Console commands and character names

[Biowulf]

How would I move a captain around? For example, there's a KH captain on Rhodes that I'd like to move in order to make the situation in Greece more interesting. What should I type to move him?

[FriendlyFire]

How would I move a captain around? For example, there's a KH captain on Rhodes that I'd like to move in order to make the situation in Greece more interesting. What should I type to move him?

Bring up the console with ~ (or equivalent on your keyboard). Hover the cursor over the location you'd like to move him to - and make sure from the tooltip that it's somewhere he CAN move, like a road or open ground. Enter
show_cursorstat
in the console, and it will print out an x,y coordinate like "103,81". Now hover the cursor over the captain's character to show his name, e.g. "Captain Alexandros". Then enter
move_character "Captain Alexandros" 103,81
in the console, and he'll be teleported to that spot.

When I move AI armies, I try to move them next to an existing city of theirs, since that's where the AI often starts building armies anyway. This seems to eliminate the occasional "stuck army" problem, where you teleport an army into the middle of nowhere and the AI just leaves it there. If you place it next to a city, the AI seems to always find a use for it...

[QuintusSertorius]

How would I move a captain around? For example, there's a KH captain on Rhodes that I'd like to move in order to make the situation in Greece more interesting. What should I type to move him?

move_character "Captain Eurgetes" 114,115

As an example.

[Biowulf]

Thanks to both of you :) I moved him and the KH took Korinthos.

[XSamatan]

How-to-use-move_character-in-EB.

Maybe this can help in the future.

XSamatan

[scorpionsting]

thx allot,
stupid crusade mission

[Biowulf]

How-to-use-move_character-in-EB.

Maybe this can help in the future.

XSamatan

lol I did, but unfortunately it mentions nothing about captains. I think my problem earlier was because his destination was invalid, though.

[Lysimachos]

lol I did, but unfortunately it mentions nothing about captains.

Actually, it does, you just have to look closer :-)

[XSamatan]

No he was right, I edited this passage in after he posted!