No African elephants for the Sab'yn?

[Anton]

Greetings!

I am playing my first campaign in EB1.0, using the ALX executable. I installed all the permanent fixes.

Inspired by some of the superb stories in this forum, I selected the Saby'n.

My game plan was to conquer Ethiopia, recruit some elephants, and go to war with the Ptolemies. With the provinces of Diamat, Kush and Erythraia under my control, I looked in the recruitment viewer to see what buildings were needed for elephants... and found that no elephant units are available to the Sab'yn.

A glance through export_descr_buildings.txt seems to confirm this.

So, is, for example, The Errant's excellent Sab'yn strategy guide incorrect regarding elephants? Is the recruitment viewer misleading me? Or have the African elephants been removed for historical accuracy?

If they were removed, is it straightforward to mod them back in? I tried making the "obvious" edits to export_descr_buildings.txt and export_descr_unit.txt, but the recruitment viewer showed no changes.

My thanks to anyone who can enlighten me.

Anton

[Geoffrey S]

I think Errant's guide was for an earlier EB, but could be wrong.

Also, changes to such files only take effect upon starting a new campaign.

[Anton]

Ah! Thanks Goeffrey. I realise I had foolishly assumed that the recruitment viewer was reading the game files. Of course, it is completely standalone ~:doh:

Anton

[LorDBulA]

I tried making the "obvious" edits to export_descr_buildings.txt and export_descr_unit.txt, but the recruitment viewer showed no changes.

RV doesn't use RTW files.
Its actually the other way around because RV is used in process of creating export_descr_building.

So whatever changes you make to export_descr_building will never be seen in RV.

From what I see African elephants are only recruitable by Ptolemoi,Carthage and Rome.
But in current internal build you can get African Elephants as Saba so maybe they will be available in final 1.1 release.

You can get Indian elephants with Saba though. Conquer Sind province.