New installer for Europa Barbarorum with Barbarian Invasion

**Chris1959** · 07-10-2008, 09:11

Dear Ferromancer,

I had a similar problem to Quirinus, so I uninstalled everything, I did a RTW install, BI install and then EB1.1, the only thing I've changed is the Activision folder is no longer in programme files.

I then installed your mod, I unchecked the banners box.

When I tried to run the game I got blank screen with " Generic Error unable to find skeleton "fs_fast_gladius" followed by CTD.

I unistalled Mod, re-downloaded it re-installed and same error message!

Any help, I loved playing 1.0 with your Mod, and had no problems.

**Quirinus Kuhlmann** · 07-10-2008, 19:22

After uninstalling the mod, I noticed another minor phenomenon, which is not disturbing in any way but still remarkable: My Generals still get the Night Fighter trait in vanilla EB. Of course they can't fight night battles, but the trait they have. Besides this, everything works fine so far, so I am far away from complaining about anything. Still wanted to mention it. Maybe the unistaller forgot to uninstall parts of the mod.
Like Chris1959 I think, this mod sounds very promising and interesting, and so I would appreciate some help so that I can play it. Besides this: Thank you for taking the time creating it and improving this wonderful game!

**Chris1959** · 07-11-2008, 11:34

Just done a complete re-install, defrag etc, this times in Programma Files and I got the same error and message as Quirinus

**Thrawny** · 07-12-2008, 00:44

Originally Posted by Chris1959

Dear Ferromancer,

I had a similar problem to Quirinus, so I uninstalled everything, I did a RTW install, BI install and then EB1.1, the only thing I've changed is the Activision folder is no longer in programme files.

I then installed your mod, I unchecked the banners box.

When I tried to run the game I got blank screen with " Generic Error unable to find skeleton "fs_fast_gladius" followed by CTD.

I unistalled Mod, re-downloaded it re-installed and same error message!

Any help, I loved playing 1.0 with your Mod, and had no problems.

I got the exact same message, so I uninstalled everything and started over. RTW, 1.3, 1.5, then BI, then 1.6, then EB 1.1, then your mod. THIS time, the mod starts up, shows the Barbarorus loading screen, then freezes. It stops responding and when I terminate the program, the option to send an error report pops up.

C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER2a8b.dir00\RomeTW-BI.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER2a8b.dir00\appcompat.txt

that's the information I could get from it...

I'll keep messing with it and see what happens.

I'll keep you posted.

**Quirinus Kuhlmann** · 07-12-2008, 06:05

Thank you Thrawny and good luck!

**Quirinus Kuhlmann** · 07-13-2008, 19:15

I solved the problem for me by following the instructions in this post:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...3&postcount=85

and then installing the mod.
I followed only the ones about renaming the files and did not create a shortcut, because the installer does that. While installing it seemed to be a little irritaded and got stuck for a while with the loading bar twisting about, but then it finished successfully and I could start a campain. So far it works fine, though I did not have the time to test a lot yet.
Good luck to you, Chris and Thrawny.

**dutch81** · 07-13-2008, 20:16

Just wanted to send a postive word out as well ... I had no problem w/ your install and the game has been very stable (somehow more stable then my EB v1.1). I really appreciate your efforts and think they really paid off ... keep up the good work!

My only suggestion is that less troops be able to swim there are some troops that have quite a bit of armor and are still able to swim ... I think that only the lightest (unarmored) of troops should be able to swim.

**dutch81** · 07-14-2008, 20:03

Another suggestion for consideration is to bring down the expense for the maintenance of navies not because it wasn't expensive but you just end up with stacks of pirates because no one can maintain a proper navy. Especially playing with BI (not officially supported by EB) the computer is actually capable of some raiding and a navy becomes more important, enough so that some landbridges could be removed. Now people complain the stacks they bring are small and I have rarely seen anything bigger then 10 but even a 5-6 unit stack can bring me a world of hurt in Italy as I rarely have a garrison bigger then 1 slinger / or a general in a city. Also pirates should only be able to bloackade damaging the player economically, and take out the odd transport, a proper navy should win out 90% of the time. If the pirate stats were brought down even more the 1 attack maybe 2 defend and their spawn rate was actuaslly increased the economic damage they could do would be increased ... at the same it would motivate the powers to maintain at least a small navy and give them a chance to defeat the pirates at sea.

**Shadow_LT** · 07-15-2008, 16:32

Hi , I am very interested in this add-on, but is it possible to install only perm. fixes and not temp. ones? I have client ruler script removed from my game and temp. fixes would mess my game up.

**Ferromancer** · 07-17-2008, 02:21

Originally Posted by dutch81

Another suggestion for consideration is to bring down the expense for the maintenance of navies not because it wasn't expensive but you just end up with stacks of pirates because no one can maintain a proper navy. Especially playing with BI (not officially supported by EB) the computer is actually capable of some raiding and a navy becomes more important, enough so that some landbridges could be removed. Now people complain the stacks they bring are small and I have rarely seen anything bigger then 10 but even a 5-6 unit stack can bring me a world of hurt in Italy as I rarely have a garrison bigger then 1 slinger / or a general in a city. Also pirates should only be able to bloackade damaging the player economically, and take out the odd transport, a proper navy should win out 90% of the time. If the pirate stats were brought down even more the 1 attack maybe 2 defend and their spawn rate was actuaslly increased the economic damage they could do would be increased ... at the same it would motivate the powers to maintain at least a small navy and give them a chance to defeat the pirates at sea.

Historically speaking, navies are expensive to maintain. Pirates blockading ports is a simulation of pirates plundering your trade traffic. Once you secure a bunch of coastal cities in an area, the pirate navies tend to die down. Or you have a significant fleet on patrol.

If facing naval invasion, either you keep decent stacks of units where invasions take place, or build a navy.

Of course, you could always mod the unit costs of navies yourself.

**Ferromancer** · 07-17-2008, 02:25

Originally Posted by dutch81

Just wanted to send a postive word out as well ... I had no problem w/ your install and the game has been very stable (somehow more stable then my EB v1.1). I really appreciate your efforts and think they really paid off ... keep up the good work!

My only suggestion is that less troops be able to swim there are some troops that have quite a bit of armor and are still able to swim ... I think that only the lightest (unarmored) of troops should be able to swim.

Can you remember which units seemed odd with the swim ability? I can take a closer look at the EDU then.

**Aut Nihil** · 07-19-2008, 12:40

Good day everyone,

I tried installing your mod after I did a fresh install off EB on top of BI but when I get ingame and try to click 'Main Campaign' it gives me 'Please select an option from the list below' and I can only chose 'Historical battle' or 'custom battle'.

Then when I close EB it gives me an error message saying: "Script error in eb/data/world/maps/barbarian_invasion/descr.strat.txt at line 31, column 1." "Expected start date of campaign or battle"

Any idea on what I did wrong exactly?

Cheers

**Ferromancer** · 07-17-2008, 02:23

Originally Posted by Chris1959

Dear Ferromancer,

I had a similar problem to Quirinus, so I uninstalled everything, I did a RTW install, BI install and then EB1.1, the only thing I've changed is the Activision folder is no longer in programme files.

I then installed your mod, I unchecked the banners box.

When I tried to run the game I got blank screen with " Generic Error unable to find skeleton "fs_fast_gladius" followed by CTD.

I unistalled Mod, re-downloaded it re-installed and same error message!

Any help, I loved playing 1.0 with your Mod, and had no problems.

If you've installed the game in a different location than the default in program files, you have to point the installer to the new location. Try reinstalling again and picking the correct folder when prompted to do so.