How to add a city

**Plantagenet** · 10-10-2004, 20:00

To change who owns a city, cut the entire entry for that city (starting with "settlement") from its current owner and paste it into your faction's settlement list. The hardest part is not adding the city, but moving out the previous owner's units! I don't know what happens if you leave them there...

To PREVENT the Marian Reforms from happening when you make cities larger, make your faction the ONLY ONE able to build the imperial palace. After you build it yourself, you can re-edit the file to let others build it too. That way, you decide when the Reforms happen, and if you want, you can stay at level 4 for a good long while and really get to know your trarii.

**Inuyasha12** · 10-10-2004, 21:20

The hardest part is not adding the city, but moving out the previous owner's units! I don't know what happens if you leave them there...

Do you know how to do it?? Because that's probably whats messing me up.

**Plantagenet** · 10-11-2004, 01:12

Originally Posted by Inuyasha12

Do you know how to do it?? Because that's probably whats messing me up.

File contains x,y coordinates for each general & agent; change those to place them within territories their faction owns (by looking where their other units are).

So for example, let's say Egypt owns Tripolitania; you start as Egypt, with an army sitting in Nile Delta. Find its coordinates in the file, and move the army from Tripolitania to Nile Delta.

Or you can just delete his units altogether. However, while you can delete normal units, ships, agents, captains, etc., without problems, you cannot delete Family Members or the campaign won't load. I'm sure there's a way around this, but I haven't found it yet.

**Plantagenet** · 10-11-2004, 01:19

Ok, I just took a peek myself, and it seems Tripolitania isn't owned by anyone at campaign start, which should make this easier (no Family Members or other factions to mess with). Go down to "faction slave, balanced smith", and then scroll down past the rebel cities until you see the rebel armies. At the very bottom, you'll find:

;Tripolitania
character, sub_faction carthage, Gelon, general, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 20, , x 96, y 19
army
unit carthaginian city militia exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit carthaginian city militia exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

Delete this rebel army and see what happens.

**Plantagenet** · 10-11-2004, 04:00

I just tried to switch the julii and brutii starting provinces and armies and I can't get it to work either. I've been able to swap a province here and there and it worked fine, but when I try to move the whole mess, campaign won't load. Moved all units, cities, etc.

Can anybody help out with this?

**Plantagenet** · 10-11-2004, 05:58

I just tried again. I can swap cities/provinces between non-Roman factions, just not Roman. I took Greek Sicily from Greece, moved the Greek army there to Sparta, and gave the city/province to Carthage. Works fine...now I just have to figure out how to move Roman property...

**Inuyasha12** · 10-13-2004, 21:30

Or you can just delete his units altogether. However, while you can delete normal units, ships, agents, captains, etc., without problems, you cannot delete Family Members or the campaign won't load. I'm sure there's a way around this, but I haven't found it yet.

Thanks i think this was my problem. I simply deleted the family members and the game would not load. It pissed me off to no end!! But now i think i got it.

Haven't tried to switch roman factions yet. I think they are fine where they are now.