Cheating for bored me.

[Joe Friday]

Ok, I have recently gotten just a little bored playing the ol'original way. So, I have taken myself up to cheating just a bit.

Ok, I have looked @ many sites about the console cheats but all of them say the same thing. I am still having trouble with some of the cheats, especially the create_unit types.

Now, sometimes I have no trouble with certain units, but most of the time I do have trouble.

Example: If I want to create a unit with say... the greek firethrower... what exactly do I type in? And also I have no trouble creating the Ritterbruder ((sp) The knights with the horns on their heads) for the teutons but the dismounted ones it won't let me create. How come this is?

Anyone have a unique list with ALL the units and characters and how they are to be typed in the console window?

Thanks!!

Joe Friday

[Gray Beard]

You have to type the name in as it appears in the program file. I've forgotten the actual name but it is the really long file that is hard to edit. Find the actual name of the unit and type that.

One cheat to not use too often, at least so I have been told, not that I've ever experienced this myself, being a player who would never lower himself to desire a little extra money for my empire, is the "add_money 40000" because I think it adds money to EVERY Faction including those owned by the AI. That means if you are having a hard time defending against an attack you've just given the computer more cash to kill you with. Because the AI will build lots of units with this cash it has to keep attacking to support its huge army through plunder. Adding cash like that makes the AI very aggressive. Like I said, not that I know first hand

[ReiseReise]

Not sure about add_money giving to every faction, but just to be safe you can
add_money denmark 50000 for whatever faction you are playing.

[PBI]

In my opinion the most interesting way to "cheat" is to muck about with modding. It takes a bit more work than just typing in cheat commands but the results are much more fun.

Why not mod your cannons to fire exploding rotten-cow cluster bombs? That's always a good laugh.

Though it might be interesting if add_money does give money to all factions; might make factions with interesting unit rosters, but terrible starting positions, such as the Moors or Russians, more interesting to fight.

[Ferret]

Not sure about add_money giving to every faction, but just to be safe you can
add_money denmark 50000 for whatever faction you are playing.

no when adding money you can only give a maximum of 40,000 each time you hit enter otherwise it takes money away.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

add_money cheat adds money only to you ...
if you add there a faction name "add_money france 40000" then it will add extra money for the specific faction

To use the creat_unit cheat properly then you should look the export_units.txt file ...

Not that I know anything about cheating ...

[Yoyoma1910]

This site has pretty much everything you're probably looking for:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

http://www.cheatmasters.com/cheats/2...ar_cheats.html

[Monsieur Alphonse]

To use the creat_unit cheat properly then you should look the export_units.txt file ...

It is export_descr_unit.txt

[Joe Friday]

add_money cheat adds money only to you ...
if you add there a faction name "add_money france 40000" then it will add extra money for the specific faction

To use the creat_unit cheat properly then you should look the export_units.txt file ...

Not that I know anything about cheating ...

Unfortunately I have been unable to find this file. I look in the MTW2 files... I just must be blind ;-)