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[Outdated] ^Beastmen Playable Campaign (EN)

Beastmen update, released with DLC "The Silence & The Fury", produced a truly serious "Rework! Rework! Rework!" and introduced a bunch of new mechanics and features, many of which conflict with this mod. Firstly, beastmen economy was radically redesigned in the manner of tomb kings, so all machinations with income and upkeep are no longer relevant. Another thing that's funny for me - Khazrak got a faction bonus to ambush success chance, and Morghur - to replenishment, just like in my mod (with a slight amendment in case of Morghur as 8 percent instead of 10), and in general many effects that I added to technologies are now already present in vanilla either in updated tree, or in lords skills, or in new unique mechanics. All this deprives the mod of almost all changes that it could offer, but I don't see necessity to do a complete overhaul in conditions of new update, since beastmen have already become quite a decent race, and no longer need additional improvements that much. Yes, maybe they didn't become like very stronger, but definitely much more interesting and fulfilled in terms of gameplay. Of course, I feel pity to throw a mod that I've been creating and polishing for quite a long time, but I'm glad that CA themselves finally paid attention to goat-footed and did such a thorough job. :>
However, many-year grudges are not so easily forgiven)) , so I will save this page in the workshop as a reminder of how oppressed and artless beastmen were once)


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Past description:


Beastmen are not just hardcore, it's possible to torture people by forcing them to play as this race. It’s hard from the nomad mechanics alone, which forbids you to occupying settlements and allows you to live only by destroying enemy cities, but if Chaos with the same system herewith has an impressive roster with lots of very strong units and lords who usually overtop their opponents and thus can compensate for the economic advantage of other factions, then here we have some worthless "herd of cattle", which manages to be either mediocre or frankly terrible in absolutely all senses. Without a significant numerical advantage (which you simply cannot have because of zero economy), in order to win for this race, sometimes you need to be a genius commander in the level of Hannibal, or use all possible abuses, playing battles for several hours. Then add here the inadequately low horde growth (initially 1 point per turn out of 20 before the population surplus, it's not even funny.. at all), the most ascetic set of stances on the campaign map, and the technology tree, only a few of which give tangible benefit. All this creates truly unbearable conditions, beastmen aren't able to compete with any other race, but nevertheless the developers always forget about them and do not make any decisive changes...

So greet this mod - with it, the horde's basic buildings will generate income, while advanced buildings will provide buffs for whole army and in both cases give a greater upkeep discount, the horde's growth will increase significantly, each herd will be able to recruit two heroes of each type instead of one; technologies will receive many new effects, but now they will cost money (so that you have where to spend your treasury ^^), campaign stances will become more useful and one more "author's" will be added to them, plus hiring new hordes will take less population surplus points, and of course effects of the Dark Moon will be improved and in some places given new bonuses. Khazrak and Morghur also will receive an additional factional effect so that they could somehow compete with Malagor when choosing a starting lord.

You may say that there are already such kind of mods, so why do you need this one? - Well.. Most mods that also add income from horde buildings use the standard coin icon, although beastmen have a special style of monetary resources as the eye of beast, symbolizing the "Favour of the Dark Gods", just like Chaos has. But my icons will be appropriate))) Well, really, the atmosphere is also important..) The correct icons are also applied for upkeep discounts, various income bonuses and some skills in the character leveling branch, so even for something that hasn't been replaced in vanilla (which is also another example of CA's indifference towards this race, since for Chaos everything is completely redrawn).
Generally speaking, this mod doesn't make some separate change, but is designed so that you can install it and immediately start comfortably playing beastmen.
I note, however, that everything here is focused specifically on the campaign, I didn't change the units themselves, so you can set something on this, but due to the new bonuses, you can even without it bring your troops to a high level.

I cannot claim that the changes I made are perfect. Perhaps somewhere I overdid it or, on the contrary, missed something important, so if you tried to play with this mod and some of changes do not allow you to play comfortably, some of affected numbers need to be tweaked - appeal, I will consider this. Also write if there are any problems, something doesn't work or something is not where it should be in theory, but first check it in the launch without other mods. In addition, since I'm not good at English and I myself use a not English version of the game, please correct me if there are any errors or incorrect designations of game terms in description or in the text of mod. And in general, you can ask your questions if something is not clear, but just in case, be prepared for a detailed explanation.)


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Русская версия удалена, поскольку мне не удалось вместить в лимит дополненное описание, получившееся более длинным в русском варианте, к тому же на той странице почти не было активности, да и нечего хранить в списках каждую версию устаревшего мода, думаю одного напоминания будет вполне достаточно.
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