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Pirate's Unlife for Me - Vampire Coast Overhaul Mod (Beta(ish))

- Pirate King, Luthor Harkon
I absolutely love Vampire Coast for their aesthetic and units, but unfortunately their campaign gameplay is not so great. Currently they seem all over the place and more often than not you'll just end up building an empire like every other generic faction. Well no more! This mod aims to change the Vampire Coast in a big way, from changing empire building, updating out-of-date elements, and overall aiming to make them the fun pirating faction they deserve to be!

Infamy matters a lot more with this mod. For one, the amount of Infamy you have can affect relations, your admirals' loyalty, and how much your foes fear you! Secondly, expanding now costs infamy, which when combined with the completely new array of buildings which favour faction-wide bonuses to pillaging, characters, and the like leads to a bigger focus on sacking and razing enemies rather than having a bunch of settlements to defend.

These reworked settlements provide very easy global recruitment and movement range bonuses, encouraging you to build a force quickly and get out there to maim some landlubbers!

Passive income has pretty been removed from regular Settlements, which means you have to get creative to get by. Resource Buildings provide bigger yields and also grant faction-wide bonuses, and Pirate Coves have had their existing buildings improved. Furthermore, these Coves have also had entirely new structures which range anywhere from hiding your armies to planting devastating bombs ready to detonate mid-battle!

The four Legendary Admirals have gotten new skills in their Skill Tree which encourages unique armies and gameplay styles for each of them.

The Legendary Lords have also gotten improvements to their Skill Trees, making some otherwise quite mediocre skills much better.

Luthor Harkon's Personalities now affect your entire faction, and when you finally piece his mind together he's an actually good spell caster (Unlike before where he was worse than even a hero spell caster)!

The blue line present for all Coast lords have also gotten a huge number of improvements.

Cylostra can now recruit her Damned Knights from ports, and Aranessa can recruit all of the Maneater variants. These units (as well as Sartosa units) now get affected from Red Skills and Technologies.

All lords have gotten a new skill which lets you buff up foreign units, making alliances surprisingly useful for these scallywags!


Beta(ish)?
This mod is perfectly playable with minimal issues, but that doesn't mean I won't be adding to it! Any feedback about bugs, balancing, or even potential additions are all welcome!

There are tonnes of changes which are also not highlighted here, but I feel these are the most important ones. If people really want a full list of the changes, I can create one. :)