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Expendable Underlings

Expendable Underlings is a mod that greatly increases the scale and squishiness of “meat shield” or “chaff” units such as Skavenslaves, Zombies, Goblins, Nurglings, Clan-Rats, Skeletons, Bats, and Prisoners of the Empire (additional mod required). In some cases this changes the play-style of individual units, or to a lesser extent, the faction itself.

The unit stats are more-or-less adjusted to put up an exhausting, yet losing effort fighting head-to-head with a unit of Empire Spearmen. However, when using “mass human wave tactics” or flanking, the sheer number of these units can quickly become overwhelming.

This mod is a work in progress, open to any and all suggestions for improvement.



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Below is a list of which units have been edited, how, and my (probably not loreful) reasoning behind it:

WAVES OF THE VERMINTIDE – Skavenslave units have been increased to (500) men per unit. HP per unit has been adjusted accordingly. Melee Defense and Melee Attack have been nerfed. Clan-Rats have been increased to (300) men per unit, with HP adjusted accordingly. Melee Defense is nerfed, while Melee Attack is slightly buffed. These changes reflect the way that Skaven rabble are assumed to be the most numerous population in Warhammer. I’ve left Skavenslave slingers untouched for balancing, and because it requires some degree of training which I doubt was common for lowly rat thing-things.



BRITTLE BONES, ARMORED FLESH – Skeletal infantry units have been increased to (300) men per unit, with drastically reduced HP and Melee Defense. This is contrasted by a significantly increased Melee Attack. Zombies have been increased to (1,000) men per unit, with increased health per unit but almost completely negligible Melee Attack/ Defense. The reasoning is that skeletons are not high-mass or very durable things, while (armored) zombies can take a thrashing despite not really having any combat skill.



MITES OF NURGLE – Nurglings have been increased to (350) men per unit, with HP adjusted accordingly. Melee stats have been slightly nerfed. While these little guys seldom do effective damage, they stick around for quite a while, bog down the enemy, and spread their debuffs as long as they do.



PRISON CONVOY – with the “Prisoners of the Empire” mod active, factions of the Norsca, Vampire, Daemon, and Dark Elve alignment can recruit this unit. I have simply increased the unit size to (500) men per unit. They have terrible melee stats, but can be fun for role-playing a prisoner transport with your preferred faction.



GOBLIN UNDERCLASS – Goblin spearmen have been increased to (350) men per unit, with their HP per unit adjusted accordingly. Melee Stats have been slightly nerfed.

SWARM – Bats from the Vampire factions have been increased in number, and had their melee stats nerfed. I am thinking about adding a “causes terror” stat to them, so that they are like a portable and highly maneuverable unit to decrease morale in a tactical area on the battlemap.

Laborers of Chaos -- Laborer units for the Chaos Dwarfs have been adjusted. There are 350 men per unit of Orc Laborers, and 500 men per unit of Goblin Laborers.






**Please note this mod was balanced with several other mod dependencies in mind, and while these are not strictly necessary, I strongly recommend them in order for the mod to balance as-intended**.

Here are the recommended mods in order of importance;

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Extra Longer Battles Mod
Friendly Fire
Custom Matched Combat Animations
Matched combat + Reload Animations Submod
Unrelenting Undead
Permanent Summons
More Animation
Prisoners of The Empire Unit

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Armored Zombie Infantry Reskin
Vampire-Skeleton Warrior Overhaul (desync animations)
Undead Eye Glow Further Distance
Red-Eyed Skaven 2.0 Reskin