Newbie to RTW and EB

[DavidSmith]

Greetings;

An 'old' newbie ancients miniature gamer giving this a whirl for the first time. I've played around a little with starting a campaign, just getting used to the mechanics, so forgive me if these questions seem a bit, uhmm adolescent!

1.It appears as if the advisor toggle on the screens don't work. I follow the instructions each time I fire up a saved game (clicking on a city, and enabling the advisor help text). Am I doing something wrong.

2.Not sure what buildings to build, in order to advance the technology for my faction (played Romani).

3.I've enjoyed reading some of the AAR's, and it seems as if some are customizing the mod further, (to include unit names Cohort I, Cohort II, etc.) is this possible?

4.Mnai, or the lack of it seems to be an issue early on. I have tried to initiate some trade agreements with other nations. Does this help? What helps to increase the $$$.

5.Can you merge 2 depleted units into 1 (say, 2 units of Equites of 4 and 5, into one unit of 9)?

6. Really love this mod, by the way. Kudos to all the hard work. I'll probably have more questions later.

Dave

[Watchman]

1.It appears as if the advisor toggle on the screens don't work. I follow the instructions each time I fire up a saved game (clicking on a city, and enabling the advisor help text). Am I doing something wrong.

Click on the "Show me how" button so the advisor goes away, or if he doesn't his face so he does. Then click on a city again; if the advisor doesn't turn up again to talk about the script, it's working (it doesn't always "engage" at the first try, I've noticed.)

2.Not sure what buildings to build, in order to advance the technology for my faction (played Romani).

Define "technology". The Romans have a good three or so military reforms, whose trigger conditions are explained in the FAQ.

3.I've enjoyed reading some of the AAR's, and it seems as if some are customizing the mod further, (to include unit names Cohort I, Cohort II, etc.) is this possible?

Yes. Some other minimods include cunctator's stuff too.

4.Mnai, or the lack of it seems to be an issue early on. I have tried to initiate some trade agreements with other nations. Does this help? What helps to increase the $$$.

Disband your units and navies and such until you're "back in black", or go on a conquest spree. Depends on a style of play and the exact faction really which is recommended. Trade agreements help, but only slightly.

5.Can you merge 2 depleted units into 1 (say, 2 units of Equites of 4 and 5, into one unit of 9)?

Sure. Drag and Drop the unit cards over each other. Hitting the letter "m" on your keyboard with a stack chosen will also auto-merge depleted units, although it'll ignore those that are only a couple of men short.

[mAIOR]

1. you have to press the show me how button on the advisor.
2. Well, this is kinda peculiar. It depends what you're looking for. If it's troops you have to upgrade your barracks (you have local and faction barracks and in Italy, local won't be good). And first you have to build governments (see the thread about the MIC explanation that is stickied and there is a topic explaining govs somewhere but I can't seem to find it...).
If you're into trade, you have to develop markets and such. For more information, right click on the buildings you see.

3. There are some costomizations for EB but what you're talking is mostly players naming their armies. Not in game feature tough.

4. Trade agreements help. But you need to improve your trading buildings in your towns. Building mines also helps... A lot! :)

5.Yes

Hope this helps. Oh and welome to the .org

EDIT: Watchman, you beat me to it :)

Cheers...

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Enabling the script through the advisor 'show me how' is imperative to the EB experience. The script governs much of what makes EB so great. Make sure the first thing you do when you start a new game or load a saved game is to activate the script with the advisor.

[DavidSmith]

Gosh, thanks for the quick response. I've been reading through the The bulls of Roma (3rd Legion) AAR..........impressive. This is a very deep and satisfying mod......almost is enough to replace my miniature gaming.

Dave
http://www.miniwars.com

[Chirurgeon]

Welcome to the forum Dave.

[Yun Dog]

Dave,

Love your miniwar site

Ive always wanted to start painting minature battle recreations ever since I saw the movie Ronin. But I have to admit whenever Ive checked out minature sites a) I get confused by all the sizes and makes - which one I should use etc

b) many of the figure look a bit cartoonish or warhammer dwarfish if you get my meaning, where I was looking for as real as possible looking minatures, and probably the smaller the better because then you could create 'big battle scenes'

any advice for a minature newbie

[roastedpekingduck]

I'm a newbie myself, so I hope the original poster wouldn't mind if I used this thread to ask some of my own stupid questions.

For horse archers, how do I change my archer horsemen to fight with melee weaponry? Even when I run out of ammo for my arrow, I'm frustrated that my horsemen will not charge. Cataphract archers should be able to attack as well as shoot.

[Watchman]

*whimper*
...see here.

[DavidSmith]

I'm a newbie myself, so I hope the original poster wouldn't mind if I used this thread to ask some of my own stupid questions.

No problem-o;

CA mentioned in his fabulous AAR that he turned off the flags. How does one go about turning the flags off.......I think they are a bit distracting too! Thanks.

Dave
http://www.miniwars.com

[Ludens]

CA mentioned in his fabulous AAR that he turned off the flags. How does one go about turning the flags off.......I think they are a bit distracting too! Thanks.

Go to [Your R:TW folder]\EB\Preferences\Preferences.txt and change the line "SHOW_BANNERS:TRUE" to "SHOW_BANNERS:FALSE". Other tips to enhance the battlefield are to set "DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS:FALSE" to "DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS:TRUE", and "MINIMAL_UI:FALSE" to "MINIMAL_UI:TRUE".

[DavidSmith]

Go to [Your R:TW folder]\EB\Preferences\Preferences.txt and change the line "SHOW_BANNERS:TRUE" to "SHOW_BANNERS:FALSE". Other tips to enhance the battlefield are to set "DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS:FALSE" to "DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS:TRUE", and "MINIMAL_UI:FALSE" to "MINIMAL_UI:TRUE".

Thanks Ludens. I appreciate the help!


Dave

[Chirurgeon]

I just made those changes so hopefully the screenshots will look better in my AAR.