Fanatic’s First Cohort/Phalanx/Elephant/Chariot minimod

[Darth Stalin]

Hey, SunShadow: that's good to hear that on ALX.exe the Praetorians can be brought back...

BTW:
what lines of code and where should be placed to get them back to business? (I mean, possibly in DMB, EDU and EDB files?)

[Pezlu]

I simply used WinMerge (open source file compare tool, an excellent tool for "soft-modding" ) to compare EB files with TWFanatic's files, and copied back all the entries referring to praetorian cavalry

I also added the new rebellion fix to the EDB (it wasn't included in this minimod)

I don't remember exactly what I did, but basically you need to copy all the sections referring to praetorian cavalry in the following files:

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In EB\Data:
descr_model_battle.txt
export_descr_buildings.txt
export_descr_sounds_units_voice.txt
export_descr_unit.txt

In EB\Data\text:
export_units.txt

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If TWFanatic agrees, I could just upload my own version of his minimod

It's basically the same, but includes equites praetoriani and the latest version of the fix to export_descr_buildings.txt

I think it works only with ALX however, due to the praetorian cavalry... EB has already the maximum number of units and/or models for the standard RTW, AFAIK. Not tested with RTW.exe or BI.exe though.

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Tested only a little with ALX.exe but no problems for now; campaign works, battles work too, and I've tried a custom battle with equites praetoriani, both first cohorts and a bunch of hoplites and makedonian phalanxes. It worked perfectly (and I'm amazed by the new "classical hoplite phalanx", waaaay more effective now)

[Darth Stalin]

Well, could You just put here the fragments of code referring to praetorian cavalry? I think I haven't saved my original EB files - I've installed First Cohost mod, then modded it a few times (with MiniMe's od etc.) and I'm afraid I have nothing to copy from... (though I may get wrong)

EDIT:
forget about that: I've just unzipped the EB installer and copied these files from it; I'll only have to find the time to dig into them...

[Pezlu]

If you use WinMerge or something similar it's very easy if you have the originals, just compare them and copy back the sections referring to preatorian cavalry; I really recommend it

I'd post the snippets of code, but the difficult thing to do in a forum is to write where they should be inserted; sometimes it's fine to add them at the end, but sometimes not... think of the EDB for example.

As I said, if TWFanatic agrees I can just upload it

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@TWFanatic: one more question: why did you set the exact same stats for both first cohortes?

[TWFanatic]

If TWFanatic agrees, I could just upload my own version of his minimod

By all means, go ahead.

one more question: why did you set the exact same stats for both first cohortes?

Don't ask me, ask the EB team. Their pre-marian and post-marian cohorts both have the exact same stats. I merely followed their example.

I added Equites Praetoriani back; but you mentioned they are "highly bugged". I wanted to ask how, exactly, so I could correct the bugs (if possible, since I'm not a modder myself... I just play around a bit with the files) and still keep them.

For some people, they give CTD's. Or, if you're lucky, crazy flashing black lines all over the place that utterly ruin the game. Perhaps you're very lucky and have no problem at all?

[Pezlu]

By all means, go ahead.

Thanks!

Here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?2yjmtyjgdjg

If the download doesn't work, just reply and I'll add another

For installation, extract in RTW main folder (NOT eb subfolder), just like the original ;)

Note that I modified "chocolate" version only

Don't ask me, ask the EB team. Their pre-marian and post-marian cohorts both have the exact same stats. I merely followed their example.

Mmh... now that you mention it, I had noticed it a while ago.

For some people, they give CTD's. Or, if you're lucky, crazy flashing black lines all over the place that utterly ruin the game. Perhaps you're very lucky and have no problem at all?

As I told you, I didn't use them much for now... maybe I've been lucky these few times

However, if they are SO buggy, I'd recommend everyone to try at least a custom battle with equites praetoriani before doing anything serious with my version of the mod... if they are buggy, better to stick with TWFanatic version even with ALX.exe

Do you know what happens if someone with "original" EB or my version of the mod already has equites praetoriani in the campaign THEN installs your version of the mod? It may be needed if they give CTDs, but wouldn't it give problems?

[TWFanatic]

It would CTD. As I said before, this mod is fully compatible with any campaign unless the campaign currently has equites praetoriani trained.