About

Empire Arena lvl 1 fix for all those that got problems with it since 1.2 

Mod adds to the game 14 new scenes for arenas, and introduce an upgrade system for them.
With upgrading walls of the town, it will receive a new scene. 

Battania
- New I tier arena 
- New II tier arena
- new III tier arena 
Empire
- 2 New I tier arena 
- New II tier arena
- New III tier arena (2 variants)
- Refreshed III tier arena (hippodrome)
Vlandia
- New I tier arena
- New II tier arena
- New III tier arena
Sturgia
- New I tier arena (2 variants)
- New II tier arena (2 variants)
- New III tier arena (3 variants)

Main file

Change all Empire Towns for my arenas
- Hippodrome - Danustica, Poros, Lageta
- Arena_a_l3 (ships at fall in 3 Tier) - All other
- Arena_a1_l3 (ships at spring in 3 Tier) - Rhotae, Saneopa, Amprela, Onira, Ortysia

Change all Battania Towns for my arenas
- Marunath  amphitheatre - All towns

Change all Vlandian Towns for my arenas
- Juculan jousting grounds - All towns

Change all Sturgia Towns for my arenas
- Inland variations without ships - Sibir, Tyal
- Summer sea battle - Balgard, Revyl
- Fall and Spring sea battle - Others

Optional files: 
Arenas_Extended_limited
- It ad my arenas only to limited towns for empire, battania and vlandia to not overwrite all arenas from Erdemili ArenaPack.

Arenas_Extended_EuropeMedieval
- It ad my arenas to Europe Campaign Map by Lemmy1916, fitted to high medieval like scenarios.

What you will get:
- Each season brings something new to the arena, specially for III Tiered ones. But sadly, nothing big as game engine don't allow changing AI pathing depending on season. (if you seek for a Empire arena with ships, some got it on fall, and some on spring)
- Far more lights in arenas, shadows are better and react to movement, now you will want to fight at dusk in a light of fire.
- Less invincible barriers, and they are not as invasive as in vanilla, so you can climb small bumbs on arena.
- Now in some arenas, tribunes are open for player, you can talk with crowd and watch fights from different angles. You can even shave before battle or buy a new sword if you will find vendors in crowd.
- Arenas now have banners inside, duh.
- Arenas are simpler at sparings, recive many additional staff douring tournamments. 
- A lot of historic inspiration for many objects. That's why many things, specialy on higher tiers are more collorfull. Both medieval and ancient world used paints.

Compatibility:

Made for v1.1.6/v1.2.8, Should smoothly work for newer and older versions. 
I'm 100% sure it work on v1.1.5, v1.1.6, v1.2.0, v1.2.7, v1.2.8, v1.2.9  

Mod should be compatible with pretty much everything.
Mod will be overwriten by mods that change arenas, obviusly. To change that, put this mod on the lower/at bottom of your modlist.
Mod is safe to add and remove during campaign. Future updates also should be safe to implement in existing saves.

If you are a mod author that need scene changes for your mod to work, give me info, maybe we will make something to our mods work along.

I recomend using this mod alongside my other mods.
- Taverns Extended 
- Arenas Exended
- Battania Keeps 
- Sturgia Keeps
- Board Games Changed
- LetMeGrow - town lvl reduction
I also recomend use with those mods of other authors.
RBM by Marnah93 and Philozoraptor 
Eagle Rising by Calradia Awakens Team (used in some photos)
Time Pass by Ddragoonz
Tournament of Champions by Cheyron
Sturgia Tournaments by Vukh29 (to not have horses on boats in sturgia tournamnets) 

Confirmed to works with:
- Calradia Expanded by Drazavelt
- Banner Kings by ThresherMaw
- Banner Kings Cultures Expanded by ThresherMaw (will make additiona version for new towns in future)
- Europe Campaign Map by Lemmy1916
- Arena Overhaul by Artifixer (but It could be outdated to use on new game versions)
- Balanced Tournament Armor by OrderWOPower

Confirmed to works with:
- ArenaPack by Erdemili
use my additional file for it
(saddly when I tried to make it work in trio: Arena Extanded, ArenaPack and More Arenas I got crashes, so, It choose only Erdemili mod)

Installation:

1. Download
2. Put it in your "module" folder and unpack.
3. unblock Dll.
4. Launch it in mod loader of your choice, put it at bottom of modlist.

Known Issues:
- Arena scenes couse crashes at random when entering? Or crash everytime on lvl 1 arenas for empire and lvl 2 for battania?  Try disabling the "tessellation" setting in the graphics settings in-game and  limiting the frame rate to below 100 . This could be a base game problem on some PC configurations that my more demending arenas could flashh out.  But I made more stable beta for people with those problems, test it and tell me if somewhere you also got problems.
- If you got crashes on entering all scenes, try to put my mod in different place in load order then bottom, I have no idea why, but it helps some people. 
- Cloth physics don't work on my scenes. It's some vanillla problem, cloth physics works on some scenes and in some not, I didn't figure how to change that.
- Significant FPS drops on Sturgian Arenas, it's becouse of many modyfied object that i stick togheter to create from vanilla assets wooden scupltured featuers and then expose it to shitty vanilla lighting system, will fix it in future, probably most people won't see any diference even now, but I know it could be struggle for some people.  



Buy me a Coffee 🦝
Support me by Buy me a Coffe or Nexus direct donations if you want that I will spend more time on making my own scenes and publish them like in this mod.
I also do commisions for other mods/personal projects, you can check out my discord to see those works. I'm  skilled in making all types of scenes for Bannerlod.

If you wanna advice for bannerlod editor, just ask on TW Official moding discord, I'm one of many creators that freaqently asnwers there. 

DISCORD
Watch progress, suggest things, throw me some inspiration at my discord.
Snorri Works

If you wanna use my scenes in your overhaul mod, ask me, I will probably allowed it.

Patches:

1.5 
- Fix of crashes on Sturgia tournament on lvl 2 towns
- Fix empire lvl 1 arena crash that occuerd for some people since 1.2. Thx Kleidophoros for testing it.
- Better shadows on all arenas
- Sturgia ship battles now have deeper seabed to kill everyone that fall off from boats, also additional staff
- Other small inprovments.

1.4.2 
- Fix of crashes on Sturgia tournaments, I swear that I alredy fixed it in 1.4.1, probably I mixed folders and publish for ya 1.4 again as 1.4.1 hotfix. Sorry for all that crashes. 

1.4.1 
- Hotfix of crashes on summer III tier arena for Varcheg and Balgarad.

1.4
- New Sturgian arenas with 3 levels, and seasonal ship battles.
- Implementation of tournament feutres for some old arenas.  

1.3
- New vlandian arena with 3 levels and new system of tournamment special features. 

1.2
- New lvl 1 arena for Empire (wooden one), in vanilla you can spot it in Onira. But it is in more towns that in vanilla start at lvl3.
- Many fixes: sometimes Ai spawned behind doors or in tribunes, planks on one of l3 empire arena now are better to walk on, delated/fixes some cliping.
- Some Improvments: More diverse betwen seasons, Some objects (specialy thin wooden ones) are now destructible, boats bounce on waves, guards, etc.
- Suprise on one of Empire Arena, let me know if you like it on discord. You will know when you see it.  

1.1.1
- New additions for Arena_2b Arena_a1_l3 to make it more diverse through all seasons.

1.1
- New III Tier Empire scene
- some small fixes and improvments for old scenes

1.0 
- Realse of mod


"Lore"

Battania 
- Marunath arena Lvl 1-3
Follow vanilla theme with ruins and rustic look at lvl1 to be rebuilded and expanded at lvl 2 and 3. Battanians are celt like, so crowd don't fear to be close to arena just behind a fence. Arena is small, both becouse it wass hard to fit bigger arena in Marunath arena placement, and becouse battani don't use horses on arenas, so no need for more space, now it's fun, fights are crowded and chaotic.  


Empire
- Arena_a lvl 1-3 - Old Empire arena,  at lvl 1 crumbled and porly maintained to still hold spectacles. Lvl 2  is just fixed version and at lvl 3 is a fully devleped amphitheater with bigger scenery change for every season.
- Arena_a1 lvl 3 - same as this above, just different season variants.
- Arena_b lvl 1 - Temporary wooden arena. You can interpret it as cheap quick build amphitheater for empire outskirts or temporary  building to hold spectacles in a time of construction proper stone amphitheater .
- Hippodrome lvl 3 (vanilla refreshed) - It's old hippodrome, but now it's used as arena. I add more collors, ad some variations for seasons, lighting, banners etc.

Vlandia
- Jaculan jousting ground lvl 1-3
Middle/Late medieval jousting grounds with souroudings, witch each level you will see town grow with arena.


Have fun