Mod: Free Battle Summons

[zlefin]

This is a simple mod which makes all non-blood, in battle troop summons cost no gems.
This includes things like swarm, the various elemental summons, howl, undead horde, and several others.

I made it because I like summoning things, and hate having to spend valuable gems on a regular elemental. Also I don't have a good sense of the power of some of the summons, since I use them so rarely.

I haven't played with it much yet, so i don't know what the balance will be like, but I know I'll enjoy summoning stuff.

All changed spells were set to 99 fatigue;
spells which used to cost 2 gems had the level of their main path raised by one. (i.e. living water, which used to be W4 and 2 gems, is now W5 and 99 fatigue)

This mod does NOT affect any spells which persistently summon extra units over the course of the battle, like Shark Attack or Mists of Deception.
Zlefin

[Sombre]

Man, I think that's going to lead to some crazy swarm spammage, among other things.

Good mod just for fun though.

[hEad]

Hey nice one. Changing up the game dynamics is great for variety!

[rdonj]

I could see this as a useful mod to make the AI stronger. The ai tends to give preference to summoning spells anyway, so it would cast them quite often I imagine. With players though I think it would quickly become abusive. You could raid provinces with random indy shaman scripted to cast swarmx2.

[SlipperyJim]

Remember Caelum in Dom:PPP? As soon as I researched a little bit of Conjuration, the best tactic was to Cloud Trapeeze a handful of Seraphs scripted to Summon Air Elemental *5. Carrying a Staff of Storms was also a good idea....

Ah, memories. Spamming elementals (especially Air) is a powerful tactic. If you don't need to spend gems, that makes it even more powerful. Maybe I'll try this mod to relive the Glory Days of Caelum.