Total War: WARHAMMER

Total War: WARHAMMER

Isabella Von Carstein
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drazan  [developer] 18 Sep, 2016 @ 8:21am
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to stop the same questions from being asked over and over again (given that anyone even bothers to read this)

1. why is isabella not recruitable?
i tried that, to make her a recruitable hero but sadly there were alot of complications. the biggest being. 1: despite the fact that isabella has a personnal recruitment cap of 1, she was still added to the global vampire agent pool so that leads to situations when there were 3+ isabellas around which was unacceptable. and 2: it was impossible to name isabella, isabella because she had to use the vampire count name pool, which leads to names like rebecca von stickler and other wrong names. The only way to have her decent was, for her to not be recruitable and make her a legendary hero.

2. will this mod work with mod x?
this mod here contains all brand new data so it should be compatible with pretty much everything. the only thing it will not work (or not fully work with, data will be overwritten etc etc) is other mods that also change the startpos. this mod here clearly states that it alters the startpos, and so should every other mod that does so. i am in no means responsible for the (lacking) info other modders may provide, leading to issues.

3. what are startpos mods?
startpos mods are a group of scenario mods focusing on new more interesting campaign's starting positions, introducing new factions or changing faction leaders in general. Regiments of renown also change the startpos, because they have their own recruitment pool that has to be modded in when you add new regiments.

4. can you not add isabella as regiment of renown?
no, as you can read above changing isabella from startpos spawned, to startpos regiment of renown would change exactly nothing. startpos = startpos.

5. i can not recruit isabella?
that is because isabella does not need to be recruited. she is spawned in at the start of a NEW campaign. if you have no access to her, then that means that you did not start a new campaign. so yes, this mod is not save game compatible. i can not add something to the start of your campaign, when you are long past the start of a campaign.

6. in multiplayer campaign isabella is bugged, why?
this is a base game issue with multiplayer campaign, i assume it is also the reason why mods like "unique start positions for legendary lords" exist. spawn points are hardcoded, so the legendary lord you chose will allways spawn on the same place. allways. since isabella is brought in through startpos, she also has to be spawned in. what happens is, she spawns on the same place as the starting lord. the solution (for now, offcourse i plan to fix this) is to highlight isabella and "disband" her. she will be in the wounded state, and return to duty after 5 turns. it is annoying, but it works just fine.

7. i have a problem with her skillpoints, what is happening?
there should be 0 problems regarding the skillpoints and skilltree in general. the gain of the points (1 by level) and the spending of said points all follow the rules of the official base game data. this means. that base game lines start with a dummy skill (the skill that needs to be unlocked, to open the first tier) after having the dummy, and spending 4 points in the first tier you open the dummy of the second tier. after spending a point in the dummy, and 4 more in the second tier you have access to the "final skill" this works exactly like base game
AND her custom made abilities are rank related, so that the more powerful abilities only appear later in the game when she is ranked high enough.

8. what reskin mod do you use for those blue grave guards?
none, the grave guards you saw in the screenshots are a new NOT-recruitable unit named the "dread guard" (with the unique blue retextured armour) they can be called in by isabella herself through the ability "the awakening" in the lore isabellz was allways mentioned as fighting inside a ring of guards. so we made it that way. regular use of the ability spawns a unit with sword and shield. overcasting the ability (double click) spawns a unit with greatswords
Last edited by drazan; 19 Sep, 2016 @ 1:58pm
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Could you link the artwork maybe ?
drazan  [developer] 19 Sep, 2016 @ 1:40pm 
Originally posted by Lenkbare Bratkartoffel:
Could you link the artwork maybe ?

what artwork do you mean exactly? artwork are her unit icons, her unit card and the likes
Emperor Catfish 21 Sep, 2016 @ 7:33pm 
I think I'm having the stuck unit problem in single-player campaign as well. Neither Mannfreid nor Isabella can move, and it's still in the tutorial phase so Isabella's menu doesn't show up for disbanding. The disband hotkeys are also disabled during the tutorial.
drazan  [developer] 22 Sep, 2016 @ 1:16am 
Originally posted by Emperor Catfish:
I think I'm having the stuck unit problem in single-player campaign as well. Neither Mannfreid nor Isabella can move, and it's still in the tutorial phase so Isabella's menu doesn't show up for disbanding. The disband hotkeys are also disabled during the tutorial.

so you mean in the actual tutorioal, not in the grand campaign?
if so, who even plays the tutorial lol i assume only new players to total warr, and those normally don't add mods straight away. they first get to know the basics of total war. so the tutorial if a thing totally neglected and none of importance(i don't even think th tutoorial can be modded, in all the total wars i played i never saw 1 mod that affects tutorial)
Last edited by drazan; 22 Sep, 2016 @ 1:23am
0.o 23 Sep, 2016 @ 4:28pm 
why Isabella only kick when she was fighting? why doesn't she use her sword?
Emperor Catfish 25 Sep, 2016 @ 8:34pm 
I was having the problem in the grand campaign. Problem was fixed after checking the "Enable outdated mods" button in the launcher. Awesome mod, thanks so much for creating it!
drazan  [developer] 27 Sep, 2016 @ 5:48am 
Originally posted by Peter Schaumann:
why Isabella only kick when she was fighting? why doesn't she use her sword?

she uses her sword, and she kicks. it's just vampires having a real limited animation roster (isabella uses the vanilla vampire animations)
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