How do i change the armor of a unit?

**puelladeluxe** · October 16, 2011, 02:52 PM

hi guys!

i had hoped you could tell me how to change the armor of a unit! for example how do i give the "broken lances" soldiers a heavy horse armor, like gothic knights have, instead of no horse armor at all

**AJStoner** · October 16, 2011, 06:42 PM

Go to data/export_descr_units and find the listing for the unit whose mount you want to change. About 9 or so lines down you will see an entry named "mount." Change the name of the mount type there to the same as the unit whose horse type you wish to use.

**puelladeluxe** · October 17, 2011, 07:57 AM

doesn't work! but thanks anyway

**danny X** · October 17, 2011, 08:22 AM

hmm, it should work:

did you load a battle to see what the new mount looked like?

if you got a ctd, could you post a log report?

Code:

type             Broken Lances
dictionary       Broken_Lances      ; Broken Lances
category         cavalry
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_cavalry
banner holy      crusade_cavalry
soldier          Broken_Lances, 32, 0, 1
mount            heavy horse
mount_effect     elephant -4, camel -4
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, can_formed_charge, knight
formation        2, 4.4, 3, 6, 2, square, wedge
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         10, 8, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 1
;stat_pri_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         11, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 25, 1
;stat_sec_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  9, 4, 0, metal
;stat_armour_ex   9, 11, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        4
stat_ground      0, 0, -4, 0
stat_mental      9, low, trained
stat_charge_dist 45
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 730, 320, 120, 95, 730, 4, 180
armour_ug_levels 5, 6
armour_ug_models Broken_Lances, Broken_Lances_ug1
ownership        milan, venice, papal_states
era 2            milan, venice, papal_states
;unit_info        10, 0, 13
recruit_priority_offset    0

change the red text to either; barded horse, mailed horse or armoured horse and then it should work!!

**Taiji** · October 17, 2011, 08:34 AM

Not if he hasn't read the readme for the unpacker and adjusted accordingly.

@puelladeluxe, read the readme for the unpacker, it's in the tools folder

**danny X** · October 17, 2011, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Taiji

Not if he hasn't read the readme for the unpacker and adjusted accordingly.

@puelladeluxe, read the readme for the unpacker, it's in the tools folder

lol, i always assume this done, until all other options are exhuasted anyway!

**puelladeluxe** · October 17, 2011, 09:41 AM

thanks for all the answers! well i didnt get a ctd, there siply was no difference between before and after.

**puelladeluxe** · October 17, 2011, 09:44 AM

well i actually want to change the horsearmour in the stainless steel mod, but i dont get any difference either!

**danny X** · October 17, 2011, 10:07 AM

well ss must use different descriptions for their mounts then!

you will find this info in the descr_mount.txt file in the ss data folder.

**puelladeluxe** · October 17, 2011, 10:56 AM

well no, it still say armoured horse, but still nothig changes when i change the mount types

**Taiji** · October 17, 2011, 02:01 PM

If you're changing a mod's files then the changes should work. Try asking someone that has successfully modded SS files.

**puelladeluxe** · October 17, 2011, 03:32 PM

ok, thanks

**danny X** · October 18, 2011, 03:53 AM

make sure you are changing the edu in the ss data folder, not the edu of the data folder in the m2tw folder. look in the mod folder.

it may not be save game compatible.

they are the only other explanations i can think of why your changes aren't working, as this is normally a simple edit!

other than that if the problem still persists, then as Taiji has suggested, you may find your answer in the ss forum.