[Help!] Scripting the appearance of Hannibal's army

In the EBSS script, I see the command "Kill Character" before spawning a character. I'm guessing you can't have two characters with the same name.

In some place it is mentioned twice. Are there any constraints around this? Hownecessary is it?

You definitely can't have two with the same internal name, although sometimes they can appear to have the same name in the game.

AAARGH!!!!

After all this effort, nothing happened, and I found out why:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...s/Hannibal.jpg

A Hannibal came of age a few years before the event. What's worse, I can't move him either, his internal name is not "Hannibal", I've no idea what it is.

I've got a save before the thing was supposed to go down; is there something I can put in the script to kill the existing one?

I tried adding console_command kill_character "Hannibal", but it didn't do a thing.

Any ideas? It seems the script doesn't work at all, probably because of the aforementioned family member.

Is there a simpler way without turn-counters that just spawns him on the next turn, since I'm in summer 216BC anyway?

I've given up on scripting his army, instead I transported a convenient FM with a small army and zinged him up to a full stack. Now I just have to give him some appropriate traits.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...otHannibal.jpg

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Originally Posted by brymht

Question :

Will spawn_army
faction spain
character, Figvlvs, named character, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 30, , x ?, y ?

spawn a general, or a family member? does it all depend on the kind of unit which is the first to be selected?

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Not sure if you've figured this out yet, but if you use the phrase "named character" you will spawn a family member. If you use "general" you will just get a captain.

When you spawn a Family Member you can assign him any unit allowed by his faction, foot or mounted. This has to be the first unit in the army section though.

So this goes in the EBBS?

And how do I set spawn coordinates?

This has probably been thought of before, but if the problem is that there are too many hannibals, then why not just script in a guy named "Hannibal Barca", or "Hannibal son of Hamilcar"?

Bear in mind that I have no idea how the internal processes work or if this is even relevant.

So how do I add units to an army? And how do I input the Carthaginian FM's name into the console? I've done it with a Captain Mago, but it just tells me "character not found" with other FMs.

I hate to prematurely bump this, but anyone who knows the format of Carthaginian family names could really help me out... (i.e BalishekBurkadurr r whatever)

Edit- I see you viewing the topic, Quintus... help! :P

In the same manner as scripting Hannibal and his army, could you script the appearance of a rebel faction general with an army of roman troops, representing a civil war or the rebellion of an army?

where do you find the in-game names for units and family members?

In-game names are all in the names.txt, which I think is in Data\text. That tells you what names are valid. I'm fairly certain you could script rebel armies for the civil war. I'm also thinking of doing that for "barbarian" migrations.

could you script a rebel army with roman legions