Subscribe to download
V-Mods: Hero Morale

V-Mods: Hero Morale

Point of the mod is to disincentivice stacking heroes, running in the wild with lone heroes, incentivize keeping around other units and using heroes as army leaders instead of spellmachines.

Undead heroes/leaders are unaffected by these changes.

Basic Hero Morale modifiers:

1. No Army
Heroes that are alone in a stack suffer a -300 Happiness penalty. (-400 in case of Leader)
Also a +4 Movement point bonus is given to lone Leaders/Heroes. (Moving around alone is faster)
Rogue heroes do not get the penalty, but get the movement bonus.
Having just 1 any other unit removes this penalty.

2. Friendly Domain
Heroes alone in a stack within own domain get a +250 Happiness bonus to counteract "No Army" penalty. (+350 in case of Leader)
Effectively lowering the penalty of not having an army to -50.

3. Shared Command
Heroes suffer a -200 Happiness penalty for each additional Hero in army (Had to include a base morale bonus of +200 to counteract the penalty from the first Hero to themselves. The Leader is excluded from this penalty as they are always “in command”.)
+ each additional hero causes all heroes to lose 3 casting points each. (max -15cp)

4. Bodyguard
Having 1 or more Heroes in the Leaders party gives the Leader a +75 Happiness bonus. (Shared command penalty still applies to each hero, excluding Leader). Does NOT stack beyond first Hero.
Effectively there are no penalties for having 1 Hero with the Leader, you just get the bodyguard bonus morale. A second Hero causes a -200 penalty for both non-Leader Heroes and doesn't add to the bonus for the Leader etc. etc.

Ally Bonus Modifiers:
The Leader and Heroes gain a happiness bonus from the units in the stack depending on their tier and type.

1. Powerful Allies
The presence of a T4 unit gives +25 Happiness. Does NOT stack.
2. Troops
Each Archer-, Pikeman- and Infantry- type unit gives +25 Happiness. DOES Stack.
3. Backup
The presence of a Support-type gives +50 Happiness. Does NOT stack.
4. Eyes in the Sky
The presence of a Flying-type unit gives +25 Happiness. Does NOT stack

These bonuses are also excluded from machine/undead/elemental heroes like most morale bonuses.


Compatibility:
Changes the contents of Hero, Leader, T4, Infantry, Archer, Support and Pikeman base/core abilities. Not compatible with mods that make changes to those as well.

Localization:
French Translation by user pipo.p. Google-translated for all other 3 localizations. Not so many added lines. Nothing shows up in unit panels, only in the unit happiness overview when you mouse-over there.