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Better Rookie Lords

TWW2 is no longer getting patches or DLC, so my mods are also considered final and will not receive any more updates. Therefore I disabled comments on all of them to avoid constantly getting notifications for the same dumb questions that have been answered a thousand times already. Any comments or announcements I might make in the future will be posted under my collection here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1766089433

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Increases the faction-wide bonus to Lord Recruit Rank you get from certain buildings, so that new lords recruited in the late game will be higher level. Now the building that most factions have that previously increased lord recruit rank by 1 increases it by 3 instead.

For the factions where the bonus building is level 5, the level 4 building variant now already adds +1 to lord recruit rank. For some factions (Vampirates, Empire, Bretonnia) there is no level 4 variant of the bonus building, here another level 4 building got the +1 bonus and the level 5 building only adds +2 to that instead of +3.

The Lizardmen and Wood Elves had no bonus building for lord recruit rank at all, Lizardmen now get +1 from Corral-Arena and +3 from Pyramid of Itzl, the Wood Elves +1 from Nimbus-Shrouded Copse and +3 from Moonstone Clearing. But Hexoatl now only gets +1 extra level for Slanns from Star Chambers.


In Vanilla, the building bonuses appear to be balanced around map-painters who play campaigns for 300+ turns and have dozens of provinces. Because to make the faction-wide lord recruit rank bonuses add up to anything useful, you have to hold a huge number of provinces and build the one building that increases the recruit rank in every province capital.