discord to talk or ask for information to all the people who have beaten the mod. I am working in a new update, so a few things might have changed.

So once again, if you want to discuss things more indepth with support of more people that finished the mod, I am waiting for you.

I hope you have a great day!

Alright so after attempting to do this once again without "I suck at the game mode active" I straight up am calling on the mod maker to make a youtube video of them "succeeding" at this mod. The only path to victory is helping AI-Caesar taking the NCR then dying from the Northwestern Brotherhood and the Immortal. I do not see how this mod leads to an interesting story path. Even if you move away from Caesar and make your own nation. The various debuffs are simply to much. This isn't a cuck out. I'm saying that without proof of concept I simply don't believe that this mod offers any other path.

Part 3. Oh bTw. The only reason I was able to fight The NCR. Even with all of my 45 divisions split between 4 commanders.To maximize their benefits. Was because the Wasteland Ranger also declared war on them. I was able to push to San Fransico and then finally to Shady Sands. Anyway. I may will join the discord. And again I understand your perspective as the creator of this mod. But your not making this mod for the casual, average or even hard mode Hoi4 mod player. Your making this mod for the TommyKay players. And those players are few and far between.

. As I was at 0 for almost 1-2 years into the NCR war. Sadly fgor Caesar and me The Sky Reavers had taken New Vegas so no auto doc for him. Anyway. I don't know how I'm suppose to have "dealt with" the Washington Brotherhood.

They are a force that rivals Caesar. As the Legion itself, I can beat them, usually after beating mexico. But even with legion support. They move into the BC main territories and there is no stopping them. I suppose in a way I have beaten the mod. As I stayed true to the legion and did in fact distract the NCR so Caesar could win. Sadly the half the NCR I claimed, was taken by the Washington Brotherhood, which after I was beaten. Somehow the entire thing became "Lost Hills". lol.

Fun mod, I am at this point basically giving up and I guess I'm gonna try "I suck at the game mode". Part 2

So. I was able to achieve a certain amount of success. I gave up on the Timberline. As a war with them takes forever to win. Yes I can win it, but it just takes forever because of their power armor and the rivers. I focused on all west and then southward targets. I was able to with 20 days left get 95%+ in Borealis favor and then remove the centurion council. After that I entered the war with the NCR. I was able to split the NCR with Caesar.

However. At this point the Washington brotherhood had conquered everyone in the west Canada's, except New Victoria and Haida Confederation. Of course they don't really matter as they are not gonna help me. Anyway, after beginning the focuses relating to occupying the NCR. The Washington Brotherhood justified war on me. I was able to finish the Vegas territories conquest easily. The issue of manpower, again came up. Part 1

3. This is a gripe I had about how easy some nations have ways to core stuff. And its referenced many times in the mod. Think of the Bone Cohort as a nomadic army. They do not control land as you expect a normal nation to do it. It puts you in a possition where you are scavenging for everything.

There's not a specific kind of equipment or unit that will make you succeed, you need to make do with what you get. And I totally get your point of 'you suck at the game, play at easy mode' it's just that I made the mod to be hard on purpose. I made it to be a contrast with most of OWB nations.

I did not enjoy the whole gameplay/story segregation that many people do...

Who thought that leading a roaming army of slavers was easy?

If you want to talk more about this, join the discord! I am usually active and willing to talk more!

Part 2

Good Sunday everyone!

@Mezner I just saw that you literally posted this 10 minutes ago. So I will try to give you a quick answer!

1. That's extremely annoying and game dependant, because sometimes the AI never does it. It never attacks the north, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. In like 10 test games, they only attacked north once. I could plan something to change that, but its... Complicated. Too many variables.

2. The Council mechanic is to stop the player from snowballing and having an easy game. It also shows how warbands are not actually perfectly stable. Of course you can read about it on the many events, but it should be pretty clear. Why does it move in their favour? Because Defectum is the mastermind and he increases his efforts when he sees that the other centurions are getting dealt with!

Part 1

I will keep at it. Perhaps there is a path to success that I am not seeing, a certain kind of equipment or unit layout that will send me to victory. I would recommend removing the recurring -1k slaves mechanic. There is no real reason for this. I am already assigning forces for garrison duty and giving them what little equipment I have. Why would I need to lose 1,000 slaves over and over to hold these lands?
Part 3

I also share @gigachen's opinion about the slaves and equipment issue. I understand your perspective as the creator of this content and I respect it. But telling people, "just activate story mode" is like telling people to set the game on easy mode because they just suck at the game.

The Washington Brotherhood declaring war on my northern puppet is by far the biggest issue. I suppose without story mode active. My only option is to be recklessly aggressive and move towards every other target I can. But then the issue becomes the resistance of said conquered lands. As a larger nation this can be dealt with with suppression forces. However with the lack of equipment for said forces. They are so handicapped that it is almost impossible. The Coreing mechanics are nice, however the 1k equipment requirement for each core further digs the hole on the equipment issue with this mod.

Part 2

I really like this mod. I'm slowly getting better at it each time I play it. I will say some of the debuffs you get are to powerful.

Issues.
1. Washington Brotherhood declaring war on my northern puppet. Cancels claim focuses. Also I cannot get to my northern puppet to help, as most often I haven conquered the Timberline.
2. the Council mechanics are interesting. Its to easy for them to gain influence. Also there is no option for a fair, throw down fight with any of them? Why only assassinate and bribe? Why does assassinate and bribe move the ledger in their favor exactly?
3. The lack of equipment. The coring mechanics are very nice, however the 1k equipment cost further digs the hole on the man issue with this mod.
Part 1

This is honestly one of the strongest submods for all of OWB - the implementation of new mechanics, strong writing, beautiful art, diverse gameplay? Honestly it has a very strong backing - love it

@heidisuhail It will be mostly a QOL update and some bugfixes. I wrote like 50+ events more. Just for flavour and those people who like to read.

It will be very soon.

I just downloaded this, it looks cool! Whens the next update?

@GigaChen If you start a new game and before doing any focuses any decisions, you can press the 'STORY MODE' decision, that makes the game waaay easier and it would let you focus on the story!

I really like the mod and the story but It is wayyy too hard. One small mistake and its over. I lose guns way too fast and slaves are very hard to get. Its harder then endsieg lol. I really wish there was an easy mode.

Ahhh that would explain it then. I've been beelining Timberline to pacify Saltus.

@New Willinium Sorry for the delay! I would suggest you to join the discord or make a thread for the mod, so you can post some pictures or maybe even your save.

I just tested it and everything is working fine.

Perhaps you are doing any of the things that would stop the crimson? Completing the focus of the Bone Road of the Timberline does it. Or the Psyker army path.

So I've had this happen a couple of times now, where after not fighting the Crimson Court's influence at all, I wanted to see what would happen and actually unlock those Magus units, the deadline just. . .disappears from Borealis's desk log and nothing ever progresses with that.

In One playthrough I had it happen where the Odious King asked if he was to be destroyed or if Borealis would kneel, but I've only gotten that once and I killed him.

So anyidea what might be happening? Is it connected to some of the conquests where attacking one of them will disable the deadline? Because he stays as a advisor throughout.