There's no way to edit movement points other than through descr_character.txt, is there? You can set the captain movement points to zero, and the overall army group can't move on the map, but units within it still can. Hence the question.

And besides, what defines that cavalry have more movement points than infantry anyway? Please don't tell me it's hardcoded... EDU doesn't set it, as far as I can tell.

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never seen anything other than the action points setting in the descr_character. *might* be something somewhere about the movement cost of various terrain but i couldn't find it in rtw. i'd guess cavalry getting extra movement is hard-coded based on the class of the unit in the EDU.

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I can confirm that the cavalry movement bonus and artillery movement malus are hardcoded. There isn't any value for them anywhere in files.

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Hmm, that's kind of buggy then, because units within a 0-movement captain still retain all their moves, and can move out, even though they themselves are 'captain' units also.

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Interestingly, there is also a setting of default movement points, across the board for everyone. Ideally I want all armies to have 0 movement points and only be able to move in the presence of a general. That's what I'm trying to accomplish. But as above, setting captain's movement points to zero did not affect soldiers within the captain's army.

Now that I found this default movement points setting, I made everyone have 10 movement points, and gave named characters 200 points to counterbalance. All units within captain's army have 10 movements, but named chars don't seem to benefit in any way from the very large amount of moves given to them, and still maintain 10 movement points just like everyone else.

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can you do it with traits as movement point bonuses are a percentage (i think) so you'd have your default ten and then give all family generals a big movement trait.

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