Unit Size?

[Arkanfel]

I've always been bothered by the relatively small scale of battles in RTW. I calculated the appropriate unit size value necessary to give each cohort ~480 men and plugged it into my preferences file (...Steamapps\Common\Rome Total War Gold\Play_Rome\Preferences), but it doesn't seem to have done anything. I can change unit size in all other TW games, but I've never been able to figure out this one. I'm starting to think it can't be done but it can't hurt to check.

[Dramatic Cat]

Unit size is hard-coded. The max size a unit can be is 243 (240 + 3 officers).

[Arkanfel]

Alright, thanks. That was my strong suspicion but I figured maybe I was doing something wrong.

[foster34]

that would be interesting to play like that on a battlefield. sieges would probably suck though unless they were made much larger

[Tar-Elendil]

Alright, thanks. That was my strong suspicion but I figured maybe I was doing something wrong.

You can always just wait until Rome II

I'll still play this mod regardless though.

[Arkanfel]

You can always just wait until Rome II

I'll still play this mod regardless though.

Well yeah but it won't be out until next year. I can probably finish a campaign with plenty of time to spare before R2 hits... which will be awesome. Hopefully, missile units won't love to melee in R2. It seems like skirmish mode does the opposite of what it says.

[Chris Death]

The bigger unit sizes have already been done - but it requires modifying
of the exe which is not allowed.

Don't waste time on thinking how to get this at all - it's not worth it - the
game crashed to desktop very often during battles.

~S~ CD

[Brusilov]

The larger the unit size is the more problems that can be encountered with the 'pathfinding' of the unit.

Basically, the unit can get broken up when trying to move through a settlement.