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Legendary Surtha Ek And Marauder Chieftain Skill Tree Update v2

Changes from version 1: Added custom set of textures for Surtha Ek - a Star of Chaos on the helmet, maille shirt, and slightly darker hand wraps to differentiate him from the other Marauder Chieftains.

Made the inventory icons to Ice Wolf Chariot and Gorebeast Chariot mounts consistent with the icons on the skill tree. Modified the script that spawns Surtha Ek on campaign start to delete original before spawning the replacement.

Original mod and screenshots to the custom skill tree here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2599826034

Changes Surtha Ek to a Legendary Lord with themed skills to buff chariots, giant, Marauder spearmen, Marauder (Great Weapons) and Marauder Champions (both variants), with trade-offs to upkeep cost increases for "feral" Norscan monster units in his own army. His personal (yellow) skill line is a modified version of the standard melee lord one incorporating the level 1 and 2 devotion skills slotted appropriately - level 3 should still be mutually exclusive and is now unlocked at rank 10.

He starts mounted on the standard Marauder Chariot, and has the options to unlock the Marauder Ice Wolf Chariot mount and the Gorebeast Chariot mount. His starting army is now: 3 Marauder Chariots, 1 Gorebeast Chariot, 2 Marauder Spearmen, and 2 Chaos Marauders (Great Weapons).

Surtha Ek uses the pre-Norsca DLC voice lines on the campaign map, diplomacy screen, and battle map, courtesy of 🐔︻气デ 一 一一一一一一一一一一一😲一一 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1836932345

Generic Norscan Marauder Chieftain uses a stripped down version of Surtha Ek's skill tree with the addition of the generic Chaos themed missile resistance skill and Wulfrik's old Juggernaut of Sarl buff for mammoth units that is unlocked by picking up the mammoth mount.

Adds a modified Gorebeast Chariots unit to the Shaman building tree, it is affected by all the standard Marauder Chariot buffs.

Adds a modified Chaos Trolls (Armoured) to the Erengrad landmark for Wintertooth, all Troll buffs should apply.

Known issues:
Not be compatible with mods that change the battle_entities_tables for Chaos Chariots, Marauder Ice Wolf Chariots, and Gorebeast Chariots. Surtha Ek can be selected for execution on the defeated lord options when playing as other Norscan factions. Surtha Ek uses the standard horse chariot model on the campaign map regardless of which chariot mount is is on as the wolf and Gorebeast chariots do not have campaign animations.

Screenshots were taken in Traditional Chinese, but the mod has been translated to English, so some texts are not the exact match.

Tested to work with Mega Factions Unlocker.

Special thanks to the Total War Modding website, Aexrael Dex for the general replacement script, Cryswar for the new unit/character guides, and Sebidee for the unit texturing guide.

This is very much a work in progress and will require a lot more play-testing for balancing and to see if all the skills work.

Edit: Added Chaos Warriors Race Pack as DLC requirement and starting army description.

Edit 2: Play-tested! "The True Chariot Master" trait for defeating Settra works on this version of Surtha Ek as well! Though despite being mounted on a chariot, the 100% weapon bonus from defeating Settra does not apply to Surtha Ek himself, this is by design as the buff is applied to the "chariot" unit class, in which he is a "com" (commander) instead. Modifying the unit_set_to_unit_junctions_tables to apply it to him will give him a damage boost, but may have other side effects as the set may be used elsewhere.

Edit 3: Updated with custom unit card and portrait!