Quick description

I had noticed long ago, back when I was hyped on the impending Skyrim release, that there weren't any war mods for Morrowind. I sought to remedy that without interfering with the vanilla game and lore. So I made this mod dubbed Castle Wars. It has you taking an ancient dwemer train to a place known as the Isle of War. A place far off the mainland supposedly created for the entertainment and worship of daedra. This isle is locked in never ending war and if you should travel here, you may take part and seek the the daedra's rewards. It takes aspects of rts and other games to create a unique and involving experience.

this is the latest unreleased beta for testing

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17301683/CastleWarsRevamp%20BETA.7z <- main archive

Password: mojito

always latest esp -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/exffh7z1p8a611q/CastleWarsRevamp.ESP <- for use with archive above

Survival mode

-Over 32 unique units

-Dynamic levelling for a challenge to all levels

-Dynamically spawns enemies for epic battles

-5 phases w/ hex edited menus for streamlined viewing

Upkeep phase - shows you current round, wave, and estimates expected opposition; it then give you the option to continue or retire

Reinforcement/Deployment phase - lasts a certain amount of time depending on your wave number; use this to set up your unit in strategic locations like the courtyard or archers/mages on the castle walls, set up flanks etc

Battle phase - let the battle begin and control troops like never before with real time orders; by default troops hold ground (for archers on walls, flanking parties etc), strategy is now crucial

End phase - get your spoils and you now receive a total score that calculate how many reward tickets you receive at the end; unit are persistent and are reset to their original position at the end of each round

-Advisor & Castle Interior/Ship Deck

gives you scout report and recommends how many troops you should have minimum (less ambiguity) located, along with recruiter and smith, in castle pseudo interior; accessible during reinforcement phase

-Unit Overview & Heroes

during reinforcement phase, each unit can report individual xp total, xp until hero, health, etc and be disbanded. A unit with enough xp gained via surviving battles (algorithms based on allycount vs killcount) will eventually become a hero, a more powerful varition

Conquest Mode - WIP

-Conquer territories across 4 islands (so far)

-Collect resources and take part in quests to further the war effort

-Use resources to obtain units, research tech, and construct buildings and fleets

-Fend off starvation should your empire grow too large too fast

-Locations can come under siege

-Defend, Attack, etc

• Bad pathgrids in Damp Cave main cell fixed - now npcs/monsters should walk around properly

• corrupted Leveled List for random enemy equipment (Heavy Boots) was not containing high level heavy boots but added another heavy cuirass to npc instead

• misplaced door/doorjam/lights at Tower in Grand Tree Village repositioned

• misplaced dwemer door (wrong rotation angle) near Fort Cragmoor now shows up properly

• various inaccessible doors could be activated (clicked on) but did not respond to player. Now they do.

• fixed minor bugs in the warlog journal text

• collision "hole" on western island allowed player to step/jump into the ocean

• ugly crashbug in fal_cw_main script caused by pointing to wrong musicfile name (old)

• ambushes now occour slighty less often (Chance reduced by 20%, checks&spawns once per turn)

• units could be transfered from one campaign to another through storing them in a container before leaving and restarting Castle Wars. This exploit will no longer work.
• Units can now only be used in the campaign they were obtained.

• A "City Attack" could be initiated on your home fortress within the first turn. Now within the first five turns random sieges are suspended.

• containers in Fort Stormreach, the Assarrimisun Camp and Fort Northgate had ownership markers attached - since you're supposed to be a warlord and stealing is pointless during a Castle Wars conquest, all ownership markers were removed.

• the old playerstats checkup routines and all related stuff from pre CW 2.5 Versions deleted (this alone renders 1 background script and 18 globals useless !!)

• Levitation Blocking within Castle Wars is now handled differently. You can use items such as potions or spells to initiate levitation, yet the effect is instantly removed! Now it will no longer interfere with other Mods enabling and disabling levitation.

• Imperfect-type Titans were too weak compared to standard mobs on higher player levels plus they didn't attack unless being attacked first. Frost Giant Titans were that weak as well, yet at least they attacked. This was caused by a fixed health/strength/fatigue setting and a non-attacking AI. Now both titan types will be adjusted according cw difficulty and they are very hostile. Prepare for something serious!

• Now you need the same number of turns with normal food supply your people suffered starvation to put that counter back to zero. So after been in starvation for three time (= 6 turns) you will need another six turns of normal food supply to get the counter back to zero.

• To add more to the list, it was possible to kill the shipmasters. Altogether pretty buggy so I re-did all the scripting for ship assaults and now they work similar to the technique I already used for city battles and sieges. So a common control script (being started by all shipmasters) will handle the ship travels and ensure that everything works as intended and the shipmaster now gets resurrected if killed. And the time setting bug was fixed... phew.

• Random Doors Cell Change Exploit - you could leave and reenter a cell to reset all the random doors to gain more food. Very profitable in cells with plenty doors within a small area like Winterhollow or the start fortress. Now you must leave the cell and come back during a new turn to make those doors respawn.

• Furthermore all allies suffered great health losses when playing on the high difficulties - as this renders them nearly useless (an enemy would need two hits to kill them while they need 50 hits to kill an enemy) I decided to rebalance this in order to make allies more durable.

• Fixed broken CoolDown for Clerics/Healers

• Interaction with various Castle Wars npc (e.g. City Managers, Questgiver and End Game) was possible even when not in game mode. This has been fixed. This also applies to random doors

• Game Resource Transfer Exploit fixed - you could have transferred resources from one campaign to a new one by storing the misc items in a container before ending the current run and starting a new one. Afterwards it was possible to pick them up to have an easy start. As there are portable containers or companions, that could be used for this, it wouldn't have been sufficient to remove accessible containers from the Castle Wars islands. After all, the best way was that resource "items" were removed from game. As a consequence quantities will be handled through a controller npc and you can only see the amount by opening the castle wars map (scroll), that will tell you various other stats.