Adding swimming units

**Diamondj** · 11-09-2007, 00:48

Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

An elephant can swim but it is nearly impossible to make him do so when you want him to.

Actually there are plenty of highly trained Indian elephants that do just that. Of course they may still kill you when they go into musk.

Anyways, you still may very well be correct about the 2.2 thousand year old war elephants.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-09-2007, 04:59

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I'd be interested in trying a RTW.exe mod with can_swim units.

I'm both lazy and short of time to do it myself.
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**iamphet** · 11-09-2007, 09:17

So far I think I would better create a "do it yourself" kit

A user downloads a program, edits config file to set desired criteria, runs the program and gets what he wanted

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-10-2007, 06:32

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Even better!

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**Markus_Aurelius** · 11-19-2007, 01:17

how do you make troops swim anyways? i added can swim to a couple units but......there not swimming, what am i doing wrong here guys?

**bovi** · 11-24-2007, 15:07

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

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I'd be interested in trying a RTW.exe mod with can_swim units.

I'm both lazy and short of time to do it myself.
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Not possible AFAIK. Only the BI executable understands swimming.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-24-2007, 18:16

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Originally Posted by iamphet

The extra good point is that in fact can_swim does not require BI

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

I'd be interested in trying a RTW.exe mod with can_swim units.

Originally Posted by bovi

Not possible AFAIK. Only the BI executable understands swimming.

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**bovi** · 11-25-2007, 12:32

It's a fact that this was a new feature in BI. Did they retrofit it into RTW? That sounds like something CA would not do, ref the Kingdoms things not being added to the original M2TW campaign.

Originally Posted by 1.5 patch release notes

Battle Map

Improvements have been made to prevent men spilling around the base of siege
towers.
There was a pathfinding issue that made river battles very slow. This has been
fixed.
Improvements have been made to the AI when orchestrating Skirmish Maneouvres.
The AI will now use 'fire at will' with idle units so that they throw pila at
nearby enemies.
The AI will now make a decision about throwing pila before charging into combat
based on the location of enemy units.

I suppose they could have guerilla added it though.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-26-2007, 05:01

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It may have sneaked with the patch. The only way to learn is trying but I'm *yawns* lazy...
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**iamphet** · 11-26-2007, 10:37

Well, I recall I saw swimming velites in Extended Realism mod when I run it with vanilla exe (no shieldwall etc of course). There was an ugly icon instead of blue waves in unit icon.
I'm wondering whether it was because I played too long

Will check.