Nex Chrysalica

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Author: Celsus ex Alexandria

Last revision: 16 May at 23:41 UTC (2)

File size: 28.17 MB

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Description:

First, it must be said that this mod wouldn’t have come to be, were it not for another mod that reworks the Changelings and serves as the basis for this submod – namely Great Feeling by catnapper and others.

Second, the purpose of this submod. The main reason, I’ve made this mod, is to skip Pax completely; In many of my playthroughs I’ve built up well, won easily and yet was handicapped in conquering the rest of the world due to the nerfs that come with Pax. Other reasons were to make the focus tree of more use, to add more flavour and to fix bugs I’ve encountered and to update stuff missing from vanilla EaW.

A NEW MAJOR UPDATE!
In short, it contains:
– Olenian Protectorate focus tree,
– New Total War branch for the Changeling focus tree,
– Improvements/balancing for the rest of the Changeling focus tree,
– Custom Difficulty Settings (accessible through an event at the start of the game – around january 3rd while playing as CHN or OLE),
– Improved Changeling AI,
– Expanded Faction goals for the Hegemony,
– Changes to Changeling Tank MIOs,
– Many bugfixes,
– Changes to starting oob,
– Balancing for Changeling techs,
– I wrote a single (1) lore event! (hopefully many to come later on…)

COMPATIBILITY WITH EAW: NEW TECHNOLOGY:
Comp Patch Submod here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3719601745

REGARDING THE NEXT UPDATE
The next update is going to be a patch, mostly refining what has been added in this update, implementing some things I had to cut due to time constraints and further adjusting the balancing and the AI to the newest version of EaW. Certainly I’d like to write an AI for Olenia so it’s more of an useful ally for you as CHN and also I’d expand on the difficulty settings I’ve added.

IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THE MOD’S DEVELOPMENT:
Now I’ve added a lot of stuff in this update and I alone can’t test every single case or scenario, so your feedback would be very valuable; feel free to leave suggestions, your opinions and most importantly
–> let me know if you find any bugs! <–

One more thing – I might make a discord for the mod – if I do, I’ll leave the link here and in the comments.

Contents:
– Reworked Changeling Focus Tree:
> Generally focuses take less time, so that they may more rapidly respond to the demands of the current situation
> Expanded Polar Bears and Olenia subtrees
> Modified several pre-war focuses
> Added a subtree for Black-Generationists and Prandialists
> Added a subtree for the Vhyinsekten
> Army, Airforce and Navy subtrees have been remade and are split in pre-war and war parts
> Great War focuses have also been modified
> Added a Wunderwaffen subtree
> Added a Total War subtree
> Added a completely unfinished subtree root for Nex Chrysalica itself; At this point it allows you to skip Pax (probably)

– Olenian Protectorate Focus Tree:
> Added a completely new focus tree for Changeling Olenia
> Allows you to develop the Olenian resources, build a strong navy and create an army fit for the Great War

– Difficulty Settings:
> At the start of the game as either the Changelings or Olenia you may select a custom difficulty level
> "Bring it on Celestia!" difficulty grants the Equestrians meta divisions and air
> "Time to die Ponies!" difficulty is much like the previous one, except here time is also your enemy – with each month of the war it’s gonna get tougher

– Improved Changeling AI:
> The Changeling AI should present a much greater challenge than in the previous versions.
> As it was made before EaW 2.6.1 which has made some pretty big changes to AI, it doesn’t always use the exact templates it should. Suffice to say, in the next patch it will be adjusted and refined.

– The Vhy
> The Vhy, short for Vhyinsekten, is essentially a replacement of the Queen’s Guard in Great Feeling; Wanting them to be visible on-map, I’ve added them as special forces units. These take less losses and fight longer; they also receive bonuses from general special forces modifiers.
> Added technologies for these units in the "Changeling Technologies" research tab. These are unlocked by taking the "Vhy Forces Expansion" focus.
> Changelings start with one Vhy unit of a locked template, although once the focus mentioned above is taken, these become fully modifiable.
> Added a commando advisor

– DLC/non-DLC compatibility
> Generally the possession of DLCs, or the lack of, should not influence the amount of content in the mod or its balance.
> BBA and non-BBA airforce techs and deployed airforces are now equivalent.
> Updated the Navy, MTG users will see a minelaying and long-range patrol submarine fleet; non-MTG users will see an escort fleet.
> Updated a naval decision to give BBA aircraft designs to BBA users.
> Some more stuff that I can’t recall now.

– Bugfixes
> Polar Bears now properly turn into a protectorate on puppeting.
> Puerto Caballo now has its name properly shown on the world map.
> Added missing gfx.
> Fixed several typos.
> Fixed a lot of bugs which existed in the previous versions
> Many others.

– Others
> Changed starting production lines.
> Added a new MIO for support equipment.
> Changed modifiers on some ideas/traits.
> Added some of the stuff missing from vanilla EaW.
> Expanded Faction goals.
> Rebalanced Changeling tank MIOs
> Adjusted Changeling technologies
> Removed old MTG-related code
> Changed starting oob to better integrate it with the new stuff in hoi4
> Some more stuff that I can’t recall now.

As to the more distant future, I’d like to implement Nex properly, it being about a year-long story focus subtree. After/with that, a world conquest subtree. Technically the current few Nex focuses fulfill that goal, since you skip the equestrian unrest (with extreme prejudice) and you get to generate wargoals much faster. Important to note is that the existing focuses MAY allow you to ignore pax; I consider the chance that they work at about 70% so if they don’t I’ll just have to fix them in the next update.

At last I would like to ask for forgiveness, as playing hoi4 is a sin in itself, and I sin further by playing the pony mod. Any prayers, that I may have the strength to drop hoi4, I happily welcome.