Changing Era / Gunpowder event @ startup

[Soltaro]

Hello, I was wondering how to change the starting era to lets say... after-gunpowerder event.
Or simply make the gunpowder event happen in the first turn.

This is because the gunpower units don't appear buildable in the building browser yet and I would like to see which ones will be available eventually. (Mostly for checking mods since I know Vanilla rosters by heart)

Thanks a lot!

[jimjimjim]

Or start a custom battle and then you can see all the units each faction has.

[Soltaro]

Aye, unfortunately the retrofit/grand addon mod I'm using doesn't seem to list all the units in a custom battle, even missing some vanilla units.

[Antwerpen]

Ok. First - go to your Medieval 2 directory.
Then go to \data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder.
Then open the text file descr_events (don't forget to switch off the "Read Only" box in properties!)
Then you find the lines
; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic gunpowder_discovered
date 210 220
movie event/gunpowder_invented.bik

Then just change the date to 1 10 for example.
Save the file, and you're ready to shoot some guns!

[Soltaro]

Hmm I changed the "210 220" to "1 10" but I didn't got the gunpowder event during the first 20 turns which I skipped through, nor did I see any buildable gunpowder units.