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[Herennius Volsinius]

Right now, I only have two factions in my campaign - the huns and the rebels. I have given the huns a leader. Is it necessary for the rebels to have one as well? I didn't think it was as they don't have one in the original RTW.

[Makanyane]

It might not be counting it as two factions (if you had more factions you definitely wouldn't need slave general but worth a try)
try just giving them a general, that's all my minimum map had for them.

If you've only got huns in though remember to make them sub_faction huns like

character sub_faction romans_julii, Aulus, general, age 38, , x 2, y 6

[Herennius Volsinius]

I tried adding a slave general but had no luck. I have uploaded my campaign folder with all the files as well as the regions and settlements stringtable. If you are content enough to look at my work and see if you can find any errors, I would be most grateful. The link is http://files.filefront.com/test+camp.../fileinfo.html
Thanks for all your help on this topic, Makanyane.

[Red Spot]

giving rebels (slave-faction) a family works just fine, just a wee bit diff. than adding a family to normal factions ..

as example my slave-faction leader and heir;

character	sub_faction romans_julii, Primus, named character, leader, age 60, , x 78, y 155 
traits RS_Pagan 1, RS_NonRoman 1, RS_NonRomanFamily 2, RS_Leader2 1, RS_StartGame 1, RS_Command 2, RS_Management 2, RS_Influence 1
army
unit		generic rebel general			exp 5 armour 1 weapon_lvl 1

character	sub_faction romans_julii, Nautius, named character, heir, age 58, , x 431, y 156 
traits RS_Pagan 1, RS_NonRoman 1, RS_NonRomanFamily 1, RS_Heir2 1, RS_StartGame 1, RS_Command 2, RS_Management 2, RS_Influence 1
army
unit		generic rebel general			exp 5 armour 1 weapon_lvl 1

character_record		Sabina, 	female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 59, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Salonina, 	female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 57, alive, never_a_leader

relative 	Primus, 	Sabina,		Decemius,	Posthumus,	Aulus,		Caius,		end
relative 	Nautius, 	Salonina,	Amulius,	Augustus,	Cassius,	Cnaeus,		end

(this actually adds 2 families, as when the leader dies the heir will (sort of) form a family of its own ...*hint*)


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[Herennius Volsinius]

I also messed around with rebel family members in RTW. What I found though, was that the family members never married nor had children. I did get occasional adoption candidates, but nothing more.

[Red Spot]

I also messed around with rebel family members in RTW. What I found though, was that the family members never married nor had children. I did get occasional adoption candidates, but nothing more.

Maybe so but using the method of different "fathers" you can basicly add like near 40 family member to a faction, do that with the slave family-members that also tend to spawn with brigands keeps a nice number of family for the slaugh... er .. reunion ... :D (use it on any other faction and the number of family-members may become game-breaking as they may cause you to go bankrupt ...)

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Do note about RGB values that the game doesnt seem to like each value, I've had the issue with some of the first versions of my current map that I did a similair thing and just increased RGB-values by 1 for the next region, didnt work ...


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[Herennius Volsinius]

Maybe so but using the method of different "fathers" you can basicly add like near 40 family member to a faction, do that with the slave family-members that also tend to spawn with brigands keeps a nice number of family for the slaugh... er .. reunion ... :D (use it on any other faction and the number of family-members may become game-breaking as they may cause you to go bankrupt ...)
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Named characters that spawn as brigands don't actually become members of the rebel family though do they? They are treated as generals like the ones that can be recruited in BI.

[Makanyane]

just had quick look - you seem on right lines

try using a fertile green colour for map ground_types instead of the wilderness black, CA said somewhere that every region should have some fertile ground type - don't know if that stops it loading or not though.


if its not that only other thing I can think of is that your regions colours are very close together with only the 1 increment in RGB colour, but I'd see if anyone else can think of anything before you try altering all that!!!!!!

[Herennius Volsinius]

Thanks, I'll try using fertile tiles...

[Herennius Volsinius]

Nope, that's not making a difference. (I don't think I want to be changing region colours around just yet either - takes a while!) Why exactly would having the regions' colours similar to each other cause a CTD? The RGB values are all clearly stated as being different in descr_regions.