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Slaughter in the Sands - A Battle Overhaul (Work in progress)

While not as bad a game as many would say, Total War Pharaoh's battles unfortunately suffer from the majority of the issues found in the games since and including Rome 2. An otherwise decent campaign has been massively diminished by the lacklustre, shallow battles with no magic or spectacle like in Warhammer to compensate.

I have decided to work on an overhaul mod in an attempt to fix as much as possible. This is a very early version and there may be some balance issues or general oddities. There are also some features and fixes I'd like to implement that I either, for now, haven't got round to or worked out how to do yet.



The most pressing issue of modern total war by far is the asinine HP system that CA are so obstinately continuing to keep in the games. The 'main attraction' of this mod, I suppose you could say, is a near complete removal of HP. All HP has been set to 10 and all base melee damage has been set to 10 as well with 0-10 armour piercing damage. Chariots also have 10 HP but each horse also has 2 HP therefore making them effectively have 14 HP which is covered by the anti-cavalry damage of spears. Missiles all have 14 damage with varying AP. This does make missiles insanely overpowered so I have lowered their accuracy across the board with lower tier units having worse accuracy than their higher tier counterparts. The accuracy bonus from experience has also been lowered for balancing purposes.

This isn't perfect but it's certainly better than vanilla. Feedback here would be especially appreciated.


Morale has been tweaked quite a bit and is the area of this mod that will need the most refining. Flanking and rear charges have a much more significant effect on morale as would be realistic. Killing the general has a much larger effect on morale as does routing friends. This means that chain routs are much more common.

• The effects of weather and terrain are massively increased to offer more tactical opportunities and punishment.
  
• Attack halved and defence doubled to increase the length of battles.
  
• Combat animations are now almost always matched. (credit to Hecleas from whom I have taken many of the changes. The link to their original mod is linked at the bottom of the description)
  
• Removed most of the annoying kicking combat animations, (credit to Ismar who made the mod I took parts of to make this change. The link also at the bottom of the description)
  
• Shogun 2 unit spacing with more variation to create an organic feeling unit of individuals.
  
• Edited model width and length as well as making them a capsule shape to made charge impacts more like Medieval 2.
  
• Missile trajectories set to 'low' This means we are now as close to direct fire as I believe possible
  
• Fire now does a lot more damage making it the deadly weapon we were promised.
  
• No more difficulty modifiers in battles. They don't make the battle more challenging but instead just more annoying.

This is a list of the things I wish to change but have either not got round to or not found a way to implement as of now.

• Remove the annoying 'zzz' icon that appears over the unit cards of idle units. (So far replacing the file with a transparent square creates an even more annoying translucent white box)
  
• Add in some more combat animations from Rome 2/Attila.
  
• Add a height advantage for missile units that affects their range.
  
• Melee height advantage that affects something other than damage

Please leave your feedback in the comments as it really helps me know what to work on. I hope you enjoy!


Thanks to Hecleas who made the mod I got the matched combat changes from: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3050629933&searchtext=

Thanks to Ismar who made the mod removing kick animations: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093963922&searchtext=

Here are some other battle mods I really recommend to go alongside my own:

• Two mods to fix chariots: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088262770&searchtext=chariot+hotfix and https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3072143901&searchtext=chariot+hotfix
  
• Better camera: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3049189727&searchtext=
  
• Better 2D unit card highlighting: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3070092763&searchtext=
  
• Cleaner armour textures: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3049233617&searchtext=cleaner