Campaign Idea

[Frankie1]

Just a question, has anyone ever tried giving all the factions the same units, thus equal advantage? I ask because I was considering doing this myself, until I found out the joys of editing the modeldb file.

I think we all have the problem of the AI Spear Militia spamming us, constantly sending us full stacks of low level units which are nothing more than cannon fodder to even a half decent army. Before in my current Scotland campaign I had the problem of the AI building 5-6 siege units per stack (minimum), until I edited the costs to 5000 to build and 2000 upkeep. Suddenly, no more Catapults/Ballista's . And it's made my game just a little bit harder, as before it was so easy to maneuvre cavalry around and take them out without the AI even reacting. Now I have 6 extra units to deal with who can fight back, and don't shoot a random rock or two in my direction.

So back to the original idea, what if all factions could only build elite units? Say cavalry (Rittenbrauder, Generdames, so on) Knights (Armoured Swordsmen, Gothic Knights, so on) wouldn't that make the game harder? Admittedly it might be less interesting as there is less unit variation when fighting different factions, but you actually might see a challenge in facing against a full stack of elite units, rather than your Noble Pikemen getting charged by Spear Militia, like I am having now?

[Caesar Clivus]

Personally I'd find this very boring

[Iscariott]

If anything I'm running low on units to play with. So no, but whatever floats your boat man.

[Frankie1]

He he I knew some people would say that, and I am unsure myself. But there about 40 or 50 elite units which would be very fun to play with. Especially if you could build them all

I am just sick of fighting spear militia and a never ending wave of **** units, so that's the only way I can think of to give myself a challenge in this game. I've already put the AI money up to the max 50000, but the extra 20000 just buys them an extra 5 stacks of spearmen, not 2 stacks of elite's that would make my life hard. I want to give it a try but that modeldb file freaks me out. I checked out all the tutorials, but I'm still clueless

[Skibbles]

Just edit the export_descr_building file, and erase all the crappy units you dont want anyone to use. Its a quick fix more or less, I removed seige equipment the same way.