General Unit?

**Avicenna** · 05-10-2006, 21:40

Just out of curiousity, what actually confirms the bodyguard of a general in BI? I noticed in my WRE campaign that one of my generals had an archer unit as his bodyguard. I nkow this isn't the case with all generals though, so what made this specific person not have the German bodyguard unit? No, he was not a captain

**Barbarossa82** · 05-10-2006, 21:50

Gratianus Flavius, right? That was a bug. He should have had a unit of Imperial German Bodyguards but they forgot to put one in his army so he had to make do with archers. I thought they fixed that in 1.6, but if not then I'm sure BugFixer deals with it.

**Drusus Magnus** · 05-11-2006, 16:11

Yeah that was a bug. They fixed it in the latest patch. Normally all family members of all factions have those mounted warriors. Might I add that barbarian bodyguards in BI are extremely powerful and will crush most opposition. Sassanid ones too.

**Barbarossa82** · 05-11-2006, 18:12

I think the way it happens is that in descr_strat, the first unit defined after the general's name and traits with the sam co-ordinates becomes his bodyguards, and generals born thereafter would have whichever unit has the general_unit or general_unit_upgrade attributes. I'm pretty sure that's the way it works but you'd probably be better off asking a member of a mod team such as EB since they would have to know that kind of thing in order to define their own generals' units.

**Viking** · 05-11-2006, 20:46

Hm...I want bestbuy oliphants as bodyguards.

**Severous** · 05-22-2006, 00:03

I saw a peasant general today. (RTW V1.5 No mods)

He was knocked down by one chariot, trampled by the horses pulling another, then run over by a chariot itself...then he got up.

Ive seen an Eastern Infantry version before

**Viking** · 05-22-2006, 12:28

Yeah, the rebels have all sorts of bodyguards.

**Avicenna** · 05-22-2006, 14:28

Since you've mentioned that, the RTR generals are spearmen as well. Oh, they have portraits and all, and are characters, but the actual unit is a spearman. In the same stack, they have a general's unit without a general too.