[Sub-Mod] AGOT Maester Warrior Tutelage

Great! I was the one who suggested it, will try it right away! Thanks ^^

It’s working for regular maesters, not for archmaesters though.


I’m running more bloodlines, additional COAs, bye Far East, better faces, and trade routes.

Edit: There's a pair of  () that should be {} in the code, but idk if that's fixing anything. 

it works! thank you!

Incorporating Maester links into child education would indeed be interesting. The thing is though, Maester education is more on on the mental side of things and not physical. So the education a child would usually receive from a Maester would be things such as, as you've pointed out, healing, alchemy, stewardship, battle tactics/strategy, etc. There are instances of Maesters having combat training themselves, but this training usually came from before they joined the Citadel.

For personal combat training, a noble child would usually have a separate tutor. By giving Maesters fighter traits, I essentially rolled two separate tutors into one. I know the Marshal has the train children job, but to me, my experience in using it has been underwhelming and not worth wasting time on. It's just not effective enough. The AI also rarely, if ever, uses that job with their Marshals.

I think normally the Marshal would be the one to train children while also training soldiers and organizing the army at the same time. How it's currently set up in game doesn't simulate that very well. Perhaps I'll look into seeing if I'm able to buff up its effectiveness and combining a couple jobs into one while also trying to get the AI to actually use the job. As I don't spend a lot of time on it, my modding skills are limited though. I usually just do a few tweaks here and there. For now, I just made this submod as a simple, temporary band-aid as a solution for children to effectively be trained in personal combat since Maesters in Westeros are the default tutors.

All right, I have moved the child training events to all other Marshal jobs. Aside from that so far, I haven't done any further changes. Before I make a new submod thread or any further changes, I would like some input on how they affect the game so far and would appreciate any testing done, especially how it would affect things in the long haul. Also, please do the testing without using this submod active along with it, otherwise the results from the changes would be skewed.

Download: Marshal Matters

Yeah, I just wanted to see if train children job action was as bad as I remember before I made any further changes. I played a game through many years and I could only count the number of times the marshal training children events fired on one hand. To start I may decrease the overall mean time to happen for the good event and increase it for the bad event to occur. If that ends up not being enough, I'll then look into either changing trait modifiers or see if I can have it affected only by the Marshal's martial stat. The latter may be more beneficial for the AI since it tends to make some head-scratching decisions sometimes in terms of council appointments.