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Gorefest: Weapons Mini-overhaul: Missing natural weapons, 1H weapon fixes, weapon inconsistencies resolved, bugfixes, and more

Gorefest: v0.6b

This mod started as a desire to rectify the discrepancy between different types of bestial humanoids in natural weapon attack implementation; specifically, the absence of gore on living Pangaean minotaurs when countless other bull/ox-headed humanoids, Asphodel undead minotaurs, and the Arcoscephalian minotaur hero all received such.

It has since evolved into a pretty aggressive overhaul of natural weapon attacks across the board- correcting and symmetrizing missing length parameters and penalties, adding in missing attacks to other odd cases among chassis/morphologies that generally receive such, converting mundane natural weapons to magical among some pretenders and exotic magical beasts where such has been overlooked,, etc.

Additionally, a number of non-natural weapons have been changed. A subset of iron weapons with no damage bonus relative to bronze counterparts now do the standard +1 damage . Most units with 1 handed weapons and no shield now use the weapon with both hands, translating to +.25x strength and +1 att/def (by reference to 1h vs 2h katana implementation in-game)


A number of fixes to some incongruities:

Phalangites now use pikes and bucklers, gigantes now use long spears, slings now have ammo closer to sticks and stones (25), boulders now have a weak (half strength) AoE.

Samurai with katana and samurai cavalry now all have longbows to reflect samurai martial doctrines and the nature of the katana as a secondary armament.
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Base prices for units receiving the new attacks have been adjusted by rough analogy to Andramania's pricing relative to similarly equipped enkidu and humans: ~ +10 g for troops, +15 g for commanders.
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In net, these changes should push the margins on viable expanders, really help out some otherwise extremely redundant or nonviable level troop types and should improve decision space for expansion composition and some later game armies.

Suggestions and criticisms welcome.

Feel free to repackage and reuse.

Weaponids used: 3680-3720

Thanks to Zonk and Jakalor for discussions
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Units Affected:
+All units with gore attacks that can wear a full helmet no longer lose the gore attack on equipping such
+All relevant Pretenders now use fatigue system for natural lightning attacks]
+poison/corrosive spit, curse, mesmerize, and some doom horror ranged attacks now correctly use fatigue
+gobble/grab and swallow no longer target undead/inanimate/spiritform; edible targets only!
+Various natural weapons missing length value or defense/attack penalty fixes

Troops:

Minotaur
Minotaur Warrior (gore)
War Minotaur (gore)
Minotaur Soldier (gore)
Ichtytaur (gore, flipper slap, spear now 2H)
Ichtytaur Warrior (gore, flipper slap, spear now 2H)
Ichtycentaur (flipper slap)
Shedim (gore)
Phlegran Cataphracts (hoof)
Moufflon (hoof)
Caleydonian Boar (hoof)
Great Boar of Carnutes/Monster Boar (hoof)
Moose (trample)
Catoblepas (trample)
Spine frog (claw, digest, poor amphibian)
Jaguar Toad (grab and swallow, digest, poor amphibian)
Cave cow (bite now applies corrosion)
Manticore (grab and swallow, digest, poison barbs)
Lobsters (claw)
Chimera (claw)
Dracolion (tail slap)
Hound of Twilight (2x claw)
Scorpion Man (pincer)
Zmey (tail slap)
Big Hydras (tail sweep)
Great Eagles (dive, talon)
Ziz (dive, talon)
Firebird (dive, talon, beak)
Shikigami (dive)
Anzu (dive)
Enkidu Reavers (+fist attack)
Hellbred horite (fist)
Okami (claw)
Dire wolf (claw)
+All 1H weapon troops w/ empty free hand use weapon 2H (+.25x strength scaling, +1 att/def), excepting shortswords and daggers


Sacreds:
Black Minotaur (gore)
Grove Guardians (gore)
Carrion Lord (head butt)
Ifrit Warriors (gore, scimitar now 2H)
Palankashas (bite)
Emerald Knights (hoof)
Cambion Knights (hoof)
Zhayedans (claw)
Amazon Gryphon (claw)
Condors (dive)
Aphroi (flipper slap)
Jade Serpent (tail sweep)
Monster Toad (gobble,digest, poor amphibian)
Vastness (mindslime)
Big Hydra (tail sweep)
Asaras (spear now 2H)
Chak Muuch Dart Throwers (spear now 2H)
Ancient Wet Ones (spear now 2H)
Nagas (spear now 2H)
Guhyakas (spear now 2H)
Yamabushi (stunning strike)
Sohei (longbow)

Commanders:

Minotaur commanders (all variants) (gore)
Ichtycentaur and Aphroi Commanders (tail slap)
Panii (headbutt, also fixed anomalous base encumbrance on MA Pangaea Pan )
Capricorns (headbutt)
Akerbeltz (headbutt)
Ifrits (gore)
Dai Oni (gore)
Oni Shugo (gore)
Kohen Gadol (gore, size fixed)
Anyone on a Moufflon (hoof)
Basalt Kings (bite)
Tartarian Monstra (tail sweep)
Tartarian Monstrum (claw)
Couatl (tail sweep, size fixed)
Shambler Chief EA (claw)
Vila Sacred Stags (hoof)


Heroes/Uniques:

Heliophagi (golden claws, golden horns)
Malphas demon form (golden claws)
White Minotaur (gore)
Black Bull (gore)
Great Archon (beak)
Belphegor (headbutt, tail sweep)
Belial (gore)
Buer (hoof x3)
Ladon (tail sweep)
Daughter of Typhon (tail sweep)
Apostatic Warrior (head butt)
Mandehas (gore)
Yllerion (dive)
Nephilim (grab and swallow)
Couatl (tail sweep)


+magical weapons on balam, chaac, cardinal dwarfs, onaqui and onaqui heroes, marid, and all lesser Eastern Dragons (and fixed missing tail sweep attacks on such)



Pretenders:

Carrion Lord (Head butt)
All Big Birds (dive, 0-1 talon)
All Big Dogs (1-2x claw)
All Serpents and half-Serpents (Tail sweep)
Nerid (flipper slap)
Great Stags (trample)
Angra Mainyu (gore)
Oni Kunshu (gore)
Firstborn of the Smokeless Flame (gore)
Nephilim (grab and swallow)
Moloch (gore)
Uttervast (mindslime)
King in Yellow (tentacle, mindslime)
Void Lord (claw, mind slime)
Dagon (claw, digest)
Ghost King (Atlantean) (bite)
Celestial Bureaucrat dracoforms (tail sweep)
Couatl forms (tail sweep)
Neter of the Sun (bite)
Neter of Chaos (bite)
Prince of the Underworld (2x claw)
Man-Eater (grab and swallow, digest, poison barbs)
Gorgons (golden claw)
Apu Illapa (beak)
Apu Inti (bite)
Missing magical weapon fixes too many to list



Manufactured weapons:

-Iron and meteorite weapons with +1 damage: hatchets, (long) spears, daggers, (short) tridents, light lances, daggers
-heavy lances now tagged as iron

2-handed usage changes:


-Ubar/Na'ba Jinn troops
-All non-militia shieldless spear/lance/basic club/axes/wakizashi troops;
-All archers, crossbowmen, slingers, net throwers, stone throwers, and javelineers with scimitars, axes, maces, clubs, spears


Polearm changes:
-Phalangites now use a 1H pike and a buckler (instead of long spear, hoplon)
-Mekone/Phaeacian Gigante/Cyclope hoplites and relevant commanders now use base length 4 spears like all human hoplites
-Phlegran Gigante Warriors (spear --> pike)
-Fomorian Giants now use length 4 spears (their spears are vastly longer than those of the lesser fomorians!)
-Fixed wrong weapons on Erytheian Triton Nobles/Knights

Sidearms: these factions make regular use of iron daggers, so lack of sidearms made no sense here
-Satyr Snipers (hoof to dagger)
-C'tis Crossbowmen (claw to dagger)
-Tomb Flame Wielder (claw to iron dagger)

Miscellaneous:

-Enkidu (club --> great club) (like other demigiant clubbers)
-Dawn and Jann Guard strength normalized to 'Adite Elites/Jann Emir/Avvite commander etc.
-Ashdod human slaves now use bronze instead of iron weapons
-Aka-Oni and O-Ban Samurai, Sohei, Samurai Cavalry & commanders now have longbows, mounted Samurai commander katana handedness fixed

Ranged:
-Bekryde warriors and hunters also have sticks and stones
--Slings now have ammo closer to sticks and stones (25) to reflect the nature of their inputs
--Boulders now inflict a weak (half str ) AoE 1 where they land
-All javelin cavalry and charioteers and some steppe nomad or elite horse archers without the mobile archer trait have received it (horse brothers, horse tribe, vintolefei, turan elites, avvite charioteers, elf and marverni jav-cav)