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Pillage

Pillage
for Crusader Kings 3 1.16.*

The march begins. Out in front are the scouts and incendiaries. After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them to the great baggage train. Soon all is tumult. The peasants, having just come out in the fields, turn back, uttering loud cries. The shepherds gather their flocks and drive them towards the neighboring woods in hope of saving them…the terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom…money, cattle, mules and sheep are all seized. The smoke billows and spreads, flames crackle. Peasants and shepherds scatter in all directions.

Medieval warfare was violent and destructive by its very nature. Even "disciplined" armies were troublesome for allied populations, and rolling catastrophes upon the peasantry of invaded lands. This small mechanical mod seeks to add some of this reality into CK3 warfare with the following effects:

• Moving raised armies through your lands causes minor hits to Control and Development Progress, as well as applying a small debuff modifier to the impacted provinces (unless you have the Well-Supplied modifier). Note: this only applies to your armies moving through your own domains, to avoid weird cheese strats where you debuff your vassals by marching around in circles. Some kind of Military Access diplomacy system or way to tell AI armies to get out of your lands would be needed I think.
  
• Moving raised armies through enemy lands is twice as destructive, causing larger hits to Control and Development Progress, and applying a harsher debuff that lasts longer. Reaver commanders increase the hit to Control and Development Progress.
  
• Sieging down a barony now randomly downgrades or destroys one of its Buildings, and applies the Recently Looted modifier. Doesn't apply when you retake an occupied barony.
  
• Sieging down a barony in a county with >10 Development now reduces overall development of the county by 10%.
  
• When you siege down a holding held by a Rival or Nemesis, you get a special event that allows you to destroy it more thoroughly.

Each effect can be toggled on or off in the game rules.

Does not overwrite any vanilla files, so should be compatible with everything.

Author's Note: the vanilla on_army_enter_province trigger seems temperamental and so the army movement debuffs are sometimes applied inconsistently. I've worked out the scripting errors from the mod but couldn't pin down what's going on with the on_action itself.

Thanks to Marcus for the Simplified Chinese localization.