Mod: A mod to improve troop commanders

[DrPraetorious]

I'd like to avoid overtly magical effects for commanders.

My preference would be to give each national leader a command aura with a fixed but large radius - this command aura would give a bonus to AP and to attack skill, generally speaking (I was going to have the Lictor boost the MR and possibly Str of undead, there are some other specialized leaders who might get other bonuses for non-standard units.)

The idea here is that this would encourage you to actually use your national commanders to lead troops into battle.

QM has suggested that this would make army-placement a six-titted fire-breathing ***** goddess (note to self: new pretender chassis), and I'll need to play with it some. A very large area (as much as 1/9 of your side of the battlefield) would still potentially provide a benefit from fielding several national commanders, and wouldn't be too much of a pain to handle with respect to placement.

[Serenity]

Six tits..

I'd make it nine and a half.

[MKDELTA]

DrPraetorious said:
My preference would be to give each national leader a command aura with a fixed but large radius - this command aura would give a bonus to AP and to attack skill, generally speaking (I was going to have the Lictor boost the MR and possibly Str of undead, there are some other specialized leaders who might get other bonuses for non-standard units.)

I like the idea. Maybe the effects could be more varied though, especialy for nations that have a lot of plain commanders, like Ulm. Some could boost defence & AP instead. Some could boost precision (useful for archers). And so on.

Even better would be some kind of an ability for commanders to give these bonuses to only troops under his/her command, but that can't be done now. :/

[DrPraetorious]

There aren't that many effects available for stat boosts from spells. In particular, boosting defense and AP is not possible (you can give people outright quickness.)

If you look in the "bistmasker" spreadsheet that comes with my spell modding, guide, you can see them - that's it, that's all there are.

There are other effects to improve morale and to remove fatigue, but no other stat-boosting effects.

[Endoperez]

There is Haste, though, which makes units move faster. I guess that's what MKDELTA wanted to do.

[Lord_Neko]

Well, I'll check this out when I get a chance. Sounds like a good idea but I have always pretty much used my national commanders anyways so far...

I do like the idea of auras though.