Start with Hannibal?

**alatar** · 08-16-2007, 19:28

Why not just script him in?

**Foot** · 08-16-2007, 19:32

because the events that led up to his birth and rise to power were not decided in 272, and we don't railroad the player into a history. What if his father dies before he could have fathered hannibal, it would just be silly.

Basically it is a policy of eb not to spawn historical generals in who were not alive in some form in 272

Foot

**theroyalwe** · 08-16-2007, 20:17

Originally Posted by alatar

Why not just script him in?

I perfectly understand why the EB team wouldn't script him in because of their policy, but is it possible to script him in through a mini-mod of EB?

**bovi** · 08-16-2007, 20:23

Yes.

**theroyalwe** · 08-16-2007, 20:37

Originally Posted by bovi

Yes.

Alright, well maybe I'll do the research and make my own.. Or if someone else is nice enough to make one for me.. Maybe to have Hannibal spawn in a certain year when he started his military career or something..

**theroyalwe** · 08-17-2007, 14:27

I did some research, and it looks like scripting is a little more complicated than I thought.. Atleast with a modded version of RTW.. All the tutorials I have read are used with Vanilla RTW and I can't get those to work with EB..

Any advice from you scripting experts? Maybe someone can atleast point me in the right direction?

**bovi** · 08-18-2007, 20:53

Maybe you'll get some help from this (non-tested and probably gamebreaking code).

Code:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
and I_TurnNumber = <number>
spawn_army
faction egypt
character Hannibal Barca, named character, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 16, x <coordinate>, y <coordinate>
console_command give_trait "Hannibal Barca" some_trait
console_command give_trait "Hannibal Barca" another_trait
...
end_monitor