[MODULE] JotnarL - Reworking of the Jotnar Giant Civ

• Mother Enningas is the only leader I've included so far, mainly as I didn't have the art for any others. I was going to look more closely at the leader characteristics when I had the artwork.
• The spawn mechanic is gone. Units are buildable and the number of more powerful units is linked to the population through the citizens.
• I've actually kept the Jotnar combat units as being able to build improvements. The way I justified this in my head was that because the giants were so few, they don't have the same luxury of being able to dedicate as much of their population to single tasks. Each giant must be prepared to lend a hand in whatever work needs to be done. My worry with this is whether the AI will use the same unit as a worker and then also as a combat unit at the appropriate times.
• On the art front, I actually use a few artstyles for the Jotnar units. The basic artstyle is giants and then there are artstyles for the other two races; trolls and Runts. I still need more artwork for the troll units. The races make a big difference to the unit capabilities so I think that the different artstyles will help make it easier to quickly understand what their units strengths/weaknesses are. I also hope to create a wading artstyle to represent the giants when they're in coastal waters - that one is more just cause I think it will look nice rather than serving any other purpose.
• Packmaster is gone. I didn't see a reason for it.
• The module doesn't use the kin promotions. Fire Giants are the Berserker unit and mammoth riding Frost Giants replace War Chariots. The fire giants can only be built in a city near a volcano and the frost giants can only be built near glaciers/tundra.
• I haven't given them terrain bonuses.
• At the moment the base proportion of trolls to giants for recon units (before all the modifiers) is 1:3 and it's the opposite for other combat types. I could tweak that to give more trolls generally. As it is, a player who wants lots of trolls can build the Wild Moot wonder.
• I've gone back to equating the Jotnar units with equivalent units in other races. I think all of those new classes might have been added in previous versions of the module so that number limits could have been included for the units.
• I hadn't considered that the Jotnar improvement building rate would be much lower than other races. It does fit with the smaller population growth though so I don't think I'll change it unless people find that it's a major issue. Slavery would provide one possible solution for those who find the lack of workers limiting (these won't effect race calculations in next version).
• Thralls are gone. The citizens themselves provide some early city defence.
• The Jotnar can still walk over mountains but the giants can also walk in coastal waters.
• I've tried to emphasise a Nordic feel more, using Norwegian translations to name units, e.g. Utemmet, Kriger, Munne and Stemme. I was considering going further with this and specifically removing the names that had Greek origins.
• Opera's egg idea is interesting but wouldn't fit with my vision of their lore as it would stop them inter breeding with other races.
• Events tied into relative race population would fit in the module but those kind of events are something I'd only do after everything else is pretty sorted.
• Runts fill a similar role in my Jotnar society to that of the goblins in Opera's vision. I just also see a lot if them being murdered at birth though.
• As it stands the tier 1 to 3 living units can be of any of the 3 races (except only Runts can ride horses) The tier 4 melee units; fire giants, frost giants and Vanir are all Giantkin.
• I haven't changed their flavours yet. Peaks are an obvious flavour choice though.
• I haven't changed the palace's starting mana. I'm open to suggestions but given that giants were forged as weapons of war, Chaos is going to be one of them.
• The city radius is the standard 2 in the module. They have a wonder, for which I still don't have a decent name that will allow them to expand to a radius 3 city. I may link that to the Taxation tech as a bigger Jotnar city is more about having the legal structures to help bind the society together than sanitation issues.
• As I'm not using the kin promos, that unique religious building idea won't come into it. Maybe I could include a building where an attempt is made to bring forth the giant/troll heritage of a runt. Either runt dies or changes race. As one of the world spells converts Runts to Giants/Trolls, I'll leave that on the long finger for now.
• I'm keeping the disciple units who can serve any religion. The Munne (priests) and Stemme (high-priests) are effectively stunned for a couple of turns when the state religion changes though.

Lplate said:

My worry with this is whether the AI will use the same unit as a worker and then also as a combat unit at the appropriate times.

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Tholal said:

They most definitely will not.

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• the addition of a load of Jotnar events, emphasising race issues.
• addition of Stemme Lika as a new Jotnar leader. As a tolerant egaliatarian, he's probably the nicest leader in Erebus. He's there to make a non Giant/Troll focus more viable and balance the other leaders a bit.
• Melting Pot civic now gives a chance of getting other races instead of Runts.
• Pure Blood Lines trait gives a great person emergence penalty.