Mod articles

• Spawn Chances and Bandit Compatibility

  28 Jun 2020

  ThresherMaw

  Spawn Chance
  
  The spawn of new recruits is associated with settlement culture and onwer culture. By standart, these are the rates:
  
  Northern Empire
  Normal recruit: 75% chance
  Federate Stugian recruit: 10% chance
  Tagma - Excubitores recruit: 15% chance
  
  Southern Empire
  Normal recruit: 75% chance
  Federate Khuzait recruit: 10% chance
  Tagma - Scholaris recruit: 15% chance
  
  Western Empire
  Normal recrui: 75% chance
  Federate Battanian recruit: 10% chance
  Tagma - Hikanatos recruit: 15% chance
  
  These three factions will have 100% spawn chance of Federate troops in settlement of their respective cultures.
  
  Vlandia
  Normal recruit: 93% chance
  Foot nobles recruit: 7% ...

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• Mod Features

  25 Jun 2020

  ThresherMaw

  CTO's core concept is balancing. No faction is made to be superior than others. Each culture has some kind of advantage over others, that is, each has it's unique approach. That being said, I'd like to discuss here the concepts used to create and balance troops and troop trees.
  
  
  
  
  Troop Variety
  
  CTO's main feature is the expansion of all Native troop trees. New troops have been added according to the cultural theme of that faction. For example, Vlandians now have longbowmen, as they are heavily influenced by medieval English themes, thus, they would never have an unit such as horse archers in their retinue.
  
  AI will make use of these troops as spawn in villages and cities. However, their main function is to give players flexibility. New tr...

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