Is there a way to....

[The Almohad]

Is it possible for a non-modder to edit EB so I can build naval ships in every port as opposed to this hidden resource nonsense? I should be able to build up enough infrastructure to build a boat wherever I damn well please, and more importantly retrain it wherever I wish. It's not as bad playing as a non-eastern faction, but playing as the Saba is tough when the only place you can build boats is Tamane.

My puny fleet got defeated and was chased down by some stupid egyptian boat that kept getting lucky and winning everytime and gained 4 command stars, in turn completely ing up my invasion of northern homeland ptolemy territory because they had too much time to prepare.

I can't figure out how I'm supposed to beat the ptollies normally by marching up the nile, the selekids are incompetent this time, and in fact waste time attacking me for no reason. Charax lets me build boats but its too far away to be useful to me in egypt and puts me at war with both superpowers. I had three full stacks of good troops all ready to go, but no, stupid 4 star boat makes it so I can't go up the red sea or risk all my guys drowning. And since it takes forever to march up Arabia they had an extra 3-4 years to prepare, so my little blitzkrieg turned into stalingrad. But gee if I could just build boats a few other places it wouldn't take me another 3-4 years just to wait to build enough boats so I can TRY to to take out the 4 star uberboat and go back and pick up my army, but oh wait by now egypt has magically spawned like 11 more stacks out of their ass so its all useless.

I'm sorry, I love this game but its supposed to be about altering history. I'm sure a lot of these settlements never had the kind of buildings you have the option of constructing either but we can still build them, so why limit naval construction? Especially when trade ships and naval ships were all made of the same stuff with similar designs anyway, just different sizes. I have a hard time imagining a port at that time that was too small or didn't have enough resources not to build a naval ship if it could otherwise build a trade ship. It's not like they had carrier sized ships. Yout think back then if the King/Pharoah/Despot wanted a boat, he'd get one come hell or high water, if your port isn't big enough he'd whip a bunch of slaves into making it happen and slit throats of anyone who disagreed.

Anyway, how do I alter this manually? Also, I mean no disrespect to the modding team, I'm just mad right now about the demise of my Saba campaign.

[Siegfriedfr]

Go into descr_regions, and the hidden resource you need to add is smallfleet.

Btw having limited place to build navies increase the strategical aspect of the game. If you could build anything anywhere, it would just be a gigantic spam of units as opposed to a wargame don't you think?

As for the saba campaign... never managed to pull it off, getting indian elephants asap seems the only way to win, as both superpowers will get out of their ways to attack you, even if being beaten down badly by someone else.

Remember that factions aren't supposed to be balanced... and the saba campaign even less than others.