How to edit the units in a crusade?

[kawligia]

I figured out how to make the Danes a crusading faction, but all they get are fanatics. How do you edit what kind of units are available for a crusade?

I did a couple searches on the subject but couldn't find squat.

[Phatose]

The following is for Non-VI. It probably works in VI too, but I can't guarantee that.

You see, the Danes can't build any of the crusader knights, so they're not allowed to appear in the crusade. Fire up gnome, find the crusader unit that you want, and then just add them to the factions allowed list.

In particular, you'd load up Gnome, open Crusaders_unit_prod11, scroll to the row of the crusade unit you want, go to column 50 (faction association labels), and add Danish into the value for that unit.

If, for example, you wanted to build Knights of Santiago, you'd change the value of row 90, column 50 from "Spanish, Aragonese" to "Spanish, Aragonese, Danish" - including the quotes.



If you want to let a unit that's not already capable of showing up in a crusade appear in Danish crusades, you'd need to make sure the Danes can build it, and add a CRUSADE(-10) in column 11 - the rebeling troops mixes it can appear in. Place it after all other entires, but before the end quote, so it will look like "blahblahblah....., CRUSADE(-10)". For example, to have vikings show up in danish crusades, change row 51 column 11 from:

"CATH_BANDITS(10), CATH_LOYALISTS(15), CATH_REBELS(5), ENG_BANDITS(5), PAG_REBELS(3), PAG_LOYALISTS(3), PAG_BANDITS(4), PAG_ZEALOTS(1)"

to

"CATH_BANDITS(10), CATH_LOYALISTS(15), CATH_REBELS(5), ENG_BANDITS(5), PAG_REBELS(3), PAG_LOYALISTS(3), PAG_BANDITS(4), PAG_ZEALOTS(1), CRUSADE(-10)"


Be forewarned though, if you mod a unit that can be built by other catholic factions, it will show up in their crusades too.

[kawligia]

Thank you. Just out of curiosity, why does it need a (-10)? what do the numbers mean and why is the crusade negative?

I'm thinking about adding vikings, huscarles, etc. to their crusades. But I will also go with Knights Templar.

[Kraxis]

The negative numbers mean that the unit will be available for the starting of the Crusade only. Like if they have been trained in that province. Units with positive figure will pop up in all Catholic provinces along the route.

[The_678]

I've been wondering about the negative vs. positive crusade numbers. Thanks. If I put a Crusade (20) on Housecarles (vikings) will, say a German crusade, recruit it on their travels?

[Kraxis]

No, they are specific to the Danish faction so they shouldn't. But since we haven't got any factionspecific units with a positive number for Crusades, then it is not something we can know for sure.