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Darth Stalin
04-06-2008, 10:57
Hey all!
I have a problem (or maybe it's not a problem so far, but can be when I get the appropriate reforms) - and so far I've checked it only by searching the files and folders.

1. The Marian reforms allow the player to recruit Cohors Evocata - the legionary veterans. EB Recruitment Viewer shows them to be recruitable in Italy only - that's OK. As I searched through EDB file, the Army_Barracks B1 and Royal Barracks_B1 (which mean Native MIC lvl 4 and lvl 5) allow the player to recruit them in Italian provinces. However, the Unit Card for evocati is only in the Merc subfolder within the EB/data/Ui/Unit_Info and respectively EB/data/Ui/Units folders. So, what is about that? Are the evocati recuitable only as Mercenary unit, or it's only their UC missing from Seleucid subfolder?
I've copied these UCs into Seleucid subfolder and now I'm waiting for reforms to happen to see if I'm right...

2. Similar thing is with the Western Auxilia, but seems to be more complicated... or worse:
According to EDU and EDB the Western Auxilia can be recruited in city_barracks_B2, army_barracks_B2 and Royal_barracks_B2 (National MIC lvl 3, 4 and 5 after Augustan Reforms). However, their UC is also missing from Seleucid subfolder and the RV does not show at all their recruitment zones, though it does so for Eastern Auxilia.

Thus my question: is there sth wrong with these units or it's just the bug with RV and the only problem is the lack of UC in Seleucid subfolder, which can easily be repaired by copying them from Merc subfolder?

beatoangelico
04-06-2008, 16:21
those 2 units use the mercenary skin in the DMB to evade the harcoded limitation of only 1 skin for faction for each model, so this way evocata and imperial cohort share can share the same model; since they are considered "mercenary" the UI files go to the merc folder

LorDBulA
04-06-2008, 17:25
is there sth wrong with these units or it's just the bug with RV

RV issue. Read more here:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1882918&postcount=81

Darth Stalin
04-06-2008, 17:48
OK, thanks.
I've checked it pactically by making some changes in EBBS to make reforms happen earlier and these units appear OK.
bTW: it seems that when reaching the marian reforms the existing barracks buildings are not automatically destroyed, but rather they need to be repaired and after doing so there are both "old" and "new" barracks in the town. It is quite nice feature, as "old" Romans have very nice heavy Italian cavalry, which can be still used and repaired for use with new legions in the field; also old units, tough and experienced, still can be repaired in cities that have appropriate barracks. Nice feature, anyway!

BTW: I've converted EB to work on ALX.exe and it works fine; besides, the number of models to be used in DMB file was increased from 250 to 500! so I could change TWFanatic's First Cohorts to use different models and skins (I took these from KLA's skinpack) and all works fine.