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Broods Of Mount Arachnos

NOTICE: Units colour schemes are going to change a little depending on which Greenskin faction they are fighting for.

This mod adds new spider themed units for the Greenskins roster, respectively:
-Giant Spider Bruisers
-Arachnarok Younglings
-Arachnarok Tyrant
-Brood Queen; campaign cap set at 1

You will be able to recruit these units from the Forest Beasts building chain and from the special building chain in Mount Arachnos, notice that The Brood Queen Is exclusive to the latter.
With this, Mount Arachnos will become more lively and you'll have more reasons to conquer It!

The Brood Queen features the custom ability Call Of The Broods, which Is a modified version of The Arachnarok Queen's Maternal Instinct ability.
It does the following:
Type: Augment
Target: Ground, 60m
Uses: 4 Per battle
Cooldown: 70 Seconds
Summons a unit of Broodlings

Broodlings are a slightly stronger version of Hatchlings.

Ok, presentation over: let's dive into the technical stuff!

*BALANCE*

As always: I tried my best to not make them too broken.
Keep in mind that I have tested them in custom battles only though.
That means that I'm not taking into account Lord's Campaign Bonuses.
These units don't have scrap upgrades support at the moment.
If you have suggestions for possible buffs or nerfs let me know down in the comment section!
I'm open to changes!
NOTICE: The units' stats screenshot was taken with the unit size setting set to large, so expect more HP and unit models if you are playing on Ultra.

*COMPATIBILITY*

As far as I know this mod works with pretty much everything that do not mess too much with vanilla units.
I'm playing the game with 100+ different mods and everything is working fine!
The mod is NOT save compatible.
If you want these Lovely Spiders in your campaign you'll have to start a new one.

*KNOWN ISSUES*

-Like the Giant Spider vanilla units these Spiders (especially the bigger ones) tend to struggle a little with pathfinding and movements/attacks sadly It's not something that I can fix.
-Due to a large HP pool, high armour and size the AI tend to struggle a little against the Brood Queen.
Her offensive power Is very limited if compared to other Arachnarok units though, and I can assure you that she Is not Op since I managed to defeat her and an army of these custom units with a pretty standard Dwarf army.
When facing her my advice Is to focus on the enemy army and then isolate and overwhelm her, you'll eventually manage to kill or rout her.

*UPDATES POLICY*

Let me be straight with you...when the mod status change from updated to outdated....if you start to spam in the comment section things like "update pls, OMG UPDATE, can we have an update my good sir?, UpDaTe!1!1!1" and similar stuff....know that https://media.giphy.com/media/e3URFlLQywEPC/giphy.gif


...But jokes aside: please don't do that.
When it becomes necessary, and when I can, I will update my stuff, do not worry.

*QA*
-"SFO?"
As a matter of fact I'm officially retired from SFO/Overhaul related mods.
As always: If you already have previous experience in SFO submodding feel free to make an SFO version out of any of my mods that are currently missing one, I will link your submods if you provide me with a link.
-"Are you planning on expand this into a fully playable Arachnos faction for Campaign?"
No, I don't have any experience in startposing nor interest in doing such a thing.
But if you do have experience with this and want to make a mod like that and integrate these units in the custom faction roster go ahead, you have my permission to do so.
Just credit me and we are cool!
And erase my custom indexes from your brain, of course.

And that's all I guess!
Credits time!

Any of this would not have been possible without Frodo45127's RPFM which is still updated to this very day, thank you!
I would also like to thank Sebidee and Caligula for their great modding guides!
And I would like to thank you!
Whatever you liked my mod or not thanks a bunch for giving it a try!

Let's be brutally honest now: there are countless modders that are WAY more talented than me and that would deserve your money more than me.
That said, If you have grown to like my works so much to the point that you want to express your appreciation or just put a smile on my face...well: I will not stop you ;) .
You have my gratitude for all the support you can throw at me, independently by the donation's sum: you are all equals to me and I do thank you all.
From my part I can assure you that your donations will not be wasted, in fact I would mainly use them to:
-complete the Total War Warhammer DLC collection and thus expand my modding possibilities
-speed up my Warhammer 3 preorder
-PC related things

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