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Diomedes Leads Boeotia / Patroclus & Teucer Exist

This mod makes the simple change to have Diomedes lead the Boeotian faction, rather than Ajax. Ajax is now a general serving the faction.

As great as Ajax is (you see what I did there?), I believe it makes more sense for Diomedes to lead Boeotia as his father Tydeus has a history with Thebes (look up the Seven against Thebes), which is the capital of Boeotia. In Greek myth, the kingdom of Boeetia was originally founded from the city of Thebes by Cadmus. For reference, Ajax is king of Salamis, an island kingdom that is not represented in Dynasties because of the smaller map size compared to Troy.

This mod is similar to rafswi7's earlier mod, found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3301019327

However, this mod also fixes a vanilla bug in the game that Diomedes has (1) no background title and thus no skill points to start out with, and (2) no campaign customization features associated with the character, like immortality. Thus, he should now have the "Devout Warrior" trait permanently! To make him more differentiated, Ajax's background title has been changed to "Grizzled Veteran," which has the benefit of allowing him to equip a title right away.

EDIT 8/12/2024:
Added Patroclus as a starting general to Achilles' faction because he should be there - he is a regular Achaen general with the background title "Loves Family."

EDIT 8/14/2024:
Fixed a visual flaw with Diomedes 2D porthole artwork, which had his leg clipping through his legwear. This was accomplished through Photoshop editing of all the individual Diomedes large porthole PNG files.

Startpos is edited - not compatible with other startpos mods.