Stop bodyguard growth

[Kolwen]

Is it possible to keep the number of general's bodyguard at minimal?

[kevindrosario]

There are two ways I can interpret your question, and I'm not sure what you mean. Is it

1. How do I keep all generals (including faction leaders and heirs) at the same low level of bodyguards?
2. How do I reduce the size of all bodyguards?

I'm not sure how to answer your question if it is the first one. If it is the second one, it's very simple. Go to SS/data/export_descr_unit.txt and find all of the bodyguard units you wish to reduce. It's easy to do this by just using ctrl+F and typing in "general_unit". Then, go to the soldier line in each entry, and reduce the size of the bodyguard unit like this

soldier          NE_Bodyguard, 12, 0, 1

The first number there (in this case it is 12) is the size of the unit. It changes depending on the unit scale you play on. I play on huge so everything is multiplied by 2.5 and the base size of a bodyguard unit is 30. Depending on what scale you play on, the actual size of the unit in game will be some multiple of that 12. You can change the size of the unit by changing the number. So, for example, if I changed the number to 6 instead of 12, the size would be reduced from 30 to 15 on huge unit scale.

[Kolwen]

Well, I will try to explain the situation:

I have one general that starts the campaign with only a few bodyguards.
However, the number of bodyguards grows in the following turns.
I want keep the number of bodyguards for that general as it was at the begining of the campaign.

With your solution I will have a general starting with 12 bodyguards, but after a few turns its number will be increased. I want to avoid this growth. Maybe by any trait that gives a penality to the bodyguard growth?

[Squid]

The number of bodyguards is related to the influence level and personal security level of your generals. Edit these effects of out export_descr_character_traits and it will remove body guard growth.

[Taiji]

Effect BodyguardSize -2

I've never tested it with reductions. Maybe it won't work. But worth a try

[Kolwen]

I have tried the following effects:

Effect Influence -3
Effect BodyguardSize -2
Effect PersonalSecurity -4

and the bodyguard still growing x2 each turn

[Kolwen]

Sorry for the double post, but I have an important question:

character    Sauron, named character, male, age 22, x 290, y 138, battle_model sauron_general, portrait sauron, hero_ability The_curse_of_Sauron
traits Locked 1, Sauron 1, NightBattleCapable 1
ancillaries sauron_mace
army
unit        Sauron Elephants            exp 2 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0        
unit        Orc Band                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Orc Band                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Mordor Orcs                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Mordor Scouts                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Mordor Scouts                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

In this case Sauron has a bodyguard of Sauron Elephants, however he is alone in the battle. This is exaclty what I want to do, but I don't know how.