William Wallace

[homefry]

Is this general a foot soldier or cavalry soldier?

Also, where are his stats in the game files? What text file is this under?

[The Good]

Not sure where Wallace's stats are, but his unit is a foot unit, not mounted.

[Zearth]

His footed, and he is quite stubborn to succumb to death.

[Strom]

Going from memory I think Wallace was a highland noble unit with two handed swords.

[Elvani]

Yup, highland noble unit that takes a lot of killing. A blessing if you have him (and since I only play as the Scots (at the moment) in the Brittania campaign, I get him a lot). He also looks very unique in the unit.

*Goes back to watch Braveheart again*

Gotta love that historically inaccurate movie.

[Logik]

He is an unmounted General.And a Kick Ass one at that.

[dr_guerra]

He's pretty good. I totally abused his infantry in frontal charges on the enemy. I pretty much captured everything with him, while I was marching on London an Assassin killed him

So when I took London, I burned it down to the ground and exterminated them all.

[Confederate Jeb]

How could you let my ancestor die!?!?!?

From what I've seen, he is a foot general, which is something I have always wanted. Plus he gets claymores! How can you beat that? Those brits won't know what hit 'em.

[Unwelcome Guest]

His unit has 1 HP and is the basically the equivalent of a regular noble unit. Kind of a disappointing general really.

[KoS]

How could you let my ancestor die!?!?!?

Look, it was the thirteenth century, he would be dead now either way. I'd actually give him a bonus point for historical accuracy, for Wallace being killed by the British in London, as actually happened.

I found out that his guards were Highland Nobles the hard way; I was in my first battle, a field battle against some Norwegians, and I used the ctrl-doubleclick combo to highlight all my Highland Nobles, and there was William the Wallace alongside it. Lucky I discovered it then, or else he might have met his demise much earlier than even in Mel Gibson's distorted imagination.

But he is a great general to have in your retinue. Hell, I ended up marrying a princess to him - not to secure his loyalty, but just so that I would someday have some general who could take pride in being the son of William Wallace.

[Greg89]

Ugh, yeah it great to have a historical figure on your side, but well try not to get him exposed to cavalry, obviously. Happens to me every time, cursed English knights and Templars. =S

[homefry]

How do you know?

Have you seen the descr stats?

[Strom]

How do you know?

Have you seen the descr stats?

I haven't seen the descr stats but if you open up the bodyguard details in the game then it says Highland Nobles at the top of the details screen and lists the numbers as the same as other Highland Noble units.

For example I checked an old save game and here's a veteran Wallace's unit stats:
Experience 3
Attack 17 (bronze weapon upgrade)
Charge 9
Total Defense 11
Armor 3
Defense 8

Stats are identical to an experience 1 highland noble unit with bronze weapon upgrade.

[homefry]

I meant how do you know the general only has 1 HP?

[Harry Lime]

I meant how do you know the general only has 1 HP?

William Wallace is a Highland Nobles unit (this can be checked in the campaign_script). Highland Nobles have 1 HP (this can be checked in the EDU, it's the 'stat_health' line that governs how many HP's a unit has).

[Bolshevik]

I've never seen Wallace in battle, but it's new and pretty cool to have a dismounted general. The movie William Wallace Emerges! gives a nice image of him, slashing and splitting Englishmen.

[homefry]

When you guys right click on his unit and bring up the unit card, how many hit points does the stats read?

[Unwelcome Guest]

One. That's how I figured it out in the first place. No need to go into descr_strat if you play the game long enough to have him emerge.

[homefry]

That is disappointing.

Does he at least have more men in his unit or is it a standard general bodyguard numbers?

[Zearth]

Nope. Normal unit size I suppose. But he, himself has hitpoints, but not his unit. Thus he is far more harder to kill than his unit.