Perhaps I'm being daft since I'm pretty new to Elemental modding (but not modding in general), but the unit definitions for Unit_Archer_Trog and Unit_Archer_Trog_AI don't actually exist in CoreUnits.xml and the debug log says as much, so how could anyone actually use them?

Played your mod last night..... I spent about 3 hours stuggling with crashes with my custom faction at about the 60 turn mark. This sucked so I took a break for a while.

Then (and I dont know why I didnt see this to start with) I noticed you had changed the start weapons for the default leaders. So I gave up my custom avatar, deleted my saved factions/units/leaders from the directory and started with your default guys.

I got 184 turns with the Wraiths before I got another crash. Not bad... I unforunately forgot I disabled autosave (due to the earlier crashes)

Overall, I love the mod. Its a good way to play. I started with 5 civs and lost 2 within 50 turns, one at turn 10. The sov feels suitably strong when levelled and the world generally hates me. The world tryig to kill me is much more fun now. In vanilla I can sweep most of my immediate area of all mobs easily. Now I run into 5 unit stacks of darklings. its wonderful. Makes complete sense.  

Just a couple of questions/suggestions though:

• Can you make the faction weapons available for custom avatars. Im talking the Trog Battleaxe, Altair Longsword, etc etc,
• You removed Golems/Juggs from the Ironeers and Trog racial trait... any particular reason or is it a balance issue?
• The "Cult of Hundred Eyes" is pretty weak. Could you add spider mounts (or some other totem/equipment) that has the web ability? This would add another dimension to the Roslen/Wraith faction and make CoHE stronger.
• Add overpower to Iron Golems... Makes sense really.

In closing.... your mod is awesome-sauce....

BT

If I'm seeing things right, near as I can tell once the Nightswatch is up the only way that monsters will attack it is if they happen to path onto it through their normal wandering movement.  They don't actively try to attack it, it just happens to be in the way.

Think I'm going to mess around a bit more early game to try to get a better feel for things.

Restarted with the world on beginner, wildlands and monsters on sparse, but the AI on normal.  So far it is much more manageable, even too easy! Excellent!  Now I know which settings to tweak.

Awesome mod!

Archsummoner makes the early mites and syndicates really easy to take down - you only need your sovereign and your shadow warg.  Killing those Syndicates will likely eventually get you Letters of Mark, so you end up filling up the rest of your force with lvl 9 mercs.  I keep restarting early game to try out different strategies - so far I've actually started farming those early syndicate/mite spawns for XP, going in, clearing most of the units out, then letting them respawn, then repeating the process.  Basically, I keep doing that until I get high enough to start summoning elementals.  I made the mistake of clearing them out too quickly in that first game, which left me with only Obsidian Golems, Wildling Riders, Knights of Asok (those guys really do like to crusade around, don't they?  I had a situation where I wanted to get back to my capital and couldn't - they kept blocking me off!), a Slag, and some other various stuff I would've needed a pretty decent overhaul to pull off.  Archsummoner is really kind of hurt right now for early level summons (which I assume is why you made the Shadow Warg so very powerful).  Goetia will probably help with that if you get it added in later on.

I do think I'm going to need to consistently try to get that first city set up as a Conclave if I'm going to be serious about running a mage early on - due to the nature of the mod, placing down new settlements and outposts is a dangerous proposition unless you can really clear out the area - which I actually really like, I must note.  It really feels like you are actually having to 'conquer' areas before you can safely settle them.  You can somewhat cheat that if you have a lot of gold by rushing a Nightswatch, but we all saw how that ended up - it's not a guarantee that it'll be safe.  An early Conclave helps me get the research going, in addition to feeding me extra mana (which I need if my summons die).

Archsummoner, so long as the Warg doesn't go down, just eats those early spawns.  If I take Path of the Cleric, any time I need to heal the warg, I go into a tactical battle, heal it, then autoresolve.  That said, anything bigger than those early spawns I have to avoid until I can start summoning elementals, or get some stuff from Binding.  Currently my Archsummoner is running around with an Earth Elemental, a Shadow Warg, and two Burning Wraiths (one Young).  That group's strong enough to hammer -most- of the smaller groups, but anything like a Wildling Rider group, Knights of Asok, ect. are still too big for me.

Currently running fairly well through an Archsummoner go - currently season 76 with 3 cities, at top of FP with Resoln (me) at 82 compared to Kraxis at 68 and Magnar at 64... but then again, I have yet to meet any further factions than that, so it's fully possible that there are guys bigger than that.

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Edit: And there's Pariden, at 119.

Lady Irane reminds me of Sinead O'Connor.

1.0.005 us up. Changelog updated. 

Overall this one shores up some weaker monster designs. Binding power has increased alot. It seemed powerful enough already, but for 2 faction customization points, it should off you a much larger army. The last update pushed things too far away from your starting position. I updated the starting spawns to be weak, but grow in power sooner. You will want to crush them quickly. I don't want to give too much away, but mites have often been know to attract larger beasts. These beasts may eat all the mites and inhabit their lair.

Sheesh.  On one hand, Burning Wraiths are definitely useful for clearing out Troll camps, but those suckers are tough to get rid of.  I had close to 1000 mana, spent it all fighting my way through some 5 spawns of trolls/troll warriors before I could finally take out the camp.

In other news, Pariden has destroyed Kraxis.  Tarth is actually well behind me in score.  Magnar is currently buffering between me and Pariden, and seems to be holding up thus far, so not terribly worried about that front.  Just south of me is a nightmare of Darkling spawns, and I'm not even trying to get through there and instead am expanding north and east (which is why I had to take out that troll camp - was sitting right in the middle of a narrow pass to next area and a place where I could stick an advance settlement.

Will move onto new version with next game... might try a beastlord for the heck of it.  Still running this Archsummoner though.

Trolls are easy to kill once you know how. Magnar has a huge advantage against them. 

Did you start near a wildlands? I tell you what, being next to Curgen's Tomb gave me a heart attack that lasted about 30 turns in my current game. I don't even want to update to a new version until I have time to see the game through to the end.

ahh you changed sweep. Now my Warlords will need help intead of cleaning the whole area solo with just a war staff.

I like the changes.