I need help

[Gazza the Lionheart]

I'd like to make some of the pre-existing units in MTW, specifically the Order Foot Soldiers, Feudal Foot Knights, Gothic Foot Knights and Chivalric Foot Knights, buildable instead of just units that only appear if you dismount another unit so can somebody please tell me how to do this.

[Ithaskar Fëarindel]

Download the Gnome reader first, from totalwar.org downloads section. Then make a backup of your cursaders_unitprod11.txt in the main MTW directory.

Now open the original in the Gnome editor.
Hit "availability" in the top left, this'll cut down all the fields so that most of the ones you don't need disppear.

I'll explain how to do this for just GothicFootKnights, then you can repeat it for the other units.

You should think of a building that a faction needs to have built before being able to produce GothFoots, I'm just going to use a Baronial Court, which is the same building needed for GothSergs.

Ok, find GothFoots on the left, they are 96th in the list. Find the field along the top called "Buildings needed to produce this Unit" If you have "availabilty" clicked you should see this on screen already, otherwise scroll right and it's the 17th field along.
You will notice there is nothing in the box for GothFoots which is why you can't build them. So simply put in the building definition for the building you want, in the case of a Baronial Court put in

{ ROYAL_COURT4 }

You can also add more buildings so that the player needs a Baronial Court AND a Master Swordsmith for example. If you put more than one building though, you need to put the phrase in speach marks like so:

"{ ROYAL_COURT4, SWORDSMITH4 }"


When you've done this, repeat the process for the other units. Save the file and play http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Gazza the Lionheart]

Thanks heaps Ithaskar. Iwish i'd found this program a long time ago because it would have saved me a few headaches searching through all the data that was on the screen to edit one thing.

[Lancer6969]

Can this work for the units that are only supposed to appear when a rebeloun starts? Like the Sherwood Foresters...I am trying to make most units available to most everyone..

[Gazza the Lionheart]

Well I edited the file to make the Holy Order's of Kighthood ie. Teutonic kinghts, Kights templar etc. buildable so I suppose it would.

[Lancer6969]

Thanks, I haven't even seen the Sherwood Foresters, are they cool.

[ShadesPanther]

12 men with longbows who can hide, have amazing morale and can fight as well as huscarls... Yes http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

I have modded them and huscarls and Frydmen to be buildable for the English