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Ordo Draconis - Templehof Expanded (Crynsos + addon)

for Crynsos Faction Unlocker +


Sooo,
I had some ideas for the Order of the Blood Dragons, once they grew in number, I decided to create a new mod which includes some of my blood knights units and other stuff on which i've worked on for almost a month right now.


*Regiments of Renown are recruitable from buildings (campaign cap 1), to avoid editing startpos.
**No vanilla units nor buildings were replaced, to simulate a real "implant" of the Ordo in these lands.

Full Unit Roster HERE




This mod is oriented towards a vanilla-friendly way of playing the game, and tries to offer a different, hopefully original and funny way of dealing with the vampires, while aiming to bring to life one of the Vampiric Bloodlines (for lore discussion, please take a look here).

The faction relies mostly on units of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry and the idea is to encourage the player to play this way. To compensate for their high cost, upkeep and recruitment time (2 turns each), many bonus will be provided by tech and skills to sustain your army. Units type will cover most of the usual roster. The high upkeep, recruitment cost and time is set this way because the units are very good, and to avoid unbalances.
I will not lie, the beginning is hard, but Sylvania can be secured by turn 20-30 (max, on Very Hard).




Buildings (screenshots above) are designed to be consistent with what you would expect to found inside a fortress or a military base. The recruitment of blood dragons units and heroes is of course possible from these building chains only:

• Ordo Draconis Military Base: infantry recruitment, bonus to the recruitment slot + custom unit for the garrison.
  
• Ordo Draconis Stables: cavalry recruitment + custom unit for the garrison.
  
• Ordo Draconis Official Buildings: recruitment of custom units + RoR recruitment. Gives bonus to those agents like the vanilla buildings do.

Currently these buildings are available only in Sylvania.


There will be four uniqe technologies at the bottom of the vanilla tech tree (screenshots above). Those tech focus on:

• Bonuses for Blood Knights, Lord/Heroes and army in campaign and battle.
  
• For those sweet bonuses you will have to suffer a bit: Blood Dragons choose not to develop their natural skills in magic, and many of them despise magic as much as they despise ranged weapons. How to reproduce this in a undead summon-centered culture? Technologies will give malus to the upkeep of those non-vampiric units (zombies, skeletons, grave guards, monsters ecc.) and will increase cooldown for all the lores of magic used by vampires (death, shadow, vampires).
  
• To avoid an easy exploitable technology (Turning Knightly Orders), this technology is replaced by another one agent-centered with the same philosophy as above.
  
• Thanks to Guvenoren, a fix for a vanilla tech is included in the mod (TW forum link HERE[forums.totalwar.com]).

The maluses may seem too much, but the bonus for the units are totally worth it.

• There will be some model parts appearing from the distance, this is something i can't fix.
  
• Nah, i didn't manage to give a chalice to Walach Harkon, i've already tried and failed miserably.
  
• Abhorash started to age and it sounds like an old man, another thing i can't probably fix.
  
• Some portholes are still bugged in custom battle.
  
• Placeholders unit cards for heroes, this can't be modded.
  
• You may wonder where are some reskinned parts i had on my blood knights mods. For consistency with vanilla (and compatibility with reskin mods) the variation is kept at a base version, reskin will be focused on the RoR.

Should be compatible with everything vanilla friendly, major mods designed for the unlocker (Cataph's TEB - Kraka Drak and Mixu's LL - Empire of Man) work fine. For more details, please look at the FAQ.

SFO patch

If you want some other mods, consider checking my workshop ;)


Guvenoren, for his passionate and endless help in vanilla-friendly balancing, testing, suggestions and unit cards, other than his amazing screenshots. Truly and invaluable asset in the improvement of the mod.
Khazmo, for all the lore suggestions, questions, tips and research and for all the help during the development. His lore threads are the true heart of many of my mods.
Parte, thanks to whom Abhorash have seen the light to begin with.
Crynsos, for creating this amazing framework that made this mod possible.
MixXxu and Cataph, for creating the mods that inspire this work.
Cataph again, because i have blatantly copied his way of description here, it's just too good and i'm incapable of explain myself :P
Mod icon is a realaboration of a picture by Chewiemuse, thanks for the permission to use it. Link to his works[www.flickr.com].