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Less Levies

--As of 1.9, this is mostly a redundant version of No More Levies, since I made game rules to allow for more/less levies as you see fit, but I'll maintain this if people prefer it--

Have you ever been annoyed with the amount of late game spam that comes off of fighting huge empires off of the pure numbers of levies that they are able to throw into the meat grinder? Tired of how the stronger powers can easily absorb independent realms when, historically, they took centuries to obtain their borders?

One major factor affecting military strength is just how easy it is to have armies entirely composed out of brainless and easily reprehensible levies, making warfare less strategic and more about who has the bigger blob, rendering your men-at-arms less important. This mod alters that by removing a large number of levies from the game, making men-at-arms more important.

(Note for longtime users: these aren't changes, just elaboration on the mod's details)



Nomads play differently than all of the settled cultures, so I've adjusted the Horde Rider conversion rate from 15% to 05%, which seems to produce similar numbers of steppe nomads.

Minor Altercations were done to some scripted effects, holy sites, lifestyle perks, etc (anything affecting levies) to affect general army upkeep/cost instead
Values for Norse Invasions were also reduced so de-Norsification has a greater impact

However, it isn't perfect, since your personal men-at-arms are unbalanced by all of your vassals, and so I would recommend some AI factional balancing mods like Loyal to a Fault or More Interactive Vassals so that you don't always stand alone against all of your vassal's MAA.