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AGONY - Overhaul

"The Dark Souls of Total War"

Prepare for a brutally challenging, deeply immersive overhaul that demands patience, strategic thinking, and grit.
A fair yet unforgiving experience that rewards learning, adaptation and perseverance.

Design Principles: Immersive - Intimate - Fair - Challenging


ATTENTION
- use 3D unit cards



- introduced copper and tin resources
- reorganized resources on map to replicate resource hubs of the bronze age
- introduced new trade mechanic and building chains that simulate global trade across the map
- import and export of resources define supply and demand


- population is wrapped in potential units
- units are either residing/garrisoned in settlements and outposts or available in recruitment pool
- residing/garrisoned/pooled population is regarded as productive population and contributes to provincial resource production
- population recruited into armies is part of a province but regarded as military population and therefore does not contribute to provincial resource production
- provincial population culture/units depend on cultures prevalent in a province
- units only replenish in settlements with enough unbound population of high enough rarity/tier available


- each factions has unique influence on a region/province
- depending on their influence and relation to region owner, their population group affects regional happiness


- capturing settlements steals resources from loosing faction
- winning battles has a chance to reward unique items that can be equiped to units in your armies


- units that gain experience will have a chance to upgrade to a higher tier unit
- there are currently 5 unit rarities in game (militia[grey], trained[green], heroic[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 base chance
- constructing military buildings will increase chance of unit rarities faction-wide


- slaves are gained after battle and when raiding or conquering regions
- slaves are over time integrated into own empire, boosting growth


- units will replenish (over time) equipment and supplies when stationed in settlements or outposts
- quality of replenished equipment and supplies increases with supply buildings
- units will slowly degrade equipment and supplies outside of settlements (less in friendly territory)
- equipment and supplies give bonuses to armor, weapons, ammunition, accuracy and morale


- rebellions will now belong to actual factions with (home) claim to regions
- rebellions will be sourced by population in region
- rebellions can happen sooner than -100 happiness but with lower chance
- already dead factions can re-emerge via rebellions
- rebellions that are composed of mainly sea people units will belong to a sea people's faction

- scripted invasions - disabled in favor for a more believable growth of sea peoples
- civilization collapse mechanic - disabled in favour for seasonal effects
- commands - disabled to prevent crashes and due to being gamy
- ancient legacies - disabled due to balancing issues and being gamy
- court - disabled due to being unbalanced, repetitive and gamy
- general skills - overhauled
- administration feature - replaced with smoother alternative

Campaign StrategAI Module
- AI is cooperating against major threats in 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 end of 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

- reworked lethality into a critical hit system
- 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 height 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 adjusted across the board
- the 3D campaign UI has been overhauled and greatly reduced it's footprint in favor of more immersion
- seasons have added weather effects on campaign map
- generals carry their unique faction banners on 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)
Arrow LoD (by Mavrik)


Translations:
Russian
Chinese

Important Notice:
Refrain from using unsupported submods.

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