Slower Units mod

[Livebyte]

Greetings! I've made edits slowing down the pace of combat. In general units should feel a little heftier, even though their mass is unchanged. We can't change unit stats yet, but if you feel like troops move too fast I can help you with that. I make no claims this is perfectly balanced. I threw it together because it's something I've heard people have been clamoring for. Heavier troops really move slower than light troops now, and for cavalry the change is even more clear. Reinforcements take longer to arrive to battle and you can no longer outrun ships. Even if this mod is ultimately not for you, I recommend trying it.

I'm not planing to play with this on, but leave feedback or bug reports and I'll update it. If some other modder wants to improve on this, you have my full permission. The schema to open the file is in the PFM thread.

Changes:
* Barbarian transport speed normalized with other transports
* Battering rams slowed slightly
* All troops running speed slowed. Approx 20% across the board. Some more, some less.
* All land units acceleration slowed, approx 1/3rd.
* Ship untouched (expect the transport).
* Mass untouched

To install, simply place the .pack file in your Rome 2/Data directory. Save game compatible.
Check out my other mini-mods as well. They can be mixed and matched as desired.

[willyum3249]

thanks for this. people like you make tw games worth investing in

[Biggus Splenus]

Perhaps release a trial version with faster light cavalry? I've noticed their speed differs very little from regular and heavy cavalry.

[Livebyte]

It's not that bad, actually. I'm playing on from my test run and am enjoying the distinction between light and heavy troops a lot. My skirmishers can actually skirmish now!

[Neige]

Wow, thank you so much! Battles still end in a blink of an eye because of the morale, but at least now I understand what the hell is going on on the battlefield.

[airborne guy]

Holy crap guy, you are a mod making demon. You may want to start to include install instructions for your mods. Especially for new people like myself.

I have a great idea, you should make an all in one mod for the ones you have created, just saying it would get more attention. Great Job...this one, I have been waiting for. Here have some rep!!

[Johan217]

Much appreciated, thank you!

[Massive_attack]

That was fast.

[MasterCrazy]

Thank you! I will have to try this out.

[CXZAR]

That was really fast! Im gonna test this too, it sounds amazing, nice work you're doing Livebyte!!!

[Rewinged]

Awesome! Just tested out a battle using this and Radious' morale mod and it's so much better. I noticed when I told my legionnaires to run they were more 'walking quickly' as opposed to running, which makes sense due to their heavy equipment, but they started running when they got close to the enemy. Looked amazing! The battle lasted a good 20 minutes or so.

[nigelnire]

Well done this is much needed + Rep

[jtfjtfjtf]

Does this make missile troops better since everyone is running slower?

[Rewinged]

Does this make missile troops better since everyone is running slower?

I would assume so. Which is good against shielded troops as they barely take losses when charging, yet testudo formations take heavy missile damage haha.

[jtfjtfjtf]

I would assume so. Which is good against shielded troops as they barely take losses when charging, yet testudo formations take heavy missile damage haha.

I guess the next thing to find is less shots per minute.

[T-Duke]

Personally I think only charge speed shoud be to reduced anyway good job! I think it's better when using Radious morale mod if compatible.

[FlashXAron]

THANK YOU ... Every TW Game release the same and more and more arcade style ! I don't know why they spent so much time to do that graphic and all we get is 3min arcade fast Forward battles !!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOD , it will improve my game fun a lot, or better will bring it back ... would be cool if that dps could be reduced also ... THX

[Destraex]

Well done mate. You may have saved a mate of mine that refuses to even load a battle without this mod.

[Salvo]

Great job friend, these changes have been highly necessary!

REP ++

[zowrath]

@Livebyte Remember to reduce reload-rate for archery-units as well to compensate for reduced speed. I did this tweak in Shogun II back in that time, and without reduced reload-rate archery-units became a lot more powerful than they should be. A good place to start would be 20% off on reload as well and see how it works out.