How many DMB slots are available in M2TW?

**||Lz3||** · 07-29-2008, 06:46

just wondering ... are they the same as RTW.exe or more like Alex.exe (lord of the rings mod has around 350 units using alex for example)

cause I would like to add more units with the eventual release

btw are we going to have an aquilifer unit? its definitely not the same without it...

**Tellos Athenaios** · 07-29-2008, 13:14

EB 1 has about that number if not more units in as well... But let's just say the model limit is such that we are hoping for some fancy stuff regarding officers.

As the unit limit itself hasn't been changed from RTW to M2TW, AFAIK, it's going to be even harder adding new units when EB2 is about done, since we purposefully left some unit slots unused.

**||Lz3||** · 07-29-2008, 18:57

IIRC RTW has 255 model slots while Alex has a lot more (lotr-tw has 334 models , that is only supported by alex for example) so I was wondering if M2TW is like RTW or like Alex

**Ludens** · 07-29-2008, 20:06

M2:TW has more models, but the same total unit limit. In EB1 the team got round the model limit by recycling models between various factions, so don't expect to see many new units. In fact, several EB1 units will not be included in EB2.

**||Lz3||** · 07-30-2008, 04:24

whats the point of restricting or hardcoding the number of slots available? besides bothering everyone else

I mean if they could with alex what the hell were they thinking when they went back to 255 unit slots

**Xtiaan72** · 07-30-2008, 06:23

Memory and performance issues, my guess

**Tellos Athenaios** · 07-30-2008, 11:12

Originally Posted by ||Lz3||

whats the point of restricting or hardcoding the number of slots available? besides bothering everyone else

I mean if they could with alex what the hell were they thinking when they went back to 255 unit slots

You aren't reading very closely, are you? # units limit is not the same as # models limit.

Both in RTW as well as in M2TW the # units the engine can cope with = 500;
In RTW the # models the engine can cope with = 255 (AFAIK);
In M2TW the # models the engine can cope with = unkown?

So you are still limited to 500 units; but possibly [if the model limit in M2TW supports enough models] you can go wild on officers as those only take a model slot -- nothing else.