a little help

**Ubernotnoob** · October 01, 2008, 04:43 AM

i started a new campaign with thrace, and i found that i could not recruit any of the barbarian troops that was part of the thracian roster. All the pikemen and stuff where there, but none of the interesting units, like the falxmen and the thracian thorikitai.

i also cheated and made one of my towns into a huge city, built everything and i still couldn't recruit any of the barbarian units.

great mod btw, i love killing those romans with germania

**RedFox** · October 01, 2008, 07:45 AM

You need to build certain types of colonies and cultural barracks to be able to recruit barbarian units. You can't recruit Thracian Falxmen from Greek Barracks, but you can from Barbarian Barracks.

**Ubernotnoob** · October 04, 2008, 02:37 AM

aaah
i see, since the majority of my cities were western cultured
is there a way to change your factions religion? cause i like the barbarian side of thrace much better, cept a most of my family members are civilised

**Webba** · October 04, 2008, 03:31 AM

Hmmm? Thrace already is a barbarian faction. Just build thracian colonies in all your cities and your empire will be unwashed and smelly in no time!

**Ubernotnoob** · October 05, 2008, 01:11 AM

not for me thrace isn't. in all of my cities, i am only allowed to build western colonies. a bit weird i think

**Webba** · October 05, 2008, 02:26 AM

Ah, I had forgotten how much Thrace is different in XGMD. Its a greek faction here. Sorry, I got no idea. Just had a look in edb and It doesn't look like there's any way for thrace to build barbarian barracks, which are what recruit those units. A little strange.

Redfox, how does it work?

**RedFox** · October 05, 2008, 05:39 AM

Works like this:

Code:

barracks_1_barbarian requires factions { barbarian, thrace, } 
and building_present_min_level hinterland_culture_barb barb_colony_1

Code:

barb_colony_1 requires factions { barbarian, } 
or factions { thrace, } and not building_present hinterland_culture_west

Basically, if you want to build yourself a barbarian colony, you can't have a western culture base present. I know it's made a little bit difficult with the fact that you can't destroy the colonies, so you're stuck with either western or barbarian. I'll try to make it less inhuman for the next release, so instead of having trouble with colonies, you just won't be able to have 2 types of barracks at once. Sorry for the confusion.