Condition for region character is in

[sandymoo]

I was wondering if there is any way to test if an army or character is in a certain region or to return the region that the army or character is in.

[Withwnar]

The IsRegionOneOf condition will test whether this character is in a specific region or in one of a selection of regions.

e.g. In campaign script...

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart IsRegionOneOf London_Province York_Province

  ;this character is in London or York region... do something...

end_monitor

(No idea of those region names are correct. Just an example.)

You could add other conditions to restrict it to a certain faction, character type, etc.

[sandymoo]

Thank you that is just what I was looking for!
On a related note, is there a condition to test if a character is inside of a certain country's borders? (like it will return true if the specified character is in a region that belong's to a faction)
Thanks again.

[Withwnar]

You're welcome.

is there a condition to test if a character is inside of a certain country's borders?

Not easily. Possibly something like this...

declare_counter french_within_english_borders

monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart FactionType france
  set_counter french_within_english_borders 0
end_monitor

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FactionType france
  and IsGeneral
  and IsRegionOneOf London_Province
  and I_SettlementOwner London england

  set_counter french_within_english_borders 1
end_monitor

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FactionType france
  and IsGeneral
  and IsRegionOneOf York_Province
  and I_SettlementOwner York england

  set_counter french_within_english_borders 1
end_monitor

... and so on for every region that you want to include...

...which only handles one faction (France) being in one other faction's (Engand's) borders, and even then will be lengthy if you want to include all regions on the map. I haven't used IsGeneral much; not sure if it includes regular "generals" (captains), i.e. armies without named character commanders.

[Aikanár]

Nope, Is_General only works for Generals aka named characters with a character_record.
A captain does not qualify for any of this.
Ah and afaik PreFactionTurnStart only works in the 0 round = when you start a campaign - I might be mistaken in that one though

[sandymoo]

Nope, Is_General only works for Generals aka named characters with a character_record.
A captain does not qualify for any of this.

Is there any condition that would work for captains then? I want to make something happen whenever there's a rebel army inside of a region you control and obviously it would work better if the condition fires whether the army has a general or not...

[Taiji]

Ah and afaik PreFactionTurnStart only works in the 0 round = when you start a campaign - I might be mistaken in that one though

It occurs (at least) before every turn for every faction.

[Withwnar]

Nope, Is_General only works for Generals aka named characters with a character_record.
A captain does not qualify for any of this.
Ah and afaik PreFactionTurnStart only works in the 0 round = when you start a campaign - I might be mistaken in that one though

It seems that it does work - I just tried it....

monitor_event CharacterTurnStart FactionType milan
  and IsRegionOneOf Nan-Curunir_Province
  and IsGeneral

  historic_event nazgul

end_monitor

When I put a milan army led by a captain in this region then the historic event fires. Also when led by a named character. But it didn't fire for a spy.

Perhaps you are thinking of traits/ancillaries there Aikanar. IsGeneral would appear not to work on captains in those triggers but that is due to them not being able to have traits/ancs.

It occurs (at least) before every turn for every faction.

Yes, every turn, once per faction, before all other xxxTurnStart events for that faction. Living factions only (I think?).

[Aikanár]

To my knowledge this is only possible for characters or agents or factions.

[Taiji]

Try this:

declare_counter PFTS
monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart I_TurnNumber > 0
inc_counter PFTS 1
end_monitor

And you'll know how many times it fires for all factions in round 2 by checking the (trace) log for the counter

[Withwnar]

Once per living faction.

[Aikanár]

See, nice to know and you never stop learning
That's with "read it somewhere" with regards to PreFactionTurnStart
@IsGeneral:
Interesting, that means that captains do have a character_record, thus I was liable to a missconception of how character_record works

[Taiji]

They have a character record that's ready to be used for 'man of the hour'. So they can gain traits from the previous battle.