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Murranji's Varied Sea Enemies Mod

This mod updates the sea encounter battles to include 9 vanilla factions and 3 mod supported factions (Cataph’s Southern Realms, Nanu’s Sartosa overhaul and OvN Araby), as well as some small balancing changes to scale the difficulty and spawn slightly more sea encounters. They key feature of the mod are:


Sea encounter battles can now encounter enemy armies from Vampire Coast, Dark Elves, Norsca, Tomb Kings, Empire, Ogres, Bretonnia, High Elves, Greenskins and if enabled Cataph Southern Realms, Nanu’s Pirates of Sartosa (as a distinct faction from the Vampire Coast), and OvN Araby.

All post encuonter incident messages have also been updated to refer to the relevant faction fought in the battle to maintain consistency.


The encounters have been updated with an additional difficulty modifier to better scale the sea encounters with the intended campaign difficulty.

Hard - +1 unit
Very hard - +2 units
Legendary - +3 units

Approximately 10% more markers will spawn at the start of the game and an additional marker will respawn when the marker respawn timer passes (this is set to every 5 turns in the vanilla script).


This idea originally came from Anyndel’s Varied Encounters at Sea for Total War Warhammer 2, and to support additional mod based factions from a no longer supported game 3 mod by Vacuity.

Compatibility:
Not compatible with other mods that change the sea encounters - this mod will overwrite other mods that datacore the sea encounters script.
Works for Immortal Empires/IEE, Realm of Chaos and the Old World.

Check out also my Land Encounter Mod for IE and RoC.

Translations
German

FAQ:
Can you add more races?
Yes its doable - ask in the comments if you had a preference. I kept the number of races limited to those more likely to be encountered as possible sea raiders but if you think there is another race that is suitable it could be added.

Do certain cultures have different weighting?
It is fully random with all races equally balanced (11% chance if only vanilla, 8% chance with all factions enabled).

Could you do one without balance changes?
The changes to difficulty imo are still manageable and make the sea encounters more balanced for an engaging fight, 10 units for the enemy in most encounters was too easy in most cases. The number of sea encounters available on the map was also too low in my opinion (this was found from attempting to play test the script and finding very few encounters available).

Bugs
Cataph's Southern Realm faction is titled 'Empire' and Sartosa's faction is titled 'Rogue Vampire Coast'.

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Credits:
Murranji - database and scripting (with assistance from chatgpt 4o)
Cataph for Southern Realms
Nanu for Pirates of Sartosa
OvN team for Araby
Based on original script by CA
RPFM team
Dall-E for title art (I normally try to do my own dodgy art title screens but couldnt really get anything suitable for this)