Re: making bodyguard units recruitable in Kingdoms

[DrJambo]

Lusted,

Just thought I'd let you know I've had good success in getting the AI to recruit bodyguards using the new recruit priorities code. As you probably know, previously in vanilla the AI never seemed to recruit bodyguard units when inserted into a line of buildings.

Basically, what I did was made bodyguard units recruitable from the castle stables line of buildings for castles, starting at the knights stables, and also from the town hall line of buildings for cities, starting at the council chambers. Initially I started with a recruit_priority_offset (RPO) of 100, but this proved far too high and they were recruiting them over and above everything else. Word of warning - the RPO can knock things a bit out of sync if not careful. Anyway, I ended up using a value of 20.

If you want a more challenging campaign then you've just got to let the AI recruit generals.

[Lusted]

The recruitment priorities and unit movement speeds are definitely something im going to experiment with. Likely 3.2 will be the last 1.2/1.3 compatible version of LTC i release, after that all my work will go into the Kingdoms based version.

[Garnier]

recruit priorities

Ahh! Hooray!
Looks like they have convinced me to get kingdoms eventually..

unit movement speeds

Is this on the campaign map? If it is, that would be great. The siege weapons should move the same speed as everyone else IMO, especially since as it is now, the AI armies are all slower than mine since they have scattered ballistas in them..

[DrJambo]

Unit movement speeds relates to the battle map. For instance, one can increase the speed of western halberd units. One upshot of this is when they rout they revert to non-phalanx formation and will rout proportionally faster than normal.