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Valkia Tech Fixes

UPDATE: This mod's changes were updated and rolled into my comprehensive Warriors of Chaos tech adjustments mod:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2871900770

You can still download this one, but if you use the other one you don't need to use this one, since everything here is included, and more stuff is added.


TL;DR:

Skullcrushers get magical attacks and 10 armor from the tech tree. Bloodthirsters and Soul Grinders get gorefeast from the tech tree. "Unchained Beasts" now gives Flesh Hounds and Norscan Vassal Wolves 10% speed and gorefeast at rank 4. "Dark Diplomacy" now reduces the upkeep of all Norscan, Skaven, and Beastmen vassal units in your army by 20%.


This mod changes 5 things in the Tech tree for the Legion of the Gorequeen.


1) Dark Diplomacy: A big part of Warriors of Chaos (in theory) is the concept of vassals. Instead of conquering territory yourself, you vassalize factions around Dark Fortesses and then use their units to supplement your army, completing missions for allegiance points (again, in theory). There are several techs devoted to this so it's clear vassal units were an intentional part of Warriors of Chaos play. It has two problems though: allied units always cost more than your units and they don't get combat benefits from tech or lords, so they are always weaker.

If you are like me you can spend 95% of your campaign with every vassal at 100 allegiance points because there's no point in recruiting their units.

This mod changes Dark Diplomacy so that it reduces the upkeep cost of all Norscan, Skaven, and Beastmen vassal units in your army by 20%. That means that they will always be cheaper than your regular roster - if a little weaker - unless you have maximum Chaos Authority, at which point they will be equal in cost.

2) Profane Weaponry (which used to only affect Chaos Knights) now affects Skullcrushers (and the regiment of renown as well). This was a necessary change for me since this upgrade was making skullcrushers worse at fighting demonic units than the chaos knight.

3) Inscribed Armor was giving chaos knights armor but - again - not skullcrushers. This meant skullcrushers were squishier and that didn't feel intentional to me. Also it's just aesthetically bothersome to have an "upgraded" unit lose armor. So the +10 armor is now enjoyed by skullcrushers. In fact, it will be enjoyed by anything riding a Juggernaut! Including your lords and heroes while they are using a Juggernaut mount.

4) Unchained Beasts: I made two changes to this tech. One aimed at Chaos and the other at their primary Vassal, the Norscans.

First, I included the Flesh Hounds as beneficiaries of rank 4 gorefeast, since they are meant to be a direct upgrade to warhounds. However, instead of giving them the attack bonus that the warhounds get I chose to give them a small speed boost, since it results in more interesting play than a straight damage buff.

Secondly, in the spirit of showing love to our favorite non-Chaos devotees, and since there isn't a skill or tech bonus that affects any Chaos vassal unit currently in the game, I chose to give Norscan wolf units the same buff that I included for Flesh Hounds. Norscan wolves are a popular unit for the AI and you will find them readily accessible in most outpost locations you build.

So any frostwolves or skinwolves you recruit into your army after researching this tech will have +10% speed and - upon reaching rank 4 - will regenerate slightly while engaged in combat.

5) Sword-Maiden: It bothered me that the ostensibly "best units" for the Khorne WoC faction didn't have any upgrades in the tech tree. So I made a single change that I felt was on flavor: Sword-Maiden now grants "Gorefeast" to Bloodthirsters, Soul Grinders, and Aspiring Champions, instead of just Aspiring Champions.



Making this mod drew my attention to some similar oversights in other Warriors of Chaos units (like the Tzeentch Doom Knights that don't benefit from the Knight armor upgrade). Instead of rolling those changes into this mod, I'm going to leave this mod as is and make a more comprehensive general Warriors of Chaos mod that fixes Belakor and the 4 individual factions altogether, which will include the Valkia changes I've already made, but make other small changes and tweeks. It will include stuff that's not really an oversight but more in the vein of balancing - like slightly lowering the armor you get from iron so that you don't feel compelled to doomstack 19 chaos warriors cuz that's the best unit.

I'll post a link to it when I upload it.


PRIMARY CURRENT TECH MOD:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2871900770

Fix for Vanguard Deployment Boon:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867860508

Warriors of Chaos Resource Balance - Vassals Matter:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2870076365

Skullcleaver (The Butcher's Nails) Khorne flavor weapon:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2870253961

Raider's Rainment fix:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2871433637