/twg/ Essential Total War: Warhammer II Mod list

/twg/ Essential Total War: Warhammer II Mod list
Created on 20/07/2021
All included mods confirmed working for patch 1.12

- Skip Intro Logos
- Better Camera Mod
- Legendary Lore
- Building Progression Icons II
- Ultimate Lightning + Random Weather
- Tabletop Heraldy/Banner Overhaul II
- Reloading
- Character Recruitment Pool Refresh
- Faction Dependent Loading Screens
- Mass \ Knockdown REVERT
- Region Trading


Not considered essential but still recommended:
- Unit Caps for All
Implements a Tomb Kings style unit cap restriction for both the player and AI. Forces you to use more varied armies.

- No Insane Growth Requirements
In the Rakarth patch the settlement growth requirements for the player was raised by 60% for some odd reason. This makes playing especially Tomb Kings, Dwarfs and Lizardmen a painful experience. This mod changes the requirements to their old values. The breakdown:

Old (to which the mods reverts to)
125
375
750
1250
1875

New vanilla growth costs:
200
600
1200
2000
3000

- Cataph's Less Rebel Rebels
Makes it so you won't run into rebel doomstacks with seven Carnosaurs and three King Tiger tanks
- Upgrade Units
Lets you upgrade units after they reach a certain experience point (e.g Spearmen -> Spearmen with shields -> Halbediers). You need to be in a city, pay a sum of gold and the new unit will need to replenish afterwards.
- Pierce's Better Sieges
Attempts to make siege battles more bearable. Features include:
	- Towers with less range but a wider firing arcs and less HP.
	- Walls and gates have more HP.
	- Siege equipment is build much faster and is more useful.
	- More spells and units work on walls (Rattling guns, Invocation of Nehek etc.). Wind spells like Wind of Death still obviously 	don't work for balancing reasons.
	- Rushing for the plaza is more viable but harder to capture.

- No Degradation - Persistent Summons
A revert from the MP nerfs to summon spells. Before you shout "omg cheatz!" it balances it out by making the Wind of Magic cost for the affected spells significantly higher.

- CBE | Cinematic Effects
Significantly improves the game's powder smoke, trail and impact effects. Chugs a lot of VRAM. Lite version included for toasters.

- Recruit Defeated Legendary Lord
You wont have to stress going after a confederation with the other lords in your faction to get them anymore. Makes the game significantly easier so use at your own discretion.


The "I want to spice things up a bit" category:
- New Legendary Lord Artifacts
Adds over 200 legendary artifacts for all LL's. Items are gained via the skill tree.

- Leaders of Legend (Lord/Faction Trait Overhaul)
Gives additional traits to almost all lords and factions, especially the ones considered awful in vanilla.

- Boyz Will Be Boyz - Closer To Tabletop Overhaul (CTT)
One of the more compatible-friendly overhauls out there. Attempts to convert the WH tabletop rules to the in-game units. Makes combat much more unforgivable (pick the wrong engagement for a unit and they simply melt in seconds). Ranged units will be much more inaccurate and have shorter range. Artillery can misfire but a few canons can down a Dread Saurian in three volleys. Basically only touches the combat, so feel free to add in your own campaign overhauls, tweaks and reskins.

- Cataph's Southern Realms (TEB)
Adds 30 units, three new lord types and a custom tech tree for the Estalia, Tilea, Border Princes and New World Colonies factions.