a. Getting your blacksmiths working (aka armor for combat situations)


Do a control+F and search for 'Martial' until you find this entry:

A big reason why I explained OR and AND tags before was so this would make a little bit more sense. In this file, we're also seeing the modifier = { tag for the first time. What is that you ask? Well, the modifier is a random chance (from 0 to 100) that a variable will be applied. In this case the variable is armor, identified by the tag "10" and explained by the comment line "# Martial." Using the modifier = { tag you can define custom chances for how often you'd like someone to wear certain clothing. Usually it's done just to add a bit of random styles to the game so that count A isn't wearing the same shirt as count B, but it doesnt always work that way.

Here is what the Martial entry looks like for my mod:

If you want armor rules that are identical to my mod's, just do the same thing you did before, copy my stuff and paste over the mod in question/vanilla. You might have to go to my mod file and copy + paste from there, as sometimes this site can mess with coding.

There were two main changes I made. Everyone is forced against a NOT check the moment they get the in_command tag, which happens as soon as you raise an army. If they are in_command, they will never not wear armor. Yeah it's a double negative I don't know why paradox coded it that way, but I followed the trend when I edited this file. I also made sure that Muslim women will never wear armor by doing AND scopes. As explained before, Muslim women commanding armies make the decadence mechanic pointless. It felt silly to then let them wear armor no matter how capable if they couldnt use it.


b. Denying women helmets


In the same file, control + F for 'martial headgear' which will take you to the standard helmets for the various cultures of the game. Mainly it's the same as above with a few exceptions. Here's a look at my version of this.

The first modifier is pretty much the same but the second is where most of the changes went. Factor = 0 means that under no circumstance will, if ANY of these variables are true, the character in question will not wear a helmet. Add in is_female = yes, and if you want your kings and emperors to wear their crowns into combat, then include tier = king and tier = emperor. The latter will give you the, in my opinion, really neat ability to have kings/emperors wear crowns with their armor automatically. The portraits are surprisingly flexible and combine the two seamlessly.

The last is one that should hopefully be preventing women from wearing hoods with their armor, which while it didn't look bad per say, it annoyed me.


c. No hoods allowed in war.


In the same file, do a control + F for "Blank." There are a few blanks in here, I believe one controls the bald hairstyle, so make sure you are at..

#Blank
11= {

Paste this into the file over what is there:

This bit of code tells the game engine to actively prevent kings, emperors and dukes from using no headgear. Those tiers should always have some kind of crown to use, but at the same time take a look at the second modifier tag. If ANY of those AND tags find a match with the character in question, they will take off their headgear when they go into battle.... UNLESS they are at the Emperor, King or Duke tier.

That's all there is to it. Enjoy having commanders who look the part as well as act the part.

If my ruler has been a tyrant and is succeded by his heir, does that heir really have to inherit this tyrant trait along with all the titles and holdings? I understand that the vassals might not trust the new ruler in the beginning. They might kind of think "What if he's just the same as his father?". But if the player doesn't make the successor do any tyrant like deeds, shouldn't the vassals begin to like him much quicker than a small percent every five years (tyranny goes away at the rate 5 points every 5 years (1 point every year))?

If for example the Ruler is a tyrant and his heir becomes the new Ruler an event could pop up for the player with a few choises. This event could maybe be something like: Ruler SoAndSo has the tyrant trait with an opinion of -50 by his vassals. Do you as the new Ruler want to follow the way of Ruler SoAndSo? After that the player has two or three options to chose from.

Option 1 - The heir is approving his father's way of ruling and will continue in the same way giving result A (The vassals will have the same opinion of him as they had for his father.)

Option 2 - The heir will not follow his father's way of ruling giving result B (The vassals won't hate him as they hated his father and improve their opinion of him quicker if he proves to be a better Ruler and he will be free from the tyrant trait quicker. Different events could pop up which would make the vassals' opinion of the new Ruler improve or stay as it is depending on the choices made by the Ruler)

Option 3 - The new Ruler hasn't decided yet how he will rule giving result C (There is a 50 percent risk that the vassals might transfer their opinion of the former tyrant Ruler to him. If the new Ruler doesn't rule in a bad way for a certain period of time the opinion of the vassals will be somewhere between option 1 and option 2. The vassals' opinion of him will improve by time if he doesn't rule in a bad way - the choices made by the Ruler in different events will decide the Vassals' opinion of the new Ruler).