non heavy cavalry family members/generals?

[napoleonic]

Is it possible? I would love to see that, horse archer general or halbred general or even gunpowder general

[hippacrocafish]

Yeah, you have to create a new unit then in export_descr_unit assign it to be the general unit of a specific faction.

For instance:

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type NE Bodyguard
dictionary NE_Bodyguard ; General's Bodyguard, ep
category cavalry
class heavy
voice_type General
banner faction main_cavalry
banner holy crusade_cavalry
soldier NE_Bodyguard, 12, 0, 1
officer northern_captain_early_flag
mount barded horse
mount_effect elephant -4, camel -4
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, very_hardy, can_withdraw , general_unit
move_speed_mod 0.95
formation 1.5, 4.4, 2, 6, 2, square
stat_health 1, 3
stat_pri 5, 14, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 60, 1
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 10, 5, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 15, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 8, 9, 3, metal ;
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 7
stat_ground -1, -2, -3, 0
stat_mental 18, disciplined, trained
stat_charge_dist 45
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 555, 0, 60, 50, 555, 1, 100
armour_ug_levels 11, 15, 16, 23
armour_ug_models NE_Bodyguard, NE_Bodyguard, NE_Bodyguard_ug1, NE_Bodyguard_ug1
ownership england, scotland, france, hre, denmark, poland, hungary, slave , norway, jerusalem
era 0 england, scotland, france, hre, denmark, poland, hungary, slave , norway, jerusalem
era 1 england, scotland, france, hre, denmark, poland, hungary, slave , norway, jerusalem
recruit_priority_offset 40

[napoleonic]

so it need to be a new unit that take up units slot? I can't just add 'general unit' parameter on existing unit? and assuming we have empty unit slots, what would happen if I add a unit and make it bodyguard to all faction beside the original bodyguard unit? will the game crash or will it now randomly switch bodyguard type?

[hippacrocafish]

so it need to be a new unit that take up units slot? I can't just add 'general unit' parameter on existing unit? and assuming we have empty unit slots, what would happen if I add a unit and make it bodyguard to all faction beside the original bodyguard unit? will the game crash or will it now randomly switch bodyguard type?

Well it could give it to any old unit I guess, but wouldn't you be putting said faction at a huge disadvantage? I thought you wanted something like the unique bodyguards from Broken Crescent.

EDIT: Oh, and don't forget to remove the changed faction from the bodyguard ownership list it was previously on.

[Caesar Clivus]

You can just add it to existing units. The game wont randomly select units for bodyguards. It just uses the first unit it comes across in the EDU with the general_unit attribute.

[Shoryn]

Sorry for the little off-topic but does the "general_unit_upgrade" works with SS now ? I mean I remember in vanilla after a specific date (or armourer level) we could upgrade bodyguards to get the "late" version of them. Does this works now or do we need to switch "general_unit" attribute manually after for example 1370 ?

[Wrain]

I don't know if it's supposed to be like that but the bodyguards of my Turkish general that start in Sinop consist in 200 Saracen Militia instead of the usual heavy cav.
All normal ?

[dominion]

I don't know if it's supposed to be like that but the bodyguards of my Turkish general that start in Sinop consist in 200 Saracen Militia instead of the usual heavy cav.
All normal ?

Yeah i experienced that too.....

[bɑne]

As far as I know thats intended. A nice gimmick imho.

[Theseus1234]

They have that in TATW, with Dwarven infantry generals and Dalish archer generals.