Unit descriptors

[Tony Furze]

Is there a file somewhere in the game, or has some kind soul made a list of the unit traits you get in the battle screen ? Things like "impetuous"; "disciplined" and "fast" for each unit?

[macsen rufus]

These terms are derived from the unit stats, which are found in the unit_prod file, which can be read most easily by using the Gnome editor. Note that the descriptions only show if the unit is better or worse than average - fairly average units will show with no special descriptions.

Alternatively the unit comparison tool, whatever it's called, will probably help as well.

[drone]

Let's see if I can get this right:

With the Gnome editor, elite units will have SAMURAI(YES) in column 26.
Fast units (infantry) will have speeds 6, 12, 13 (march, run, charge), as opposed to 6, 10, 11 for normal speed. Slow infantry are 4, 8, 9. Fast cavalry are 9, 24, 26, regular are 9, 20, 22, and slow are 9, 12, 16.
Impetuous and Disciplined are column 57. DISCIPLINED is disciplined, UNCONTROLLED is impetuous.

For the vanilla game, the file to look for is crusaders_unit_prod11.txt, should be at the top level of your MTW install directory. There's a lot of stuff in there.