Changing the Stating Year

[Gazza the Lionheart]

I've dabbled in changing some things (unit sizes) in MTW but I want to know how to change the starting year so I have more time to develop my infrastructure, build up some excellent armies and still have enough time to kill everyone http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif . Can someone please tell me how I can do this.

[PanthaPower]

OKay, find the Early.txt, High.txt or Late.txt in the MTW\campmap\startpos directory. Open it in a notepad and look for:

SetStartDate:: 1087
SetPeriod:: Early
SetEarlyPeriodStartDate:: 1087
SetHighPeriodStartDate:: 1205
SetLatePeriodStartDate:: 1321

Chage the SetStartDate to the year that you want your campaign to start and also modify the Early, High and LatePeriodStartDate to specify when certain advanced units as e.g. crosbows come available.

Hope this helps.

PS If you want to edit some more stats, please download an old guide from Giskard here: http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/faqs/mtw/Giskard_mtwcamphowto_V2.zip
It is a little outdated but should be sufficient to get more acquinted with the text files.

[Gazza the Lionheart]

Huge help. Thanks a lot mate http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif