Spartan Royal Guard

**spam99** · April 19, 2006, 02:07 PM

i think the spartan royal guard unit is great but i was a little dissaponited the that it could not use the phalanx formation. is there any where of changing the data files so it can use it because i am very confused

**Kara Kolyo** · April 19, 2006, 02:31 PM

if you have BI than you could install BI XGM where the royal guard uses shield wall, representing the old fighting stile. other than that you have spartan phalangites that fight in phalanx formation

**spam99** · April 19, 2006, 02:59 PM

thanks for the info but i really want them to have phalanx formation is there any way :wink:

**DimeBagHo** · April 19, 2006, 05:24 PM

Why not just wait and recruit Spartan phalangites?

**Zarax** · April 20, 2006, 03:43 AM

You can try modding the unit file and replace shield_wall with phalanx in formations, however I think it requires some extra work like changing the skeleton...

**shadowarmy75** · April 20, 2006, 03:34 PM

No, I made Axillia have phalanx and it was fine.

**Zarax** · April 20, 2006, 04:16 PM

Auxilia does not use the same skeleton as the spartan royal guard, it is possible that either the game will crash or animations will look weird...

**DimeBagHo** · April 20, 2006, 05:42 PM

The skeleton might cause a problem. Not so much because of the over-hand animation because that just gets replaced by the phalanx animation, but because there is no secondary weapon skeleton. If Auxillia worked it might be OK though.

**Zarax** · April 21, 2006, 01:44 AM

Does auxilia use overhand animation?
I think secondary weapon shouldn't be a problem, spartan royal guard got a sword too IIRC and you don't need a seconday weapon for phalanx since 1.3 IIRC, but if the game does not crash you could get weird stuff like very long overhand spears that would look very silly... If it happens I think you can just change the skeleton to the one used by spartan phalangites in the descr_models_battle file.

**murat can** · May 10, 2006, 06:21 PM

one of the Spartan unit (forgot which one) requires 30 turns to recruit, i forgot how to change it so any help will be appreciated...

**Kara Kolyo** · May 10, 2006, 07:02 PM

Spartan royal guard. you need to go to export_descr_units in xgm/ data directory. find the spartan hoplytes entry in the middle of the file and change 30 to whatever you need. having it 30 turns is much interesting though. you have spartan phalangites that take 2 turns to create.
Wow more than 200 posts

**murat can** · May 10, 2006, 07:13 PM

i would rather leave it alone, that unit is strong and i guess players are not meant to have a lot of them.

**Venom** · May 10, 2006, 07:31 PM

The reason they are like that is so players are mostly restricted to just retraining them. I'm currently training a second unit of Spartan Royal Guard, but probably not any more after that unless I have a huge empire that requires it.

**Juus** · May 10, 2006, 08:36 PM

Spartan Royal Guards, retrained and armoured are almost impossible to kill off. I would change it to 20 if the wait time is too long for you. But for the sake of realism, don't change it down to 1 turn!