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Agony - overhaul

In line with it's predecessor, Total War Troy's Agony overhaul mod, by adding various intertwined changes, features and mechanics, this mod intents to create an immersive, intimate, fair but challenging Total War experience.

In it's current state, the mod offers the following main features:


- population is wrapped in potential units
- units are either residing/garrisoned in settlements and outposts or available in the recruitment pool
- residing/garrisoned/pooled population is regarded as productive population and contributes to the provincial resource production
- population that has been recruited into armies is part of a province but regarded as military population and therefore does not contribute to the provincial resource production
- provincial population culture/units depend on cultures prevalent in a province (e.g. high Hittite influenced regions will gain Hittite population/units)
- population does not replenish within the traditional replenishment system, instead units need to merged once they suffered losses

- units that gain experience will have a chance to upgrade to a higher tier unit
- there are currently 5 unit rarities in the game (common[grey], uncommon[green], rare[blue], epic[violet], legendary[gold])
- a faction has a base chance for each rarity to occur in a newly gained unit
- every gained unit of a higher tier will reduce the base chance
- constructing military buildings will increase the chance of unit rarities faction-wide

- invasions have been removed in favor for a more sandbox experience
- Sea People factions are currently removed from the game
- civilization collapse mechanic has been removed
- commandments have been removed
- overhauled general skills

Campaign StrategAI Module
- AI is cooperating against major threats in their vicinity
- AI is creating military/defensive alliances and declaring wars
- AI will attack targets with high wealth
Battle Module
- AI keeps reserves in offensive battles
- AI retains stamina when approaching the enemy
- limited time to run down AI routing units at end of battle

- slow down progress across the board
- removed workforce system
- added resource chain that introduces opposing upkeep costs between settlement types
- introduced various mechanics that change army upkeep based on army position and unit count, favoring smaller armies that are garrisoned
- food expiration at the end of the seasonal cycle (if not consumed)

- introduced(/replaced) 6 new outposts
- outposts function more like smaller settlements/towns
- outposts are major factor in defending regions and growing population

- slowed down campaign movement
- overhauled stance system
- sitting in a stance will accumulate bonuses (defense) and debuffs (movement)
- fighting major battles will weaken and slow down armies

- greatly reduced health pool
- more impactful cavalry
- higher emphasis on rock/scissor/paper
- high early casualties with increased sustain as units tire
- units tiring but also recovering faster
- overhauled ranged missile trajectory that takes terrain high into account
- overhauled animations with reduction/removal of matched combat and silly animations
- smaller bodyguard units with higher missile resistance
- better protection from missiles for shielded units
- less protection from missiles for unshielded units

- removed nearly all AI advantages and cheats
- improved AI decisions in construction priorities
- following methodology of applying all introduced to player and AI equally

- colors have been tuned down across the board (a submod can revert that change)
- the 3D campaign UI has been overhauled and greatly reduced it's footprint in favor of more immersion
- seasons have added weather effects on the campaign map
- generals carry their unique faction banners on the campaign map
- unit colors have been tuned down in battle
- custom colored building icons
- varying number of unit banners
- adjusted camera for battles and campaign


Recommended Sub Mod:
Unit Variations (by Kam)

Mod Translations:
Russian

Optional Submod:
Vanilla Graphic Filter

Important Notice:
Please refrain from using any unsupported submods (unless 100% visual), most notably any animation submods that will shift the mod's balance and battle experince.

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