Battle Realms Zen-ith Edition Mod

A personal project that I wanted to make for a while now since GOG Edition. A Battle Realms Zen
Edition Version 1.57.9 mod that consist of Ultimate Heroes and a few additional units that is as close to
vanilla as possible.

MOD FEATURES

==========DRAGON CLAN==========

• Ultimate Hero
◦ Kenji Dragon Avatar (can be trained in the Dragon Monument with Vagabound Kenji)
▪ Battle Gear – Dragon’s Fire
• Teleport Kenji to a short distance and cast weaker version of the Dragon Monument’s
Dragon’s Fire and inflict Burning Effect to surrounding enemies
▪ Burning Effect – inflict fire damage and cause the target to be more vulnerable to
fire, explosive and magical damage but reduce blunt and cutting to the target.
Reduce their LOS and cause them to be unable to attack.
▪ Innate Ability
• Flaming Katana
◦ Inflict Fire damage and drains enemy units stamina each strike
• Dragon Spirit
◦ Upon Death Kenji Reverts back to his Vagabond self then dies once his stamina is
completely depleted. Burns surrounding enemies upon activation.

• Changed and Added Heroes

◦ Arah
▪ Battle Gear – Sight Beyond Sight
• Focuses and reveals her surrounding area but immobilizes her. Turns her arrows into
magic that pass through units and buildings. Drains Stamina
◦ Teppo (Can be trained with Kazan to the Royal Academy)
▪ Innate Ability
• Upon death summons Kazan and burns surrounding rice and enemy units. Kazan dies
once his stamina is depleted.
◦ Kenji Vagabond
▪ Innate Ability
• Inflict a weakened critical strike to surrounding enemies and weaken their defenses upon
performing a specific attack animation.

• Minor Unit Changes

◦ Guardian
▪ Battle Gear
• Last Stand
◦ upon activation increases units attack speed
• Concussion Smash
◦ Increase Stun duration by 1 second
◦ Battle Maiden
▪ Innate Ability
• Counters melee attacks that inflict magical damage
• projectile now cause AOE damage and bounces againts enemy units
 ==========SERPENT CLAN==========

• Ultimate Hero
◦ Kenji Serpent Emperor (Can be trained in the Necromancer’s throne with Kenji Shogun)
▪ Battle Gear – Ronin
• Kenji dashes to an area and slashes surrounding enemies and inflict Bleeding Effect to
surrounding enemies
◦ Bleeding Effect – cause excessive bleeding and cause them to be vulnerable to blunt,
cutting and explosive damage but reduce damage from fire and piercing damage.
Reduce their LOS and cause them to be unable to attack.
▪ Innate Ability
• Serpent Katana
◦ Poisons enemy target and is now effective against enemy building
• Serpent Spirit
◦ Upon Death Kenji gets demoted then dies once his stamina is completely depleted.
Slashes surrounding enemies enraged that causes enemy to bleed

• Changed and Added Heroes

◦ Budo
▪ Battle Gear – Slave Drive
• Budo learnes how to “encourage” peasants effectively without killing them. Can now be
used on allied peasants.
◦ Prince Taro (Can be summoned with Budo in the Assassin’s Guild because of his blood relation
as the Serpent Brother)
▪ Innate Ability
• Upon death summons Budo and riles upon surrounding allies to fight for their princes
death. Budo dies once his stamina is depleted.
◦ Kenji Shogun
▪ Same as Vagabond Kenji with an addition of his gun as Shogun

• Minor Unit Changes

◦ Serpent Witch
▪ Battle Gear – Demon Amulet
• transforms the witch into a Demoness permanently
◦ Serpent Demoness
▪ Battle Gear
• Insidious Hex – same as the BG Wolf Bite just different name. Can be trained in Metal
Works
• Vampiric Gaze- can be learned the same way as the Serpent Witch
▪ Innate Ability
• Now has the same Armor as the Werewolf and damages surrounding melee attackers with
magical damage

==========LOTUS CLAN==========
• Ultimate Heroes
◦ Zymeth the Pure
▪ Battle Gear – Rite of Ascension
• Damage Surrounding Enemies with Soul Chill and summons rain. Zymeth’s attack cause
magical damage and passes through enemy units while active. Drains stamina while
active.
▪ Innate Ability
• Storm End – upon death regain all his corruption and dies once his stamina were depleted.
Stuns surrounding enemies momentarily
◦ Yvaine The Winter Goddess
▪ Battle Gear – Rite of Ascension
• Teleports a short distance then cast Frozen Prison and summons the Corrupted White
Wolf Skull. Drains Stamina
• Corrupted White Wolf Skull
◦ heals and makes Yvaine invulnerable as long as she stays close to the Skull.
◦ Nearby enemies are slowed and more vulnerable to cutting and magical damage but
reduce fire and explosive damage.
◦ Last for 2 minutes as long as Yvaine have stamina
▪ Innate Ability
• Fallen False Deity
◦ Upon death lose her powers and dies once her stamina is depleted.
◦ Cast Frozen Prison on surrounding enemies
• Divine Lance
◦ Cause AOE damage and passes through units and buildings
• Divine Spells
◦ Melee attacks drains enemy stamina and transfers to Yvaine
◦ Nightvol (Ninja Form)
▪ Battle Gear – Dark Power
• Teleports a short distance and transform into a powerful demon and summons two
Hordling
• During demon form Nightvol damages and blinds surround enemies with magic
▪ Innate Ability
• Demon Spirit
◦ Upon Death, damages surrounding enemies and summons a Hordeling
• Demon Blade
◦ Stamina Vamp
• Demon Claws
◦ Damages Building more effectively but lose stamina Vamp
• Shadow Raven
◦ Cast Shadow Ravens to inflict stamina damage and poison enemies it pass through
• Minor Hero Changes
◦ Zymeth
▪ Melee attack now drains stamina and transfers to Zymeth and Zymeth the Pure

• Building Added
◦ Orb Shrine (upgrade Warlocks Tower)
▪ Summons Rebirth (Train Zymeth)
• Invulnerable and has zero attack damage
• Battle Gear summons Zymeth the Pure and Nightvol Ninja Form at the cost of 2 Yin
Points
▪ Summons Yvaine the Winter Goddess (can’t be canceled)
▪ Master Warlock now cost only one Warlock to train (can’t be canceled)
==========WOLF CLAN==========
• Ultimate Heroes

◦ White Wolf Grayback

▪ Battle Gear - Spirit Wolf
• Damages Surrounding enemies that intimidates and drains stamina.
• Wolf Howls buff lingers around where the spell was cast
▪ Innate Ability
• Spirit Strike
◦ Melee attacks cause stamina vamp
• White Wolf Spirit
◦ Upon death, release the power of the white wolf that damages and drains enemy
stamina.
◦ Grayback dies once his stamina is depleted

◦ Forest Goddess Gaihla

▪ Battle gear – Forest Blessing
• Immobilize Gaihla then heals and protect nearby allies from projectile
• Roots Enemies that gets to close to Gaihla and makes them vulnerable to cutting and
magical attacks but reduce fire and explosive damage
• Helps Grow Rice faster if cast nearby
• Drains Stamina upon use
▪ Innate Ability
• Forest Spirit
◦ Upon death, release the power of the forest and heals nearby allies
◦ Gaihla dies once stamina is depleted
• Forest Strike
◦ Melee attacks now have stamina vamp
◦ Nightvol (Ninja Form)

• Minor Hero Changes

◦ Grayback
▪ Battle Gear – Wolf Howl
• Reduce Effect duration but damages enemy stamina

• Building Added and Changed

◦ Orb Shrine (upgrade Cairn)
▪ Summons White Wolf (Train Grayback)
• Invulnerable and has zero attack damage
• Battle Gear summons White Wolf Grayback and Nightvol Ninja Form at the cost of 2
Yang Points
▪ Train Gaihla deify as the Forest Goddess (can’t be canceled)
▪ Trains Druidess into Channelers that can cast unlimited blessing at the cost of stamina (can’t
be canceled)

◦ Forest Temple and Wolves Den

▪ Can now train Pack Master into Werewolf in Forest Temple
▪ Can now train Diggers into Werewolf in Wolves Den

CAMPAIGN CHANGES/EFFECT
• Kenji in the dragon campaign in the final stage now have Dragon’s Fire BG
• Kenji 3 Serpent now have Ronin BG but Kenji 3 Dragon doesn’t
• In Grayback’s Journey the Forest Temple stage becomes almost if not impossible to clear.

KNOWN BUGS

• Sometimes when ultimate heroes dies Dying Will is not cast to them when too many units are stack
near the hero so they spawn far away from the effect.
• Likewise if they die too close to allied units Dying Will might get cast along with them
• There is a chance that Zymeth the pure doesn’t have Storm Master as his passive
• More than one Nightvol can exist per clan if their Zymeth the Pure and White Wolf Grayback dies
then revived from the Keep then retrained after in the Orb Shrine
• Upgrade Building cost for Cairn (rice 650 water 200) shows incorrect cost
• Upgrade Building cost for Warlock’s Tower (rice 150 water 200) shows incorrect cost
• You can train Grayback and Gaihla at the same time in the Orb Shrine
• You can train Grayback and Wolf Channeler at the same time in the Orb Shrine
• You can train Zymeth and Yvaine at the same time in the Orb Shrine
• You can train Zymeth and Master Warlock at the same time in the Orb Shrine