Make normal factions into hordes?

**Leutnant** · April 20, 2008, 12:14 AM

Is there anyway to make normal factions in vanilla- say the turks- like hordes? This would involve them to continue to exist without having a single settlement to their name.

**Lonck** · April 21, 2008, 01:53 PM

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triumph_value				5
custom_battle_availability	yes
horde_min_units				10
horde_max_units				20
horde_max_units_reduction_every_horde 10
horde_unit_per_settlement_population	250
horde_min_named_characters	2
horde_max_percent_army_stack 80
horde_disband_percent_on_settlement_capture	0
horde_unit					Mongol Infantry
horde_unit					Mongol Foot Archers
horde_unit					Mongol Heavy Archers
horde_unit					Mongol Heavy Lancers
horde_unit					Mongol Light Lancers
horde_unit					Mongol Horse Archers

change horde unit to what ever. Names are in EDU.

**Leutnant** · April 21, 2008, 06:51 PM

I'm new to modding so can you please tell me what the EDU is and what file did you quote the stuff about mongols from?

**Leutnant** · April 26, 2008, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Lonck

Code:

triumph_value                5
custom_battle_availability    yes
horde_min_units                10
horde_max_units                20
horde_max_units_reduction_every_horde 10
horde_unit_per_settlement_population    250
horde_min_named_characters    2
horde_max_percent_army_stack 80
horde_disband_percent_on_settlement_capture    0
horde_unit                    Mongol Infantry
horde_unit                    Mongol Foot Archers
horde_unit                    Mongol Heavy Archers
horde_unit                    Mongol Heavy Lancers
horde_unit                    Mongol Light Lancers
horde_unit                    Mongol Horse Archers

change horde unit to what ever. Names are in EDU.

I'm a bit confused. should I paste this under the Turks in the descr_sm file?

**Trajan** · April 21, 2008, 07:50 PM

Moved to Text Editing and Scripting.

EDU stands for export_descr_unit.txt.

**Lonck** · April 22, 2008, 02:54 PM

you need to unpack em. need patch 1.1 or latest. make a new .cmd file inside \tools\unpacker. paste this after you right-click edit.

Code:

unpacker --source="..\..\packs\*.pack" --destination=..\..\ --filter=export_descr_unit.txt

close, save, double-click press y three times to unpack EDU. then right-click edit again and replace bold

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unpacker --source="..\..\packs\*.pack" --destination=..\..\ --filter=export_descr_unit.txt

with

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unpacker --source="..\..\packs\*.pack" --destination=..\..\ --filter=descr_sm_factions.txt

you'll find both .txt in data folder

**Lonck** · April 26, 2008, 05:49 PM

yeah. just change the horde_unit name. one horde_unit line is an army and horde_min_units 10 and horde_max_units 20 determines how many unit cards in each army. You off course should change the names and numbers and test it yourself. A form of reverse engeneering is how I learn most of the stuff after I understand what the values mean.

**Leutnant** · April 26, 2008, 11:18 PM

Thanks bro

Also, do I need to repack the descr_sm file or can I just make the additions in the text file and save it?

**Lonck** · April 27, 2008, 01:18 AM

no you leave it in the data folder. Theres no repacking. You need to add this to the .cfg located in the medieval main folder, at the end of the file so that the game reads takes the un-packed files.

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