Casse Generals As Infantry

[Watchman]

Right, here goes.

1) Backup your original export_descr_unit.txt.

2) Open export_descr_unit.txt.

3) Search for celtic chariot cidainh bodyguards. It should have ";18" above it.

4) Replace the entry with the following:

type             celtic chariot cidainh bodyguards
dictionary       celtic_infantry_rycalawre      ; Rycalawre
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       General_1
soldier          celtic_infantry_arjos_rycalawre_solduros_kuarothoroi, 30, 0, 1.35
officer          officer_celtic_standardbearer
officer          officer_celtic_officer
mount_effect     horse +1, camel +1, elephant -3
attributes       sea_faring, hide_improved_forest, very_hardy, command, general_unit
formation        0.7, 1, 1.8, 2.6, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         12, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 0 ,0.225
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         13, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 0 ,0.13
stat_sec_attr    spear
stat_pri_armour  12, 10, 4, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        5
stat_ground      0, 0, 0, -1
stat_mental      16, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 2720, 0, 80, 130, 2720
ownership        britons, slave

I incidentally added the non-standardbearer unit officer, just 'cause generals are so cool they want to have one around.

4) Save the changes and exit. Presto. Although you might want to delete map.rwm, just in case.

Unless I got something wrong, the beauty in the above trick is that it changes the content of the celtic chariot cidainh bodyguards entry, and thus should both be savegame compatible and not require any changes to descr_strat.txt or some such malarky.

One possible issue is that the unit cards might still show the chariots - I don't know if the engine looks at the "type" or "dictionary" line for that. Although given that the bodyguard version doesn't have its own cards I'd guess the latter, in which case this shouldn't be a problem.