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Spire's Reduced Army Losses Penalty / Longer Battles

This mod is part of a campaign change series, which can be found here:
https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/?id=2853287087

Battles in TWW3 end quite quickly because once one side loses enough units, it triggers a mechanic called "army losses" that forces them to instantly lose. I personally think this happens too early, hence this mod. I've had many, many battles where I thought the army losses penalty kicked in right as it was getting good.

This mod makes it so army losses triggers later in a battle, requiring a more clear victory. This means battles last longer (but not excessively so), and comebacks are more achievable. You will be amazed at how many clutch victories you or the AI will be able to pull out now that the game doesn't randomly end for no reason.

• Army losses penalty now triggers when the balance of power is at 90% for the winning faction (unmodded: 72%)
  
  • This means the loser must be more thoroughly beaten before the penalty kicks in, enabling comebacks
    
  • This also means that the AI is much more dangerous when sieging you with multiple stacks of units, where usually the army losses penalty kicks in while they still have over a dozen full-health units left
    
• The army losses penalty is now -65 leadership instead of -100
  
  • This usually doesn't change much, but it does mean high-leadership units must be damaged a bit before they route from the penalty
    
  • Thematically this means you can pull out a clutch victory with a high-health high-leadership chad unit
    
  • It also means that if your lord is on full health (and therefore high leadership), the fight continues
    

I actually originally made this mod to fix the siege AI because I noticed army-losses were kicking in while the AI still had dozens of full-health units ready to attack while sieging. It cannot be overstated, if you play on high difficulties this mod is a MASSIVE buff to enemy AI in the context of siege battles. Battles that were previously a cake-walk for you will now become challenging. If an AI attacks your settlement with 5 stacks of units, you WILL feel it.