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Longer Land Battles Mod

This mod is intended to lengthen battles so that the large battles are not a frantic click-frenzy. This mod makes changes similar to my Longer Battle Mod created for Rome 2, Attila and Shogun 2. It is save game compatible and also works with all expansions.

***The changes are intended to be minimalistic in nature. No unit values are adjusted!***

Unique changes:

-Base "to hit" percentages reduced over the standard version of the game.

-Base "knock down" percentages adjusted.

(Note: The fatigue related changes are made so that you are required to manage your fatigue better. The side that effectively manages fatigue well (i.e. from reserves) will have an advantage. It also seeks to prevent the perpetual "running battlefield" phenomenon where there is no incentive to walk anywhere).

-Reduced fatigue recovery by 1/2 (idle, idle-rain, idle-snow). The problem with the original values is that it only takes a matter of minutes to recover full fatigue from exhaustion to fresh, where as in reality it should take at least twice as long in order to better stress and reward intelligent use of reserves.

-Increased fatigue threshold levels so that units will become very tired and exhausted quicker.

-Increased fatigue accumulation for running (both man and horse), but decreased it for light cavalry. This was done because fatigue accumulation does not happen fast enough from these activities, especially from running. In the standard game, you can essentially run halfway across the map before dropping one level in fatigue to "active". This change encourages approach marches (which gives more time to skirmish) as opposed to one side running completely up to the other and engaging.

-Adjusted battlefield terrain data so that restricted terrain now has a more significant impact on movement. Forests now provide a substantial penalty to movement speed, especially for large units. Rocks and scrubs also slow movement more than before as well. The result is that built up terrain will slow movement in such a way that becomes a more significant factor in the tactical equation (terrain only provided a slight movement penalty before, making it more or less the same with no significant advantages).