DESCRIPTION
Overview
A collection of Shadow Tomes inspired by the Rogue class from AoW3, themed around in flanking, deception, debuffs and shadow magic. In addition to paying homage to a classic AoW archetype I also wanted to enable a Shadow Affinity playstyle that is independent from necromancy and ice magic.
This mod is a work in progress. This release covers 3/5 of the Tomes planned for this mod, focusing first on the earlygame with tier 1 and tier 2 Tomes. The remaining half of the mod will cover mid- and late-game content with tier 3 and tier 4 Tomes.
Features
- Tome of Vice - tier 1 - Corrupt your population with the lure of vice. Sacrifice City Stability for more Gold income and specialize your armies in flanking tactics. Features the Brigand unit(s).
- Tome of Murder - tier 2 - Strike from the shadows and rule by fear. Specialize in effects that trigger when an enemy unit dies. Features the Assassin unit.
- Tome of Dark Desires - tier 2 - Specialize in manipulating your enemies with disruptive status effects, and exploit your Servile minions and vassals. Features the Succubus unit.
CHANGELOG
v8 - Released 2023-08-18
Added new standard affinity requirements
v7 - Released 2023-07-31
Added the a new tier 3 tome; the Tome of Shades. -- Tome of Murder and Tome of Dark Desire have been merged into the new Tome of Whispers. -- The following former Tome of Murder and Dark Desire skills have been removed because they did not fit in the new tome: Mortal Blades, Reign of Terror, Spectral Seeker, Alluring Phantasm and Vicious Slayer. -- Replaced the various Brigand units with the Cutthroat, a skirmisher unit that deals more damage with its first melee attack each battle and can inflict bleed with ranged attacks. -- Courtesan Agents is now a World Spell which increases relations with all free cities by +200 and costs 30 gold to maintain. -- Reduced the number of targets affected by the Dissonant Whispers spell to 3. -- The Tome of Vice now also unlocks a unique guild type; the Thieves' Guild. -- The Phantom Dash spell buff no longer grants the unit the Shadow and Ethereal property. It now gives the unit Pass Through, Slippery and Elusive instead. -- The Assassin's Defense Mode: Fade to Shadow ability no longer grants the unit the Shadow and Ethereal property, and no longer disables retaliation attacks.
v6 - Released 2023-06-29
-- The Siphon Strength ability granted by Thralls of Desire is no longer tagged as a Support Ability. -- Brigands can once again Evolve into Assassins. (Was broken by Dragon Dawn update)
v5 - Released 2023-06-23
Fixed Iron Grip not granting the income bonus for positive stability levels for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Dark Culture cities.
v4 - Released 2023-06-21
Black Market now also grants +5 Draft per Alignment level above neutral.
v3 - Released 2023-06-20
Updated unit modularity to accomodate Lizardfolk forms. Mind Whip (Succubus ability) can no longer target heroes. Servile upkeep reduction changed to -25%.
v2 - Released 2023-06-18
Added tome art. Fixed compatibility issues with Anya's Arcanum mod. Made several balance adjustments: Arcana Scavengers - Removed. Phantom Dash - Now restores the unit's action points up to 50% (down from 100%). This results in the unit being reset to 2 action points, allowing two uses of a repeating action or one move followed by a single action. Crime Lord - Now grants +25 gold income (down from +30). Mortal Blades - Now causes up to 3 enemies within 2 hexes to have base 60% chance to become Weakened on kill (was previously all units within 2 hexes). Conjure Alluring Phantasm - Summon duration is now 4 turns (down from 5). Cult of Pleasure - Now grants +2 mana per adjacent Farm or Forester (down from +3), and 20% of Mana income as City Stability (down from 25%). Courtesan Agents - Now grants +400 Free City Relations (down from +600).
REQUIREMENTS
Age Of Wonders 4
Full game
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