How to make Historical Battles

**Dragoncrusader** · 11-04-2004, 00:00

Hi
You will be glad to hear that I have managed to change all my icons and flags to ones that I want. So my crusaders now have a proper flag to fight under but I have kept the various faction colours so that I can recognise my troops from allies.
I have updated the guide again and added in your image section. I have added two other sections, one on setting battle conditions and the other on defining an area on the battlefield. The new battle conditions are good if you want to make a condition of winning the battle, the capturing of a castle but there are other ones which look quite useful. I had a look at the historical campaigns, especially the Barbarossa ones and these really make it clear how they work. So I am going to try to incorporate these into the battles. Makes a change from just trying to slaughter the enemy. I thought that they would be useful in the forthcoming 'Field of Blood' battle, as there is no way Roger of Antioch can survive but I can set the player another task which might be achievable. Just an idea but to defend the Great Jeweled Cross of Antioch for 20 minutes. I could do this by defining an area on the battle field marked by a tent and to task the Crusader army with keeping at least 1 man in the area for 1200 seconds. Then the player wins the game if he can achieve this.

There are still a couple of queries, I would like to know where the weather file is and how it works and about this deployment thing. I wonder if your modded units will not appear because they are not exactly files in the same place as the ordinary units. I found the shield icons in a file recently and wondered if I could change the shield image. Oh by the way faction 14 is Burgundy! Obviously a test faction. I do not have any modded units so I cannot experiement.

In the RTW mods forum, NinjaCool has posted about 15 historical battles which are very good. I mentioned this guide to him and have asked how he does the RTW ones. I have not even looked at it yet.

**AmbrosiusAurelianus** · 11-08-2004, 20:31

Originally Posted by Dragoncrusader

There are still a couple of queries, I would like to know where the weather file is and how it works and about this deployment thing. I wonder if your modded units will not appear because they are not exactly files in the same place as the ordinary units. I found the shield icons in a file recently and wondered if I could change the shield image. Oh by the way faction 14 is Burgundy! Obviously a test faction. I do not have any modded units so I cannot experiement.

In the RTW mods forum, NinjaCool has posted about 15 historical battles which are very good. I mentioned this guide to him and have asked how he does the RTW ones. I have not even looked at it yet.

Sorry, I cannot help you with the weather or the deployment. If you are thinking about installing a mod then XL is the best IMHO. I've tried BKB's and MedMod, and both are good, but XL is the best I think. Thanks for incorportaing the stuff on images into the guide.

I have played NinjaCool's Battles, and yes they are good. It would be nice to try to amke a few for RTW.

I think that you can edit the shields, I found the file once too, but I think that it only really matters if you want to edit campaign factions; I don't, so I've never bothered. There is a blank template set that someone made. I have it saved somewhere, but I have forgotten where I downloaded it. I could e-mail to you if you wish.

At the moment I have been busy with RTW, so I have not been doing much MTW stuff for a while. When I get back into it and make some new battles I'll send them to you.