How to mod a campaign difficulty between Normal and Hard?

[Grognardius]

I think the differences between difficulties in this game is far too great, and so I'd like to mod a campaign difficulty between Normal and Hard.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this? Internet searching provided nothing. I also had a look at the game's data.pack file with Pack File Manager, but couldn't see any files that seemed to do it.

[alhoon]

Difficulties in battle or campaign? For campaign it's easy enough to mod if you go to the right table with the bonuses.

[Grognardius]

Thanks for the reply.

I play Very Hard battle difficulty, and don't want to change that, but I find Hard campaign difficulty frustratingly tough. So I'd like to create a new campaign difficulty between Normal and Hard. It would probably be easier to diminish the hard difficulty, rather than try and create a separate difficulty.

I've been looking at the data.pack with Pack Files Manager and have found a table that looks like it might affect campaign difficulty: campaign_difficulty_handicap_effects . Hopefully, there aren't other relevant settings related to campaign difficulty in other tables that I haven't found.

I've exported the table to a spreadsheet to try and understand it better. Here's a screenshot:




There are five columns for each difficulty:

campaign_difficulty_handicap

This goes from -3 to +3 and I think relates to the set difficulty level. I don't understand it, though, as it would make seven difficulty levels, whereas the game only has five. In the preferences.script, these are the listed difficulties: -2 is vhard, -1 is hard, 0 normal, 1 easy. However, this page on Total War difficulties for Warhammer has the AI Campaign modifiers as: -1 is Easy, 0 is Normal, 1 is Hard, 2 is Very Hard and 3 is Legendary.

human

This is True or False and presumably stipulates whether the bonus/penalty is applied to the human or AI player.

effect

Name of the bonus/penalty

effect_value

Value of bonus/penalty

optional_campaign_key

Most entries are blank, but a couple have jap_boshin, which may be only for Fall of the Samurai.

[Grognardius]

I've condensed the table:

[Grognardius]

I found an explanation for the difficulty numbering:

First number is difficulty, but it's reversed for AI, so "-3 true" is maximum difficulty, player handicaps, but "3 false" is maximum difficulty, AI bonuses.

So here's the updated table, which now has five difficulties: