Winston Wave Pawn Cap

Delivers more stable enemy population control and late-game performance optimizations for Vanilla Storytellers Expanded - Winston Waves.

Core Features
- Impose a maximum concurrent enemy cap on the map for wave raids.
- Enemies exceeding the cap will not spawn all at once; they will be deployed to the battlefield in batches as follow-up reinforcements.
- Toggle the cap to activate starting from a specific wave, preserving vanilla gameplay in early-game while limiting spawn scale in late-game.
- Lock fixed faction spawn order to prevent repetitive gameplay caused by random enemy faction selection.

Compression Optimization (Recommended for raids with extremely high point limits)
- Intelligent spawn compression that dynamically adjusts compression ratio based on current raid points to avoid sharp enemy count drops right after hitting the threshold.
- Automatically selects the better compression method for each faction between high combat power scaling and health multiplier scaling.
- Option to disable stat boost buffs, leaving only immersive high combat power compression (this results in weaker compression effectiveness against horde-focused factions).

Usage Example
Suppose a raid wave is set to spawn a total of 450 enemies, and your concurrent on-map enemy cap is set to 80:
- Only 80 enemies will spawn as the initial wave.
- As the number of alive enemies on the map decreases, reserve enemies will continuously refill the map back to 80 until all 450 enemies are deployed (note: some modded factions may retreat automatically if the raid lasts too long).

This mod only alters the spawn logic and deployment behavior of Winston Waves raid enemies; it does not modify the original mod’s reward system or wave structure.
The mod can be added or removed mid-save, but manual backup is strongly advised before making changes to critical save files.


Other Recommended Related Mods:
total control
yc's Faction Editor
Faction Loadout Kits