Questions and Praise!

**GondorCaptain** · July 17, 2011, 01:57 AM

This is awesome! I gave up waiting for TATW 3.0 and tried this, and wow it's so good. I really like how battles aren't so arcade like, and it takes time for soldiers to die and route, making tactical maneuvers key rather than elite unit spamming. All in all A+

Just a few questions about the mod:
1) The readme says there's an additional music pack, couldn't find a download anywhere, has it already been implemented in the 2.08 release?
2) I have a quadcore system that can run Empire and Crysis 2 full spec, but I get lots of lag when I play this mod... well not just this, but the RTW and Alex games in general, can someone help me tweak my settings?
3) Is this mod still being worked on? I mean what new thing do you plan on adding lol, you've already got the CUSTOM SETTLEMENTS OMG
4) I know better than to request larger unit sizes, but I'd like to play with more soldiers per unit if possible. How would I go about modding this option? And is it simple like *change unit scale* done, or do I have to manually change the troop numbers of every unit?
5) Also a thing with unit spacing, like the gap between two infantry units, how can I edit and remove that good sirs?

But yeah this is great, so long TATW until 3.0 comes out haha

**phobos451** · July 17, 2011, 05:45 AM

1. here is the music pack: http://www.gamefront.com/files/20349..._MusicPack.exe
if you installed 2.08, then install this in RTW folder. but in 2.08c, it is included.

2. it is normal, that the game machine is so old, it cannot use the new systems well. for example if you have a graphic driver with more than one nucleus, the game will use only one of them.
i suggest making unit detail high, instead of highest. there is no much difference, but when you look from far away, game will use sprites instead of their real appearance. if you make highest, game doesn't use sprites, so it will be harder for your system to show unit details of hundreds of troops when you look from a distance and don't really see what they are like.

3. wlesmana and bardo don't seem to be around for months. but when they come, i'm sure they will start making on the new version.

4. as i know, you can't make a unit more than 240 (in the huge scale, will be 120 in the large scale). you can give the unit an officer, a flutter, and a banner carrier so the number will be 243. and if you make every unit 240, then the balance between orcs and elves for example, will be destroyed.

5. don't know..

**Pinkie Pie** · July 26, 2011, 08:44 AM

Is there a way to make this work with the BI exe?

**The Holy Pilgrim** · July 26, 2011, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by martin616

Is there a way to make this work with the BI exe?

There is, but you'll lose about 70-80% of all the features of this mod.

Originally Posted by GondorCaptain

5) Also a thing with unit spacing, like the gap between two infantry units, how can I edit and remove that good sirs?

First, go to your "Rome - Total War\alexander\lotrtw\data" folder and open the file "export_descr_unit.txt"

There, you will find the entries for every unit in the mod.

See below for an example entry:

Code:

type             gondor militia
dictionary       gondor_militia     ; Gondor Guardsmen
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       Heavy_1
soldier          gondor_militia, 40, 0, 1.01
mount_effect     horse +4
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation        1.2, 1.4, 2.4, 2, 4, square
stat_health      1, 4
stat_pri         2, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 25 ,0.5
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  4, 5, 7, leather
stat_sec_armour  0, 2, flesh
stat_heat        4
stat_ground      0, -1, -1, -1
stat_mental      21, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        2, 300, 130, 30, 50, 300
ownership        carthage

The blue numbers are the stats for how far apart the unit's close-formation from unit to unit. The green numbers are the same thing, only they dictate loose formation. The red number is how many rows of men you have in the standard formation.