While I love the lords and heroes that this mod adds, it does have a big issue for me that I would like, if possible, to be fixed, and that has to do with the loading times between battles and when starting up the campaign map.

Now, it is not unusual for mods to impact the loading time there. Basically the game loads all basic files first, then checks the mod list to make any changes to the game, which costs more time but acts as a failsafe to prevent fatal crashes or corruptions and allows for multiple changes to the same file. But this mod impacts the loading time by a LOT, and also, it likes to pretend it wants to CTD if try to Alt-Tab to do something else while waiting. Sometimes it doesn't even pretend anymore and just CTD's, and when checking my PC values it seems to detect a lot of hard drive failures even when it does work.

I don't have the best setup, and undoubtedly there is some sort of limitation to my assets or problem with my hard- or software that needs fixing that means this mod pushes my PC to its limits when loading the mods. Still, perfomance while playing is completely fine, so I want to find out what's causing this massive holdup when I load this particular mod. Do you have any ideas or recommendations? And if possible, is there a possibility to condensate this mod in a way that it impacts loading times less?