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[Poulp']

Colonies are quite an interesting twist. Makes expansion easier in some ways but also much slower.

Trying a Ptolemies campaign. Funny how the Seluecids have good alliances with everybody but me -- I was never able to get a lasting alliance when I played them.

Playing as Saba, it's fun to see how many Ptolemaic and Seleucid armies end up in the south of the Arabic peninsula while they should clash in the Sinai...

DimeBagHo,
Playing as Parthia (still on 5.5.6), the 4th tier governement building doesn't allow to train steppe infantry, was it fixed in 5.5.7 ?

still on 5.5.6, Sabean (sp?) general have no heavier, upgraded version available in the custom battle menu, whereas all other factions have
Naked Fanatics (well a unit card which looks like NF) don't have a name in custom battle, they appear as "unspecified name folder" or something (just saw it minutes ago and and can't remember already... getting old is though) ... Gasatae maybe ?

[Poulp']

UP
still on 5.5.6

about the missing unit name, it's actually "unlocated text name" (and the unit is probably Naked Fanatics, Att 19, Unit Cost 800); I have yet to dig into the text files

Median Cavalry's tooltip is missing a capital E ("equipped with composite bow...")

and that's all... for now

[DimeBagHo]

Poulp': Thanks for spotting those description errors. Version 5.5.8 is available. It fixes those, and a few other minor bugs.

[Poulp']

Thanks for v5.5.8, I'll check the threads on TWC and upgrade this evening.
Keep up the good work

and I wish to submit a few strategy guides, where should I send them ?

edit

upgraded to 5.5.8.2

the Gaesatae's description is still missing, found out why

there are 3 entries in EDU
dictionary barb_naked_fanatics ; Gaesatae
dictionary merc_barb_naked_fanatics ; Gaesatae
dictionary barb_naked_fanatics_horde ; Gaesatae

and only 2 in export_units.txt
{barb_naked_fanatics} Gaesatae
{barb_naked_fanatics_horde} Gaesatae (horde)

that entry is missing,
{merc_barb_naked_fanatics} Gaesatae


re edit

in descr_strat, Numidia is not labelled as re_emergent, is that normal ?
at the same time, Britons (Baktria) is re_emergent, yet it is a playable faction

about Gauls, where is Aulercia on the campaign map ?
they have 7 provinces at the start, and 8 provinces in descr_strat
(Arvenia, Biturigia, Venetia, Cisalpine_Gaul, Aulercia, Liguria, Lugdinensis, Sequania)

edit, found out; Aulercia is a rebel gauls settlement

in export_descr_ancillaries;
Ancillary priest_of_Haphaestus
trigger_priest_of_Haphaestus
in export_ancillaries.txt;
{priest_of_Haphaestus} Priest of Hephaestus
okay, this one is not important...

[DimeBagHo]

Thanks again for the bug spotting Poulp'. The re-emergent errors might cause significant problems.

If you have strategy guides you can post them here.

[DimeBagHo]

XGM version 5.5.19 is now available for download.

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

The changes since 5.5.16 are mostly minor bug fixes, but if you are using the Alexander exe I strongly recommend upgrading to this version.

[tempest]

XGM version 5.5.19 is now available for download.

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

The changes since 5.5.16 are mostly minor bug fixes, but if you are using the Alexander exe I strongly recommend upgrading to this version.

hey dbh, thanks for all this great stuff... I was wondering if you could tell me how to get rid of plagues, i'm getting completely boned by it lol, 8 of my cities have it, d'oh. ty bud