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Harbingers of Slaughter

NOTICE: While in some of the battle's screenshots You can see The Chilling Aura VFX on the enemy units, I decided to remove that ability from these units before release since I found It ugly/invasive, so don't worry about that smoke VFX.

*Please consult the Known Issues and QA sections before commenting, thanks.*

This mod adds the following units for Chaos, respectively:
-Harbingers of Slaughter
-Harbingers of Slaughter (Great Weapons)
-Harbingers of Slaughter (Halberds)

They have multiple possible variant combinations between units and officers since their head,torso and legs files are separated and will be randomly combined.
You'll find them in the horde Chaos warriors building chain.
You'll also need a tier 2 Daemonic Forge.

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

*BALANCE*

Considering that vanilla Chosen are already pretty strong I would be inclined to say that this mod Is probably NOT vanilla friendly.
Do You think that they are too broken and should be nerfed in certain areas? In that case just let me know: if your feedback Is reasonable I'll make those balance 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 the Harbingers of Slaughter in your campaign you'll have to start a new one.

*KNOWN ISSUES*
-None, for now.

*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Let me be straight with you...when the mod status change from updated to outdated....if you start to spam in the comment section things like "update pls, OMG UPDATE, can we have an update my good sir?, UpDaTe!1!1!1" and similar stuff....know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*
-"Why the officers have their banners on their backs?"
Because they are not using the BSB's custom banner animation for chaos officers.
I tried to make my custom models compatible with that specific animation but I failed horribly so my only alternative was to use the vanilla animation and slap those banners on their backs.
-"Wait what?Then why do we need BSB if you are not using that animation?"
Because:
1) There are still references to the BSB main mod inside the files of this mod
2) I still used BSB's custom props to make those custom banners
3) This mod was designed to work with BSB from the very beginning
-"I don't like those banners and/or I don't want/can't use BSB for X or Y."
Bannerless version here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835595062
-"Uhh...You know....I could swear that I have already seen these guys...but in SPAC-"
*GUNSHOT* Nah You didn't ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

In all seriousness though: yes, I did take some major inspiration from the Black Legion while designing these guys.
Might just address It here to avoid comments about It or even people freaking out about possibly breaking the TOS.
As far as I'm concerned I did nothing wrong here: I still used 100% Warhammer 1/2 model and tex assets, modified all of the heraldry to look somewhat unique and (aside from this disclaimer right here) avoided all possible direct references to either the Black Legion or 40k.
So again: As far as I'm concerned I did nothing wrong here.
In the case that I'm mistaken though and if either CA or Steam moderators decide that this mod needs to disappear I will comply by deleting/unlisting this one.
-"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.

And that's all I guess!
Credits time!

Thanks to Venris https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/venrissfo and his crew for creating BSB https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2179398162
Thanks to Phazer for RME editor!
Thanks to H3ro and his great tool!
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
-PC related things

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