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JD's AXP mod [balance + new units + content]

Originally posted by JD:

“The XP mod adds new units, commanders and rituals to existing classes, as well as doing minor and major balance changes to existing units and rituals.”

“Modifies the base game classes and neutral units.
Includes 6 new classes mostly taken from Dominions: Lizard Priest, the Jade Emperor, the Jotun, the Sorcerer, the Merchant and the Pontifex. These new classes can be enabled and disabled independent of each other and the XP mod and work without it, but they work better with it. The new classes are balanced with the vanilla game + my XP mod.”

The examples below are not a full changelog — they’re just a few key highlights to give you a feel for the direction of the changes.
For the complete details, refer to the documents above.

• Summoner Recruitment Boost:
  Classes that start with a summoner/resource gatherer now have ~5% chance to recruit a level-1 apprentice. If no resource gatherers are present, there's a second 15% chance roll each turn.
  → Helps prevent softlocking when losing early-game ritual casters.
  
  
• Sacrifice Income Adjustments:
  
  Village and Market Village now provide 1 sacrifice/month (down from 2)
  
  Motte and Bailey provides 1 sacrifice/turn (down from 2)
  → Encourages players to value fortified towns and cities more than weak, undefended villages.
  
  
• Siege Weapon Improvements:
  
  Catapults and Trebuchets now fire outside of siege phase (reduced rate and range)
  
  AI now uses siege engines offensively, making factions like Dwarves more dangerous on the map
  
  Catapult range and HP increased

• Woodsman Bowman – mercenary archer
  
• Woodsman – mercenary that shoots poison darts

• White Satyr
  
• Horned One

• Satyrs, Centaurs, and Minotaurs – HP decreased
  
• Minotaurs – damage slightly decreased
  
• Stymphalian Bird – HP increased (4 → 6)
  
• Harpies, Harpy Scouts, Queens – now forest stealthy
  
• Dryad Hoplites – gain Forest Magic lvl 1; can be summoned from Grove of Gaia & Primal Forest
  
• Bramble Fort – herb cost reduced (150 → 100); gates now highly vulnerable to fire
  
• Call of Gaia – can summon White Satyrs
  
• Summon Servants of Gaia – summons Gryphon or Horned One instead of Nymph+Satyrs
  
• Earth Mother – no longer has natural regen; now has Fastheal and Decay Immunity; rituals removed

• JD_888 – MVP, the original author of the AXP mod
  
• khuppa / dreamingofloo – Posted updated gamefiles for CoE5 on Discord
  
• me – Just found the files on Discord and posted them to Workshop. Basically a 1-hour job 2-hour job 3-hour job
  
• ChatGPT - For generating these pretty formated description, that will probably be seen by 5 people not counting my proud and supportive mother

Illwinter Game Design for creating awesome games and making them moddable

Marlin and Colonel Dracula joins the Navy for extracted CoE4 data files

Marlin, Colonel Dracula joins the Navy and anyone else I might have forgotten for answering modding/game mechanics questions

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