Need help solving a modding problem!

[BloodBath]

An idea occured to one of our modding teammates yesterday that he wanted to create a combination of two gerenal units at the begining of the imperial campaign by setting descr_strat.txt.
His basic idea is setting the two gerenal units' starting X-Y coordinate to the same,as follows:

character	Flavius Julius, named character, leader, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 47, , x 89, y 82  
traits GoodCommander 2, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, GoodDefender 1, PoliticsSkill 3, GoodAdministrator 2, Austere 1
ancillaries aged_retainer
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman hastati				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman hastati				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman triarii				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman archer				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

character	Lucius Julius, named character, heir, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 31, , x 89, y 82  
traits GoodCommander 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 3, Energetic 2
ancillaries freeman_clerk 
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman hastati				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman hastati				exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

Then I can't load the campaign game and get an error message saying "cannot attach 2 armies together..." when I quit.But in the campaign game it's true that we can combine troops however many the general units.
I wonder if there's a way to make it possible for the combination of general units by setting descr_strat.txt.
Can anyone help me?

[Epistolary Richard]

Generally speaking, putting anything on top of anything else in descr_strat is a bad idea. You won't be able to put generals on ships either. I don't know of a way to achieve the result you want.

[BloodBath]

Thanks very much,Epistolary Richard!But can't we really figure it out?
Even [cF]Adherbal or Myrddraal or Vercingetorix or even JeromeGrasdyke has no idea?
Help!!

[Stuie]

I haven't tried this (and don't have time right now) but since the error is about combining the armies, try removing the army entry from one of them. Like this:

character Flavius Julius, named character, leader, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 47, , x 89, y 82
traits GoodCommander 2, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, GoodDefender 1, PoliticsSkill 3, GoodAdministrator 2, Austere 1
ancillaries aged_retainer
army
unit roman generals guard cavalry early exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit roman hastati exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit roman hastati exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit roman triarii exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit roman archer exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

character Lucius Julius, named character, heir, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 31, , x 89, y 82
traits GoodCommander 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 3, Energetic 2
ancillaries freeman_clerk

[BloodBath]

Worth trying and I tried.But I got another error message reading "cannot create a character without an army..." or something.
Maybe there's really NO WAY.Thank you all the same.

[JeromeGrasdyke]

This is a shortcoming in the world setup code, that's for sure. There is one possiblity, which is creating the two characters seperately on the campaign map, and then moving one into the other's army using a script that runs on startup. It's more than a little awkward, but should work... although you will probably get a small delay on starting the game.