Mauiaw's mods - Harder Campaign

**mauiaw** · May 05, 2018, 09:35 PM

Here is the collection of mods I use to make the campaign harder. I am not a big fan of AI modding and besides I wouldn't really know what I am doing. Therefore, each of these mods makes simple changes to campaign mechanics that affect the player.

MORE WAR WEARINESS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DX...38-kSqA9NxPfOc

This mod increases the rate at which war fervour decreases per faction you are at war with. My hope is that you won't be able to keep war fervour in the positive through battles alone.

GREAT POWER PENALTY: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GL...Actd7kunEspoYp

This mod increases the great power diplomacy penalty (that scales off a factions fame).

NO FOOD LOWER REPLENISHMENT: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FG...2YnQHSilrm8-DY

This mod drastically increases the replenishment penalty for your armies in the event that food becomes negative.

FOOD UNCHANGED BY TAXES: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cz...bLQC_cq02TJxsw

This mod stops tax level from affecting food production. Increasing taxes will no longer save your starving armies.

DYNAMIC SUPPLIES: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cP...jAcg0iE5hETtEs

This mod doubles the rate at which supplies are gained and lost. This makes the supply system more dynamic, and you should run out of supplies more frequently

MORE MEANINGFUL ESTATES (MOD PAGE): http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ingful-Estates

This mod makes handing over estates cost money (to represent losing control over that estate), conversely stripping estates will earn you money. My aim with this mod is to make estates more than just quick fixes to character loyalty.

**async** · May 06, 2018, 01:34 AM

I like that. Thank you

**Dresden** · May 06, 2018, 01:58 AM

Lots of good stuff here. Always best to target the player rather than the AI in TW games when possible.

**Yerevan** · May 06, 2018, 04:34 PM

Good ideas ! I like the FOOD UNCHANGED BY TAXES

Was wondering actually, what made CA link those tow. Was food tax a thing at the time ?

**rockman4417** · May 06, 2018, 08:08 PM

There needs to be something in place where food doesn't completely snowball and become a non factor toward the middle and end game. Maybe some kind of diminishing returns effect. As it is food is only important at the very start

**mauiaw** · May 06, 2018, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Yerevan

Good ideas ! I like the FOOD UNCHANGED BY TAXES

Was wondering actually, what made CA link those tow. Was food tax a thing at the time ?

I don't know much about the middle ages, but I imagine food could easily be used as a form of currency, so increasing tax would lead to an increase in food going to whoever was levying the tax. Actually, I'm not sure centralised taxation was really a thing in the early middle ages anyway.

You can interpret the amount of food you have as the amount of food your king has in order to feed his army, or you can interpret the amount of food you have as the surplus amount your kingdom has as a whole. I think of it in the second sense, and so increasing taxes should not affect food stocks.

Originally Posted by rockman4417

There needs to be something in place where food doesn't completely snowball and become a non factor toward the middle and end game. Maybe some kind of diminishing returns effect. As it is food is only important at the very start

I think that is the 'holy grail' for modders; finding something that prevents the player from snowballing in the late game. I have an idea, but I haven't figured out how to implement it yet. I basically want to limit the amount of regions you can directly control and instead force you to expand your kingdom through granting land to your vassals (think CK2 style demesne). I thought that you could have some of the characters you would normally use as governors and generals to represent the leader of a vassal state. You could then change the political actions to actions relating to the vassal (such as being able to grant land)

**mauiaw** · May 07, 2018, 02:26 AM

I've updated the supply mod. I found that while doubling the loss of supplies caused me to run out of supplies frequently enough, it was too difficult to recover supplies when I returned to my home territories. Therefore I have doubled everything to do with supplies (both gain and loss) in order to make the system more dynamic.

**Erik Hammarstrom** · May 07, 2018, 11:27 AM

Thank you for the clever mods mauiaw! I look forward to testing them. The game is too easy even on L/L.

**Ryan Industries** · May 07, 2018, 01:46 PM

Good luck in your feudal overhaul quest, that sounds awesome. Also solid updates! I'm playinga Wessex game and even on legendary it feels way too easy, hoping some of these help balance it out.