How do you put troops that only appear in the Late period into the Early or High period?

This actually work both way. If you are playing as the Byzantine Empire, you will notice the Varagian Guards are missing in the Late period. You can off balance that by putting them back. Follow the following instruction:

1.) Go to: C:/Medieval Total War/Crusaders_unit_prod11.txt

**Very important, back up the original file before attempting to edit the text. If you mess up here in the editing and does not have an original to replace it, you will need to reinstall MTW for this text alone.**

The first part of the text is an explanation of the different string and what it means. You should read through this as editing this text will modify the strength, weakness and balance of the game.

I will show you one example of how to put the Varagian Guards (Byzantine) into the late period.

2.) Scroll down the text until you find the line beginning with VaragianGuard. It should be between Housecarle and OttomanInfantry.

VarangianGuard INFANTRY 550 10 2 0 80 60 1 OK "ORTH_LOYALISTS(-5), ORTH_REBELS(5)" "POVERTY_STRICKEN(20.1), DESPERATE_DEFENCE(201), CATHOLIC_EXPANSIONIST(160.8), CATHOLIC_NAVAL_EXPANSIONIST(160.8), CATHOLIC_TRADER(201), CATHOLIC_CRUSADER_TRADER(201), CATHOLIC_EXPANSIONIST_CRUSADER(160.8), CATHOLIC_DEFENSIVE_CRUSADER(241.2), POPE(301.5), CATHOLIC_DEFENSIVE(241.2), CATHOLIC_ISOLATIONIST(301.5), ORTHODOX_DEFENSIVE(241.2), ORTHODOX_EXPANSIONIST(160.8), ORTHODOX_STAGNANT(201), MUSLIM_PEACEFUL(201), MUSLIM_EXPANSIONIST(160.8), MUSLIM_DEVOUT(160.8), BARBARIAN_RAIDER(80.4), REBELS(201), CLOSE_TO_SUPPORT_LIMIT(110.55)" "{ SPEARMAKER3, ROYAL_PALACE }" "DEFENDER,STRONG" "EARLY, HIGH" YES "HEIGHT( 85 ), RADIUS( 25 )



3.) I copy and pasted only 1/3 of the text, so don’t try to paste this line back to the text.
4.) Look at the last four strings in this example which begins with :

"EARLY, HIGH" YES "HEIGHT( 85 ), RADIUS( 25 )

5.)This is what you will have to edit. Replace the original
"EARLY, HIGH" with this string "EARLY, HIGH, LATE"

5.) If you preferred, you can also replace it with ALL_PERIODS
6.) What that mean is edit the original “EARLY, HIGH” with either one of the two string

"EARLY, HIGH, LATE"

-------or-------

ALL_PERIODS

7.) If you want the Varagian Guards to appear only in the Early period, simply edit the original string

"EARLY, HIGH"

---with this string---

EARLY

8.) There are many things in the text you could change. I was editing this text up and down and tweaking it. My suggestion is, don’t tweak what is already working. If it’s not broken, don’t…well you know what I mean.

---To learn more about editing MTW, go to the mod Forum and look under the topic “How to play as Mongol, start off with 999999999 in the treasury…”