Custom battles

[Tricky Lady]

Started up a few custom battles yesterday, and I was surprised to see that not all units are available to a given faction, even though you can recruit them when playing on the campaign map.
A few examples: no Camel Warriors for Turks, no Spearman for Byzantines. (on the other hand, Byz armies can select Alan Mercenary that cannot be built in the campaign map).
I know that there's a limition due to the time period you select, but aren't Camels basic units to Turks (in Early they start w/ Syria, so) and Byz can build spearmen at any time (as it's their only spear unit, not?).

If this all is normal, is there any way to tweak the game a bit, in order to make these units available?

[Finn]

the custom battle wont show any units that have a region limitation. I think camels are limited to the desert regions (eg the north african provinces)

I dont have total war here to check, but you could try removing the regions reqs from the units and i think that will get them to show up in custom battle

[CBR]

Custom battles have the same limits as for MP. If you want to tweak it you have to edit the last column in the unit file.


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[Erik Skallesmækker]

But would this not also damage the rest of the game?

[CBR]

Changing the last column will damage your ability to play MP games yes. For SP it wont change anything.


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[meravelha]

I personally don't recall any mention of Seljuk turks ever using camel-mounted troops themselves (though they may have operated alongside camel-mounted infantry while they were still working for the Abbasid Caliphate).

Their military tradition was still of the Steppes: the usual and effective horse archer + ghulam combo.