Adding New Region Resources

[Dionysius the Mighty]

Hey guys, I'm sure you've noticed that there are various resources that determine where units are recruited, for instance "europe", "americas_coastal", "lancers", "west_indies", etc, etc.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to add a new resource like these. I've created a bunch of King's German Legion units, and I would like them to only be recruitable in the German regions, but all I can do is make them recruitable across the whole of Europe, only in Eastern Europe, or only where Uhlans are available (which doesn't include some of the Western German states like Hanover). So would it be possible to create a KGL resource that would allow the King's German Legion units to be recruited solely in German provinces?

[taw]

Hey guys, I'm sure you've noticed that there are various resources that determine where units are recruited, for instance "europe", "americas_coastal", "lancers", "west_indies", etc, etc.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to add a new resource like these. I've created a bunch of King's German Legion units, and I would like them to only be recruitable in the German regions, but all I can do is make them recruitable across the whole of Europe, only in Eastern Europe, or only where Uhlans are available (which doesn't include some of the Western German states like Hanover). So would it be possible to create a KGL resource that would allow the King's German Legion units to be recruited solely in German provinces?

First, you'll need open db editor and add new resource to region_unit_resources_tables table.

Then, add dependency on your new resource to units_tables.

Now the hard part. Install esfxml, convert startpos.esf to xml, and look for tags like this in each region:
<resources_array>
displaced_scots
africa_west_indies
displaced_irish
global
americas_coastal
colonial_euro_factions
americas
</resources_array>
You need to add your resource there. Then convert back to esf. Done.