MTW - Multi Faction battles - Want the AI on your side?

[DrNo]

Don't think anyone's posted how to do this so far, but you can mod the battles to include multiple Factions and wether they are allied to you or not.

In jaffa.bdf:

Player::"Richard Coeur de Lion" 5 5 LOCAL "richard" 0 false 19588 28226 180 CHRISTIAN_CULTURE

First number after player name is the faction. i.e. 5
Second number is the alliance it belongs to.
again 5.
LOCAL/ARTIFICIAL is Human or AI, I set 2 armies to LOCAL and ended up with waiting for deployment to end. i.e. no other human connected to deploy the other army.

"Richard" is the army definition file name.

Not sure what the 0 is for.

false/true dictates if you are attacker/defender.

Then coordinates maybe for initial camera postion(Will have to check that one)

Next is direction of facing.

And then culture lastly. Not sure what difference this will make.


Here is what I used as a test:

Player::"King Dummy" 6 5 ARTIFICIAL "Dummy" 0 false 20588 23226 180 CHRISTIAN_CULTURE
Player::"Sultan Saladin" 4 4 ARTIFICIAL "saladin" 0 true 22066 5924 0 MUSLIM_CULTURE
Player::"Richard Coeur de Lion" 5 5 LOCAL "richard" 0 false 19588 28226 180 CHRISTIAN_CULTURE


Then create an additional adf file for dummy and away you go.


//
// Army description file
//

UnitStart::"Unit"
InitialLeaderName::"King Dummy"
IsGeneral::true
Position:: 19668 25556
Direction::180
GeneralRank::4
LeaderHonour::4
UnitMon::1
TroopType::LateRoyalKnights
TroopNum::60
TroopHonour::4
Columns::5
CurveRadius::1
FormationType::FORMATION_CLOSE
MeleeMode::ENGAGE_AT_WILL
FatigueLevel::FRESH
HoldPosition::true
GeneralIsDaimyo::true
ArmourLevel::1
WeaponLevel::2
UnitEnd::

Expect to see lots more interesting battles created now!

[alKO]

I don't manage to get it work. When I start the battle, it says "wait until conflict is resolved". I added King Dummy to the Jaffa.bdf, then created a new .bdf file for his army.

[DrNo]

I think the message is indicating that there is no human in the battle and the AI is going to fight it out.

Did you just cut and past the king dummy line into the jaffa.bdf file?

It should work fine.

I notice you typed
'then created a new .bdf file for his army.'

Is this a typo it should be an adf?

[alKO]

Got it working now, I named the army description file wrong before, but it's ok now.
And it was a typo =)