What am I doing wrong here? Making Saracen Infantry recruitable by Almohads

**AntiTank** · 07-19-2023, 14:06

Here is what I wrote, I only plugged in Almohad as a Faction that can recruit them and changed the building to Town Watch2:

SaracenInfantry INFANTRY 300 4 1 0 80 100 1 OK "MUS_REBELS(15), MUS_LOYALISTS(5), MUS_PEASANTS(10), MUS_BANDITS(12), MUS_ZEALOTS(10), MUS_HERETICS(15)" "POVERTY_STRICKEN(68.5), DESPERATE_DEFENCE(137), CATHOLIC_EXPANSIONIST(109.6), CATHOLIC_NAVAL_EXPANSIONIST(109.6), CATHOLIC_TRADER(137), CATHOLIC_CRUSADER_TRADER(137), CATHOLIC_EXPANSIONIST_CRUSADER(109.6), CATHOLIC_DEFENSIVE_CRUSADER(164.4), POPE(205.5), CATHOLIC_DEFENSIVE(164.4), CATHOLIC_ISOLATIONIST(205.5), ORTHODOX_DEFENSIVE(164.4), ORTHODOX_EXPANSIONIST(109.6), ORTHODOX_STAGNANT(137), MUSLIM_PEACEFUL(137), MUSLIM_EXPANSIONIST(109.6), MUSLIM_DEVOUT(109.6), BARBARIAN_RAIDER(54.8), REBELS(137), CLOSE_TO_SUPPORT_LIMIT(41.1)" { TOWN_WATCH2 } "DEFENDER,SPEAR" ALL_PERIODS YES "HEIGHT( 85 ), RADIUS( 25 ), SCALE( 120 ), PROJECTILE_TYPE( NONE ), SAMURAI( NO ), MARCH_SPEED( 6 ), RUN_SPEED( 10 ), CHARGE_SPEED( 11 ), MIN_TURNSPEED( 2 ), MAX_TURNSPEED( 8 ), TURN_TO_MOTION_SPEED( 8 ), MAX_INMOTION_TURN( 96 ), FORMATION_WIDTH_SPACING( 60 ), FORMATION_LENGTH_SPACING( 60 ), ENGAGEMENT_THRESHOLD( 1500 ), CHARGE_BONUS( 5 ), MELEE_BONUS( -1 ), DEFENCE_BONUS( 3 ), ARMOUR_LEVEL( 3 ), HONOUR_LEVEL( 0 ), AMMO( 0 ), FORMATIONS_PREFERRED_NUM_ROWS( 4 )" NO "own_unit_tooltip1, own_unit_tooltip2, other_unit_tooltip1, other_unit_tooltip2" "CHAINHLM, YES, YES" "FN_ALMOHAD, FN_EGYPTIAN, FN_TURKISH" "Missile, Shocktroop, Spear, Cavalry" "SKIRMISH(0), ADVANCE_PARTY(1),
OUTFLANKING_FORCE(0), MAIN_BODY(2), HOLD_TERRAIN(2), RESERVE(1), REINFORCEMENT(1), ASSAULT(1), ASSAULT_COVER(0), ASSAULT_COVER_CASTLE_ATTACK(0), COVER(0)" MUSLIM 2 FORMED LARGE YES 1 NO 1 4 SPEAR YES ALL_PERIODS "FN_ALMOHAD, FN_EGYPTIAN, FN_TURKISH"

**drone** · 07-20-2023, 13:50

Is the problem that they don't appear as desired, or that the game fails to load? Did you change the file using a standard text editor or the GnomeEditor? It can be picky about tabs and line breaks. I don't see anything too obvious with your changes, I assume the line break after "ADVANCE_PARTY" is from the forum and not present in your file?

**AntiTank** · 07-20-2023, 18:22

Originally Posted by drone

Is the problem that they don't appear as desired, or that the game fails to load? Did you change the file using a standard text editor or the GnomeEditor? It can be picky about tabs and line breaks. I don't see anything too obvious with your changes, I assume the line break after "ADVANCE_PARTY" is from the forum and not present in your file?

Game won't load.

As for editing it, I was just copy pasting manually. I never tried editing it with GnomeEditor.

Edit: Just tried to do it in Gnome, but when I try to load the file, I got runtime error 6 overflow message.

Line break is present in the original file, and not from the forum.

**drone** · 07-21-2023, 13:49

Each entry should be on one line, with tabs separating the individual columns. If you backed up the file, I would suggest refreshing that and starting over. There is nothing wrong with editing the file in a editor other than the GnomeEditor (and it has problems sometimes as well), but the editor needs to be one that will not limit line length, add breaks, or mess with tabs. I used to use vi/vim, but I'm old.

**AntiTank** · 07-21-2023, 16:05

Originally Posted by drone

Each entry should be on one line, with tabs separating the individual columns. If you backed up the file, I would suggest refreshing that and starting over. There is nothing wrong with editing the file in a editor other than the GnomeEditor (and it has problems sometimes as well), but the editor needs to be one that will not limit line length, add breaks, or mess with tabs. I used to use vi/vim, but I'm old.

So how would I write it then? Hit tab when I add FN_Almohad. I'm not really doing a major edit, just a simple copy paste that makes Saracen Spearmen recruitable by Almohads and recruited from TOWN_WATCH2 so I can have a proper baseline for my Almohad Army. All the other editors seem to have deadlinks.