VC Balance Mod features hundreds of gameplay and balance improvements, including tournaments varied by faction, 2-handed dane axes and throwing axes, more elite AI armies, realistic travel speeds based on map scale, increased Norse sailing advantage, AI lords stats based on history and literature, balanced troop and item stats, strengthened Laithland, added lord families, random bandit armies, and much more. All changes documented, so you can know exactly what you are installing.
This will replace Philippe at Bay's Dark Age village names with Vanilla VC village names. Has no effect on current saves, village names are set at world generation.
I love the new village names from Philippe at Bay, but they do have the downside of losing the directional information present in the default names (ie, always letting you know which town or castle the village is near from the name), so if you prefer to have that available, install this file.
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