How to change the Gaius Marius event date?

**Saintaw** · September 11, 2006, 01:54 AM

Cheers,

I am looking for a way to modify the date where the army reform is taking place (On the vanilla or Mundus Magnus campaigns).

I tried editing the "descr_events.txt" and setting the following, but it doesn't appear to work:

Code:

event	a_new_man__gaius_marius
date	3 summer

I tried searching for "gaius" , "marian" in the other text files, but haven't seen anything related to dates like the one above.

I just want to use the testudos without having to play for months before it... thanks!

**Lusted** · September 11, 2006, 07:17 AM

It's hardcoded. You cannot edit the triggers that cause the marius event.

**0ldboy** · September 11, 2006, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by Saintaw

Cheers,

I am looking for a way to modify the date where the army reform is taking place (On the vanilla or Mundus Magnus campaigns).

I tried editing the "descr_events.txt" and setting the following, but it doesn't appear to work:

Code:

event	a_new_man__gaius_marius
date	3 summer

I tried searching for "gaius" , "marian" in the other text files, but haven't seen anything related to dates like the one above.

I just want to use the testudos without having to play for months before it... thanks!

As Lusted said, the marius reforms are hardcoded, but if all you are after is testudo formations then getting your Hastati and Principes to do so IS possible if I remember correctly.

Go to "export_descr_unit.txt" in your data folder of Rome. Open it and press "Ctrl+F" to bring up the search. Enter "Hastati", (without the "'s) and it'll take you straight to that units info. Now scroll down a bit until you see "formation" and add at the end of the line, leaving no space after the comma "testudo" again without the "'s.

A pic -

Hope that helps!

BTW - backup the text before you try it!!

**Saintaw** · September 12, 2006, 02:25 AM

Thank you Strator, I will try that one out.

Something just came to my mind though: If that event is hardcoded to a date... is it possible to build a campaign that starts just a couple of years before that? (At work right now, so I can't peruse the files)

**makanyane** · September 12, 2006, 04:45 AM

the hardcoded bit isn't a date, its triggered on one of the cities in a region with the 'italy' hidden resource, building the last governors building and becoming a huge city.

If you just want the units available earlier you can go into export_descr_buildings.txt
find the recruitment lines for the units you want e.g.

recruit "roman legionary cohort i" 0 requires factions { roman, } and marian_reforms

and remove the 'and marian_reforms' from the end, then you'll be able to recruit them as soon as you have the building they are recruited from.