Ancillary: DREAD Knight !

**Shahed** · 05-31-2007, 16:51

Hi All !

I got this ancillary in my Danish campaign a while back. It was a great campaign. I held the 3 main Scandinavian provinces for the duration of the game fighting much larger and reasonably challenging enemies. I got this ancillary quite early in game though. Got the Dread Knight for the first time in this campaign.

Has anyone seen this ancillary regularly ?

SALUTE !

**Alsn** · 05-31-2007, 17:51

Ive gotten it a couple of times but i cant say if its just a random chance for any dread general or if it has some other kind of trigger :/ (or can you look that up in some file perhaps?)

**Kobal2fr** · 05-31-2007, 19:03

IIRC it's triggered by generals who already have the Berserker trait, which is gained in battle fairly rarely (or at birth, especially for the Danes who have a bonus trigger for it)

**alpaca** · 05-31-2007, 19:07

You get it when attacking with at max even odds and killing at least two thirds of the enemy army, and the battle has to be won under participation of your general.
Of course you mustn't have any chivalry traits, either

Here's the code for you kobal:

Code:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger knight_dread_vnv_trigger
    WhenToTest PostBattle
    Condition WasAttacker
          and IsGeneral
          and WonBattle
          and GeneralFoughtInCombat
          and BattleOdds < 1.2
          and PercentageEnemyKilled > 66
          and not Trait BattleChivalry > 0
          and not Trait StrategyChivalry > 0

    AcquireAncillary knight_dread chance  25

By the way, when I first got him I thought "WTF? Is this HoMM 3 or what?"

**Shahed** · 05-31-2007, 19:13

Thanks for the code. LOL ! Yeah it is funny.

**Kobal2fr** · 05-31-2007, 19:21

Hmm. I was wrong. How disconcerting.

Or at least it would be, if it didn't happen about 12 times a day :p.

And don't you knock HoMM 3, you filthy little munchkin ! It remains the greatest HoMM that ever was, and ever will be. So sayeth the wiseman Me.

(Now, me, I instantly thought "How cool ! I got the Black Knight ! None shall pass !", but that may be because I first got him after a bridge battle :} )

**Shahed** · 05-31-2007, 19:24

HAHAHHAA !!!! Kobal you got a great sense of humor ! I've also noticed some Muslim ancillary portraits while browsing the image files, but these don't seem to be active. For example there are knights for Muslim characters, different from the Christian knights. There are also some Sufi looking portraits and a couple of women.