NI mod - No Indy Poptype Recruits Thread - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

So I used to love playing on NI, or 'no indy', maps on Dominions 3. What these maps did was remove the recruitment of indy troops based on the population type of the province. So you couldn't recruit those wolf tribe you just beat up, you couldn't get access to those lizard shamans and of course neither could the AI.

You could still get indy units and commanders through events and site based recruitment as normal and that actually made the sites which made indy troops all the more interesting. Even finding an Icthyid village became quite a big deal.

Now if you try and make an NI map in dom4 you'll find that not only can you not recruit indies to your army, but you also can't get them in your PD. So you don't get any PD troops until 20+ points - clearly not a good state of affairs.

Fortunately you can just use this mod instead and you'll get the 'NI' experience from dom3 exactly as it was - no poptype based recruits. You can still get PD and it's totally unchanged from vanilla.

This mod is great for single player (makes the AI army composition waaay more thematic and improves their play generally, while making things a bit harder for the human) and it's still a very interesting experience in multiplayer.

Download the Mod from here

The file is called No_Pop_Rec.zip

Edited by: Sombledon

Thank you. I really needed this kind of mod.

You're quite welcome, glad to know someone will get some use out of it.

You may also wish to try the AI Recruitment mod if you are a Single Player and want the AI to recruit some indies, just not all.

Ah, thank you. I prefer NI mod, but my friend probably more prefer this. He needs indies for his own troops.

Thank you very much for these!

My very favorite mod so far. GOOD job.

Just finished a few games with this mod, and all I want to say is THANK YOU!

Wonderful to see enemy AI armies actually using national troops.

Thanks, sounds very usefull.

how to install this??