Can I have 1 man unit?

[bestantreas]

I know this is a little stupid . I just want to see a fight to the death. I want to put the stats of a unit very high and watch the fighting to the death. Can I make a unit with one man?

[Atheist Peace]

Nope, the lowest you can make it is either 6 or 3, check the hardcode limits thread that is pinned in this forum.

[bestantreas]

Thanks

[-Hamburglar-]

It'd be cool to take a whole bunch of 3 man units, group them togther and have them attack an identical group-of-3-man-units. It'd look a lot more realistic than having each "brick" of men just colide and slowly hack each others front row. The groups would sort of splice into each other like a royale rumble until one army wins.

[Burns]

I think bestantreas meant to create hero units. You can always make a really good general (MTW style!) and give him a small bodyguard... and play on really small settings! heh.

[Julius_Caesar]

No its hard code and if put on small 3

[Aztecateotl]

It'd be cool to take a whole bunch of 3 man units, group them togther and have them attack an identical group-of-3-man-units. It'd look a lot more realistic than having each "brick" of men just colide and slowly hack each others front row. The groups would sort of splice into each other like a royale rumble until one army wins.

Yup that would be cool is this possible?

[bestantreas]

Thanks guys

[2ltben]

I'm not sure about creating 1-man units, but I've had units cut down to 1 man before, so it is possible to have them ingame. On Huge unit size, at that.

[Julius_Caesar]

Its the creation that is hardcoded!

[Atheist Peace]

Yes, the game isnt gonna CTD becuase you have 1 man in your unit due to the rest being killed

[Julius_Caesar]

Itts only the recruitment of 1 man units that cause a CTD and thats hardcoded so we are not legally allowed to touch it!

[Atheist Peace]

I wasnt rolling eyes at you, it was at the other guy. :wink:

[Julius_Caesar]

Oh, I know I was just explaining the problem and why it hasnt been fixed!

[Meqon-Nerd]

It stinks that you cant get rid of it...bloody legal system!!

[John I Tzimisces]

lol, its not the legal system, its more the fact we lack the power to change it without really screwing around with the game. hardcoded it be.

[bestantreas]

I find it!!!!!! In the battle editor I just put 1 unit size!!! I will try it right now!!!

[Aztecateotl]

I find it!!!!!! In the battle editor I just put 1 unit size!!! I will try it right now!!!

Tell us if it works or not!

[Julius_Caesar]

I think that may work, its just you cant do capaigns or custom battles with it, its simply built in to stop small pointless battles. If it displayed a sanity report about the unit size it is likely to CTD.

[Raketemensch]

I've just started playing around with this. While you can create 1 man units in the battle editor or by directly editing a custom battle descr_battle.txt file, when you come to actually play the game the units are plumped up with extra men. I haven't done extensive testing yet, but I suspect that the minimum size unit that the game will actually put on the ground for you is about 1/3 of the regular size of the unit.

Thus if you define a 1 man hastati unit in a custom battle, the unit will be increased to 13 men (ie 1/3 of 40 - the regular size of a hastati unit); a 1 man equite unit will be increased to 9 (I think) because the regular size is 27 men.

If anyone knows how to turn this feature off, I will be mightily pleased to know it!