TBS(Thorlof Battle System)v0.2 to EB 0.8 with BI

[mcantu]

yes , this is lower but You can raise to high

What is changed in it?

[Hephaistion]

Hi Thorlof, thanks for a great mod. I was waiting for someone to go through the boring task of adding BI abilities to EB units, something I REALLY didn't want to do myself!

I have two points to raise:

1) the spearwall graphic is all fuzzed out in the battle screen. Truly a minor problem, but does anyone know if there is a simple graphics file from the BI folder that can be transplanted into the EB folder to make this work? I looked for likely suspects, but couldn't find one.
1.1) what benefit do units actually receive from a spearwall formation? I tried to dig out my BI manual, but couldn't find it.

2) do you know what text file I need to change if I want real formation names to appear in the formation display in the battle screen? My display still has the vanilla text, and I want the button tooltips to say, "Theban Phalanx," "Alexander's Formation," etc.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out. Heph

[Gaias]

1) the spearwall graphic is all fuzzed out in the battle screen. Truly a minor problem, but does anyone know if there is a simple graphics file from the BI folder that can be transplanted into the EB folder to make this work? I looked for likely suspects, but couldn't find one.
1.1) what benefit do units actually receive from a spearwall formation? I tried to dig out my BI manual, but couldn't find it.

This one I know as I was also annoyed by the glitch in the battle ui. In the C:\...\bi\data\ui\barbarian\interface folder, their is a file called battlepage_03.tga. This is the file in which you want to copy to the corresponding folder in the EB folder. Copy the file into all the faction type folders (BARBARIAN, ROMAN, EGYPTIAN, CARTHAGINIAN, NOMAD, EASTERN, GREEK).

2) do you know what text file I need to change if I want real formation names to appear in the formation display in the battle screen? My display still has the vanilla text, and I want the button tooltips to say, "Theban Phalanx," "Alexander's Formation," etc.

For this I believe you need two files located in main data\text folder of your Rome Total War install, the battle.txt and shortcut.txt

In the battle.txt file look for this section and edit accordingly.

{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_1}				Unit Group Formation: Single Line, Unsorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_2}				Unit Group Formation: Single Line, Sorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_3}				Unit Group Formation: Double Line, Unsorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_4}				Unit Group Formation: Double Line, Sorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_5}				Unit Group Formation: Republican Roman Legion Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_6}				Unit Group Formation: Imperial Roman Legion Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_7}				Unit Group Formation: Greek/Eastern/Barbarian Army Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_8}				Unit Group Formation: Column Formation

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¬*			THIS FILE GONE FOR LOCALISATION!!!
¬*		ALL CHANGES & ADDITIONS MADE POST THE DATE SPECIFIED 
¬*			BELOW MUST GO UNDERNEATH THIS DIVIDER!!!
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¬***** Changes made after 22/03/2004 17:30:00
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{BMT_CHAT_ALL_PLAYERS}		All Players
{BMT_NETWORK_INFO_PROBLEMS}	Encountered network problems
{BMT_NETWORK_INFO_RETRY}	Retry
{BMT_ABANDON_GAME}		Abandon Game
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_1}		Single Line, Unsorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_2}		Single Line, Sorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_3}		Double Line, Unsorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_4}		Double Line, Sorted Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_5}		Republican Roman Legion Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_6}		Imperial Roman Legion Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_7}		Greek/Eastern/Barbarian Army Formation
{BMT_GROUP_FORMATION_8}		Column Formation

In the shortcut.txt look for this section and edit accordingly.

{formation_1}				Unit Group Formation: Single Line, Unsorted Formation
{formation_2}				Unit Group Formation: Single Line, Sorted Formation
{formation_3}				Unit Group Formation: Double Line, Unsorted Formation
{formation_4}				Unit Group Formation: Double Line, Sorted Formation
{formation_5}				Unit Group Formation: Republican Roman Legion Formation
{formation_6}				Unit Group Formation: Imperial Roman Legion Formation
{formation_7}				Unit Group Formation: Greek/Eastern/Barbarian Army Formation
{formation_8}				Unit Group Formation: Column Formation

I 'think' these are the files you need to edit for the changes to happen ingame, though I am not to sure on this.

Hopefully I was of some help to you. It would be a good idea for Thorlof to add the ui file into his next release.

[Thorlof]

thanx Gaias. I have polish version RTW and BI and who know polish language ?

[Hephaistion]

Thanks, Gaias! That did the trick on both counts. Actually, while I was rewriting the text files, I realized that RTRPE also uses Darth's formations, so I ended up just cutting and pasting the text files from there.