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Better AI Army Builder

🛡️ Better AI Army Builder – by Katsuko
Smarter Recruitment • Stronger Armies • More Threatening AI

🎥 AI Army Preview – Post-Overhaul Recruitment:
https://youtu.be/cJBmv1nJmog

❗ Actively Developed

This mod is under active development and focuses on improving how the AI recruits and composes its armies in Total War: Warhammer III.
With each update, AI armies become more coherent, more thematic, and significantly more dangerous – heavily shaped by player feedback.

💾 Save-Game Compatible

Fully compatible with ongoing campaigns – no restart required.

🔧 High Compatibility

This mod does not alter:

•unit stats
•animations
•visuals
•campaign scripts

It should work smoothly alongside large overhauls and most other mods, as it focuses purely on recruitment and composition logic.

🔍 Core Changes

This mod comprehensively reworks the AI’s recruitment and army-building logic, improving:

✔️ unit prioritisation
✔️ role values (frontline, flanking, artillery, monsters, heroes)
✔️ template selection logic
✔️ faction-themed and lore-appropriate compositions
✔️ tier progression (faster access to stronger units)
✔️ synergy and internal cohesion within each army

The goal is to make AI stacks look and play closer to what you would expect from a competent human player – without cheating stats.

🏛️ AI Building Priorities

In addition to recruitment logic, AI building priorities are being refined, as they directly affect recruitment quality.

If you see the AI:

overbuilding strange or pointless structures

neglecting key military or economic buildings

please report it in the comments. This kind of feedback is extremely valuable for fine-tuning the system.

🏹 Factions Already Showing Major Improvements

🧛 Vampire Counts / Vampire Coast
• Reduced zombie/skeleton spam
• Increased use of elite infantry, monsters, and lord-based synergies

🏇 Bretonnia
• Armies resemble true knightly hosts rather than peasant swarms
• Smarter and more impactful use of cavalry

🏜️ Tomb Kings
• More constructs, chariots, and elite units
• Fewer empty slots and far less chaff spam

☠️ Warriors of Chaos / Daemons of Chaos
• Strong, thematic, lore-consistent stacks
• Far less random unit mixing

⚒️ Dwarfs
• More grounded early game (fewer turn-20 doomstacks)
• Recruitment better aligned with economy and tech progression

🔥 Chaos Dwarfs
• Smarter use of K’daai, artillery, and elite Infernal units
• Fewer stacks filled with orc labourers

🐗 Beastmen
• More aggressive, beast-focused armies
• Better use of Minotaurs, Bestigors, and monsters

⚔️ Empire
• Classic Imperial structure: halberds, handgunners, artillery, cavalry
• More logical mid- and late-game compositions

❌ Why This Mod Exists

Vanilla AI frequently:

✖️ spams low-tier units
✖️ fields incoherent, unfocused armies
✖️ recruits units that don’t fit faction identity
✖️ brings weak stacks into the late game

Better AI Army Builder directly addresses these issues by restructuring how the AI evaluates, selects, and combines units.

🧠 Roadmap

• This is an ongoing project. The long-term goal is for every faction to feature:
• near-optimal recruitment logic
• thematic and mechanically sound army builds
• AI that remains a satisfying opponent throughout the entire campaign

You can expect:

👉 continuous improvements
👉 smarter templates and more nuanced logic
👉 faction-by-faction refinements and polishing

⚖️ Why Use This Mod?

✔️ more challenging and engaging campaigns
✔️ stronger, faction-appropriate AI armies
✔️ better balance without artificial stat buffs
✔️ greater army diversity
✔️ clearer battlefield roles for units in AI hands

🛠️ Feedback-Driven

If you notice:

• odd AI stacks
• strange building choices
• unusual recruitment behaviour

please leave a comment. Concrete examples (faction, turn, composition) are especially helpful.
Your reports directly influence future updates and help push the system closer to its intended design.

📣 Follow & Support

🎥 YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TenKatsuko

☕ Support My Work:
https://ko-fi.com/tenkatsuko

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Any form of support helps me update and refine these mods faster – thank you! ❤️