EB 1.1 Movement Range Suggestions

Movement ranges have been a topic of discussion in a number of threads, yet nobody has satisfyingly addressed a very specific point of modding.

This suggestion is aimed at the discrepancy between movement ranges of captain led armies and general led armies, especially during winter. I would think that any army, not just those led by generals, should suffer somewhat in unfavorable weather. Now, since it is not possible to assign traits to captains, something else occurred to me. Armies not led by someone whipping them to action should be slower anyway, slower even than a decrepit, tottering and lame general. So, my proposal would be to reduce the movement speed of ALL units (via 'starting_action_points') to, for example, 50 instead of 80, and then switch the summer/winter effects around to compensate this; like this:

Code:

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Trait WinterEffects
    Characters all
    AntiTraits WinterEffectsOver, UnaffectedByWinter

    Level Winter_Effects
        Description Winter_Effects_desc
        EffectsDescription Winter_Effects_effects_desc
        Threshold  1

        ;Effect MovementPoints  -9  ;newly commented

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Trait WinterEffectsOver
    Characters all
    Hidden
    AntiTraits WinterEffects

    Level Winter_Effects_Over
        Description Winter_Effects_Over_desc
        EffectsDescription Winter_Effects_Over_effects_desc
        Threshold  1

        Effect MovementPoints  12  ;newly added

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Of course, corresponding changes for spies, reverse-summer-winter-faction traits, admirals etc would also have to be made as well as possibly some increase in the MP bonus since (if it is really applied as a percentage bonus) an increase of 40% of 50 actionpoints is less than an increase of 40% of 80 action points.

Either way, the effect would be that an army without a general would ALWAYS (or almost always) be equal to or slower than an army with a general, even in winter.

I'll try this out myself during the next few weeks, provided i find the time.
Has this idea already been tried (and discarded)? I couldn't find this particular combination anywhere in the forums.

Cheers, Sûl.

I'm not a dev or an EB team member, but I'd suggest posting this in the EB Unofficial Mods Forum and see about implementing these changes. You have a point and some good ideas. Not sure if this is the best place.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=129

Its probably faster than waiting for a patch to EB and if it makes sense they might add the changes to EB later. I think I read in the 1.1 release thread that they weren't planning to release any new patches to EB except for bug fixes since they're busy with EB2.

I'll definitely post any personal (and successful) modding results in the appropriate subforum, along with modded files for testing. ;)

This adversely affects AI more than the player. The AI often has captain led armies and this would make them slow and the AI would not know how to alter this. That is why we didn't do it this way round.

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