4) This mod causes some quest battles to bug out because after you click "Start Battle" you are met with a black screen forever. I know the author stated he didn't touch quest battles, but his script affects some of them somehow, causing the bug, like this one for instance if the play the Last Defenders campaign: https://i.imgur.com/b8md9tT.png

The bug is immediately solved by disabling the mod through the MCT menu. Remember to follow the process of doing it in the game's main menu, then doing it again once you've loaded into your save file.

3) Don't use "Waves deploy together" option, it will often cause some of your reinforcements' units to not appear at all. If your reinforcement army had 20 units, something like only 17 will turn up.

Most importantly there is a major bug with line 354 of the script which causes the lightning strike delay to be always 15 seconds, regardless of your settings.

I have fixed this along with added a proper icon and tooltip ability, so when you hover over the lightning strike in the skill tree, it doesn't look weird anymore. Now your lord (and the enemies') will also have an ability—the round little icons—that indicates they have lightning strike.

Just download and put inside the data folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wQc9nK7SxiGZWqRd4H1Vn8RV3A9Z8WQQ/view

There are a few comments below about setting all options to 0 and still reinforcements have delays. I suggest that once you go into battle, open MCT settings and check if those values you had set are still 0. Chances are they are NOT (again this is a bug with MCT). So you need follow my instructions in the previous post.

1) This mod cannot be removed without invalidating your save file. Though I don't see why it needs to be removed when it is simply a customizable version of the original effect.

2) If you want to have no delays in your own reinforcements, you need to set both the max global delay and the min global delay to 0 (the function picks a random number between these two).

Now remember that the Mod Configuration Tool itself is sort of bugged. So you need to go the main menu, set the numbers there, save it to a profile, and finalize. Then load your save file, go to MCT settings again, and apply that profile, and finalize.

Finally you need to save your game again. Now when you load into your latest save everything will be perfect.

@N I T R O the reinforcement mechanic does not exist in custom battles, the armies spawn all at once.

hello. Does this mode work in 'custom battle?' And if so. How does it work?

I finally got reinforcements once my original army was completely wiped out.

In a settlement battle atm. (my settlement vs enemy army) The fights been going for 12 minutes, my reinforcements havn't come in. The enemy has gotten theirs 3 times.

yes

Is this compatible with SFO?

Update: For some reason, even with revised (or standard) settings, some battles just keep desyncing when the reinforcements should spawn. 15 good battles, then 2 for which we have to deactivate the mod, one of which was a siege without reinforcements. Very strange indeed

Feedback from Multiplayer:
- works in H2H, works with SFO
- Lizardmen seem to use vanilla lightning strike, as Chuckawookie said
- Some setting combinations seem to cause reproducable desyncs, while others don't (from left to right: 5-200-10-20-20-7-20 is working without issues, while 10-180-15-30-25-7-30 is causing desyncs)
- I think standard mod settings delay the armies too much. With our current settings (working set above) it appears to be better.

Not sure if this was intended or if it was overlooked but Lizardmen use vanilla lightning strike. Maybe Kroq-Gar from The Last Defenders might have a special skill but he is able to lightning strike like in vanilla.

Other than that its been working fine for me.

Not sure why but have had some issues with this mod conflicting with certain quest battles, such as the Hand of God Quest battle.

@Steevo I acknowledge the same problem, all options but lightning strike on 0, and reinforcements still arrive with a delay, despite I've wanted vanilla instant arriving there.

Hey, maybe I'm missing something but I tried to play with the settings so that reinforcements are only delayed by lightning strike and no other factors, but no matter what every reinforcing army is always delayed, often only coming on after the enemy army has routed entirely.

This is true if I turn large armies on or off, and all other settings off or 0 (it's unclear whether settings turn things on or off btw)

I play on huge battle maps so reinforcements dribbling is is nigh unplayable

Works with the End Times

Works with sfo

Does this mod work in Multiplayer Campaign? (H2H)
I assume, it also works with mods, that doesn't change the mechanics of Lightning Strike itself, but might have a different arrangement of skills (SFO)?

Strangely, it seems to have started working at some point. I don't think I changed anything, I just noticed in one battle that it actually delayed the reinforcements, and has done so since. Weird. Wonder if it's based on faction? I had been fighting mostly dark elves in my early campaign, but was fighting Bretonnia when I noticed it happening. Can't confirm that that is the cause, but like I said, I didn't change anything.

Delete, unsub and resub. Works for me

I'm experiencing the same thing, @Necropolitan13

Any word on whether an update is coming for this? Or if it is needed? Mine doesn't seem to be working, currently; not sure if that's just me. The mod is active and it doesn't crash the game or anything, but the reinforcements don't appear to be being delayed at all. They just come right into the battle once it's started. Kind of surprised no one has been pushing for an update (which also makes me wonder if it's just not working for me for some other reason). Not really trying to be pushy, mostly just trying to figure out if it's something wrong on my end or if it actually does need an update.

The reinforcements will still arrive. Whether you have enough time to kill the routers is a different matter.

Not using this mod for now but i'm very interested and i would know what happen if you vanquish the 1st army before the 2nd arrive ? You are victorious or you have to wait for the reinforcement ?

Cool! I hoped something like this would be moddable in!

Vanilla Lightning strike is too strong, esp if used to spend 40 minutes magicing way an army while surrounded by 3 other stacks, same for players if an AI army lightning strikes them - just play for time and hold out until your reinforcements arrive.

Am I correct in thinking that your changes to lightning strike only affect the skill, and not the other sources? (Aranessa's ship building, Under-Empire building, Skarsnik's trait,...)

Can you please explain how can i make the army reinforcements (second, third and fourth army) arrive very very quickly (ASAP) onto the battle map?

I seem to have fixed the issue, I know next to nothing about coding but it seems like your script sets the army max to 20 if large armies, in the mod config, is de-selected but doesn't actually set it back to 40 if the option is re-enabled so it stays at 20. At least I think that's what the issue was as it seems to have been fixed after changing 20 to 40 in the script, though I'd have to change it back to 20 if i want small armies I guess.

I seem to be having an issue where my armies reinforcement are only appearing when my first army has lost some, as If I had de-selected the control large army option. Any idea how to fix this?

Just fyi:
this mod seems to be incompatible with nanus sartosa overhaul because it breaks one of the story quest battles. I was waiting 10 mins after i killed every unit on the map for the enemy reinforcements and they just didnt spawn and i had to concede defeat, just to get out of the battle

Report: OG lightning strike is still available when you build the certain type of Skaven undercity.

It works for Vortex.

Anyway, something super weird happened in my Norsca campaign. Alberic sallied out from besieged Castle Artois. I defeated his army and the victory notification appeared. When I chased the routing troops, the settlement's garrison showed up. I ended up fighting it even though technically the battle was won before that. I will also note that it happened with Wulfric who had Lightning Strike, but was the defender.

Work with vortex campaign?

Big battles are manageable and enjoyable now. Thank you!

Having tested it by setting the lightning strike delay as high as I could, I can confirm that Skarsnik receives no lightning strike bonuses. And since he doesn't have lightning strike as a skill, he is unable to use lightning strike at all.

Want to clarify that the reworked lightning strike ability applies automatically to Skarsnik, who starts with lightning strike. Does it? I haven't noticed reinforcements taking extra long playing as skarsnik.

I keep having an issue where my reinforcments don't ever arrive unless the first army is destroyed, and even if I have control large armies on

SFO compatible? doesn't work for me

Lightning strike is already disabled for AR. That alone changes the game in a significant way.

Any plans to make changes to autoresolve? I'm pretty sure it cant factor in the delay and kinda ignores the main point of this mod.

Can confirm the glitch is fixed in the recent update. Great mod, loving it

Thanks for the fix, as now the missing descriptions are back !

Odd..I noticed the update, it didn't resolve the issue in my existing campaign..I was able to load the save file though so no big deal.

I'll assume its working with a fresh save, in that case I can't wait to use this with my next campaign! Really enjoyed using this

Really enjoy using this mod! Thank you for the quick fix!

I've had no problems so far.

Please fix

I really enjoy this mod :X and would like to continue my current campaign, hope you can fix it soon!

Thank you for this!

Everything was fine on my part before this update. Now I got the same problem as the people below me. Hope you can fix it soon, cus this mod isn't save game compatible so I can't even load my save file with this mod unticked