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Slayers of Karak Kadrin II

This mod shrinks the unit size of standard Slayers, Giant Slayers, and Dragonback Slayers (Regiment of Renown) while maintaining their ferocity to bring them more in line with their lore.

Credit: The workshop Slayer illustration is by Karolina Jacobsson, and retouched by me.

• Slayers are solitary doom-seeking Dwarfs who long for redemption via death in glorious combat.
  
• The last thing they need is another Slayer who will deal the killing blow to a monstrous adversary, robbing them of their glorious death.
  
• Unit size has been reduced from 80 to 16 to reflect their reluctancy to band with other Slayers.

• Since their unit size has been reduced by 80%, each individual Slayer has been bolstered to deal significantly more damage.
  
• Slayers still soak up damage very quickly, but every individual has more HP.
  
• Slayer's Axe weapon stats have been increased so each individual Slayer hits roughly 3 times harder to make up for the 80% reduction in manpower.

• In Vanilla, Hammerers were better Anti-Large infantry than Slayers were... No more! Slayers are now the best anti-large melee infantry available to the Dwarfs. Compared to vanilla Slayers, the modded Slayers achieve similar effectiveness vs. monsters like Trolls, Giants, and Arachnoroks.
  
• Slayers will still lose in a solo fight versus the elite large units like Arachnaroks, but it's a fair trade considering their cost.

• An attempt was made...
  
• Hundreds of various match-ups were tested across countless hours to ensure that the "Slayers of Karak Kadrin" at least achieve parity with vanilla (i.e. un-modded) Slayers in standard infantry combat.
  
• Slayer's anti-large role is now front and center. They represent an excellent anti-large value proposition.
  
• Slayers will still lose in a 1v1 to elite infantry such as Black Orcs, Great Swords, Chosen, Swordmasters of Hoeth. They're improved per model, but they will still lose to elite anti-infantry.
  
• In vanilla, Slayers would kill Goblins roughly 2-to-1, which is pathetic for a Slayer to meet his doom to only 2 Goblins... With this mod, individual Slayers will now see roughly 10 times that kill/death ratio.
  
• NOTE: I would not recommend this mod for an Ungrim Ironfist campaign as his buffs to Slayers is designed around their vanilla combat values and is not modded in this file. Therefore his buffs to their modded weapon and unit stats will likely be extremely high and hilariously unbalanced.

1. Is this mod save-game compatible?
I would not advise enabling this mod after you've started a campaign and have already recruited Slayers. If you enable this mod on a save that already has Slayers then their unit size might not be adjusted immediately. If this occurs you will need to either wait for the unit to suffer attrition until the unit size is correct or disband and recruit new Slayers.

2. Is this mod compatible with Radious and/or SFO?
Probably not compatible with Radious nor SFO due to wide-reaching modifications.

3. Is this mod compatible with <insert mod>?
This mod will conflict with anything that modifies specifically the Slayer unit's stats or their weapon stats. Slayer reskin mods should work fine.

4. Can you do me a favor and <insert unrelated mod request>?
Thanks for your consideration. Unfortunately I'm not taking requests for other mods.