Hi, I've been playing with this mod for a long time and it's one of my favourites.

Yeah he is a quite strong AI, if I'm not playing the Baron myself and I want a less intense game I often turn off the mod. Granted I mostly play intense games.

Love everything about this mod, except it seems like the Baron AI will dominate everything in the game :'D
Even if the other AI are baron difficulty and he's the step below knight, he's riding around dominating the map :'D

They increase your global iron income by +1, not the iron income of their square. The game doesn't display this accurately anywhere other than in that your total iron income is accurate.

It looks like the Blacksmith community pillars are supposed to increase iron production on their respective tile, but as far as I can tell they don't. Might only improve iron production on tiles that already make iron, but I don't think there's any levy-able settlements that produce iron?

There is no way unfortunately to direct wandering units to want to go to specific terrains beyond the general ones set by the hardcoded wander objectives. If I remember correctly the knight errants use the one that makes them want to visit human settlements.

The latter half of that is possible if they happen to find themselves standing on a hamlet, but not something I would want to add to this particular mod.

Wonder if it would be possible to get the knightly quest to just almost exclusively look for hamlets. and have an event when they are on one to just "Upgrade to Motte and baily" while also just promoting themselves into a vassal knight

That would be very appreciated!
And thank you for making this amazing mod!
Super appreciated!

My power's been out all week but I can try to look into that too when I get a chance.

Can you make compability mod with this mod?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3137887227

I can look into it.

Hey HSmasher, would you consider making a small compatibility patch for Emperor Herb's Royal Druidism mod? Your mods work fine together but his dryadic high lords and captains still use the vanilla levy ability.

Can you make levis or some units spawn in castles to as i only see a few lesser nobles spawn there?
Maybe some simple levis on mines and such as well?

Not to give anything away but I have a new class I'm almost finished working on.

Stay tuned. ;)

are you planning on making more faction mods?

I've actually been considering for a while making their second shot into a 50 or 25 % chance attack; this being my first mod, looking back I can see how I went a bit overboard on some things.

I have several other projects I'm focusing on at the moment but I will probably revisit Raise the Levies at some point.

The woodland rangers, straight up feel powerful enought that they could probably just be thier own class.
Also would suggest instead of Two longbow shots which is absolutley oppressive. just 1 prebattle shot would work as well.

A simple enough fix, I've updated the mod. Let me know if there are any issues.

I believe trade posts were added after this mod was last updated, thus it's not included?

trade posts are not used for recruiting Levis when you can in base is there a particular reason for this or is it just a bug

Yeah, well We all know what Led Zeppelin had to say about the abuses of the Monarchial/Feudal System!
To be clear, It was Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy who first recorded this song in 1929, and it is supposedly about the great Mississippi Flood of 1927

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiTs60VoTM

Great idea! Great mod!

I've never tried so I don't know for certain, but in theory it should be. I've seen people use it with other baron mods before.

this compatible with jon fuklaws east and west baron mod?

If knightly quest is from this pack, the one where you send out a knight with group of people. would be nice if they mostly just path to hamlets, to then stop there, turn themselves into a vassal knight, then make mottenbaily.

Baron is my favourite class. Just like Vanilla is my favourite flavour :D Thanks for this mod!

I think I found the culprit, the 'Special Commanders (At Academy)' mod, once I deactivated it I got an armourer offer almost immedietly.

The Armourer is a random mercenary like the monk and court mage; I tested it just now and I got a recruitment offer for one in the first year of the game. I'm not sure what could be causing you to not receive the recruitment offer other than extremely unlucky rng.

The AI doesn't seem to have a problem upgrading their troops but I can't find any option to. It's possible some other mod is to blame but none of them directly modifies the baron.

How do i get armourers? I see no rituals for it and I've played multiple games without getting a recruitment offer for one.

Nice. I enjoyed this one and Ashen Emperor, so I can't wait for that one.

Sure. It's a new class mod, a very large one; another mashup of things from Dominions like the Ashen Emperor was Ermor/Lemuria, only this time it's not strictly just converting factions from dom into coe, there's more to it this time around.

Sneak peak on the topic of your next mod?

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on modding lately; I do still plan to add more to this mod but only after I've finished my next mod which is currently about 45% completed. Stay Tuned.

Any further upgrades to the King yet?

Real useful to buff said rangers' armies.

@PapaJan Glad you like it!

You take the crates to a Ranger Outpost or Woodland Fortress and use the rangers captains' ritual Open Animal Crate, which will promote the crates into random animals.

Thank you for this phantastic mod. There`s just one thing I can´t figure out: what can I do with the animal crates. Maybe a discription would help others too. Please go on with your work!

It's to limit the number of men he can upgrade each turn; just like you can normally only recruit/upgrade units once in a citadel each turn (excluding mercenaries). Even the Crossbowman one still costs 1 AP as all rituals in the game cost 1 by default, the game just doesn't list it. Having several Armourers in your main recruiting citadel is advisable.

Why does every "Arm unit" spell from the armourer cost movement points aside from the Arm Crossbowman option?

idk how multiplayer games are like but alot of classes have their own strenghts and weaknesses. play by your own overpowered strong points and deny enemy of exploiting your weaknesses. Alchemical trebs and the ballistae are your friends
Not to badmouth your mod but tbh i like it how it currently is

Cool. really cool.

I'm glad you enjoy it!

We can definitely dream of forest move some day.

Really enjoyed your mod! So many things to like - decent units from conscription, unicorn buffs and rangers, blessed units expansion. Being able to give your piles of spearmen bows. Great stuff!

With the woodland troops we have yet another faction that really wants a forest walk ability :)

Yeah, I didn't actually remember. I was just guessing based on the name.

@Feraa I tend to view variations in HP as a 'soft armor' as opposed to the regular 'hard' armor. Since COE doesn't have as varrying gradations in armor differences as dominions does; things that you would look at and go 'this has 8 protection and this has 13 protection' a fairly decent difference in dominions would both translate into just 1 armor in coe, so the only thing that can really differentiate them here is HP. That's how I see it at least.

Mmm. So it don't have more armor. Gotcha xD

Also giving it the 2nd armor point would make the 'Heavy Infantry (Lightened)' a little bit redundant aside from the large shield.

I've always felt like the regular swordsman aren't really worth using, I feel the Armoured Swordsman fills their role much better.

@Jakalor I wanted to have an upgraded swordsman that was a mid-point between a swordsman and a heavy infantry, so I threw some more armor pieces onto his sprite and upped his HP/attack. I didn't give it 2 armor because then it would be just a gimped heavy infantry (and would need to be more expensive). As-is it's just a fairly cheap improvement over a regular swordsman. That and 'Improved Swordsman' doesn't have the same ring to it.

Because they have MORE armor?