About this mod Spawn miniature armies of your favorite factions to battle it out for entertainment! Permissions and credits Author's instructions Welp, I worked pretty hard on the spawning script, but it's not too special looking back on it! This is a really simple mod, use whatever youd like. File credits This author has not credited anyone else in this file Donation Points system This mod is not opted-in to receive Donation Points

[THIS MOD IS STILL A BETA]



[UPCOMING PATCH INFORMATION] to whom it may concern :)

- Releasing constant patches for the first few days was fun, but the next one will probably take a few more days as I'll try to clean my mod up a bit.

- Next patch will add at least 3 more factions in total (including another custom one I've been "toying" with)

- The next patch *should* completely balance the toys a bit better so that each small scale battle can be as epic as possible (without certain units taking forever to die)

- Should also include some different and more interesting classes for current sections.

- School's started in earnest now so it may be a few days before I patch again, but it should do a lot more than the previous ones!

- And hopefully two different versions, one where the toys attack every living thing in sight, and one where they behave like followers almost and only attack if the player is attacked or it's an aggressive enemy like bandits. (or maybe even a spell that toggles both styles if i can figure out how to script things better)



[INTRODUCTION]



Recently i stumbled across two toy soldier mods.



Aenaran"s : http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16708/?



and



Colloseusx's : http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12476/?



Both of them were really mods that were just reallly entertaining to mess around with. There something viscerally satisfying about looking over the carnage of a pocket sized epic battle. Sending hordes of cute little miniature imperials/stormcloaks/LOTR based soldiers was just amazingly fun for me. Sadly, both mods have been dead for over a year, but Aenaran had mentioned his intentions to add on expansion factions from Dawnguard and Dragonborn. Since he never added t hem, I decided to try learning how to use the creation kit and papyrus to pick up where he left off. After I got everything sorted it was as fun (for me) as I'd hoped it would be, sending a broader and more varied array of toy soldiers to do battle. Anyways, I'm still messing around with it in my spare time and I'm about 90% done with Imperial and Stormcloak factions. About 40%-60% with a few others that I'm looking forward to trying out. I thought I'd upload it here to see if anyone else was interested! If you find something that's buggy, please let me know, this mods running perfectly (more or less) for me at the moment!









UPDATES:



1/17/2014



-Added Snow Elf faction. All Snow Elf units should be faster than other factions in both attack and movement speed, but have a bit less health.



1/16/2014



- Added custom Ancient Nords faction, based off of what I think Ysgramor's Original 500 companions would have looked like (might be a wee bit overpowerd at the moment)

- Added basic Stormcloak Rebellion faction (spellname: Toys - Stormcloak Rebellion)

- Added basic Imperial Legion faction (spellname: Toys - Imperial Legion)

- ADDED SPELL TOMES AND SPELL TOME CHEST, it's located between Dragonsreach and the statues of Ysgramor. It's position should be either the first or second picture under this file's images



1/15/2014

- Added Riekling Faction (spellname: Toys - Rieklings

- Added House Redoran Faction (spellname: Toys - HouseRedoran <---- or something close to it!)

- I'm pretty sure I fixed the bug with the gargoyles

- Rebalanced all the units so that they fight and die a lot faster and more decisively



[STARTING FEATURES]



- I've fully implemented the dawnguard, vampire, riekling, and house redoran factions

- Each faction (except for the rieklings atm) have 5 to 7 different unit types, ranging from cannon fodder soldiers/creatures to casters to bosses

- Each faction is summoned by a spell that allows you to pick what type and how many of a unit you'd like to spawn



[CURRENT FACTIONS] - list of factions and their units

(Only includes those implemented or close to implementation, non implemented factions will be marked with [WIP])



**************************************************THE IMPERIAL LEGION************************************************************



Conscript (fast melee) Lvl 15

- Dual wields swords

- Above average movement speed

- Light Armor



Auxiliary (shield melee) Lvl 15

- Sword and shield

- Studded imperial armor



Legionnaire (heavy shield melee) Lvl 25



- Sword and shield

- Heavy imperial armor



Fire Mage (caster) Lvl 20



- Incinerate and flames spells

- Wears hooded monk robes at the moment



Archer (light ranged) Lvl 20



- Bow and sword

- Light Armor



Praetorian (shield melee) Lvl 30



- Sword and shield

- Penitus Oculatus armor

- More aggressive and intelligent combat ai



**************************************************THE STORMCLOAK REBELLION*************************************************



Rebel (fast melee) lvl 15

- dual swords

- light armor

- above average movespeed



Soldier (shield melee) lvl 15

- sword and shield

- light armor



Bonebreaker (heavy melee) lvl 25

- 2handed warhammer

- light armor



Ice Mage (caster) lvl 20

- Ice spear, Ice spike, and frostbite spells

- Wears hooded blue mage robes at the moment



Archer (light ranged) lvl 20

- bow and sword

- light armor



Stormblade (fast melee) lvl 30

- dual war axes

- light armor

- above average movespeed

- more aggressive and intelligent combat ai



************************************************************HOUSE REDORAN********************************************************



Fast Melee lvl 15

- dual swords

- light armor

- above average movespeed



Shield Melee lvl 15

- sword and shield

- light armor



Heavy Melee lvl 25

- greatsword

- heavy chitin armor (i might change this to bonemold, its kinda weird with only the Knights having it)



Archer (light ranged) lvl 20

- bow and sword

- light armor



Wizard (caster) lvl 20

- flame and lightning spells

- wears Telvani robes at the moment



Redoran Knight (shield melee) lvl 30

- sword and shield

- bonemold armor



******************************************************THE SMURFS (rieklings)******************************************************



Fast Melee lvl 15

- riekling spear

- above average movespeed



Heavy Melee lvl 25

- riekling spear



Ranged lvl 20

- spear thrower



Charger lvl 30

- riekling spear



Shaman lvl 25 [WIP: casting animations look sooooooooooo weird]

- lightning and ice spells



***********************************************THE DAWNGUARD (Buffy Fan Club)**********************************************



Doggy (creature) lvl 5

- above average movespeed



Troll (creature) lvl 10 [WIP: I DO NOT KNOW WHY but these lazy f***s do not like attacking things at the moment, I'm not sure what's going wrong with their AI]

- is a troll (in so many annoying ways)



Berzorker (fast melee) lvl 15

- dual axes

- above average movespeed

- light armor



Shield Melee lvl 15

- dawnguard war axe and rune shield

- light armor



Heavy Melee lvl 30

- dawnguard warhammer

- heavy armor

- coolest helmet ever



Crossbowman lvl 20 [WIP: Current bug where his feet don't show up]

- crossbow and war axe

- light armor



************************************************THE VAMPIRES (Twilight Fan Club)*********************************************



Undead Doggy (creature) lvl 5

- above average movespeed



Gargoyle (creature) lvl 10

- gargoyle spells

- USED TO BE BUGGY, but is working pretty well at the moment (for me). Plz inform me if that changes



Fast Melee lvl 15

- dual swords

- light armor

- above average movespeed



Spellsword lvl 20

- sword, frostbite, and drain spells

- light armor



Caster lvl 25

- ice spells and sword( i think i gave them swords)

- wears vampire robes at the moment



Lord of Capes lvl 30

- superman impersonator

- Harkon's vampire lord spells

- AI works pretty well at the moment (for me) PLZ INFORM ME IF THAT CHANGES



****************************************YSGRAMOR'S ORIGINAL 500 COMPANIONS*******************************************

The Ancient Nords that first swept the Elves from Skyrim



BASED ON: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ysgramor_(Lore)

Check under the "return" section!



Raider (fast melee) lvl 15

- dual wields one sword and one war axe

- light armor

- above average movespeed



Swordsman (shield melee) lvl 15

- sword and shield

- light armor



Housecarl (shield melee) lvl 20

- mace and shield

- heavy armor



Berzerker (heavy melee) lvl 25

- greatsword

- heavyarmor

- slightly above average movespeed



Companion (new class) lvl 30

- sword, shield, and bow

- heavy armor

- more aggressive and intelligent AI (hopefully!)



Light Archer (light ranged) lvl 20

- bow and sword

- light armor



Orator (new class) lvl 20

- offensive thu'ums and sword

- wears greybeard robes at the moment



Circle Memeber (new class) lvl 30

- sword, shield, one offensive and one defensive thu'um (flame breath and elemental fury)

- heavy armor







[FUTURE PLANS]



- Eventually get around to adding spell tomes for each faction spell in an easy to reach spot [COMPLETED]

- Add Imperial and Stormcloak factions [COMPLETED] with Ulfric and Tullius [WIP]

- Consider adding Thalmor

- Add Falmer and two other custom factions I've been messing with

- Add suggested factions or other weird ones like Bosmer, dremora, companions, akaviri, darkbrotherhood, draugr, skeletons, chaurus (maybe?), etc...

- Add squad leaders that spawn when you make larger amounts of a certain type of unit that are stronger than the common form of that unit

- Give squad leaders capes from "cloaks of skyrim" IF I FIGURE OUT HOW TO ASK HIM! (i think it would look neat)

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12092/?

- Give squad leaders from northern themed factions cloaks from "winter is coming mod"

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/13486/?

- Create Bosmer faction with (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37289/?) because i think Maty's mod looks purdy



[STUFF THAT WILL TAKE A WHILE]



- adding in creature dependent factions like chaurus/giants/dragons because they're buggy and it's been really confusing trying to get the gargoyles and trolls to work right.

[BUGS]

At the moment the gargoyles are reaaaaaally buggy, the dawnguard NPC's dont want to fight them for some reason. Other than that, everything else work pretty well atm! If you find something that's not with the gargoyles, please let me know so i can fix it!



[REQUIREMENTS]



-Dawnguard and Dragonborn, and nothing else. I didn't use SKSE



[COMPATIBILITY]



- Almost everything spawned and all of the items used are stand alone. I think there might be one or two of the creature spawns that still have ties to original game files. If you use mods that affect creature stats or mess with the combat AI, the soldiers from my mod might act a little weird, but it should definitely not be crashing you to desktop or anything even remotely that serious. Please tell me if it does! Personally, I'd recommend you download 2 mods to help.



Skytweak : http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33395/?

- an extremely compatible mod that you can use to set all NPC's "chance to avoid damage" which is code for "chance for 20 melee toy soldiers to run away from 3 ranged soldiers instead of fighting charging them like men" to 0, as well as a few other tweaks you might find useful in general.



Enemy AI Overhaul: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40491/?

- pretty neat AI buff for NPCs, I like this mod way better than ASIS or the bigger combat mods like duel and deadly combat. It should also help smooth out the Toys' AI



[USING THE MOD IN GAME]



- currently I haven't added spell tomes to learn the spells I've created since I just got them working - well. The only way to get the spells at the moment is through the console.



- ALL SPELLS FOLLOW THE NOMENCLATURE "Toys - (faction the spell spawns)," just like Aenaran's mod did



- type the command "help toys 4" and add the spells titled "Toys - Dawnguard" and "Toys - Vampires." the other spells that pop up probably wont work since they were the ones I used to test the spawning script. Just cast the corresponding spell for the faction you'd like to spawn and follow the directions!



[INSTALLATION]



- im pretty sure it's compatible with NMM now



- for manual, just drop the extracted files into your data folder