So I wanted to do a Tomb Kings X Vampire Counts combination of lords but a game breaking bug has foiled these plans. I know the cross-faction recruitment is experimental and I am not entirely sure if this mod is where the bug is persisting as of yet but I figured I'd bring this up here as it seems potentially likely.

What is happening is a hang-up after an event/advice occurs. It might have to do with conflict over taking on a Legendary lord from a different faction. However, I suppose it could be change starting settlement. Or maybe somehow a conflict with one of the other mods, though I don’t have many installed right now

I have six mods total installed right now in this order:
Mod Configuration Tool – V0.9 Beta
Better Camera Mod
Less AI Cheating (Campaign)
Recruit Defeated Legendary Lords
Allied Recruitment Buffs
Change Starting Settlement


What I did was play Arkham the black, changed starting settlement to Castle Templehof (automatically taking the whole provence), and joined forces with Vlad. I set recruitment of “Cross-Race” to player only. And for preferences I set level one to “Player” and level 2 to “same race” (which caused me to get every faction sending me stuff first but I planned to reject all but the mainline undead anyway).

After a few turns, somewhere around 20, I got the option to recruit Mannfred and accepted. I ended up taking him and Arkham in a fight against Dryka. After defeating her in combat both Arkham and Mannfred leveled up. Arkham hit level 10 and I took the “Usirian the God of the Underworld” skill and Mannfred hit level 12 and I just increased his replenishment. This was turn 37 and upon completing the turn rotation for all the AI lords over to turn 38 I suddenly get a cutscene camera hijack that pulls my view over to Miragliano next to Skavenblight. However, once it reaches the location, nothing is actually said or pops up and the cinematic black bars just go away.

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And my game is now in purgatory. I can’t do anything till I “dismiss all advice and related events”. I can’t move units or end turn but for some reason I can still upgrade a building I have. But that’s it. I will note that Miragliano has Cursed Mist which I assume is from Aranessa but I don’t see why the game thinks I should have advice here unless there is something related to Mannfred or Arkham that is somehow triggering wrong.

Unfortunately, that is all I have right now. I’ll try to see if I can replicate it in another save without some of the other mods but we’ll see if I can manage getting to a similar state as there is no guarantee each run that Mannfred will fall so I can pick him up.