Need help in modding MTW!

[Puppyboy]

Hello all
Finally found a place on the web where you TW fans are hanging out http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I played STW before, just got MTW and I think it's awesome Due to the overwhelming # of units in the game, I tried modding it make it less confusing (for me at least..heh) I'm a noob at modding so please bear with me.

I did a search on this forum but couldn't find what I wanted. Just a couple of quick questions :

1) How do I change the names of units displayed in the game from the crusader_unit_prod11 file? For example in the txt file there's an entry for Archers. I want it to be shown as Bowmen in the game. Changing Archers to Bowmen gives me some error when loading up, so I was wondering what is the right way to do it.

2) Number of ranks behind first that can give support in melee. This column is linked from Linked To workshet, which is itself linked to the summary and unit def sheets. Please edit the factors there . Where is this sheet as I want to know what bonus it gets from the ranks.

That's all I can think of atm. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks in advance http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[shand994]

Firstly dl gnome editor if you wanna change stat.

you can edit the names to show what you want in the name.txt file, change the translation string bit

you can find most of the stuff youll want help with in the dungeon. so read through most of those threads and youll usually find what ya after

BTW welcome to the ORG

[Puppyboy]

Thanks for the headsup. I'll go check it out now. Btw there's no name.txt file anywhere in MTW directory http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[shand994]

yeh its in MTW/loc/eng/names i think, its been a while since i had a look. im pretty sure thats where it is though

[shand994]

to change what you want find the lists with the units in them, it lookds like this

[Archers_Singular] {Archer}

you change the second colum to read the way you want
eg

[Archers_Singular] {Bowmen}

You also need to change the columns for plurals as well