Weird message

[nara shikamaru]

Ok not sure if this goes here, or the apothecary(i think), but if i goofed, sorry . Now onto the problem, its weird, after putting down MTW for a few days, I decide to fire it up, but it never loads and i get a message say something to the effect of:

Unknown unit type encountered: Column 2, row 46

125.

Literally if you put that in the windo it appears in, thats how it looks, 125 ends up like that, but i digress. Has anyone seen this before? Where do i have to go to fix this?

I haven't done any self modding since i opened all the factions, I did ask about how to change the king/prince units, but i never tried that as i was unsure of it. I only have MTW with the medmod for it, no VI.

P.S. I finally found a cheap copy of VI, I really miss it, i played it before on my bros comp, i miss my Saxon campaign, but i am going off topic even before the thread ahs begun.

[Caliburn]

Sounds like a CRUSADERS_UNIT_PROD11.TXT -related problem, at least I got them when I was sloppy modding the files, but I don't have too much modding experience and it might be any of the other unit-related files I guess.

Try replacing the crusaders_unit_prod11.txt and the crusaders_build_prod13.txt in case they're corrupted or something. Or wait for a while as someone who really knows about this stuff comes along and finds a real solution.

[nara shikamaru]

Ok i'll admit what I'm gonna ask I should have asked before, but i never think of past the initial problem until i look at my orginal post, and any responses. Anyway I'm curious, if Caliburn is right, and its something to do with CRUSADERS_UNIT_PROD11.TXT, then what does it mean by column 2 row 46, 125? Is this were the problem is in the file, or something else?

[caravel]

Have you been trying to mod any units, Urban Militia for example?

[macsen rufus]

That is definitely a unit_prod problem. Usually the column/row figures it gives will point to the actual problem, but sometimes it can point to where it first notices things are out of kilter.

In column 2 it expects to find a UNIT TYPE (CAVALRY, INFANTRY, MOUNT, SHIP or AGENT), but instead it has a value of "125" in there. Now column 3 is the UNIT COST. So it looks like the unit in ROW 46, has had its UNIT TYPE deleted, and the game is trying to read its unit cost as a type instead. Alternatively a tab may be missing from the previous entry. I would say get Gnome and repair it with that, but Gnome will not be able to open a corrupted file like this. Your best bet is to reload your default unit_prod files, and those from any mod that may be installed. This should solve the problem for you.

Good luck.

[nara shikamaru]

Thanks guys, and i fixed my problem, albeit probably not the best way. I looked into the unit_prod file, and was going nuts trying to figure out what the message meant, till a thought occured. I decided to install the Medmod for VI i downloaded, which i did before without realizing it only works for VI, and then re-install the medmod for regular MTW, and well the problem was fixed, I had access to all my saved games, and all. All I lost was some little changes i made to what some factions started with.

I don't know what doing what i did do, but it's fixed, and hopefully My copy of VI will be here soon.

[gaiusjulii]

you can get the gnome file editor from www.totalwar.org and that will give you the exact break down of every unit including the line numbers when I am modding I use this to find the unit causing me problems... just for future reference for you