Official 'Third Age 1.0 - 3.2 Question & Answer' Thread

[The Norseman]

Anyone know the file name for Beorn`s Halls? I can not seem to find it...

[Ngugi]

Easiest is often to look into imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt in data/text

{Lower-Anduin-Vale_Province}Anduin Vale
{Lower-Anduin-Vale}Beorn's Halls

[Bowmaster]

How can I change unit's morale? I'd like to change Eriador's militia's morale from 'Good' to 'Very Good' since it says: ...but their freedom is their dearest possession and they will not give it up lightly.

[lolIsuck]

In the export_descr_unit.txt file you have to change the first number of stat_mental (I put it in bold red so there's no way you'll look over it) to something higher like 12/13, higher would almost equal professional soldiers and be highly unrealistic. This is save-game compatible.

type             Breeland Militia
dictionary       Breeland_Militia      ; Breeland Militia
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_spear
banner holy      crusade
soldier          Armored_Sergeants, 60, 0, 1.0
officer	         eriador_captain_early_flag
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health      1, 3
stat_pri         6, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 0, 1
stat_pri_attr    light_spear, spear_bonus_4
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  3, 2, 3, leather
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        6
stat_ground      0, -1, 0, -2
stat_mental      10, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 15
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 380, 180, 90, 90, 380, 4, 100
armour_ug_levels 0, 1
armour_ug_models breeland_militia, breeland_militia_upg
ownership        turks
era 0            turks
era 1            turks
era 2            turks
recruit_priority_offset    8

[k/t]

It doesn't matter how much they value their freedom, they're militia.

[Dunadd]

i noticed that on the unit cards for Dale it says Dalesmen have a bonus versus cavalry, but it doesn't say the spearmen units (hearth watch and Rhovanian Gadraughts) do? Do they still have the bonus against cavalry but it's just not been included on their unit cards? Or not?

[Dunadd]

Does a Mordor elite army spawn when you take the Morannon or Barad Dur or both?

[Ngugi]

i noticed that on the unit cards for Dale it says Dalesmen have a bonus versus cavalry, but it doesn't say the spearmen units (hearth watch and Rhovanian Gadraughts) do? Do they still have the bonus against cavalry but it's just not been included on their unit cards? Or not?

There's a spear vs cavalry bonus yes. You can look into it yourself in the EDU (export_descr_unit.txt in the data-folder)
You can see what bonus the unit has on the redmarked sum. +4 attack in this example

type             Watchmen
dictionary       Watchmen      ; Watchmen
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_spear
banner holy      crusade
soldier          watchmen, 60, 0, 1
officer          dale_captain_early_flag
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square, schiltrom
stat_health      1, 3
stat_pri         6, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 0, 1
stat_pri_attr    light_spear, spear_bonus_4
(...)

[FC Groningen]

Does a Mordor elite army spawn when you take the Morannon or Barad Dur or both?

I'm 100% sure a full dreadstack with the Witch King spawns the moment you take Barad Dur. Not sure on what happens if you take the Morannon.

[k/t]

"it says Dalesmen have a bonus versus cavalry"

That's because they have "mount_effect horse +1".

[joshuar56]

Does he have the mouth of sauron's voice in anyone else's games? I tried a forum search but couldn't find anything on it.

[Sorandir]

You mean like a deep slavic sounding voice? Yep, same in mine as well. Most likely because he's a diplomat unit.

[Phixion]

Hi. Im new to this mod and i havent figured out yet how can i train my faction units from conquered towns/castles? Atm i play as Dwarfs and i have conquered Ootm and Gundabad but dont know how to train Dwarfs from their cities.

[Emperor of Hell]

Hi Phixion, welcome to the forums and TATW

You need to increase your dwarven culture in your new settlements. Each unit needs a specific percentage of Dwarven culture (in original M2TW this was called religion) to be able to recruit it. You can increase the dwarven culture by building a specific building. I think it's called "Brewery" for the dwarves. You can see in the building info if it's the right building. It should say something like "Increases culture 2%" or something similar.

[avion1o5]

How do i make TATW windowed?

[Emperor of Hell]

Go to TATW.cfg in .../Medieval II Total War/mods/Third_Age_3 and change the line "windowed = false" to "windowed = true" and remove anything in front of that line like ";" or "#".

[avion1o5]

Ok i checked it already has windowed = true any idea why its still fullscreened? i wanted to try and stream this game for a few of my friends thats why im asking

Oh wait there was one of those ; things there i removed it and its fixed now thanks Emperor

[DJ DIRTY DP]

so Sauron managed to acquire the one ring and proceeded to siege a couple of Rohan's settlements. I'm playing as the Silvan Elves and I am their allies, so I sent a ~10 unit force to take Isengard and a few other settlements, only to find a unit of 19 Saurons with 3 gold chevrons. This is just absurd, what can I do?

[StealthFox]

What unit size, huge? Unfortunately, multiple Sauron's are an engine limitation and their is no known way of just getting one on the battle map. Just have to fight them like you would trolls or mumakils. Use siege engines and armor piercing units.

[DJ DIRTY DP]

haha ok, thanks for being so prompt btw . I figured I'd give 19 Saurons a try, already had to fight 9 Balrogs after attempting moria and getting the heck out. If I get man handled I figure I'll edit Sauron's "export_descr_unit". I can't figure out which Sauron I'm fighting though in the text file as there are 2 different entries: "Sauron Elephants" and "Sauron Elephants2"