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    Default will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    as the game starts at BC272,while hannibal was born at 247BC, so i wanna know if i play as Carthage when the very year comes will hannibal be born? of course i'll try to keep his father hamilcar alive..

    i know maybe he'll never appear in the game as it's hardcoded and nothing can do about it,i just wanna confirm that,thanks!


    besides, every general only has 8 slots for ancillaries, so when i put 1-2 FMs into a city with academy, they each get full 8 ancillaries very soon and can receive no more ancillary. and in most occations,the ancillaries are not the type i actually want,such as family trainer(well,this seems not contributed by academy),or overseers(plus your unrest),or spear carrier(but this general has been,is,will never go into battle) or clerk(as there's too many of clerks!), but the ancillary i really want(e.g. mining engineer) still very rare as they have no chance to appear.

    so,could you tell me how to enlarge the max number of ancillary for my generals?

    thanks in advance!
    Last edited by ross1025; 11-22-2007 at 01:43.

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    Default Re: will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    No, I don't think it will.

    There might be a general who's born in 247Bc, and he might be called Hannibal Barca, but this will just be coincidence. He has every chance to be clownshoes!
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    Default Re: will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    No, Hannibal will not appear. Hamilcar could have a first born son, with a randomly generated name. You could pretend that he is Hannibal. But there is no way to have Hannibal after the start date and have him part of the family tree.

    8 is the hardcoded max to ancillaries. Some ancillaries everybody has one of, no matter what (retainer, clerk, spearbearer). If you want, you can find somebody with no ancillaries and transfer bad ones to him (the ones everyone has are nontransferable) and then hope the guys you want will get some of the good ones. And remember, some have certain conditions, like you have to spend a lot of time in a city with a mine you will get mining engineer, but not in a city without a mine.


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    Who needs Hannibal when you can conquer Rome with the mighty and undefeated General Akbar!
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    "It's a trap!"
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    Default Re: will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    thanks for all answers above. maybe i'll try to conquer Roma by Hamilcar himself ^_^.

    and to Geoffrey S,i'm sorry i dont quite understand your words?

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    He is referring to General Akbar and a classic movie from the 1980's. A certain admiral once exclaimed, "It's a trap."

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    got it now~

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    May the force be with you. There sould be some star wars smilies.
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    Default Re: will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    NO, he does not appear in the game

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    Default Re: will hannibal appear historically? +some other questions..

    Wondering why CA hardcoded in this way the ancillaries . As RTW vanilla it's very annoying . They could have made them withn a buton of dismiss. Or a place where you could put the ancillaries to wait so we distribute them as we want.

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    Well I guess they did it to save on the resources your PC needs to have to run RTW. You see 8 is strikingly similar to 2^3... (Unused memory allocated to a memory adress can't be used for storing other data than whatever you expect there to be else bad things may happen. E.g.: suppose an ancillary can be seen as an object and if you put both an 'ancillary' object and an 'trait' object on the same memory adress you can't be sure of what object you get when you read the memory at that adress.)
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