Welcome to the forty seventh installment to my Oblivion Immersion Series.  The Legion Foresters represent yet another incredibly underdeveloped part of Oblivion.  It's good that they are there, don't get me wrong, but their presence is so minimal that the player rarely encounters them.  Not to mention that the foresters seem to have absolutely no supporting infrastructure.  Hence I made this mod, a lighter, not crash-happy successor to Legion-Occupied Forts. 

A total of five outposts have been added, all of which offer services to the player.  Further, the total number of foresters found in the overworld has been approximately doubled to make the foresters more plentiful. 

This mod comes in two major versions:

- Vanilla Armor: uses the vanilla legion armor

- Imperial Forester Armor: merges the whole of Imperial Forester Armor by Elderscrollsfan001 with Legion Forester Outposts.  It made most sense to merge them, since anyone who would want the custom forester armor in this mod is going to be running its source mod anyway.  I opted for the green emblem since I though it looked best.  But be sure to check out the alternative textures available on the original page, including some brand-new ones:

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45495

Each download also offers 4 plugins to choose from.  Each offers various racial distributions for use with Diverse Guards.  The default is Imperial male only.  The others include Imperial women, humans only, and all races.  Select the version you want to use and delete the others.   

Requirements
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Oblivion Version 1.2.0416

Installation Instructions
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Copy contents into your Oblivion data folder

Uninstallation Instructions
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Delete the esp, meshes, and textures

Optional Files
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The Legion Forester Armor version offers an alternative to the main version that merges Elderscrollsfan001's Legion Forester Armor mod with this mod.  I used the green emblem texture since I thought that looked best. 

Each version also offers multiple versions that change the demographics of the added NPCs to better match Diverse Guards.  The default is Imperial men only, but the alternatives offer versions with Imperial women, humans only, and all races.  Choose the plugin of your choice upon installation and delete the others. 

The compatibility versions offer the same things as the original, expcet they move the sites in the Colovian Highlands, West Weald, and Nibenay Plain to be compatible with mods such as Battlehorn Castle, Maskar's Overhaul, and Oblivion Uncut.  The new sites are:

- Nibenay Plain: west of Nagastani
- Colovian Highlands: north of Wind Cave
- West Weald: east of Nornalhorst

Incompatibility
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Should be compatible with most village mods.  Tested compatible with the following Unique Landscapes mods: River Ethe, Ancient Yews, Kvatch Devastation, Arrius Creek, Colovian Highlands, Ancient Redwoods, Fallenleaf Everglade, Chorrol Hinterlands. 

The original release is not compatible with: the Fighters Stronghold DLC, Oblivion Uncut, or Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul.  The optional compatibility versions of this mod move the conflicting sites to new locations to correct this.  The compatibility version site for the Colovian Highlands is compatible with DC Villages.   

This mod is incompatible with Legion Forester Armor mod, since the vanilla version makes changes to the same NPCs, and the optional version contained the entirety of that mod anyway.

Known Issues
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None at the moment

Troubleshooting
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Feel free to come to me with questions or issues and I will help as best as I can.  That said, please bear in mind that I am a novice modder and may not be able to offer much in the way of assistance.

Credits and Thanks
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Thanks to:

Bethesda Softworks
The makers of these wonderful resources
TES Nexus
LHammonds - Readme Generator
Nifskope

Special thanks to Elderscrollsfan001 for their wonderful mod and for being so helpful with sorting out asset use permission.

Meshes and textures provided from:

Elderscrollsfan001 - Legion Forester Armor, using assets from:
  - Clothing and Armor Replacer for Exnems Complete by Grhys
  - Capes and Cloaks by Someone1074
LadyN - Lady N Paper Goods v1.1
Omegacron - Armory Clutter
stroti - Tanning Rack, Ravenheart, Strotis washing meshes

Licensing and Legal
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Per Elderscrollsfan001's wishes, anyone who wants to make changes to the Legion Forester Armor version of this mod must follow any and all terms and conditions specified on the Imperial Forester Armor original page.  That includes keeping this mod a Nexus exclusive, since the entirety of the original mod is incorporated into my own.

For the vanilla version of Legion Forester Outposts, my usual permissions apply.  I am making this mod open to revision by the public.  If you have any ideas of how to expand or improve upon this mod, then go ahead.  No permission needed.  All I ask is that you give credit to me and to the creators of these resources. This mod and its contents may not be distributed commercially.