Question on General Models

This is a bit baffling...

In a custom battle, I can't seem to get rid of the old 'Celt Lesser General' as a leader unit. I have safely swapped out the standard bearer, and have tried adding extra lines to the unit description to add 'officer' models ( this works fine ) but the overall General remains unchanged.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for this ? I have the model..... it's defined as a unit in descr_model_battle.... I just can't get it to replace the old model in a custom battle!

There are a couple of things you can do.

You can edit descr_character.txt file and change the battle_model of the general you are replacing with the new one.

Eg: You have a new general called new_celt_lesser_general for the Britons.

You'd find this part of descr_characters.txt:

faction britons
dictionary 2
strat_card data/ui/barbarian/agents/card_general_celt.tga
strat_model sm_barb_lesser_general
battle_model celt_lesser_general
battle_equip gladius, chainmail shirt helmet and rectangular shield

And change battle_model entry to new_celt_lesser_general - or whatever the new general is called. And you'd need to make changes to other factions if their general is changed too.

Alternatively, if you are replacing all celtic lesser generals, in the descr_battle_model.txt file, you could comment out the original celt_lesser_general entry and replace it with the new one, but give call it the same as the old one.

I have created a new model and set up an entry in 'descr_model_battle' called 'pict_greater_general'

I amended the entry in 'descr_character' to read:

faction gauls
dictionary 2
strat_model sm_barb_general
battle_model pict_greater_general
battle_equip gladius, chainmail shirt helmet and rectangular shield

But I still get the silly barb_lesser_general in custom battles.... DAMN!

I can't just change the name to make it use my model instead of the stock model, since it uses that one for multiple factions. I can't have that. Each faction MUST have it's own general model

scratch that.....me just sillius soddus today !!!!

It's in there twice. Once for the 'named characters' and once for the 'general'

I had changed the model for the named characters, but not for a generic 'general' which is what I would be seeing in a custom battle.

thanks for the tip!

In the game code 'generals' are what we refer to as captains - what we call generals they call named characters... :beam: