spawn_army in advisor scripts

[Withwnar]

Has anybody managed to use spawn_army in an advisor script?

When I try to do it the script fails to parse with an "on an invalid tile" log error as soon as the advisor appears, disabling the "show me how" button in the process.

Needless to say the tile is valid. I saw someone mention this in passing in another thread (Germanicu5 I think), suspecting that the script parser might be checking coordinates against some 'base' map instead of the actual map. I tried using some valid M2TW and RTW coordinates as well but it didn't help.

It is strange behaviour, the fact that the parser is checking the coordinates (when the script is loaded). campaign_script does not behave this way.

[Squid]

What's the script and which line is causing the problems?

[Withwnar]

Here is an example, whittled down to the bare essentials...

script

;close advisor
select_ui_element advisor_dismiss_button
simulate_mouse_click lclick_up
while I_AdvisorVisible
end_while

suspend_unscripted_advice true
declare_show_me

spawn_army
	faction england
	character random_name, named character, age 18, x 96, y 145
	unit Peasants	exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
end			

end_script

Advisor triggers etc...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Triggered by clicking the advice button on a unit info scroll.

export_descr_advice.txt

;------------------------------------------
AdviceThread bgs_thread
    GameArea Campaign

    Item bgs_Text_01
        Uninhibitable
        Verbosity  0 
        Priority  5 
        Threshold  1 
        MaxRepeats  0 
        RepeatInterval  1 
        Attitude Normal
        Presentation Default
        Title bgs_Text_01_Title
        Script scripts/show_me/BodyguardSwitcher.txt
        Text bgs_Text_01_Text1


;------------------------------------------
Trigger bgs_trigger
    WhenToTest ScrollAdviceRequested

    Condition ScrollAdviceRequested unit_info_scroll
 
    AdviceThread bgs_thread  1

...and commenting out the pre-existing trigger that's using "Condition ScrollAdviceRequested unit_info_scroll"


export_advice.txt

{bgs_Text_01_Title}Bodyguard Switcher
{bgs_Text_01_Text1}Click the "Show me how" button to begin...

Error:

14:02:19.328 [game.script] [error] Script parsing error at line 14, column 65 in mods/SpawnPool/data/scripts/show_me/BodyguardSwitcher.txt
Character 'random_name' is placed on an invalid tile.

If I comment out the spawn_army block and put in "add_money england 10000" then no problem: the "show me how" button is now enabled and money is added. So it isn't a problem with the triggers, or anything else in the script.

I also tried with a 'complete' character line, in case it was expecting RTW-like usage...

character random_name, named character, command 0, influence 0, management 0, age 40, , x 96, y 145

...with and without that 'empty' extra comma. Always the same result.

EDIT: this is Kingdoms by the way.

[TNZ]

I also tried with a 'complete' character line, in case it was expecting RTW-like usage...

character random_name, named character, command 0, influence 0, management 0, age 40, , x 96, y 145

...with and without that 'empty' extra comma. Always the same result.

age 40, , x 96, y 145

[Withwnar]

Sorry TNZ, not following you. How is that different to mine?

[TNZ]

Sorry TNZ, not following you. How is that different to mine?

Withwnar: I think it should be:

age 40, x 96, y 145

And not:

age 40, , x 96, y 145

[Withwnar]

I see, thanks. No, I did try that too ("with and without that 'empty' extra comma").

[Withwnar]

I am once again trying to get this to work and once again failing at every turn.

Has anybody ever successfully used spawn_army in an advisor/show_me script in M2TW?

spawn_character doesn't work either. For example, this script in a Bare_Geomod Kingdoms grand campaign...

spawn_character england, random_name, spy, age 18, x 157, y 140

...gives me this...

Character 'random_name' is placed on an invalid tile.