The placement of units, Coded and Scripted - using various commands

[Gorrrrrn]

Re English army spawning one could check to see how many settlements the English have before spawning an army.
if they have 0 (or whatever number) settlements then don't spawn?

[Pnutmaster]

Oh, but I do want them to spawn an English army if England is no more. Unless the game refuses such requests by CTDs.

(Hypothesis: If a factional army spawns when its faction is deceased, the army will automatically rebel)

[Gigantus]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[uanime5]

Archaon is it possible to spawn an enemy army if one faction destroys a building in their settlement?

I've made the following script but I'm unsure if it's correct (especially the settlement checking part). Can you seen any obvious errors?

declare_counter Merv_oghuz

declare_counter sieged_Merv_oghuz
set_counter sieged_Merv_oghuz 0

monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart SettlementName Merv

    if SettlementBuildingExists = oghuz
        and I_CompareCounter sieged_Merv_oghuz = 0
        set_counter Merv_oghuz 0
    end_if

    if not SettlementBuildingExists = oghuz
        and I_CompareCounter sieged_Merv_oghuz = 0
        set_counter Merv_oghuz 1
    end_if

end_monitor


monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType slave
        and I_CompareCounter Merv_oghuz = 1

            spawn_army 
            faction slave, sub_faction russia
                character random_name, named character, family, age 32, x 249, y 227, label Invade_Merv, direction N
                unit bodyguard seljuks               exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light maceman            exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light maceman           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light maceman           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium swordsmen        exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium swordsmen        exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman heavy macemen           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light bowman        exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light bowman            exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium bowman           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium bowman        exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman heavy bowman            exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light swordsmen cavalry           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light swordsmen cavalry        exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light archer cavalry close bow            exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman light archer cavalry close bow           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium archer cavalry close bow            exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                unit turkoman medium archer cavalry close bow           exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
                sieging
        siege_settlement Invade_Merv, Merv, maintain
    set_counter sieged_Merv_oghuz 1
end_monitor

[Gigantus]

I don't see a condition/monitor for the counter sieged_Merv_oghuz, so far is is a simple building check without a tie up to a successful siege.

[uanime5]

The sieged_Merv_oghuz is just there so that this event will only occur once after this building has been destroyed. Without it the slave faction would continue to get sieging armies until this building was rebuilt.

Just realised I need to reset the Merv_oghuz counter.

[Gigantus]

There is always the "terminate_monitor" for that.

.........
siege_settlement Invade_Merv, Merv, maintain
set_counter sieged_Merv_oghuz 1
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

[uanime5]

gigantus I keep getting an error message for the 'monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart SettlementName' PreFactionTurnStart and FactionTurnStart cannot be applied to settlements. Is there a SettlementTurnStart or another command I can use instead.

[Gigantus]

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName Merv

[uanime5]

Thanks for your help gigantus.

[Gigantus]

One is glad to be of service

[wudang_clown]

Could someone explain what that line actually do and confirm does this actually work:

spawn_army
faction faction_name, sub_faction faction_name

It was said that it's necessary to spawn a slave army, but it's not quite true. It's enough to put there "faction slave" and it will also spawn an army.

What I'm trying to do is to set crusader model for spawned army:

spawn_army
		faction slave,	sub_faction france
			character	Doge, named character, age 42, x 91, y 265
			traits GoodCommander 3 , PublicFaith 1 , Loyal 4
			unit		leopold		exp 9 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

All I get is proper crusader banner, but model is just the same as in case of other slave generals... Is it possible to have Latin slave general model appear on the map?

[Ishan]

Is it possible to have Latin slave general model appear on the map?

Assign the battle model via command in ur script like:-

faction teutonic_order
character	Charles, named character, x 57, y 53, battle_model Adv_Northern_General_Eng

[wudang_clown]

I did it and nothing changed - models are the same.

At the same time I realized that banner type is determined by the region in whic spawned army appears.

So, I bogged down.

[Gigantus]

The banners for the spawned slave armies are determined by the culture of the region.

I believe the banners of the slave armies in descr_strat are determined by the culture of their sub_faction.

[wudang_clown]

Yes, that is correct.

But I'm trying to script models in campaign_script.txt, not in descr_strat.txt...

Is there any way to assign specific models to invasion army spawned in campaign_script.txt? Because now I'm getting just a slave general model and can't get any other... It's rather weird to see Middle Eastern general model representing leaders of the 4th crusade...

[wudang_clown]

Why can't the same thing be done that is done for the Mongols and Timurids? They are all listed as spawn armies.

I'm not sure if I get you correctly, but it can't be done as it is for those two factions, because then it would be Kingdom of Jerusalem's armies besieging Constantinople - and that would be incorrect.

That's why I'm asking: is it possible to assign a specific general's model to a slave army. It seems to me that "faction slave, sub_faction france" doesn't result in having france slave model of a general on the map, though each rebellious KoJ (france) general is getting that specific rebel model. So, is it possible to get such feature via campaing_script.txt?

[irishron]

Why can't the same thing be done that is done for the Mongols and Timurids? They are all listed as spawn armies.

[irishron]

Then the problem would be converting a Middle Eastern convert to Catholicism, or have a Middle Eastern faction emerge as Catholic as I see it. Is this what you are trying to accomplish?

[wudang_clown]

What I'm trying to accomplish is, one more time, having a Latin general's model on the head of Latin crusader army besieging Constantinople in 1204. No less, no more.

Now scripting of 4th crusade results in having ME general (faction slave) as the model of Latin crusader army.

Accordingly to Archaon's finding, "sub_faction france" added to the faction line should result in having specific model appear, but it seems not to work.

I'm asking if it works really, because it's very possible than I'm scripting it incorrectly. But I need to know if it works before I can conclude that I'm doing something wrongly.