I might give those a try when I overcome my newest problem: the game script won't activate, and is greyed out even when I click on the advisor's face, no matter what faction I play.

I think I know what the problem is, but I have no idea why that is the problem. Specifically, I had been editing the export files to let the Makedonians recruit Galatian Heavy Swordsmen (they look neat, why should the Ptolemies have all the fun?). That went over just fine; I can recruit them, they have their UI picture and correct model in battle and everything.

However, despite not opening the EBBS_SCRIPT file at all during this process, it has become corrupted. Specifically, I get an error message upon quitting the game informing me of a Script Error at line 185998, column 1. And if you go into the file and go to that line, it's obvious why there's an error:

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The error message I get when closing EB says it doesn't recognize the token "console_comm," so I am assuming all that moonspeak is the reason my script is not activating. Would anyone be willing or able to post for me to see line 185998 of their script, or do I need to do a clean reinstallation?