Mercs

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 29, 2011, 05:12 PM

I have one serious problem. I´m working on my mod 280 B.C.:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=459505
It is vital for me to have some mercs being recruitabe in certain regions. So I added mercenery_unit in the export_descr_unit.txt file added the correct hidden_resource region and made it recruitable in the export_descr_building.txt. It shows up correctly in the custom battle roster. But it is not recruitable in campaign.

I know i could delete the mercenery_unit attribute in the export_descr_unit.txt. But that would mix the regular and AOR units up. I want the regular roster being shown first in custom battle followed by the regular and recruitable Mercs.

Is there a solution?

**Squid** · June 29, 2011, 05:18 PM

You also need to update the ownership to include the slave faction, and add appropriate texture/sprite lines to all models used by the unit in DMB. If you want it recruitable through the mercenary recruitment panel you'll also need to add it to descr_mercenaries.txt in the campaign folder.

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 29, 2011, 05:56 PM

Did that already. But the units are only recruitable when attribute mercenery_unit in the export_descr_unit.txt is deleted...

**Squid** · June 29, 2011, 11:23 PM

Because you don't have correct ownership, you need both faction and slave ownership if you want the merc unit to be recruited in EDB and descr_mercenaries respectively.

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 30, 2011, 05:09 AM

This is what I did:

type yuezhehorsearchers
dictionary yuezhehorsearchers ; Persian Cavalry
category cavalry
class missile
voice_type Medium_1
soldier yuezhehorsearchers, 27, 0, 1
mount heavy horse
mount_effect elephant -8, camel -4
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, cantabrian_circle, mercenary_unit
formation 1.5, 4, 3, 6, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 11, 3, arrow, 170, 30, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 ,0.75
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 8, 5, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,0.75
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 9, 5, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat -1
stat_ground 0, 1, -6, -1
stat_mental 14, normal, untrained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 1600, 195, 80, 120, 1000
ownership roman, greek, egypt, carthaginian, eastern, barbarian, slave

type yuezhehorsearchers
skeleton fs_hc_archer, fs_hc_swordsman
indiv_range 40
texture merc, my_mod/data/models_unit/textures/yuezhehorsearchers.tga
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 8
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 15
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 30
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, max
model_sprite merc, 60.0, data/sprites/dacia_barb_archer_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

recruit "yuezhehorsearchers" 0 requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and hidden_resource eastern_steppes

{yuezhehorsearchers} Yuezhi Horse Archers
{yuezhehorsearchers_descr}
Superior\nCan Form Cantabrian Circle\n\nYuezhi Horse Archers can fight well with either bow or sword, making them valuable skirmishers and general purpose horsemen. The Yuezhi, or Rouzhi (Chinese: 月支; pinyin: yuè zhī or ròu zhī; also Chinese: 月氏; pinyin: yuè shì or ròu shì; Old Chinese: Tokwar), also known as the Da Yuezhi or Da Rouzhi (Chinese: 大月支, dà yuè zhī or dà ròu zhī, "Great Yuezhi"), were an ancient Central Asian people.
They are believed by most scholars to have been an Indo-European people and may have been the same as or closely related to the Tocharians. They were originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before they migrated to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where they may have had a part in forming the Kushan Empire.
{yuezhehorsearchers_descr_short}
Yuezhi Horse Archers can fight well with either bow or sword, making them valuable skirmishers and general purpose horsemen.
¬----------------

Everything works (units show up correctly, are playable in custom battle...) but they won´t be recruitable...

**Milner** · June 30, 2011, 05:32 AM

Add this in EDU :

Code:

type yuezhehorsearchers1
dictionary yuezhehorsearchers1 ; Persian Cavalry
category cavalry
class missile
voice_type Medium_1
soldier yuezhehorsearchers, 27, 0, 1
mount heavy horse
mount_effect elephant -8, camel -4
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, cantabrian_circle
formation 1.5, 4, 3, 6, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 11, 3, arrow, 170, 30, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 ,0.75
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 8, 5, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,0.75
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 9, 5, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat -1
stat_ground 0, 1, -6, -1
stat_mental 14, normal, untrained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 1600, 195, 80, 120, 1000
ownership roman, greek, egypt, carthaginian, eastern, barbarian, slave

Add new texture and sprites entrys for every factions in DMB:

Code:

type yuezhehorsearchers
skeleton fs_hc_archer, fs_hc_swordsman
indiv_range 40
texture merc, my_mod/data/models_unit/textures/yuezhehorsearchers.tga
texture slave, my_mod/data/models_unit/textures/yuezhehorsearchers.tga
texture romans_julii, my_mod/data/models_unit/textures/yuezhehorsearchers.tga
texture macedon, my_mod/data/models_unit/textures/yuezhehorsearchers.tga
...
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 8
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 15
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, 30
model_flexi my_mod/data/models_unit/unit_saka_steppenreiter_archer.cas, max
model_sprite  60.0, data/sprites/dacia_barb_archer_sprite.spr
model_sprite slave, 60.0, data/sprites/dacia_barb_archer_sprite.spr
model_sprite romans_julii, 60.0, data/sprites/dacia_barb_archer_sprite.spr
model_sprite macedon, 60.0, data/sprites/dacia_barb_archer_sprite.spr
...
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

Change in EDB:

Code:

recruit "yuezhehorsearchers1" 0 requires factions { barbarian, carthaginian, eastern, parthia, egyptian, greek, roman, } and hidden_resource eastern_steppes

Make a new description in export units to yuezhehorsearchers1

Regards.

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 30, 2011, 05:59 AM

Thanks milner. The thing is If I do so all the units show mixed up in custom battle menu. I wanted the regulars being seperated from the mercs and recruitable mercs...

**Squid** · June 30, 2011, 08:19 AM

Try taking off the hidden resource requirement and see what happens. Everything else looks ok. Are you getting any error messages using -show_err?

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 30, 2011, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Squid

Try taking off the hidden resource requirement and see what happens. Everything else looks ok. Are you getting any error messages using -show_err?

It´s the hidden_resource. without it it works. But i really don´t want to have Yuezhe Archers being recruitable in spain. I don´t get any show_err error messages. what could be the prob?

**Squid** · June 30, 2011, 02:56 PM

You didn't actually assign the hidden resource to any region in descr_regions.txt. Do that and then delete map.rwm in the campaign folder and then start a new campaign.

**Sonny Costanzo** · June 30, 2011, 03:05 PM

I really did that in descr_regions.txt and in EDB.txt. It must be correct since I don´t get any error messages, which I got while inserting them incorrect...

**Squid** · June 30, 2011, 03:06 PM

Did you delete map.rwm and start a new campaign? Did you then go to whichever region you gave the hidden resource to and check recruitment in that region?