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    Default Is it possible to change the age of an admiral or a general

    So I've been particularly bothered when I recruit John Paul Jones and his age is listed as 83 or 84 when depending on the year I recruit him say 1785 he should only be 40 is there any way to mod these grievous error in the game?

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    Any help would be appreciated

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    Default Re: Is it possible to change the age of an admiral or a general

    Hi danwild6, welcome to TWC! I'll move this to the Workshop where hopefully an expert will be able to help you out shortly.

    Thread moved from Empire: Total War General Discussion.

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    Default Re: Is it possible to change the age of an admiral or a general

    Yes it is. Change the year of birth in the marked entry below (so 1706 to 1720 as example):

    Example


    Use the ESF-Editor to edit savegames and the startpos.
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    Thanks for the help guys I found the US admiral file however it gave 1745 as a start date and when I recruited my admirals in 1786(Esek Hopkins) and 1788(John Paul Jones) and their ages at recruitment were 68 and 70 respectively since these are historical characters would there be a special file for historical characters?

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    Ok so since I'm guessing since John Paul Jones is an admiral that I recruit he won't be found in the startpos files right?

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    Default Re: Is it possible to change the age of an admiral or a general

    Yes, you have to edit the historical_characters_tables in the db-files:

    Take a look at the marked entry


    The marked entry is the year, when the character is recruitable, the game fixed it to the 20th birthday. So in the marked year, the character is 20 years old.

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    Awesome thanks man you are a life saver.

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    Ok so I found the files but it is not letting me edit them

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    Default Re: Is it possible to change the age of an admiral or a general

    Quote Originally Posted by danwild6 View Post
    Ok so I found the files but it is not letting me edit them
    Create a new .pack file and copy the table or (not advised) enable changes to the vanilla files.

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