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**Jambo** · 07-07-2006, 15:42

Hi DBH,

Good stuff on the large stone walls!

Regarding Thrace, their units can warcry as I have been able to warcry with other thracian units other than the warband. I actually think it might be because the warband also has the shield wall ability and I don't think it's possible for a unit to have more than one special ability activated by the J key. Hope that helps.

J

**DimeBagHo** · 07-11-2006, 16:06

XGM version 4.0.12 is now available for download.

You can get it here.
You can see the readme here.

The major changes are:

-Added ATG's Bronze Spartans (Royal Guard)
-Fix for crash in 130 BC

**Guyus Germanicus** · 07-19-2006, 20:25

DimeBagHo,
I'm downloading version 4.0.12 from my home PC right now (typing this note from my office PC). Question: I read that your install puts its own icon shortcut on my desktop. Does that mean that if I want to go back to playing the vanilla RTW, I can simply access it through my old RTW desktop icon?

Since the -mod switch doesn't overwrite any of the original files, as you say, I was wondering if the old vanilla RTW will still work if I access RTW through my old desktop icon.

Am looking forward to trying out the Greek mod.

Guyus Germanicus

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 07-19-2006, 23:24

Originally Posted by Guyus Germanicus

Does that mean that if I want to go back to playing the vanilla RTW, I can simply access it through my old RTW desktop icon?

yup.

**Guyus Germanicus** · 07-20-2006, 14:13

DBH -
I downloaded the mod, then I extracted the files from the zipped-file using Windows. (I have a new machine, W/Windows XP Media Center) purchased just this last February or March. I ran the round XGM Mod icon from the XGM file, (it didn't seem to want to run referenced from the Windows Start/Run option). But it appeared to have installed the mod onto my machine. It added the Extended Greek Mod shortcut to my desktop.

When I executed the EGM shortcut, it brought up the RTW style Menu presentation. The Prologue option showed that it was not allowed in this game. Understandable. But there was no "provincial" menu option like I was expecting from something I read on a post from the author's comments on the TWCenter website. The campaign option appeared to be one of the active choices, and I could select it, but I wouldn't go anywhere. There was an error screen that appeared, but I did not write down the text of the error. It basically said something about expecting a date and there not being one. The pop-up window with the error message showed a line or two of programming code, but it didn't say much more than that.

I couldn't go back to my old RTW icon because it had been disabled in the upload of the Greek mod. When I clicked on it, it would tell me it was inactive.
The XGM icons on my desktop for RTW and BI were both present. I didn't try the BI one.
Don't know if this means anything but I'll mention it. My version of RTW/BI is the Gold Edition. It's supposed to be patched to 1.6. I purchased it in April of this year. So I have assumed that my version of RTW was completely compatible.

So now I'm going to assume that my newer version of RTW in the Gold Edition is either the problem, or there was something about the way I "ran" the XGM icon in the XGM folder for the XGM upload process that screwed the installation of the mod. I removed RTW and BI from my machine and reloaded them so I could play my ongoing campaign. But it also appears to me, that once I load XGM on my machine, the vanilla RTW will no longer be an option.

As an aside, I couldn't get Victoria and Mr. Centurion to shut up last night even when I set their advice on 'low'. Hope I didn't create a problem for myself in RTW in the "failed attempt" to upload XGM.

Comments? Suggestions?

**DimeBagHo** · 07-20-2006, 20:51

Guyus Germanicus: Unfortunately, if you bought the Gold Edition in North America (and maybe some other places) it does not really patch the game to 1.6, so you will need to download the 1.6 patch and install it before you install XGM.

Installing XGM should not interfere with your vanilla RTW, so I'm not sure why you had problems with that. When you ran the installer a file should have been generated called install.log, in the folder where the XGM installer was located. Could you e-mail that to me, or post it here? (email: dimebagwhore@yahoo.com).

**Guyus Germanicus** · 07-21-2006, 14:47

DBH -
I will look for the install.log when I get home from work today. I will also download the 1.6 patch sometime today when I can. I will try posting the log on the Guild. But barring that, I will forward it to you at your email address.

Thank you for your kind interest in my predicament. Would really love to play the Greeks with the new units. Hopefully, the Eras package they're releasing with the Alexander expansion pack will have everything patched to current.