about ExRM units

**crenzy** · April 01, 2009, 08:37 AM

hi i am new to this awesome game, i just downloaded ExRM and i realise all the units are completely changed... mostly... to make it realistic...

so i was playing as romans in custom battle and i realise i dun have urban cohort/praetorian/legionary cohorts....

i only have early first legionary and early legionary with hastati principle and trariis...

is this normal ? or must i wait till after the marian reforms to get back the urban praetorian and legionary cohorts?

**despot_of_rhodes** · April 01, 2009, 08:59 AM

You get the legionaries at the same time with Hastati etc. and that´s before Marian Reform happens? That shouldn´t be the case, actually.

Praetorians and other impirial units do not belong to the timeframe covered by ExRM afaik.

**crenzy** · April 01, 2009, 09:15 AM

hmm so if i dun get legionaries means somethings wrong?

btw whats afaik?

i only got early legionaries ...

**pannonian** · April 01, 2009, 09:24 AM

The RTR FAQ explains some of the missing units, which didn't exist in RL in the form that they do in RTW. There used to be a set of late republican units, but since they appear so late in the game, and other factions needed some beefing up in terms of rosters, they were taken out in order to free up space in the descr_model_battle.txt file, which only has a limited number of unit slots.

**despot_of_rhodes** · April 01, 2009, 11:10 AM

AFAIK = as far as i know.

You should get early legionaries, but only after the Marian Reform, not at the same time with early republican troops like hastati, princeps and triarii.

So, before reform: the standard troops and after it: the early legionaries instead.

Pannonian editionally explained the reasons, why the late legionaries ( the impirial ones ) were taken out from the gameplay point of view.

**Quinn Inuit** · April 01, 2009, 09:47 PM

Hi Crenzy! I'm glad you're enjoying this. There's not really much I can add to the answers you've already received. That's precisely why we've done what we've done.

I recommend reading the guide to playing as Rome included in the Docs section of the ExRM directory. It has some good historical information.

**crenzy** · April 02, 2009, 12:07 AM

oh... so no legionaries praetorian and urban cohorts for me :X

the armor looks dull for the roman legionaries... is it my com ? or is it supposed to be like that? cause my graphics settings are on low... my com lags even with 2k people :X

the spartans were nerfed so much in this game too... and they didn't have a sword to fight in close quarters combat ? or must i do something to make them use their swords?

oh and i realise battles last very long in ExRM, i see the units become walking dead ^^, hack down and resurrected... i guess its the roman spirit lolx

bwt, just a question about EDU, the last 2 parameter for the pri attack is delay (measured in 1/10 of a second) and lethality rate right? so can i set the greek spartans having 0 delay and 0.4 lethality for their secondary swords like their primary spears of 0 delay and 0.4 lethality rate? will there be any clash or bugs or ..?

oh sry, i have a doubt too, i used the no nonsense 3.4 installer and had a shortcut created on the desktop, but for some reasons , the next day, the short cut went missing...

i checked the forums it says must add a -nm -show ... thingy to your target line, but i was wondering which target line? the rtw original, or the rtw BI?

so i added to both and when i go into the game , the background of the game is now back to the norm, with moving animations of soldiers instead of the beautiful non moving scenery the first shortcut gave me

also, now when i quit game, it will say some roman legionary ID problem not detected or sorts ?
it doens't really affect anything i know at the moment, but was wondering if it will screw my campaign up later on ? thx

**Quinn Inuit** · April 02, 2009, 07:13 AM

{Merged double post.}