Adding A unit Class

[lord Clifford]

has anyone had any success in adding a new unit class to the game. the reason i am attempting to do this is i am a little sick of the game building units such as the black watch and giving them the title 1st foot guard. as its the unit class that determines the generated name, i thus wish to make the game give the units customized names. to do this i need to make a new class for every unit. i have tried adding my new class in the unit_class table and to the unit_regiment_names table but when i change the unit class (in this case the black watch) from elite infantry to 42_regiment(new class name) the game will crash to desktop has anyone got any ideas

[Consul Napoleon Bonaparte]

You can rename the unit. double left click on the icon, or right click, I forget which one, and click on the name in their description, then type in the name you wish.

[The Vicar]

I have gotten to the point where it doesn't CTD, but no, I have not been able to add new unit classes yet.

And at least some of what you're looking to do involves modifying the startpos.

[King Sama]

I have gotten to the point where it doesn't CTD, but no, I have not been able to add new unit classes yet.

And at least some of what you're looking to do involves modifying the startpos.

SO I assume you're talking about classes like light infantry, heavy cavalry, etc, and the OP was about changing the black watch from line to 42_something. If you're talking about the naming of units then just ignore me.

I wanted to try something like that in the future. When you add the class to a unit, what happens exactly? Does it simply not show up?

@lord Clifford
maybe you need to make an entry in the ai tables, I think there are entries for the priority the ai places on recruiting each class

[The Vicar]

You can make new unit classes, defined in the DB (I forget which table right now. units_to_unit_classes or something, maybe?). BUT, you'll notice that when you recruit a new unit of said new unit class, the name that the game gives it is screwed up. It's something that I'm halfway-sortof-continuing to look into, but so far I haven't gotten anywhere.

[King Sama]

You can make new unit classes, defined in the DB (I forget which table right now. units_to_unit_classes or something, maybe?). BUT, you'll notice that when you recruit a new unit of said new unit class, the name that the game gives it is screwed up. It's something that I'm halfway-sortof-continuing to look into, but so far I haven't gotten anywhere.

Ok, well post here if you get it to work

[Consul Napoleon Bonaparte]

Ugh, New Unit Class? Why cant you just put in a New UNIT.

[King Sama]

Ugh, New Unit Class? Why cant you just put in a New UNIT.

Because thats not my problem. Like in TGW, I added alpini and alpenkorps, but I can't make a unit class called mountain infantry to differentiate them. As it stands, they're listed as line infantry, or in this case Rifle Battalion.

[Steph]

Did you manage to add a new class or not?