Hang on to your hats and/or monocles: it’s the biggest new feature you’ve seen in For the Glory!
Are you tired of seeing a single random revolt topple a one-province minor, while the Dutch revolts are crushed with ease? Sick of seeing Suleiman struggle among war-exhausted webels?
The FTG April beta introduces rebel factions at long last. Common peasant revolts are now much easier to crush, while nationalists might spawn with their own leaders (note to self: add leaders to nationalists).
This beta patch includes nine rebel factions:
Yep!
Oh, you might have noticed something else different in those screenshots.
That's right, classic shields are back! If you have a strong prescription in your nostalgia goggles, you might have fond memories of EU2's gold-rimmed shields. Well, wander wistfully no more. Huge thanks to Ayeshteni for filling in the gaps with classic-style shields for new FTG countries.
And one last tiny tidbit: AGCEEP has been fully updated to work with the latest features and is fully supported once again, thanks to mandead!
Modders’ Corner
Rebel factions have a number of special modding abilities, which mostly haven’t been used to their potential in this early beta. Factions may be forbidden from defecting, or from declaring independence, or from overthrowing the government. They may trigger special events when they capture a province, or an even more special event on capturing a capital. They can be limited to appear in any country which fulfills a certain set of criteria (an event trigger which operates on the parent country). Their technology and morale can be modified easily. They can be set to one of the six hardcoded types, which have different engine logic for spawn conditions and movement. And each faction carries a weight which the game uses in a weighted probability to decide which faction will spawn when there is a revolt. Of course, modders can also spawn specific rebels with the revolt command, which has been extended with an optional value = TAG:
Existing events which use colonialrevolt or religiousrevolt will automatically choose a colonial or religious rebel faction, respectively, if available. If not, REB will spawn as previously.
Full changelog since January's beta:
Download the patch here and extract it onto either a clean 1.2 installation or the previous beta patch.
Post feedback in this thread.
Are you tired of seeing a single random revolt topple a one-province minor, while the Dutch revolts are crushed with ease? Sick of seeing Suleiman struggle among war-exhausted webels?
The FTG April beta introduces rebel factions at long last. Common peasant revolts are now much easier to crush, while nationalists might spawn with their own leaders (note to self: add leaders to nationalists).
This beta patch includes nine rebel factions:
- Peasant rebels are the most common and the easiest to defeat. Their tech is generally lower and their morale is 80% of the parent country’s. They won’t spawn in a country whose domestic policy leans strongly toward free subjects.
- Aristocrat rebels are similar to peasants in that they can occur in almost any province. Their tech is higher than peasants’, and they have no morale penalty. Their armies include more cavalry. They will not spawn in countries which are more plutocratic than aristocratic.
- Religious rebels can only rise in provinces which do not share the state religion. Once they have taken a province, they will attempt to take other provinces of that religion also, or else march on the capital. Religious rebels won’t appear in a country that is extremely innovative.
- Cultural rebels can appear in provinces whose culture is not accepted by the owning country. They are somewhat less common than religious rebels, but share most of their characteristics otherwise.
- Colonial rebels may appear in overseas provinces after the year 1600. They can attack any overseas province, but will not attack native nations.
- Nationalist rebels are likely the toughest to deal with. They may appear starting in the year 1700 except in very decentralized countries. They might have better technology and morale than the parent country. Once they have taken a province, they will either attempt to liberate any other provinces that are either cores of the same possible revolting country, or try to liberate any neighboring province that has nationalism.
- Pirate raiders may land on any Caribbean province unless the owner has strong naval policy. They may spawn even if there is not a major pirate fleet in an adjoining sea zone. They will use the pirate “Jolly Roger” as their emblem.
- Dutch nationalists are a special group of nationalist rebels that may appear in the Low Countries after the year 1550, rebelling against any owner that does not have Dutch culture. They may appear even if the Netherlands has already formed. Unlike most rebels, Dutch nationalists have the ability to keep their armies intact after losing a battle. They use Dutch colors to represent themselves.
- American nationalists are a special type of colonial rebels. They may appear in America after the year 1750, but only if an English country has colonized the area. They also have the ability to lose a battle without disbanding. Their emblem is the American stars and stripes.
Yep!
Oh, you might have noticed something else different in those screenshots.
That's right, classic shields are back! If you have a strong prescription in your nostalgia goggles, you might have fond memories of EU2's gold-rimmed shields. Well, wander wistfully no more. Huge thanks to Ayeshteni for filling in the gaps with classic-style shields for new FTG countries.
And one last tiny tidbit: AGCEEP has been fully updated to work with the latest features and is fully supported once again, thanks to mandead!
Modders’ Corner
Rebel factions have a number of special modding abilities, which mostly haven’t been used to their potential in this early beta. Factions may be forbidden from defecting, or from declaring independence, or from overthrowing the government. They may trigger special events when they capture a province, or an even more special event on capturing a capital. They can be limited to appear in any country which fulfills a certain set of criteria (an event trigger which operates on the parent country). Their technology and morale can be modified easily. They can be set to one of the six hardcoded types, which have different engine logic for spawn conditions and movement. And each faction carries a weight which the game uses in a weighted probability to decide which faction will spawn when there is a revolt. Of course, modders can also spawn specific rebels with the revolt command, which has been extended with an optional value = TAG:
Code:
command = { type = revolt which = 339 value = NDR } # Dutch revoltersFull changelog since January's beta:
Download the patch here and extract it onto either a clean 1.2 installation or the previous beta patch.
Post feedback in this thread.
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