ah I see. No problem if you can't figure it out. Thank you for the mod

@Fibrewarrior I would love to, but I'm not sure if it's within my skills as a modder yet. It would require some kind of scripting to do, I would guess.

Great Mod. I have a suggestion. Could you make it so that being a military ally or vassalizing the owner of the needed settlement for the book gives it to you as well ? I think in vanilla when you need special ressources to unlock items (like Thorek's Forge), the game counts your allies as well. Thanks a lot for the mod

Nice! I was looking for such a mod. I've never bothered going after the books so I hope this will make them more interesting :)

@Drinking with Skeletons In my games, Noctilus tends to surive for the entire game on his little remote island! :D And there's always a danger that places will get conquered by Order AI. I'll think about it, but I am a fairly beginner modder so adding an entirely new rogue army faction might be difficult.

Since you are currently making more updates, I have a suggestion: for Volkmar, I'm not sure that The Galleon's Graveyard is a great place to put a book. I get why you did, but the High Elves tend to conquer it long before Volkmar will be in any position to go get it, forcing him into fighting a faction you've said you don't think it makes sense for Volkmar to intentionally antagonize. It would probably be better to put a rogue army near the location, instead.

@King_Mandu Thanks! Although I have not yet done all the changes for the Tomb Kings, only the rogue armies are repositioned!

Fantastic mod and just in time as I've been itching to play a Tomb Kings campaign. This is much better than declaring war on a faction half a world away so they death march closer to me. Cheers for the mod!

And another quick update that repositions some of the rogue armies carrying the books. See description for details!

New update! Revamped (har har) book locations and some effects for Mannfred von Carstein.

@Drinking with Skeletons Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

I just wrapped up a Volkmar campaign using this mod, and I thought it was fantastic! Keep up the great work!

By Sigmar YES

@Genso I don't play multiplayer so I don't know. I assume everyone in the game needs to have the mod enabled? Is there anything else special a mod needs for multiplayer?

is this multiplayer compatible? tried it in a co-op IE campaign and the books were in their original locations

Looking forward tot trying this with volkmar:D

The silly locations have always put me off playing these types of factions.

Mod updated to game version 4.1.3!

Doesnt work, hope it will be fixed

update?

Awesome - this is a way to fix my bugbear. Volkmar should not be fighting order tide.

@ineptiae Nice to hear!

A youtuber named monstersabound is using your mod in his latest volkmar playthrough. good job on the mod.

@Userpereuser It would be nice, but I have no idea how to mod it or if it's even possible. Still a beginner here. :)

More important is that you have to declare war on your allies and their allies, because they occupied the settlement with book. Could be great if mod will trigger book capture when your ally occupied the settlement.

New update with various changes for Volkmar's books, see description.

Feedback is welcome - are Galleon's Graveyard and Haunted Forest too difficult/far away for Volkmar?

New version! Book locations for Volkmar adjusted again: Skavenblight -> Sartosa, White Tower of Hoeth -> Galleon's Graveyard, Karak Eight Peaks -> The Haunted Forest. Also changed the Pilgrims of Myrmidia rogue army to a vampire one led by a Necrarch (again mainly so that Volkmar doesn't have to fight humans, but this change affects other Book of Nagash factions too).

This is great. Would be great to have a mod like this for Khalida that has locations closer to her. Maybe in Ghorst and Manfreds possession. Currently have to fight Thorek to get your first book in that campaign which is rough

@Justaerin I'll have a look once I get around to revising the book effects!

Any chance of a variant where the Knightly Order state troops are gifted earlier for getting the books? Having to collect 5 for slightly better Empire Knights is not ideal.

Good suggestions! I'll take a look.

Okay, well I feel stupid, because of course the Main settlement is called Nonchang in the Nonchang Basin. hurr durr, I am smart.

In vanilla, no it would not be a vamp faction. I believe it's the Burning Winds Nomads in Vanilla.

Alternatively, it could rest with Helman Ghorsts' starting settlement in Gnoblar Country.

Thanks, although is it still an undead settlement in vanilla?

The Nongchang Basin, idr the starting settlement name off the top of my head. I'll go look real quick.

@FibonacciSpiral Where is the vampire faction in Cathay? I do agree that undead factions should mostly be holding the books.

I agree with Henry, but not removing the one from Skavenblight, i think it should the in the Badlands should be moved to where the modded Jade Vampire faction is in Cathay. As that would be very fitting as imo you should be taking these mostly from undead factions.

Got it thank you.

@Tunch Khan I would have to make an entirely new mod for that, which seems redundant. In any case, since only the player has access to the Books of Nagash, you can enable this mod if playing Volkmar, or the other mod if playing another Empire faction. It won't matter for AI factions. Eventually I might add something similar to the other mod as an option here.

Any chance to make this work for "Books of Nagash for the Empire" mod?

@henryVI Potentially. TKs and Manfred are not quite as bad, since those guys care only about themselves, and probably wouldn't mind attacking anyone. We'll see.

maybe move the skavenblight one to somewhere in cathay?

love this! really makes it more thematic! maybe a re-balance for the TK and Manfredd?