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Quote[/b] (donovan @ April 25 2003,01:10)]Interesting thread, which brings up (for me) a rather obvious question: how DO you change default formations to your custom formations?
In the FormationData folder there are text files which contain formation definitions. Most of these are used by the AI. The rest are the named formations which appear on the army formation button during deployment, and the named formations which appear on the group formation buttons during the battle.

You can't add any extra named formations for your own use: the names of the army and group formations are hardcoded in the game, although as you've discovered, the actual content of those formations can be edited.

But you *can* add brand-new formations for the AI to choose between, since it just loads in everything it can find in AiBasicFormations.txt and AiSpecialFormations.txt. A little experimentation by the good folks in the Dungeon should yield more results and perhaps some winning new formations which will spice up AI battles. To facilitate this, and with Longjohn's permission, I've uploaded his documentation on the formation file format; it's in the beta/test area as formationdatafiles.zip.

No official support for this: if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces...