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The reason I started this mod was twofold--I love the Black Company series and would like to play it in Dominions, and I have some ideas about play balancing that I wanted to mess around with. Some of these ideas are:

1. making a more powerful unit that costs mis-proportionately more than other units to start with, but has less cost over time, e.g. in supplies. Take the Limper Infantry as the main example of this. 1.5X heavy infantry, costs 2X a heavy infantry, but still only eats 1/unit of supply per month.

2. making units more powerful not through strength or hits, but through endurance and morale. Again, the Limper Infantry is my example. Sure, they have great armor also, but the main difference between neutral hvy inf and them is the Mor 15 vs 10, and Enc 1 vs 3. In fact, they are very similar to Ulm Hvy Inf, except for the morale and endurance--and the fact that they cost more.

3. I also wanted to experiment with a top-heavy empire in a way. The primary foot-soldier of the Empire isn't important in this Mod. In the book each unit was vastly different, coming from different absorbed kingdoms, armed and armored completely differently and sporting different tactics and strategies. But the big wins/losses were almost always due to the heroes. I was hoping to emulate this with a kind of generic foot-soldier. I did kick around the idea of making 4-6 vastly different basic units, but that would take away from the flavor of the Empire. Instead, I have a generic infantry, 4 vastly different vastly expensive elite units, 2 great leaders, and 4 ultra powerful heroes that you might or might might not get. In a +2 luck, you should get one hero every 20 turns, which should make up for the slow military growth this expensive mod requires. That, and the fact that an army of 50 will eat 50 supplies/month, yet be as powerful as an army of ~75. An army travels on its stomach, and I am making powerful stomachs.

I am still kicking around the idea of Soulcatcher as a unit that charms/dominates enemy commanders, with her patron unit as a stealthy assassin charmer/dominator (as in when the BC took Whisper).