Novograd Faction = In Early unplayable

[kiwitt]

I cannot select Novograd in Early, but I can select Russian in High or Late.

I wanted to play the Novograds from 1087 and build up a good defence against the "Horde", selecting the Russians in High, gives you only 20+ turns to build a defence. So I decided to select the Byzantines, at least then I will have time (i.e. 100+ turns)

Any ideas on what changes I need to make to the early.txt to make it work. It seems to imply in reading the file I need to make a FT_Major.bif file and place it in a particular directory to make it work.

[katank]

nope. just changing FN_NOVGOROD FN_MINOR to FN_MAJOR should do the trick.

this is in the early.txt in the major factions section.

early nov is really fun due to Rus spears, druzhina, and boyars being very strong in early.

only problem is economics. I hope you have fun http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

[HopAlongBunny]

To make PoN a playable faction in Early:

Go to TotalWar directory; open campmap; open startpos; dbl-click Early

Scroll down to SetActiveFaction:: FN_NOVGOROD FT_MINOR
Change to SetActiveFaction:: FN_NOVGOROD FT_MAJOR

Novgorod is now playable in Early :)

If you want offices to work you have to do a little more.
The easiest thing to do is copy the Russian AddOffice section from the Late file; copy it to the bottom of the AddOffice section in your Early file; change the name RUSSIAN to NOVGOROD and you're set http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-party2.gif

I recommend making a back up of the original startpos file just in case things don't work or you make a mistake.

Enjoy http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

[kiwitt]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Economics will be hard, But I do have 100 years and can at least invade the "steppes" for some more provinces to use for revenue.

[katank]

invade only select provinces such as smolensk and kiev that have decent incomes and rely on farming

trading early on would sink you

BTW, make beeline for Const.

get mucho moola + opportunity to get boyars

[Accounting Troll]

One caveat: don't play Glorious Acheivement with Novgorod. If you do, the game will CTD when you try to look at the review of your GA goals.

[kiwitt]

Only play empire Building mostly. GA is not my cup of tea.

[mercian billman]

Quote[/b] (Accounting Troll @ April 13 2004,15:56)]One caveat: don't play Glorious Acheivement with Novgorod. If you do, the game will CTD when you try to look at the review of your GA goals.
Well that sucks

I noticed on medmod I was able to play as the Russians in Early w/o a CTD when I checked the GA. It was only when I played GH, Swiss, CKs that I got the CTD.

[VikingHorde]

Quote[/b] (Accounting Troll @ April 13 2004,22:56)]One caveat: don't play Glorious Acheivement with Novgorod. If you do, the game will CTD when you try to look at the review of your GA goals.
You can just add a GA shield for novgorod in the \campmap\parchments\glory directory. Just find the russian file in the glory direktory, copy it and rename it from to FN_NOVGOROD.BIF. That solves it.
My MOD will allso solve it, when it is finished.

[el_slapper]

Anyways, you'll have to master the fieald, because you'll be often outnumbered in the beginnning. Badly. And your best defensive inf is made of spearmen..... Fun, but tough.

[HopAlongBunny]

Fortunately though you get one of the best spearmen available in Early.

Your biggest problem is economic. If you solve that, hordes of Druzhina and Boyars pretty much cinch the game :)