Recruiting Generals in RTW Question?

[timdickins]

In BI when you recruit a General he gets a portrait, but when I recruit one in RTW I get a "generals bodyguard" unit card! Am I doing something wrong?

[Squid]

You won't see a portait until the unit appears on the campaign map, so just adding it to the recruitment queue won't do anything.

[timdickins]

No, when the unit is done recruiting it's still just a "general's bodyguard" unit! No portrait...

[Aradan]

Does the unit have the general_unit attribute in its EDU entry?

[timdickins]

YES...

type macedon general's guard cavalry
dictionary rtr_macedon_generals_guard_cavalry
category cavalry
class heavy
voice_type General_1
soldier macedonian_companion_cavalry, 7, 0, 7.4
mount crested heavy horse
mount_effect camel -2, chariot -4, elephant -40
attributes sea_faring,hide_forest,general_unit,hardy
formation 1.5, 4, 3, 6, 4,square,wedge
stat_health 2, 0
stat_pri 23, 104, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, spear, 25 , 0.8
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 50, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 , 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 10, 9, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground -6, 0, -6, 0
stat_mental 18, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 3, 660, 0, 91, 154, 660
ownership seleucid, macedon

[SubRosa]

Do any other units recruitable by macedon and the seleucids also have the general_unit attribute? If there are more than one, the game is probably considering the last one in the file to be the general, and thinking the first is just another ordinary unit.

Also, is it before or after the Marian Reforms? The generals before the Reforms use the unit with the general_unit attribute. Generals after the Reforms use the unit with the general_unit_upgrade attribute.

[timdickins]

No other units have general units attribute... Could the problem be where there recruited? Or maybe it's the soldier type?

type macedon general's guard cavalry
dictionary rtr_macedon_generals_guard_cavalry
category cavalry
class heavy
voice_type General_1
soldier macedonian_companion_cavalry, 7, 0, 7.4
mount crested heavy horse
mount_effect camel -2, chariot -4, elephant -40
attributes sea_faring,hide_forest,general_unit,hardy
formation 1.5, 4, 3, 6, 4,square,wedge
stat_health 2, 0
stat_pri 23, 104, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, spear, 25 , 0.8
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 50, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 , 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 10, 9, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground -6, 0, -6, 0
stat_mental 18, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 3, 660, 0, 91, 154, 660
ownership seleucid, macedon

[SubRosa]

The place they are recruited from will not matter. All the Soldier line does is tell the game what model and skin to use for them on the battle map, so that is not the issue either.

Do you have RTW 1.5? Maybe this does not work on earlier versions?

[timdickins]

I'm currently playing "Rome Total Realism" which patches from 1.5 I believe...

[SubRosa]

That depends on which RTR you have. The newer version uses 1.5, but there is an old version out there for 1.2. Start the game, go to Options, and you will see your version number in the upper right corner.