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Allies Unknown Redux Species: Argonians

This mod adds a new recruitable unit to XCOMs alien roster:

• For the base cost of 55 supplies, argonians are tougher and regenerate faster than your average recruit. Stat-wise, compared to humans, they gain 10 defense (higher in lower difficulties) and 1 extra HP, while losing about 10 points in average to their will score and 2 to their mobility. Additionally, they take 50% less damage from poison and gain the ability Histskin, which, upon activation, allows them to regenerate 1 HP per turn to a max of 3 HP (both configurable).

Don't forget to go to Options > Gameplay and set the 3 sliders for the SkyrimArgonians to the minimum so that humans don't generate using Cavily's cosmetics.

It has been pointed out to me that the slow tank archetype does not match the argonians as seen in Skyrim; they're, as a rule, sneakier, and more agile than I originally made them. To remedy this, I've created an alternate ability set for the argonians that can be enabled through config in XComAUArgonians.ini and they are off by default. This way the argonians generated before this update can remain unaffected and those who wish can use the new, more lore-appropriate argonians. If you happen to use Allies Unknown Redux² (and I recommend you use it), there will also be a MCM setting to switch between the argonian variants.

• Alternate Argonian: argonians are more nimble than humans, and through their connection to the Hist are capable of increased regeneration. Stat-wise, compared to humans, they gain 10 dodge(higher in lower difficulties), while losing about 5 points in average to their will score. Additionally, they take 50% less damage from poison and gain the passive ability Histskin, that regenerates 1 HP per turn, if hurt, to a max of 3 HP (both configurable); HP regained in this manner decreases the time spent wounded after the mission.

You have free range to use regular soldiers' cosmetic options on argonians--so, for all of you with hundreds of cosmetic mods, go nuts!

Additionally Cavily's mod comes with plenty of horn variants in upper face props as well as some feathers sorted under hairs, so have fun altering your argonian's appearence if they didn't spawn quite right. The mod also comes with actual argonian faces as well as helmets to be used with invisible heads, argonians are always generated using the helmet versions, due to their matching the arm colors better. I have fixed the issues in the Heads' archetypes that resulted in the color mismatch between head and the arms/tail; this means that the argonians will always generate using the actual heads and appropriate plummage! Of course, the helmet version of the heads is still there, though I don't believe there's any point in switching back over to invisible heads+helmets.


Sometimes they generate with an invisible torso. Idk if it's due to UCR but I'm not fully sure why it happens.

Obviously Allies Unknown Redux is required to be able to recruit argonians to your forces.

Mitzruti's Perk Pack is required for the icon used for the argonians ability: Histskin. As well as for the poison resistance ability, since that mod handles that perk's template's creation in its entirety.

To be able to see the argonians, you'll need Cavily's Skyrim Argonian Cosmetics, as all of the cometics used are from his mod.


Thanks to Cavily for allowing me to port his amazing Khajiit cosmetics for this mod.

Thanks to Mitzruti for making it so that I didn't have to figure out how to code the argonians' poison resistance from scratch.

Thanks to Max for telling me what could be the issue with the heads being off-color and how I could easily fix it.

And huge thanks to the XCom modded discord for helping me through a lot of the fiddling required to put this one together, and for giving me ideas on what sort of abilities to give argonians to make up for my being a total skyrim noob.