Peasants

[Fridericus Rex]

I like to disable the building of all "Peasants" in RTW - but could not find any help in the "How to" list for modding.

Is there an easy way to do this? I am a novice when it comes to modding.

Thank you for any help.

[hsimoorb]

Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but I beleive it's a simple as going to the export_descr_buildings file and removing the line in each building that would creates peasants.

For insance, there should be a line that looks something like this;

}
governors_villa requires factions { barbarian, armenia, romans_brutii, egypt, romans_scipii, carthage, parthia, numidia, thrace, greek_cities, macedon, romans_julii, seleucid, pontus, romans_senate, slave, }
recruit "barbarian peasants" 0 { germans, gaul }

Then just delete the line that says
recruit "barbarian peasants" 0 { germans, gaul }

It's won't look exactaly like that in your file, since I've got a modded version of the game on my PC, so I didn't copy/paste it. But you'll see what I mean once you look at the file.

Oh, BTW. The export_descr_buildings file is in you data folder, WAY at the bottom.

[Publius]

Correct hsimoorb, although if you want to take them out of custom battles, you will have to change the ownership of all peasant units in your export_descr_units file to "slave."

[Fridericus Rex]

Thank you, this may help a lot.

[Red Harvest]

A better suggestion is to comment out the lines rather than removing them. That way you can see where the gaps are in the build queue, or easily unmodify, etc.

[Publius]

Note: To comment out a line, just put a ";" (without the quotations) before it.

[verena xeventus]

Aaaahhh that would explain it. I too wanted to disable peasents, but instead I deleted them from the export_descr_unit file and the game crashed... so I put them back in. Useful thread to newbies like me, I'll give it a go. Cheers.