spawn armies

[Den Stark]

As I think, using "general" instead of "named_character"

[Jadli]

"general" is for a captain, thus you get only the unit, not a general. A general would spawn, if there was written "named character" instead

[Gigantus]

"general" is for a captain, thus you get only the unit, not a general. A general would spawn, if there was written "named character" instead

Correct, the use of 'general' in scripting is misleading, CA should have used 'captain' instead - as always the first unit is the leader's bodyguard.

[Titus le Chmakus]

Allright thanks ! What about the names then ? Is it the same rules as for named characters with textfiles relations ?

[Gigantus]

Same rule applies

[Xagamon]

On what factors is it possible to spawn an army? Like could I script it that a rebel army appears when 'heretic' religion gets too high?

[Withwnar]

All kinds of things; too many to mention.

Like could I script it that a rebel army appears when 'heretic' religion gets too high?

Yes, if you mean how much heretic a particular settlement has, e.g. London.

monitor_event CharacterTurnEnd IsRegionOneOf London_Province
  and PopulationHeretic >= 30
  and not FactionType slave

  ;spawn somewhere in London region

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

terminate_monitor ensures that it only happens once.

[Xagamon]

Well I tried to do it but for some reason it isn't working. Here's what I did:

monitor_event CharacterTurnEnd IsRegionOneOf Carpenter_Wall
  and PopulationHeretic >= 10
  and not FactionType normans

        spawn_army 
            faction normans
            character    Rei, general, age 26, x 46, y 151
            unit        Cultist Fanatics        exp 6 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
        end

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

The province started with 20 heretic. I ended turn a few times and nothing occured. Am I missing something?

[Xagamon]

Should I declare counters first at the top of the script?

[Gigantus]

You need to physically place them before they are used. Common use is to place them just before the monitors where they are used:

declare_counter 1
declare_counter 2
declare_counter 3
declare_counter 4

monitor_event with reference to the above counters

[Xagamon]

I'm sorry, I'm still confused about how to do this.
I put the "declare counter" for one province to try it out. How exactly do I activate it by monitoring? Is there a past example of how it is done? So I could simply copy the template.

Is there a tutorial for the campaign script somewhere? I'd rather try to read that instead of keep necro-ing this thread.

[Titus le Chmakus]

Did you have a look at the docudemon ? It is the bible of coding !

And once the topic has been necro-ed, it is not old anymore

[Gigantus]

IsRegionOneOf requires the regions ID number, not the name. You can get the ID by using the show_cursorstat console command. Also disable the religion line to test the functionality otherwise. Unless you terminate the monitor after the first use, or use random name for the character, you will ask for errors.

[QuintusSertorius]

IsRegionOneOf requires the regions ID number, not the name. You can get the ID by using the show_cursorstat console command. Also disable the religion line to test the functionality otherwise. Unless you terminate the monitor after the first use, or use random name for the character, you will ask for errors.

Or the data name, if you're in the campaign_script (but not elsewhere), ie region_nnn. That's a much more reliable choice than the region ID (which is just a number), since it never changes.

[Xagamon]

Well the region code didnt seem to work for me, but this formula did:

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName CB4_Kaiu_Shiro
    spawn_army 
            faction normans
            character Amir of Cairo, general, age 26, x 46, y 151,
            unit    Cultist Fanatics        exp 6 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
        end
        terminate_monitor
end_monitor

So now an army is at least created.
But when I add "and PopulationHeretic >= 10" the script no longer works.

[Gigantus]

The settlement event does not export the required info for that condition, only a character event does. The docu demons help you to determine what event you need for which condition.

I just used this monitor in the default campaign after setting Nottingham to 20% heretic and it worked without a hitch. I used 'moors' as the normans are not present.

monitor_event CharacterTurnEnd IsRegionOneOf Nottingham_Province
  and PopulationHeretic >= 10
  and not FactionType moors
                spawn_army
                    faction france
                    character    random_name, named character, age 37, x 102, y 154
                    unit[TAB]Scots Guard[TAB]exp 2 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
                end

  terminate_monitor
end_monitor

Initially I couldn't get it to work as I copied the code from your example - and copying TAB here doesn't get preserved, it gets replaced with SPACE, see the blue entries. Once I realized that and restored the TAB entries everything worked fine.

[Xagamon]

Nothing.
With the "CharacterTurnEnd IsRegionOneOf", nothing happens at all.

This is it now

monitor_event CharacterTurnEnd IsRegionOneOf Carpenter_Wall
        spawn_army 
            faction normans
            character random_name, general, age 26, x 46, y 151
            unit    Cultist Fanatics    exp 6 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
        end
        terminate_monitor
end_monitor

I made sure there were tabs in the needed spaces. Are there supposed to be more? Such as between "CharacterTurnEnd" and "IsRegionOneOf"?

Am I missing anything? Like other text or another file to edit along with this? The Docudemon only shows the most basic template. Im having trouble understanding how to read it. My problem, I know.

[Xagamon]

The entire script works now, except for that entry. Previously adding the entry would stop the whole script.

[Gigantus]

Is the faction (normans) listed in the descr_strat file? Are you using the correct definition? It has to be the region's name, not the settlement's, check the spelling in descr_regions (weirder stuff has happened then a misspell) . And it will happen after you press turn end. And you obviously need a character in that region.

[Xagamon]

Ah... what kind of character is needed? In the settlement? Or in the region?