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thunder's_bar_buffs.pack

This mod is only for the barbarians in the GC. This does not touch nomads. i made a mod for nomads here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849675825 This does not touch the other campiagns. It provides buffs to new recruits and a better garrison from farm buildings. You will also have lower upkeep. The idea was to have more offensive troops and more of them. more details below. This does not require any of my other mods to work. You should still be able to have a better garrison and get the buffs even if you use vanilla recruitment. When you start a new game or use an old save, the effects will still be there. you may have to wait a turn before the garrison pops up.(since the game doesnt normally start with those extra units there)

i made a different mod that buffs the civilized factions recruitment among other improvements. i can give a quick summary what i did in that mod below. here is the link if you want to read about that mod https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=753263176

in THAT mod, i made it so that recruiting units comes from your city building chains rather than other buildings. This was done to help the AI among other side benefits. After that change, military buildings for the civilized factions lost their meaning and became a burden on the AI who would still building them. I went through the civilized factions military buildings and gave them buffs to make new recruits stronger, and also lowered their upkeep and cost of the buildings. I also gave them a garrison. This made the Roman and SE factions very strong.(same goes for any factions who use their buildings)

THIS mod was made to do something similar for the barbarians and to help overall balance. the barbarians have a very large variety of "military" buildings, each one giving a unit or 2. They are different from the civilized factions who have almost all of their recruitment out of a handful of buildings. I wanted to confine the new buffs to a few buildings, rather than spread them across 10 different buildings. I decided that the various farms would be the best buildings to do this. All of the barbarians share these, even if they are in a different culture group.

The farms now give different bonuses. They also provide a decent garrison.

Wheat farms were buffed to give more food from fertility. They also give a minor boost to charge for all units(increase by %) and melee attack for infantry only.(increase by +) they are both increase the stats by 3(so +3 melee attack and +3% charge as an example) at tier 2, 6 at tier 3 and 10 at tier 4. They also lower upkeep of all your troops in THAT region only.(not province) -10/-20/-30 per tier. This should make wheat farms a little more worthwhile, even if fertility is low.(20/30/40 food per fertility level depending on the tier of the farm)

Goat farms were similar but they provide better stats than above. 5/10/15 per tier and they also provide another bonus in missle damage for all units. (5/10/15 % as well) as this building is better in providing buffs, the amount of upkeep it reduces is lower and it only lowers it on infantry.(-5,-10,-20) This building also gives a slightly better garrison more often than not.(faction dependent) These farms are still useful for getting food and you get more base income.(vanilla)

The horse farms are similar but only provide buffs to cav. They provide 5/10/15 for melee attack(+) and charge.(%) They also have their speed buffed 5 per tier.(5/10/15) The way CA did it, they used a "tier 1" equipment(% speed) on a tier 3 building. Tier 2 on a tier 4 building. When i slid everything down so tier 1 was on a tier 2 building,(you can imagine the rest being moved) the tier 3 and 4 buildings were showing both my changes and the vanilla when it comes to equipement. So i had to undo the sliding, but i kept the #s as is.(so when it says tier 1 equipment on the tier 3 building, it should give you a tier 3 bonus. ) The upkeep reduction only applies to cavalry. because cavalry tends to not be what makes up the majority of an army, i decided to let its upkeep reduction go province wide, not region wide.

The unique celtic farm doesnt give you the equipement like the horse building does, but it gives you melee defense for your cav.(5/10/15 +) instead. other than that, it gives you the same buffs the horse farms do.(including upkeep.)

The unique burgundian farm building is different. It does not buff your troops in any way. It instead drastically reduced upkeep for your units province wide. On top of that, it also reduces upkeep in neighboring provinces.(same amount) They reduce it by -15, -25, and -40%. Because one of the "effects" when it came to reducing upkeep doesnt work.(thanks CA) and you cant use the same effect on the same building, i had to add in upkeep reduction for each class. it gets you the same result. so that is why you will see 4 lines when it comes to reduced upkeep.

i stumbled across a garrison bug that applies to all of the germanic and gothic barbarians. they are not allowed to have more than one of the same spear unit.(like a germanic levy) if you noticed that some of the vanilla city garrisons were unbalanced between inf and missle, that is why. i went ahead and gave the city buildings other units to make up the difference.(axe warband and noble germanic swordsmen) i dont believe i can fix the bug.

i also lowered a few buildings squalor and PO by 1 or so.(mainly higher tiers)

if i missed any barbarians factions, messed up some bonuses, or something else you would like to know or talk about, feel free to comment. i tried to make sure every barbarian faction was included. i have not had the chance to try out a full campaign with these, but only a few turns.(I have only done an alan campaign so far with this,) From what i seen, everything does work. if not, please let me know.

change notes as of 1/18

Industry has been buffed for the barbarians. check the change notes for more detail

change notes as of 1/23

buffed the germanic and celtic religious buildings. check the change notes for more details.