New Faction Units

**Comrade the Colonel** · May 29, 2009, 06:56 PM

Hey, i have constantly been trying to get the Windbusce Jaegers into the Prussian faction, but i always seem to run into problems. The Pack FIle Manager is always crashing on me for no reason. i dont think that the files i edit are saving. When i save, it says that they have an error and if i want to continue or quit. Either way, when i replace the old main.pack file with the one i edited, the game crashes. Can someone please help me?

I am trying to get the WIndbusce Jaegers :
1. Available for Prussia
2. 1 turn recruitment
3. Available throughout the campaign, starting at the beginning when the Militia is recruitable.

If anyone can help +rep. Thanks

-P.A.

**Irmo** · May 30, 2009, 03:55 AM

You shouldn't edit the main.pack, you should extract the files you need, and put them into a new .pack file. Saving the main.pack won't have an effect anyway, because quite a lot of it (certainly the files you'll be editing) are oerwritten by the patch.pack.

The files you'll need to do what you want are :

building_units_allowed_tables\building_units_allowed
units_tables\units
units_to_exclusive_faction_permissions_tables\units_to_exclusive_faction_permissions

Just right click on these in the main.pack, and click on 'Extract Selected' Extact to the data folder, and you should have a folder in your data foler now called 'db'. After you have extracted those 3 files, you should have 3 folders in your db, with the 3 files above in their relative folder. Now create a new .pack file with the PFM (Just go to File-->New), right click anywhere, and click on add file, and add one of the files. Do this for all 3, until you have 3 files in your new .pack files (the three mentioned above)

Now to do what you want:

1) In units_to_exclusive_faction_permissions add a new line, and put in it:

euro_elite_light_infantry_windbuchse_jaegers | prussia | true

And now Prussia can recruit Windbusche Jaegers.

2) Go to units, find euro_elite_light_infantry_windbuchse_jaegers, go to the sixth column (turns to build), and change it from 2 to 1. 1 turn recruitment done.

3) This will take a bit more time, and is quite annoying. Go to building_units_allowed, and next to the Effect ID Ref column there is a little arrow. Click on the, go to euro_militia_infantry, and clone all the rows there. Now, you have to change all of the values in the Effect ID Ref for the cloned rows to euro_elite_light_infantry_windbuchse_jaegers. (Copy and paste to save mistypes and on time). You may need to do exactly the same thing for 'euro_line_infantry', so the Windbusche Jaegers will be recruitable in barracks as well, not just governemnt buildings, but considering that all cities have government buildings, and militia are always recruitable, you probably don't need to do this for 'euro_line_infantry'.

Now, right click anywhere again (on the PFM area), go down to 'Change Pack Type', and change the pack type to a mod. Save the file in your data folder, it can be called anything.

Now you have to download the Mod Manager (in the tools and tutorials section), and turn your mod on, play, and it all should work.

If the PFM is still giving you trouble, you may want to ask on the PFM thread. If you want more info on actually making the mods so that you don't have to edit your main.pack and patch .pack, go here

Hope that helped! If you want anything clearer, just ask.

**Comrade the Colonel** · May 30, 2009, 08:02 PM

thanks, ill try that

**Comrade the Colonel** · May 30, 2009, 08:46 PM

Ok, it works now. But how do i make it where they use Austrian textures? I want grey uniforms, not blue. Thanks

**Mooncabbage** · May 31, 2009, 03:27 AM

You'd have to create a new skin. Otherwise it uses faction colours. It's possible that the Austrian faction has it's own unique skin for them, in which case you just find it, copy it and rename it.