Rome Total Realism Generals

**WTanner** · September 28, 2009, 01:23 PM

I am playing RTR platinum edition. I know that you can change it to allow you to recruit generals like in the vanilla version. If anyone could tell me in detail how to do it that would be fantastic! Thanks

**Clearchus of Sparta** · September 28, 2009, 02:59 PM

Units (except mercenaries) are recruited through buildings. Different buildings give access to different units.
The file you want is called export_descr_buildings.txt (EDB) and is located in your RTW/RTRPE/Data folder

you will need a text editor file such as notepad or notepad++

open the file with the editor

some of the buildings will contain lines similar to the one below:-

recruit "aor greek toxotai" 0 requires factions { epirus, }

you will need to replace the section in blue with the units name and the green section with the name of the faction you want to have access to that unit.

Unit names can be found in export_descr_units.txt - also in your data folder

IMPOTANT: MAKE A BACKUP/COPY OF YOUR EDB FIRST IN CASE THINGS DONT WORK

**WTanner** · September 29, 2009, 10:18 AM

Thank you for the reply but I am a computer idiot so I need more detail. In the vanilla version the general unit was trained in the Circus Maximus which is not available in RTR.

**WTanner** · October 16, 2009, 10:08 AM

When I try this I get a script error when I start the game

**fourganger** · September 29, 2009, 03:42 PM

You can put the unit text under any building that you can recruit from, it doesn't need to be a Circus Maximus. Heck, you could put the relevant text under the Practice Range and recruit Generals from there if you wanted!

**Quinn Inuit** · September 29, 2009, 10:29 PM

For the record, the Extended Realism Mod has recruitable generals.

**Lord Thesaurian** · October 02, 2009, 11:33 AM

what? you can recruit generals in vanilla? im pretty sure u can only do that in bi. if u mean recuit elite cavalry like the ones in your generals bodyguard, then pretty much all factions can do that with the exception of rome, but equites are pretty much "light praetoria." The gauls have noble cav, parthians, have catas... almost all factions have "general's" cav they can recruit with a top-level barracks, these elite cav essentially being "genera's bodyguards" without the extra hitpoint.