How to increase the Bodyguards to more than 100 men?

[Shawn_Lee]

Hi, guys, do you know how to increase the general's bodygurads to more than 100 men? I found 77 was the maxium I can get no matter how many historic battles I made. Is there any way I could modify the general's bodygurads to 250 men?

Thanks a lot.

[KnightsTemplar]

It's hardcoded

[Noobio]

have you tried giving a starting gen a big unit ,through first line of army units in descr_strat ? try it with snagas...who knows ?

[KnightsTemplar]

have you tried giving a starting gen a big unit ,through first line of army units in descr_strat ? try it with snagas...who knows ?

It's historical battle he's talking about
In historical units can have less units, while more?
IDK.

[Shawn_Lee]

have you tried giving a starting gen a big unit ,through first line of army units in descr_strat ? try it with snagas...who knows ?

I modify the filt in export_descri_units like this:"soldier gondor_infantry, 100, 0, 1.2" , which makes all the Gondor's general 102 man(including officers), but if I set "soldier gondor_infantry, 200, 0, 1.2", the game can't run. So, how could I make the bodyguards like 200men or even more??

Thanks, guys

[KnightsTemplar]

I modify the filt in export_descri_units like this:"soldier gondor_infantry, 100, 0, 1.2" , which makes all the Gondor's general 102 man(including officers), but if I set "soldier gondor_infantry, 200, 0, 1.2", the game can't run. So, how could I make the bodyguards like 200men or even more??

Thanks, guys

The maximum number of unit was 100(in medium), resulting in 100*2.5=250men in huge.
Plus a number of officers, which is 4, including the general/captain of the unit.
So normally, the max unit count is 253.
P.S. No custom battle for heroes
You can set them to be a 'officer' of a unit though.
Otherwise, stick to historical for these heroic combats.

[Shawn_Lee]

The maximum number of unit was 100(in medium), resulting in 100*2.5=250men in huge.
Plus a number of officers, which is 4, including the general/captain of the unit.
So normally, the max unit count is 253.
P.S. No custom battle for heroes
You can set them to be a 'officer' of a unit though.
Otherwise, stick to historical for these heroic combats.

Youa re right, mate, every new general comes with 102 personal bodygurads(himself included). However I found that after several battles, as the number decreased, never got back to 100, just about 77 men. How's that? Why can't recover to 100 men?

In terms of the " You can set them to be a 'officer' of a unit though. " How specifictly can I make the hero in the unit? It sounds interesting

[KnightsTemplar]

Youa re right, mate, every new general comes with 102 personal bodygurads(himself included). However I found that after several battles, as the number decreased, never got back to 100, just about 77 men. How's that? Why can't recover to 100 men?

In terms of the " You can set them to be a 'officer' of a unit though. " How specifictly can I make the hero in the unit? It sounds interesting

In the EDU of each unit, there are lines of 'officers'. That is the banner bearer in TATW, and was the Centurion in RTW.

Most unit of good man got two, one for orcs and the elves with their small number.
The line is the model of the 'officer'. Any kind of (same type) unit can be it.
You can make a troll officer, or kind.

You need to find the corresponding model name of the hero/unit, (look for modeldb) and put it in the officers line.
Then the hero will be in the battle line with the troops, everytime you use that specific unit.
So you can make a special cavalry which always have Gandalf and Eomer, and something more.
Though the unit will have no actual special ability of the character, this is kind of a way to put them in custom battles.

P.S. Hardcoded problem for the BGs, it can start with tons of men, but it can only 'refill' to 75+.

[Noobio]

i don't know my friend..i just took a wild guess...i've played with BG reassignment a bit,,,even though i did it just for variety's sake and so i didn't pay much attention to the specific number-thing..but i think ufthag (? or something, the dunlending isengard gen) had a 152 men unit ,when i assigned him dunlending spearmen as bg...i'll just start a game to confirm and i'll edit my post in a while...

EDIT: his name is yagthak and he has 251 men...maybe ,in order to achieve whta you're looking for ,for other units ,you'll have to edit other files too besides just EDU...ask about it in the workshop...

question: how can i use "hero" generals like aragorn ,withcking etc in custom battles ???