Switching ancillaries

[Dutchhoplite]

How is it done exactly??

Do family member have to be in the same city?? Is it possible to switch between recruited generals
and family mermbers?? Are there ancillaries that can't be swapped??

Please help me!

Thanks!

[Raygereio]

The two generals have to be in the same stack (doesn't matter if it's in a city or in the field) and ancillaries can be swapped between any general; FM's, recruited and bribed ones.
I never tried it, but swapping ancillaries between agents in the same stack might also work, I don't know.

Anyway. It should work as long as the recipient does not allready have an ancillary that excludes the one you're trying to switch.
For instance, if the general already has the chirurgeon, he can no longer get an extra docter or physician. Or if your FM starts out with a clerk, he can't get a spear carrier.
You can check for yourself what ancillaries are mutually exclusive by opening up export_descr_ancillaries.txt and look for "ExcludedAncillaries".

You do the actual swapping by clicking on the picture of the ancillary and draging it to the portrait of the recieving character.

Off topicy; isn't this feature either removed or broken in Empire: Total War?

[Andronikos]

I never tried it, but swapping ancillaries between agents in the same stack might also work, I don't know.

Yes, it does. I do it quite frequently when I have agent with 10 subterfuge and he gets more ancillaries I move them to newly trained one.

[Raygereio]

Yes, it does. I do it quite frequently when I have agent with 10 subterfuge and he gets more ancillaries I move them to newly trained one.

Ah, good to know, thanks. And erm... as an aside, mind posting a "how to get a 10 point agent"-guide? I squeal with joy if I manage to get one with 5 points!

[Mediolanicus]

Ah, good to know, thanks. And erm... as an aside, mind posting a "how to get a 10 point agent"-guide? I squeal with joy if I manage to get one with 5 points!

Really? EB is much more easy in this than vanilla RTW, I find.

Just "train" your agents in a highly developed city for some year (2-3), then let them do task that get 70%-100% chance of success. In no time they get 10 points. They will still get only 2% chance of succes against most important enemy FM's though.