Elven units

[Vasito]

What happend to the guys with bows shileds and swords?




And how can I make my lothern seaguard fight with spears.
Shouldnt there be some sort of toggle button? Toggle mele toggle bows?
How do I make high elven spears make spear wall?

And what happend to those shields?
I no longer see such icon on them and its gorgeous!
Instead I see some plain white shields and some very very light yellow icon that most of the time blends with the white shield.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

Im sry, I really cant understand what you are pointing out.
but the shield might be the armour upgrade

[patatkraam]

What happend to the guys with bows shields and swords?

And how can I make my lothern seaguard fight with spears.
Shouldnt there be some sort of toggle button? Toggle mele toggle bows?

1. If you meant the image with the archers having a shield on their back in the icon, while their model doesn't, it's probably been an update.

2. That was discussed a while back ago I remember, something to do with the character movement with the spear I believe.

3. If you hold ALT and press Right mouse button, the unit with automaticly go into melee with the chosen target you press right mouse button on.

[Vasito]

The shiled thing is not from upgrade. Upgrade only adds 1 more design.

And what I meant to say is around july 2010 when I played COW for the first time there was a elven unit with bows and shields and swords.
Also there is no spear wall option for elves?

[Kahvipannu]

Haven't played HE much, but they did get remade between that time..

Shouldnt there be some sort of toggle button? Toggle mele toggle bows?

Hold "alt", you can assign ranged unit to go melee attack.

[Vasito]

I really liked those units. Bows and then shileds and swords....

The shiled icon... i started modding... since today and I will try to make it as I want it to be. Where can I get textures? Like from previous versions of COW etc.?

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

I really liked those units. Bows and then shileds and swords....

The shiled icon... i started modding... since today and I will try to make it as I want it to be. Where can I get textures? Like from previous versions of COW etc.?

You can just use the normal spearman texture, and weapon and so on
and you are more when welcome to post your submod in the submod section, good luck sir!

[Vasito]

Already did. Exited!

[odyseusz79]

Vasito,

As far as I know, there is no spear wall for basic Elven spearmen. You can always check your units' abilities by opening up the export_descr_unit.txt file in your data folder. Spearwall is called "phalanx" in this file. So, for example, Phoenix Guard should be able to do spearwall.

[Vasito]

So I can change many things from there? Ill check it thanks!
I found the elf spearmen but i dont know what to change to make spear wall avaivable.

[odyseusz79]

Vasito,

Yep, you can change many unit attributes there, but you still have to be careful and make backups. Two things to try:

1. The quick way: add the word "phalanx" into the "formation" line for Elven spearmen (in the same place where Phoenix Guard has the word "phalanx"). If this doesn't work, see point 2.

2. The longer but better way: look for modding tutorials on this website (especially the EDU tutorials) and figure it out!

[Rakki Raiden]

never knew you could change between melee and ranged by pressing alt thanks!! =]

[Shadowlair]

its not really changing weapons, its more forcing them to melee a certain enemy, effective if you want to save ammo, or really need those archers to defend a spot for a while.

[Asuryan]

Lothern Seaguards are basically archers with spears.

[Vasito]

Yeah but there are enough spears. I like swords.

[patatkraam]

Yeah but there are enough spears. I like swords.

Swordmasters of Hoeth is what you need then.

[Vasito]

Yeah but I like shileds