horde_max_percent_army_stack ?

**florin80** · February 27, 2009, 07:10 AM

What is this entry relating to the hordes from descr_sm_factions used for?

**Aradan** · February 27, 2009, 08:14 AM

How full each of the stacks is? *shrugs*

**florin80** · February 27, 2009, 08:21 AM

You think?

Given that the number of units and the number of stacks and so on have a minimum and a maximum it wouldn`t be of much use tbh.

Btw, I`m undering what the egine does with the existing family members when it hordes. Say the faction loses its last settlement, but has 3 surviving family members with armies and in descr_sm_factions its new horde is set up to have at least 4 named characters. It happened to my ostrogoths. Ermenaric, the faction leader survived and since Alatheus and Saphrax were at a distance they should have survived too, but I can`t find Saphrax anywhere

(with a spy since I was playing with a different faction). It looks as if the engine replaced him with a different character when the horde formed.

**Aradan** · February 27, 2009, 08:39 AM

Or you can use toggle_fow instead of a spy... To make sure.

EDIT: Doh, I meant perfect spy not fow...

**florin80** · February 27, 2009, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Aradan

Or you can use toggle_fow instead of a spy... To make sure.

Toggle fow only shows the map, not the detail of each army. And it also does not show the armies hidden in forests(in ambush position). So I needed a spy to check the exact details of the characters.

**Salvor Hardin** · February 27, 2009, 09:56 AM

Why not add a small show_me script with only

console_command toggle_perfect_spy

on it?

Although I think that it does not work with ambushed armies either, at least it shows all visible armies when toggle_fow is active.

Just be careful: once I released a 77BC version with this command activated

**Quinn Inuit** · February 27, 2009, 10:10 PM

Yeah, I'm always terrified I'm going to do that.

Maybe this line refers to the percentage of each new horde army made up of horde units instead of regular army ones.

**Archaon** · March 05, 2009, 10:44 PM

no regular unit is spawned - that is a rule

your first answer is correct, this refers to % of the 20 unit slots per stack - testing the attributes always gives a great idea of what the effect is

**Sunday213** · March 09, 2009, 06:17 PM

I thought it ment the max percent on how much population you have to be taken to find a new home.

**Archaon** · March 09, 2009, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by Sunday213

I thought it ment the max percent on how much population you have to be taken to find a new home.

essentially by lowering the variable you are using less population to fill out your 20 unit stacks = less population taken with you.

Both are correct, but the first is a better way to explain.