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GOWs Realistic Replenishment 2

Based on the original GOWs Realistic Replenishment for TWH, and completely rebuilt from the Realistic Replenishment for TWH2, comes GOWs Realistic Replenishment 2.

The point of this mod is to make replenishment more realistic. Why can your 20 unit army lose half its troops taking a hostile settlement, then 3 turns later it's back to full strength? Makes no sense. And honestly it's kind of cheap when the only place you can train those super elite units is at your starting province, you're halfway across the map, but magically they come back to life as fast as possible.

The mod no longer requires a special skill to make lords and heroes replenish themselves faster either. Lords and Heroes should replenish much faster - which makes sense as they're just patching up battle wounds, not bringing in multiple troops. I am still fine-tuning and experimenting with that replenishment buff, so it may change as I test it more.

Basically I went through about 45,000 lines and pulled out the 300 or so that deal with replenishment and cut everything by 90%. You'll definitely have to merge armies with this.

Some last second things to keep in mind:
I have bought the Pirate Vampire DLC. I have NOT bought any other DLCs, but I do have all free DLCs. What this means for you: Races added as playable by mods I haven't bought may not have the same replenishment rate if you bought them. When you buy the add-on sometimes the races can get new units with new abilities that affect replenishment. Those will not be altered because I don't have those units to mod. If you want to mod my mod to add those, feel free. If you want to upload that mod feel free, just please include a link back to this mod if you used it as inspiration or a source to work with.

One other thing to keep in mind: on previous versions of this mod there has been a complaint that the AI does not merge armies properly and just runs around with armies with only 9 or 10 guys in the stack. I don't know how to fix that and it would be a totally different AI mod. I have no idea where to start with that. I just remade this mod because none of the other replenishment restriction mods I found were nearly detailed enough and left many, many different replenishment stats unmodded. If you enjoy this mod please drop a like.

Save game compatible.

Updates:
(1) 02/11/20: Replenishment Rate from enslave captives tweaked. It was giving 5% whether you defeated a huge army or a single unit. Tweaked to typically provide 0-2%, but sometimes up to 8% if you kill enough troops in a single battle.

(2) 02/11/20: Replenishment Rate Bonus added for when you can recruit a unit in a province of 10% replenishment. So if you can recruit the unit in an owned settlement, it will replenish much faster (10% base rate, so min 10 turns to be fully replenished). The main benefit of this is that if you build military buildings your garrison's stock troops will actually replenish. Originally, when you took a settlement the garrison would replenish at the same rate as everyone else (so you'd basically never have a full garrison even after 20+ turns. This will fix that. As long as you build military buildings that can create the garrisoned troops, the garrisoned troops will now replenish at a minimum rate of 10% per turn.

(3) 02/11/20: Replenishment added to Gates on Elf island. Sadly it also applies to allied armies in the region as well which despite much testing I can't fix. Replenishment rate is about 8% on fully repaired gate, about 4% on damaged gate. Necessary to allow replenishment of gate garrison because gates cannot have military buildings built there and so cannot benefit from the military building replenishment in update 2.