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Nerf Lords and Heroes

This mod nerfs lords and heroes to be less effective in combat. If you are tired of lords soloing enemy armies this mod may be for you.

The mod is designed to be a companion mod to small armies campaigns where lords and heroes can become quite dominating given the smaller army sizes. Though, this mod also runs fine without the smaller armies mod, if you are just looking for a generic way to nerf lords and heroes. The nerfs takes the form of reducing the defenses of the characters and dialing back the consequences of magic (mostly wielded by characters).

This mod will work with all custom factions from mods, it is a generic scripted debuf oblivious to whether the content comes from CA or a modder. To see if you have the correct debuf on your faction, just click on the faction icon on the top right and check the debuf in the faction effects section on the faction summary screen.

The leadership changes aim to make character positioning more tactically significant.

All variables are configurable using MCT. Below the defaults values.

Lords / Heroes:
-20% health (incl barrier health)
-10 melee defense
+10 leadership on encourage aura (actually all units with encourage)
(melee attack, weapon strength and missile strength can also be debuffed, default debuff for them is 0)

For all units:
-10 leadership
+20% magic resist

Resistances:
You can also (for characters) debuff ward save and resistance to physical, spell and missiles. However, please note that the game will not imbue vulnerabilities on negative resistance, they are simply ignored. So if you set -20% ward save, it just means that characters need to cross 20% ward save before they start getting ward save, it kinda works as a threshold.

Note on changing values and UI not updating: The UI does not always update straight away your new values, especially changes to health. To convince yourself that you have the correct values you can use the fact that MCT will do an auto-save after you change your values, just load that save game and the UI should be correct.