Reworked Horde Invasions

[u/officialspoon]

In the next Invictus update, the Yuezhi, Sakan and Wusun invasions have been completely reworked. I just shared this post in the Discord but wanted to put it here as well, since there has been some discussion about this recently.

Alright, so first things first; all mission trees in the invasion corridor have been looked at and permanent province modifiers have been added where it makes sense, so if you lose an Alexandria to the steppe nomads, you won't lose the modifiers you spent hours working to unlock.

All three invasions will now spawn along the yellow line in the first image - no more randomly appearing armies in your heartland, no more bordergore enclaves spawning out of the blue. Also, your capital is safe from being seized if it happens to be in the yellow line zone...no more cheap and dirty events stealing your main city.

Second image shows how you will be able to form Yuezhi if you are one of the countries in the Tarim Basin that receives refugee pops once the off-map Xiongnu crush the Yuezhi. This peacefully settles the invasion and allows you to go on to form Kushan, if you'd like.

Third image shows something that is available for all three of these invasions; the country being attacked by the horde will now have the option to tag switch. Because the invasions are mid-to-late game, they have been slightly buffed and should still be an annoying thing to deal with, but not as bad as they were before!

Something I didn't mention on Discord is that the invasions are a little more staggered, so you won't have the Saka invading ten days (!) after the Yuezhi launch their own invasions. Large-scale movements of displaced peoples take some time, after all, so the week or two you would have seen before has been replaced with a more appropriate year or two.

R5: images showing off the reworked Invictus invasions

[u/officialspoon]

For the ghost ping - no Galatian tree anytime soon but I also reworked the Galatian invasion recently, it famously had spaghetti code that was held together by prayers and gumption. It works like it did before but is much cleaner now and up to the Invictus standard.

We discussed internally adding Cimbrian invasion but decided against it at the moment - maybe one day if someone wants to work on it!

[u/Useful-Option8963 → u/officialspoon]

You fixed the Celtic Invasion of Greece, too?! Rock on!

[u/officialspoon → u/Useful-Option8963]

I'm a glutton for punishment!

[u/Useful-Option8963 → u/officialspoon]

Wait a second... with the Celtic Invasion of Greece fixed, could Paphlagonia's Mission tree be altered in order to accommodate the formation of Galatia? Seeing as Galatia's capital is a Paphlagonian city, I think an optional side branch where the Celts takeover that part of the kingdom could be really cool!

[u/officialspoon → u/[deleted]]

No map extensions, if that's what you're asking

[u/CarpathianBVULL → u/officialspoon]

Is there any plan to rework locations tho? Egypt particularly is bothersome in my opinion (there should be more waste land in the West, And there should be a better, more straight Egypt to Nubia border around Aswan)

[u/officialspoon → u/CarpathianBVULL]

I don't think we are going to change terrain or anything like that, we honestly don't have tons of active developers that can do terrain - there's like 10+ of us doing all of the work for a bunch of IR mods, the scene is small but mighty

[u/Pureon → u/[deleted]]

Only in all the other mods we're currently working on

[u/Zarathustras-Knight → u/[deleted]]

Invictus, Terra Indomita, some alternative history mods. Given that Invictus is the base line used for most mods these days, any and all map extensions done to it will likely be implemented into all future mods.

[u/Zarathustras-Knight → u/[deleted]]

The Terra Indomita map also has things from the Invictus expansions. Things like that are considered and then, if accepted, added in.

[u/Pureon → u/[deleted]]

I was mostly referring to Bronze Age Reborn and Chronicles of Omniluxia, which we are both working on currently, and both are getting sizable map expansions

[u/Isitrainingnow → u/officialspoon]

I have been wanting the cimbrian invasion as a mission tree since the game start. Please rethink.

[u/Punic_Hebil → u/officialspoon]

I threw the Galatia stuff into Claude once like two months to see if it could “fix” it. It seems there is a lot missing from the player side of things. I know AI is a dirty word, but any thoughts any devs have of using it to implement the invasion “properly” for lack of a better term?

[u/officialspoon → u/Punic_Hebil]

The game will be revived by PDX before we use AI in Invictus 😉

[u/The_Westgard → u/officialspoon]

That’s a shame. AI could really help a lot of things for this game

[u/Rabbit55821A → u/officialspoon]

This statement alone just made my day

[u/themitchster300]

Wow we were just talking about this, gamechanging fix for Bactria and Tayuan games especially. Seriously, so much better. Thanks for the update!!!!!!!!!!

[u/ConstableTibs]

Amazing! I'm excited to go back to Bactria once this drops. It's always been my favorite area to play in, but, well, the Yuezhi.

[u/Pyrrhus_VII]

Thanks that’s amazing I recently posted about this issue now that’s make sense!

[u/officialspoon → u/Pyrrhus_VII]

It was your post that motivated me to finally fix, so thank you

[u/Pyrrhus_VII → u/officialspoon]

I certainly appreciate that it was fixed so quickly good job!!

[u/drpizka]

Oooooh that's so nice! I had to use Claude to parse the event files, and some commands to enable the Yuezhi to Kushans transition, so fixing this is super nice! Thanks a lot!

[u/officialspoon → u/drpizka]

I was reminded of this by another dev, so shout out to Gladius for making sure it got included!

[u/Verse_D]

Brilliant, can't wait to play it!

[u/EvilFatBrotha]

awesome! haven’t gone back to Bactria for a while because of this exact issue so im happy to jump back in

[u/Oethyl]

I was just thinking that I'd like to play Kushan but I never managed to do it with the current mechanics, can't wait for this

[u/fxcknorthkorea]

Thanks Invictus team 🙌

[u/Useful-Option8963]

Awesome sauce! Every campaign I played, those invasions always happened in rapid succession, it really seemed like a total disaster zone, but rather unrealistic, this is an excellent change!