Giving the poor Makedonians their fleet back

[phonicsmonkey]

hi all,

I'm trying to give the Makedonians a ship using the console - I sank their last one and I realised I preferred it when they had one...and seeing as they don't seem to be inclined to build a new one I thought "why not gift them one, and the money for upkeep?"

create_unit Mytilene, "generic ship penteconterai" is not working for me however - the console gives me the message "cannot add ship to unit or garrison".

is there a trick to this or is it simply not possible to add fleets using the console?

[QuintusSertorius]

I doubt it's possible to add them without there being an existing fleet to which you add some ships. You certainly can't spawn them in settlements as you would do army units.

[bovi]

I thought a senate mission in vanilla gave ships as reward? Perhaps you can find out how to spawn them from that?

[phonicsmonkey]

well, I looked at the descr_senate.txt file, which seems to hold the details of senate missions, and it only seems to show monetary rewards, not rewards of units

which is strange because I too thought I remembered getting troops as a reward from the senate in vanilla (although I don't recall getting ships, it was so long ago)

does anyone here know whether there is some scripting in another file somewhere that relates to senate rewards for missions, and might contain some lines which would show me how to add a ship to a port?

or any other way of spawning a ship in an AI-controlled port?

maybe I'll just have to add a house rule that I can't wipe out AI-controlled fleets - but it's hard if they keep blockading my ports to run them off without sinking them..

[Celtic_Punk]

you do get ships they say "we will reward ytou with 2 of the best units you can recruit" and they give you like quinteremines or w/e

[Reno Melitensis]

If you manage to give them ships, post how you don it please. In my campaign the Macedons are struck on Mytilene with 2 full stalks, while the Hellenes rampage through Greece.

Cheers.