Unlimited time and flaming arrows?

[Sir William Wallace]

I know the unlimited time is possible, but i went to the startpos file and i cant find anywhere where it says the eras ending time, i saw a thread that said to add a certain line, but where in that file do i add that line? i wanted to begin in the early era but i dont want unlimited , i wanted to end in the year 1700, is this possible? and how would i do it? also, are flaming arrows possible via modding, i know they come available in RTW, but i wasnt sure if u could mod them into MTW.

please bare in mind i am not a modder and have very little idea of what im doing, so if you can help, please type in a way that a little kid could understand lol.
thanks guys

[Alexandr III. Biges]

Yes, it's in campmap\startpos\[era].txt file, just add this line after these with starting data:

SetGameEndDate:: 1700

ie:

SetStartDate:: 1087
SetPeriod:: EARLY
SetEarlyPeriodStartDate:: 1087
SetHighPeriodStartDate:: 1205
SetLatePeriodStartDate:: 1321
SetGameEndDate:: 1700

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Flaming ammo... yes...

In file PROJECTILESTATS.TXT there are projectiles named:

flaming_arrow
flaming_rock
flaming_trebuchet
flaming_mangonel

Try to copy their stats replacing these existing in already used projectiles. Or just note the last collumns:

FlamingProjectile IsFlaming

And change their values. For example use longbow as flaming, change longbowmen to normal bowmen etc.

Sadly, I don't know codes for flaming ammo (as are for short bow = sbow, crossbow = xbow etc.).

For easier editing use great Dragon MTW editor:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=33392