Scripted Armies

**The Despondent Mind** · January 09, 2011, 08:08 PM

Pardon my ignorance but how can i turn off the scripted armies showing up next to my city ? They are incredibly anoying and ruin the gameplay for me

**RedDwarf** · January 09, 2011, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Mind

Pardon my ignorance but how can i turn off the scripted armies showing up next to my city ? They are incredibly anoying and ruin the gameplay for me

You would have to delete the campaign script part that has that line. Ther are many, many, spawn scripts. So if you try, make sure to back up file first.

**andymate** · January 09, 2011, 10:09 PM

I did it for 1.4 but not 1.4.1 and it took around 45 minutes to do.

What i found was, removing all the spawn armies makes the ai boring, so if you are going to do it i would suggest giving them either extra money per turn and/or give them a bunch of rebel settlements.

The file you need to edit is in - Medieval2 folder\mods\Call_Of_Warhammer\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\campaign_script.txt
To remove each one seperately find all the tags that say
"Spawn_army"
and delete down until you see the word "end"

**The Despondent Mind** · January 10, 2011, 07:43 AM

I guess I'l have to suffer from those armies...

**Klierowski** · January 10, 2011, 09:05 AM

I don't get you... playing wihound scripts is just too simple...no chaos armies,no Dark elves armies... boooring... u fight only with orcs and beastmen.

**The Despondent Mind** · January 10, 2011, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Klierowski

I don't get you... playing wihound scripts is just too simple...no chaos armies,no Dark elves armies... boooring... u fight only with orcs and beastmen.

I would like to keep these armies but not showing in front of my town and attacking me the same turn that's just spoils the fun to me.

**Klierowski** · January 10, 2011, 10:48 AM

Oh i get it... but i don't think it's impossible to archieve... why? when u script armies to sprawn Far away from you'r town's i think they will get back to chaos lands... stupid Ai ;D.

**The Despondent Mind** · January 10, 2011, 11:30 AM

Few minutes a go before writing this post i played with Dwarves.And i had to defend my lands from Vardek who was going excatly with his henchmen on my capitol .Eventually Only one of his armies got to the Karak but it was also defeated, the price for that was high my king,heir and a good general died .

My point is during his march I was preparing,scheming how to stop him and that made quiet a lot of more fun then trilions of chaos stacks spawning at my castle and taking it immedeatly.Even if i lost i would still be satisfied.

Also i must noticed that those armies didn't moved in the classic tw way it's like they where teleported ( Must be yet another script but i liked this one more but still it is anoying since sometimes i put my armies in the tight mountain passes where you must attack them).

And my GOD those flying Sorcerers are anoying they once killed more 30% of my army without even gething close to it !!!

**Mikail Mengsk** · January 10, 2011, 11:47 AM

The "teleporting" armies are a bit annoying/enraging, yes. I'd like to have the possibility to intercept them in open battle (also avoiding CTDs and poor AI behaviour in siege battles), but probably there isn't other way to make the AI move that armies to their "natural" destination.

**Karion** · January 10, 2011, 11:48 AM

That is because the ai alone can't move through the map cause is simply too much stupid to do it, i would like too to see vardek crom's army marching through the mountains and ambush him but is imposible since the ai would never do that, it would simply go back to his territory, ruining the whole fun of fighting it

**Pietrak** · January 10, 2011, 01:27 PM

As far as I know, an army can be scripted to do anything. For example an army would be scripted to spawn 2 turn away from a city and then go there and attack.
But any interruption in that script would cause a CTD. So that's why armies spawn right beside and attack instantly.