This mod is very nice but I wish it took advantages or is compatible from the Grand Cathay Expanded Hero Skill Trees. It feels weird not to play a faction without the skill points and having skill tree without more specialization from the unit. I appreaciate your work and thank you.

Feel free to share when you release, I'm curious.

Thank you!

Go for it. The alchemist textures are literally just recoloured from the base game. Happy to help if you need any. Have fun modding!

Hi! I would like to ask your permission to use your alchemist textures in my mod to be released soon. I'll credit you on my mod page as author of this textures if you let me use it.

Finally had time to check but it should work fine without any update. Will still push through an update soon.

Updated for 5.2

I always thought the Cathay Shadow caster should've been a greater Onyx Crowmen assassin. This works too, Alchemist should have had lore of fire at launch in addition to metal, a Shadow one fits

cheers

Update gone through on my end this time. Thx for the note.

Mh weird. I'll double check when I'm home. Should be but sometimes it doesn't "take" when there's no changes needed. I just updated the schemas. Everything else worked.

Did you actually update it? Steam says there's no update, just the original upload date.

Updated for 5.0 Not tested but should all work fine, it was just a table updates

For that I suggesta mod we already have for the Alchemist with the Lore of Fire by Muzual. It's not a mixed lore, but we do know of Alchemists being able to wield Fire so that can cover at least partly that need.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2801419034

For mixing Yang with something else to allow a chance for Yin Shugengan to have a minor access to Yang through heroes, I believe we would need someone that we could imply to have at least some dragon blood, as I implied with the Shadow Weavers through their draconic eyes.

As of yet I don't know who would fit, but I can see a male more melee focused hero being a good fit to wield some Yang and another lore. I'd avoid Aqshy to step on the Alchemist toes. I think Beasts could be a good addition through a sort of more animalistic hero, maybe related to the Monkey Court even. I'll toy with some ideas, do some research on myths, but for now my focus is on the Jade Blooded.

Hey Blecco, what about a Pyromancer Fire/Yang caster not in the lore, but we don’t know much about Li Dao or the other types of casters in Cathay at this point. That way there is a hybrid Yang caster for the Cabal Agents?

Who told you monkaS

This mod is sponsored by... The Shadow Government

Shadow Weaver Money Gang, we love casting spells

Can you share a screen shot? The hero uses the Shugengan animation so the easiest check is to see if it happens with them too. I'll give a look though.

it is weird that there was no lighting visual when hero doing matched combat, i'm not sure this is this mod issue

The stealthiest of mounts. Aahah

Give them a war elephant mount haha

there is a Cathay unit mod that adds Cathayan war elephants from that building, not a bug, just a different mod

excellent mod. please make a jade or light magic hero for cathay next :)

@[L9] Rhinopotamus after testing I can confirm this is a visual bug unrelated to this mod. I just happened to post my screens with other mods on that I normally use to make sure everything worked compatibility wise.

For added info it is most of the TWToTWT collection, so you can be safe to assume this mod should be at the very least compatible with all that. And I can only assume with anything else as long as there's no overlap.

Oh wow that's a weird one. I think it might be a small conflict with the Araby Ovn mod. Probably same unique keys. I'll check when I'm home and see if it's caused as a byproduct of the mod and how to fix it. Thx for the eagle eye.

Hang on... the last screenshot, allows recruitment of War Elephant?!

Love it.

(Whoa)!

Awesome! Thank you for the mod

Very appreciated. Yeah sadly the current lore pigeonholes them into very few, but it's refreshing to know we already have loreful contradictions. Yin and Yang are effectively mixes of existing lore meaning each Shugengan can technically wield coloured magic, they just rather not. Yet we still have outliers like Alchemist. Jade Blooded Sorcerers are likely what I'll tackle next. Much different as they are vampires but it could be interesting to make on so in tune with Ghiran to be mistaken for alive and blend easier within society.

Seriously cool mod! I like how this gives Cathay access to a new lore of magic, if the empire has a lot of choice it makes sense to me for Cathay to have it too

Thx! Means a lot. As a user of TWToTWT's mod pack I can also confirm it is compatible with pretty much all of them. Found no conflict during my play testing.

Nice work!