First time trying to use Caligula and first time posting, so feel free to correct me if the question is dumb or in the wrong place.

I thought my idea was simple enough -- I was going to take the already existing unit, the Bastarnae, which can be built by Thrace, and edit them so that the Macedonians could hire them (I thought they needed at least one auxiliary sword unit, and I couldn't get them from the Merc pool). I changed the ownership id so that it says ownable by both Thrace and Macedon. That didn't work -- I still couldn't build them. So I edited the buildings file so that both Macedonian and Thracian barracks could build them, and that fixed that part of the problem. Now Macedon can build them.

Now the problem -- When I build them with Macedon, they use the portrait that I normally see on peasants. When I try to fight a battle with them, they are strange and ghosted out. I assume this must be a problem loading the models -- the model already used for them must be tagged for the Thracians because of the colors or something. I don't understand much about how the unit text file works -- the model information says something about Greek_Thracoan or some such. What options do I have here? Can I convince Macedon to load this thracian model, or something? Do I need to create a new unit, and call them Macedonian Bastarnae, and give them a Macedonian model? I don't see how to change the model in Caligula. It gives me a pull-down menu when I click on it, but the only choice in the menu is the one already selected.

Any help I could get would be great.