Quote Originally Posted by Quillan
It does, but it's very hard to use properly. Using it to add units to a city garrison is easy, but it's rather hard sometimes to get a character name input the way the game can read it. I played around with the console commands right after I got the game, and on some characters I could do it and on some I can't. It works reliably on any character who only has one or two word names with no title (Robin, Evan Waterston, Giacomo Medici, etc) but any titles or additional words (Vasco de Gama, Erik the Merciless) and I can't get it to take. After reading what someone else posted here a while back, on some 3 word names you can do it by enclosing it in quotes and putting an underscore between the second and third word, but that still doesn't work with titles and descriptors. "Vasco de_Gama" worked fine, but "Erik the_Merciless" didn't.
I was going to chip in that putting your cursor on the character you want to add units to and substituting the phrase "this" for the name might work, but it doesn't, I just tested it.

Quillan, I think "Vasco de_Gama" worked fine because "de Gama" is actually a surname, not a title or descriptor... Could be wrong though. As for "Erik the Merciless", just putting "Erik" should work, don't include descriptors. I don't know/remember what happens when you have characters with the same names though.

Cheers!