Placing watchtowers with MedievalShield

[Quercia]

Greetings,

I was wondering if you can place watchtowers on the map just like spawning units. This would be useful because I hate the beginning where all of your land is in fog of war.

I don't want to toggle the fow because that is a bit too much in my opinion, gives me too much of an advantage (and my pc dies because of the enemy movement - so I would have to put it off).

So, how do you spawn watchtowers on the map with Medieval Shield?
And what is the command to find coordinates on the map?

Cheers,
-Q

[JorisofHolland]

I believe you can add them in descr_strat.txt. The command is "show_cursorstat", it tells you the coordinates of your cursors.

[Caesar Clivus]

Joris is right. You can only place them on the map in descr_strat.txt before the campaign starts. You can't spawn them with a command once the game starts.

[Quercia]

Ok thanks, but how are they written in descr_strat?

I like it completely dark - forces you to use Spies more often early game, until you can afford to place watchtowers down, and the Spies then move out. Got to get the balance right.

I think it's completely odd that you can't view your own lands. It makes sense for enemy lands but 3 tiles away from your towns? No thanks. Too much micromanagement.

[Vaz]

I like it completely dark - forces you to use Spies more often early game, until you can afford to place watchtowers down, and the Spies then move out. Got to get the balance right.

[Awellesley]

The code goes at the end of the file descr_strat.txt

; >>>> start of regions section <<<<
region (you put region name here without brackets)

farming_level 0
famine_threat 0
watchtower (coordinates without brackets)

[JorisofHolland]

so it could be like:
region Venice_Region

farming_level 0 ; Should this match descr_regions.txt?
famine_threat 0 ; No idea what this is, doesn't matter either
watchtower 1 , 1
watchtower 5 , 6

[Awellesley]

exactly-the region matches the earlier mention in descr_srat

for example, putting a watchtower in York, look up York in the descr_srat and you find this entry:

settlement
{
level town
region York_Province

year_founded 0
population 1500
plan_set default_set
faction_creator england
......etc

the script for a watchtower looks like

region York_Province

farming_level 0 (never seen these as anything other than 0)
famine_threat 0 (again, always seems to be set at 0)
watchtower (tab) 69 239

delete map.rwm in
C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel_6\data\world\maps\base,
start a new campaign and there will be a watchtower in York near the Scottish border to keep an eye on those rascals.

[Gorrrrrn]

farming_level 0 (never seen these as anything other than 0)
famine_threat 0 (again, always seems to be set at 0)

Actually you don't need to put these in at all if you don't want to.
My descr_strat with preplaced stone forts omits them entirely and the game works just as well.