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Distinguished Service

Have you ever decided that the random people you pick up in taverns aren't right for you? Wouldn't you rather your close companions have earned their place and your trust? Wouldn't you prefer to have some say in the sorts of skills they bring to the table? Well this mod is for you!

Distinguished Service allows you to promote soldiers from your ranks to companions, if they distinguish themselves during battle! Criteria are laid out in the settings, but the defaults requirements are:

+Top-tier unit (no available upgrades)
+ 5/6/7 kills at least for Infantry/Cavalry/Ranged
+Top 68th percentile in kills across the battlefield (e.g. top 1 sigma)

Once nominated, you can select up to 2 (by default) soldiers, and select skills for them to have developed while they made their way up the ranks in your army.

You can groom them for leadership - of a party, and army, or a city - or you can make the ultimate killing machine/captain(/waifu?) for your own party.

They will be given names based on their Culture, however you can use a namelist instead. It is located (by default) at:
steamapps\workshop\content\261550\2891413076\external_namelist.txt
However you can copy it to "Modules\DistinguishedService\external_namelist.txt" where it will be preferentially loaded from!

You can change the default settings with the XML file at:
steamapps\workshop\content\261550\2891413076\Settings.xml
This can be copied to a more-standard "Modules\DistinguishedService\Settings.xml" that the game will load preferentially (and won't be overwritten by any updates to the mod)!

No, I don't want to introduce more external dependencies! If you trust yourself to make changes to the tuning of the mod, trust yourself to do it in notepad!

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See the Discussions tab for suggestions and issue reporting!

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This mod also adds a debug/console command to help you shape the experience how you want:
=> dservice.uplift_soldier [tier minimum]: will prompt you to choose a qualifying unit from your party to use as the basis for a new companion, who will be added to your party.

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The Nexus page for this mod is:
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/1101