Night Battles and Imperial Campaign.

[DimeBagHo]

I managed to get night battles working again, so you could try the latest version of XGM.

[Jambo]

Any easy way of explaining how to enable Night Battles in the Imperial Campaign. Is it a simple enough job?

[GiantMonkeyMan]

its a trait called diet_of_carrots (not kiddin!!!!! no seriously!) or something similar in the BI traits but there has to be something other than that....

[sik1977]

So does anyone except DimeBagHo knows how to mod in night battles in the imperial campaign, both for V1.3 and V1.5 of RTW.

I have looked at XGM descr_strat.txt files and they have the night_battles_enabled line in it, but i believe that in V1.5 you need an additional line, bi_options or something. I am still playing with a mod which hasnt updated for V1.5 (Enhancement Pack) so would like to know how does one get night battles in V1.3 which can't have the bi_options line in either of the descr_strat files (BI or RTW in V1.3/V1.4).

I believe DimeBagHo is off on holiday or something as he hasn't responded to his XGM thread at TWC either. So if anyone else knows, specially with regard to V1.3, it will be much appreciated.

Thanks

[alpaca]

You need the "options bi" line for 1.5, and I think the night_battles_enabled line for 1.3
Then you need to copy the traits and triggers from bi for NightBattleCapable to add NightBattle to your generals, and that's it.
If you want, you can also put some night battle event images into the UI folder but that's not absolutely necessary.

[sik1977]

You need the "options bi" line for 1.5, and I think the night_battles_enabled line for 1.3
Then you need to copy the traits and triggers from bi for NightBattleCapable to add NightBattle to your generals, and that's it.
If you want, you can also put some night battle event images into the UI folder but that's not absolutely necessary.

Thanks for the help alpaca. Could you kindly elaborate on "copy the traits and triggers from bi for NightBattleCapable to add NightBattle to your generals". Like for example which .txt file and where do i move the relevent text to?!

Thanks.

EDIT: I just checked the export_descr_character_trait.txt files in both the RTW data folder and the BI data folder. They both have these line added:

;------------------------------------------
Trait NightBattleCapable
Characters family
NoGoingBackLevel 1
AntiTraits Noctophobia

Level Night_Fighter
Description Night_Fighter_desc
EffectsDescription Night_Fighter_effects_desc
Threshold 6

Effect NightBattle 1

The Mod I am using (Enhancement pack) must have included these lines in the RTW train file as well, and I also have the night_battles-enabled in my descr_strat.txt file. Yet, the night battles are not available, not even the greyed out box when your commander is not capable of night battles....

[alpaca]

Hmm, unfortunately I don't have 1.3 to test, so I don't really know what you have to do. In 1.5, adding the "options bi" line enables it.
I thought in 1.3 "night_battles_enabled" should do the same.
Maybe you can try to give a character the NightBattleCapable trait in desc_strat and see if that changes anything.
Also check if you have the triggers called "diet_of_carrots1" and "diet_of_carrots2" in your export_descr_character_traits.txt