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LtD's High Tide for the Vampire Coast

A lightweight tweak mod for the Vampire Coast, with a focus on Pirate Coves:

• Two new Pirate Coves - the Wreckers' Point hides your armies and inflicts attrition on enemies, while the Shipbreaker Yard enables artillery recruitment and grants The Drowned Dead summon as an army ability
  
• All Pirate Coves aside from the Picaroon's Hideout grant 500 Income
  
• Pirates' Rest grants Casualty Replenishment
  
• Corrupted Tavern increases Vampire Fleet Captain capacity and enables recruitment of Deckhands and Gunnery Mob infantry units
  
• Smuggler's Cove grants Vanguard Deployment

In addition:

• Animated Hulks have a new passive ability, Soaked & Sodden Corpses, providing a Leadership and Physical Resistance buff in a small area
  
• Vampire Fleet Captain cooldown on Establish Pirate Cove lowered to 10 turns
  
• Generic major settlement income reduced by half (Lvl.1 50 to Lvl.5 250 Income)

The Vampire Coast roster is not very resilient, especially in the early game, and Animated Hulks are an underutilised unit. Hopefully the extra ability gives them a little niche protection.

One common complaint about the Vampire Coast is their weak economy (again, especially early game). Thematically I think the Vampire Coast should play very "tall", but when a faction's economy is not stable the incentive can be to take as much territory as possible to stabilise income through building spam. This can lead to overextension etc.

Pirate Coves are a cool and thematic mechanic that were aggressively rebalanced after release - they compare poorly to Skaven Undercities and Trickster Cults. The extra income and features should make Pirate Coves more enticing than simple conquest. (All Coves get income because otherwise they're actually an opportunity cost, not just compared to other Coves but to a full Settlement).


The mod overwrites the action_results table (Captain action cooldown) and building_effects table (Major Settlement and Smuggler's Cove income). It makes use of the vanilla Drowned Dead ability and the existing Pirate Cove buildings. It should be compatible with anything that doesn't modify these items.