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Viking Sea Kings Variation Pack

I don't know if many people have noticed but the visual variation of units and the soldiers within them are severely lacking. The way the individual soldiers work vanilla is they have a possible of 3 "looks" that are randomly chosen for each soldier. As each of these 3 looks have preset hair, beards, faces and clothing, the result is there only ever being 3 variants of clones in every unit in the game.

Now what I have done is I have gone into every single unit of the Sea Kings roster and manipulated these variations so that not only does the vanilla hairstyles have much more variability in who they appear on, as in for most units the 3 variants have a chance to use every hairstyle within that unit, I have taken hairstyles from different units within the Sea Kings roster and added them to different units who i felt they should appear on. The goal in all of this is to make the Viking Sea Kings faction much more viking-esque while still retaining the Gaelic influence that historically they had. Clipping becomes a big issue if care is not taken as some faces are glaringly too small or big for some hair, so the application of the hair is tailored for that (meaning some hair types are absent for some units only because it clipped heavily).

All skins used in this mod were taken from the variants already available to the Sea Kings in order to keep them unique and not too similar to the true Norse factions that appear in-game. while this mod is mainly to do with hair skins, some clothing skins were optimised as well. I tried to keep a pattern intact with the hairstyles somewhat reflecting the vanilla designs. For example, younger, less trained units have much less facial hair while the more experienced and stronger troops look very burly.

The Sea Kings were of focus here because they are my favorite faction. I may sometime do the same for other factions but as it is very tedious work, i'm hesitant.

Compatibility: Should be compatible with most mods as this is purely graphical. Probably not compatible with other mods that change cosmetic aspects of Sea Kings units.