Thanks for the quick response, R'as al Ghul.

That's good news about the facshields. It will be nice to add those back in.

I'm not sure what I would edit in the names.txt for the famous kings. All the names lists that I added work correctly. It's just that the famous kings don't show up with the correct stats and VNV's.

This is the list I used for my kings. I gave them all the same attributes for testing purposes:

FAMOUS_KINGS:: FN_HEATHEN 7
//name no. c d p a portrait vnv
0, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
0, 2, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
1, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
2, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
3, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
4, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2
5, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, -1, mightywarrior2

My starting king is William I, the first king in this list, and he shows up with the correct attributes when the game starts. When his son, William II, becomes king, he does not have the correct attributes. In fact, none of the other kings, except the starting king, shows up with the correct attributes.
According to my list; William1, William2, Michael1, John1, David1, etc. should all show up as mighty warriors. Only Wiliam1 does. The rest show up with random attributes, just like other kings.

I found some discussion about this in the archives, but couldn't see where anyone had verified that they got it to work. Am I just missing something?

Now that I think about it, I usually play as the Germans in the un-modded game, and I don't remember any of their famous kings showing up with the correct stats either, other than the starting king.