ALEXANDER EB

[Darth Revan]

I messed up on my 2nd install and forgot to add the alex exe and started taking away documents id added previously an started losing myself till i realised what id really done.

Anyway its working again and i have the night attack function in my campaign, but when i tested it as koinon hellon it wouldnt let me click the box for night attack with 1 general.

But with another it let me click the box and night attack worked, shudnt it always let u click the box and then see what the out come is?


I feel the AI has improved in battle now its time to check the campaign role play to see if its made the right effects.

Il be so happy if its working correctly :)

ps. Wub u vartan :P

Finally, you got it through.......
Only those generals who have the ability Night Fighter can participate in a night battle.....& they have an extra command star at night.......

Meanwhile, I am playin' EAEM as Macedon & KH are very powerful in that.......But I am gonna' crush them anyways.........

[lionhard]

I know rofl.


Now i have a problem and its a major draw back

When you click on a unit whilst in a battle or even a spot far away on the map normally on any of the other games ur camera will qfind that unit or spot and place you directly behind it if you quickly move the mouse whilst its performing this action it will be done with in a second wasting no time.

On the alex engine version of EB iv just modded When i do the above rather than my screen finding the unit faster it reverts back to the location i just came from, this is a huge drawback and im wondering does any 1 else get that who has used the alex engine on EB?

shame really i changed my camera settings to exactly the same as my vanilla EB version on my laptop and its still doin it.

Any suggestions wudnt go a miss ty

Edit: Iv just tryed playing vanilla alexander and the same happends damn it, this is a real problem what am i supposed to do when i need to find a unit on the battle field fast? wait 2 minutes for the slow camera to scrolle accross the whole map whilst precious time is being wasted?

[vartan]

I know rofl.


Now i have a problem and its a major draw back

When you click on a unit whilst in a battle or even a spot far away on the map normally on any of the other games ur camera will qfind that unit or spot and place you directly behind it if you quickly move the mouse whilst its performing this action it will be done with in a second wasting no time.

On the alex engine version of EB iv just modded When i do the above rather than my screen finding the unit faster it reverts back to the location i just came from, this is a huge drawback and im wondering does any 1 else get that who has used the alex engine on EB?

shame really i changed my camera settings to exactly the same as my vanilla EB version on my laptop and its still doin it.

Any suggestions wudnt go a miss ty

Edit: Iv just tryed playing vanilla alexander and the same happends damn it, this is a real problem what am i supposed to do when i need to find a unit on the battle field fast? wait 2 minutes for the slow camera to scrolle accross the whole map whilst precious time is being wasted?

Yes, that's actually an Alex thing. Sorry for that, but there's nothing we can do about it.

P.S. Wub ya too. =P

[option]

I decided to try my hand at getting EB ALEX (engine only) to work for my comp, and followed all the instruction vartan laid out. I couldn't quite make the whole target-path thing work (only the one that didn't actually target the engine itself, but only the directory it's located in worked, the other kept telling me the file path wasn't valid), but I managed to get it to run with my regular EB icon. It seems to load fine, with the Alexander line appearing at the bottom of the initial game startup screen, but I get some really weird bugs with my saved games. Everything seems to be normal, but the traits of my FMs are all really screwed up - just about all of them have 'Father Avenged Against Sabaens', 'Mediocre When Outnumbered', 'Silun-Pisun (or something) Defender' and 'Recruited General'. All their races are changed, too - in my Epeiros campaign, all my family members are Sogdianos, Ionios, or some other weird race they shouldn't be. Also, in my Baktrian campaign, my faction leader has lost the 'Baktria Victory Conditions' and had it replaced with 'Qart-Hadast Victory Conditions' and 'Saba Victory Conditions'. Everything seems to be as per norm when I start a new campaign, but I can't figure out how to fix this traits thing. Any ideas?

EDIT: I should add that EVERY family member in both my Baktrian and Epirote campaigns also has Hiero of Syrakousai's biography. This is too weird.

[vartan]

Lol guys. It seems like I'm going to have to go back and reinstall EB Alex Engine-Only so I can remember how I exactly did it so I can finally help y'all.

I'm sorry you guys aren't able to fix this. Maksimus is this mod's creator and he knows the ins and outs. It really was quite simple for me to get it working but then again, I catch on really quickly to stuff like this.

Best of luck and I'll let y'all know if I get any good results.

P.S. I hope I can actually continue my saved campaign using the EB Alex Engine Only mod.

[Darth Revan]

Save games do not work with EB (Alex engine)......The traits get messed up in exactly the same way as mentioned by option......In my macedonian campaign, my faction heir was making the Seleucids bite the dust........After replacing the engine files in favour of ALEX engine, he got the same traits as mentioned by option......replacing his fine character with rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ Lionhard, you can pause the game to save time when giving commands..........

[Knight of Heaven]

hello , well just to say i finaly put alex engine to work as well the alex exe, i kwon it i didnt mess up with the instalation, the problem was the trivial script, in my instalation of EB the Documentation, and trivial script werent install in Rome total war folder they were in another folder diferent from C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War
What i did was to move the trivial script folder to rome TW and change the single player exe and fire it up, and it worked, been doing a nice campaing with no ctds so far , very smoothly :P and i can still play online becouse i use the MP icon exe who starts with rome exe and not the alex exe. just to report it if anyone as the same problem.

[lionhard]

I had 1 CDT with Koinon Hellon when i went to end a turn, other than that and my camera which ill have to get used to, i have no problems.


Oh 1 thing iv been taking the southern cities from macedonia and in the process they did not retaliate for years, even though they had half garrison cities that were not under threat. (I even had time to send my whole army and take Krete with out any trouble from macedonia) (this was after i had just took 2 of their cities)

1 other note was that normally at the start epirus takes pella with phyrros and his mighty army but for the first time with the alex engine installed epirus did not even attack pella but just sat in the same place next to pella until finally a macedonian army attacked.

As mentioned above Macedonia actually attacked phyrros and failed presenting phyrros with a heroic victory.

In my 10 year campaign so far No cities have been seiged by either macedonia or epirus which is weird :S


Also 1 of the main points here is that macedonia attack a half garrisoned city of mine with only 2 units (a general) and a basic phalanax. when i countered the seige they simply ran away.

I thought installing alex was supposed to stop idiotic things like this happening lol?

I have to say in battle the AI seems better, i only had 1 problem when seiging krete 3 ai units on the walls held their positions whilst i was raping the rest of the ai in the middle and around the fort.



Oh and question. What advantages/disadvantages/effects does night attack make?

[Knight of Heaven]

yes i saw some idiotics things like this before still, they do atack in force if you let then time ...i mean , im playing makedonia, i kick ass against KH and take all cities in greece next i hold my ground , èpirus still ataking alot i had a heroic victory in some hills near demetrias, èpirus still atack time to time but with no real force, then i try something diferent, i build a fleet , and atack Krete, next i take Cyrene, and so on untill alexandria, i take alexandria and menphis, in greece i only did take thermon and Ambrakia, ill not move more in greece till i get all lower Egypt and judea, and sidon, only then i will turn my attention to anatolia and greece. this is on H/H i guess will try a very hard campaing next time

[Darth Revan]

yes i saw some idiotics things like this before still, they do atack in force if you let then time ...i mean , im playing makedonia, i kick ass against KH and take all cities in greece next i hold my ground , èpirus still ataking alot i had a heroic victory in some hills near demetrias, èpirus still atack time to time but with no real force, then i try something diferent, i build a fleet , and atack Krete, next i take Cyrene, and so on untill alexandria, i take alexandria and menphis, in greece i only did take thermon and Ambrakia, ill not move more in greece till i get all lower Egypt and judea, and sidon, only then i will turn my attention to anatolia and greece. this is on H/H i guess will try a very hard campaing next time

I am also playing as Macedon on an H/H difficulty in EAEM......yeah, Pyrrohs did'nt attack me........instead he moved his army to his own country possibly to attack the northern Illyrians or to attack Rome.....Only time will tell how he'll get his next pyrrhic victory........

[Aemilius Paulus]

So, does anyone know where I can read more about EAEM? I recommended the normal version to lionhard because it is what he seemed to want, not to mention EAEM is trickier to install.

I was thinking of switching from regular EB on ALEX to EAEM but I am not sure what the advantages are, as I can simply add the units I want myself, and add the ones I really want, such as certain RTR units I ahd my eye on...

[vartan]

EAEM is just as easy to install.

Once you've got RTW 1.5 and the Alex executable on your computer, run EAEM install, copy fixes, and make the appropriate shortcut. Voila. Simple as that.

P.S. I wouldn't play EAEM unless I enjoyed the extra challenge. Plus, it's nice that you start with elites. Oh, and you won't really know how good it is unless you install it for yourself. Just try it out, you've nothing to lose =]

[lionhard]

it sounds like a good mod but i dont want to stray too far from EB.


That alex mod AI is deffo better, the only let down is the camera modes that the alex engine posses.

Any 1 got an answer for what advantages u get from performing a night attack?

p.s has ne 1 got any decent ss's from the EAEM game that could help ppl see what its like.



This damn mod shud have its own forum or web page, 1 single topic holding all the info between 2 little mods is a joke ppl r confused and i think this mod would have lost a lot of popularity on the fact ppl struggle to understand whats goin on.

[Aemilius Paulus]

EAEM is just as easy to install.

Once you've got RTW 1.5 and the Alex executable on your computer, run EAEM install, copy fixes, and make the appropriate shortcut. Voila. Simple as that.

Easy for you and me, but lionhard had difficulty installing the normal alex.exe, hence my recommendation. I am a rather experienced modder myself, so the installation difficulty is irrelevant.

How save-game compatible is EAEM? What does it feature? Honestly. I am not going to install something I have no idea about. I am not going to make a copy of RTW and EB just for this mod. I have already downloaded it, but I need more info on it. I am definitely going to keep the vanilla EB desc_strat because the starting elites feature is not realistic.

[vartan]

@AP: consider EAEM not save compatible

@lion: the screens wont say much. game looks the same acts the same. same AI, etc as engine only (of course). only some stuff like full stack enemies and rebels and cities and so on and so forth. if you're like AP, you won't bother taking a try. if you do have time and are willing, I suggest you try it. it won't hurt.

[Maksimus]

hello everyone I have been away a bit :)

Now, i cant really go last 2 pages but I can tell you all you need to know now

:)

[lionhard]

What advantages/ disadvantages does night attack pose?

[Darth Revan]

I took a screenshot of the results of my 1st battle in EAEM......It shows a lot of units you get in the game....I pressed the printscreen key when the results were displayed & than pasted it in an open office document.....Any idea how to upload it here ??????

@ Lionhard, Can't answer that for sure.....but in EAEM as macedon...there is a mercenary general for KH alongside Chermiondes......if I lay siege on Athens and attack than the mercenary general becomes reinforcements for KH....but if I attack at night than KH has no reinforcements at Athens......cause that general is not night battle capable......

[lionhard]

Yeh save it in paint as a JPEG file, it will then be stored in my pictures u can then choose manage attachments at the bottom when u make a post and chose to browse and upload the picture.

It has to be a JPEG btw so make sure u change it :P



P.s can ur generals aqquier the trait night attack or are they born with it?

Also are their any other traits unique to Alexander?

[Roka]

i might be being dumb here, but were do you install EAEM to?

is it your r:tw folder, or the EB folder?

[Darth Revan]

i might be being dumb here, but were do you install EAEM to?

is it your r:tw folder, or the EB folder?

@ Roka In your RTW folder......

@ Lionhard Nah, no other unique traits......I guess generals are born with Night battle capability........but I am not sure.......

[Roka]

@ Roka In your RTW folder......

@ Lionhard Nah, no other unique traits......I guess generals are born with Night battle capability........but I am not sure.......

thanks, i'd already figured it out though

everything is up and running

[Darth Revan]

Unfortunately my screenshot is a way to big so I can't upload......anyone knows how to manually resize it ????????????????????

Its a good screenshot otherwise.........

[lionhard]

I meant to ask, following reading some info on how factions act different with the alex engine, i read that some guy was casse and the rebels attacked him and killed casse, its also knowledge that naval invations r common.


Now my question is, on vanilla EB u never get casse coming onto mainland europe they dont even build ships also small islands including krete and sardin and cyprus never get invaded by the AI. Does using Alex change this?

Has any 1 experienced anything mad that would never happen on vanilla EB. (I say mad but its what shud actually happen if the game had a proper engine lol)

p.s i have no family members with the night attack ability the only family member i had with it died so what happends now will some 1 randomly spawn with night attack ability?

[Maksimus]

Hi,

ALL of the AI advantages are based on ALX.exe

However, since EB vanilla script dont give much air and life to AI enemy factions EAEM script gives in life and invasions and other start tweaks.

[Aurgelmir]

hi

Can somebody tell me why the copy/paste thing(shortcut) doesnt work...
I read almost 51 pages for 3 hours now...i really want so say lol now,but my face hurts doing it

I have a copy of rome upgraded to alexander
Installed EB...1.2...fixes
Then i installed EAEM.exe..with fixes
But then when i want to add the shortcut line...it wont let me..it doesn't recognize the path...or something like that(its in dutch here)

I read that you should change the shortcutlines before installing alexander
first:pls dont tell that is true
second:??? why...isnt there a way around it

First thing i thought when reading the first post....Yes..have bought alexander recently...this looks easy to install..like always

Of course by reading the few lines above,you will conclude that...always...wasn't there this time(damn vacation time)

Pls could someone help me with this...

btw...i also concluded,that i have to be an idiot,because 51 pages full of people got it to work

Again i want to try...lol...still hurts,especially around the left eyeball


Pls dont suggest to change target line,because it doesn't work here
What mistake did i made?

[CarolvsAntonivs]

Hi maks, for some rease i can't download the fixes, when i try to download it from filefront, it redirects me to the main page, can you fix that??? or can you upload to another filehost???

[Maksimus]

sure here are new fixes

http://www.zshare.net/download/61175411001c783e/

[lionhard]

Hi,

ALL of the AI advantages are based on ALX.exe

However, since EB vanilla script dont give much air and life to AI enemy factions EAEM script gives in life and invasions and other start tweaks.

Cant the alex engine get tweaked so it is better than vanilla eb?


also i have no family members with the night fight ability and i have never been attacked by night so whats the deal with it, is it ever used in campaign?

[Cyclops]

I am a bit sad because I have failed to get the Alex (and BI for that matter) for EB 1.2 to work.

I have completely scraped out all RTW and mods from my system. I then:

1. Installed RTW GE

2 Installed ALX

3 Installed EB 1.1

4 Installed EB 1.2

5 Installed fixes

6 Installed Alex for EB 1.2

7 Changed target (and made sure it had the right "start in" location) on the ALX shortie

FIVE TIMES.

Each time it loads up fine (nice'n'quick too) but I click on Main Campaign and it says "Choose an item from the list". Did the same when I tried to re-install EB for BI.

I put this down to my system being a bit long in the tooth, and suspect ETW has played some havoc with my system. By golly it was hard to get rid of it, and especially Steam, which seemingly ruined my M2TW install (totally bugged when I installed ETW, and now I can't uninstall some components, very angry it has made me).

I return to EB 1.2 without ALX or BI: its a fantastic mod, but I'm sad I didn't get to taste ALX. Maybe when I get my next machine in a year or two...