United Roman Campaign for BigMap

[Shaggy1973]

This is the united Romans Campaign based on the big map for darthmod. It combines the Roman faction together and gives Rome to the player. Hoeever, the senate still give out offices and missions despite not having any provinces.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W2A39VD2

Instructions:
1) Unzip the downloaded zip file to whichever RTW directory Darthmod is installed in.
NB This does not overwrite the any standard Darthmod files, or Bigmap files. This means that you can play standard darthmod, bigmap darthmod or bigmap darthmod roman campaign without changing any files around.
2) To play the game, run RTW as usual, select NEW GAME / PROVINCIAL CAMPAIGN / ROMAN CAMPAIGN
You will note that you can only select the Julii.

Tips:
You start in a very precarious situation. The Gauls are massing to the North, Pyrrhus has invaded to the South, and relations with Carthage are at an all time low. Rome has quickly raised two legions in this time of need, but the empire's current state cannot support two armies for long. Watch your money as indecision will lead to bankrupcy.

Note this is just a brief taster of the mini-mod im going to create. I have not changed any files used by Darthmod on purpose to keep things simple, but eventually will create a mini-mod based off darthmod which will play about with recruitment and building trees too.

Hope you all enjoy it anyway..... it is pretty hard at the start

[DARTH VADER]

Stickied...will test and let you know. I double thank you!!!!

[stu3216]

i got a ctd after i the 1st turn??

[ChErNoByl]

AHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me too. this must be whats causing it.

[Shaggy1973]

Yup - correct. It is united romans causing CTD. Will Investigate asap.

Interestingly enough I do have a copy of RTW running the provincial campaigns together - Im guessing there is a file I havent included with the download, but not sure why that would cause CTD in Bigmap.

Will take the download link down while i investigate.

[Shaggy1973]

OK it was a name mismatch from the new roman family tree. Works fine on my system cos I omitted to include a text file.

Upload link updated, and for those who already downloaded and installed download this zip file and follow instructions unzip it to :

C:/...../...../Rome - Total War/data/text

Rome - Total War meaning whichever directory you have installed Darthmod at.

EG manual install put the text file in data/text.

Apologies all

[ChErNoByl]

thank you SO much for fixing.

Great mod.

[wipeout140]

Well done again

[stu3216]

ya thanx i like playing as the united romans better
its a bit more of a challenge dureing the beggining of the campaign

[ChErNoByl]

Played it all of today.. fun to have Rome united.

But I occasionally got a CTD after pushing end turn and watching all the other AI factions go. I loaded the game back up and it went fine again, i left off where I was.

Happened a few more times, until now, where I consistenly crash at the same spot, and I can't continue.

I can't see any obvious reason for the crashes, show_err doesnt say anything. It happens when the AI is moving on the campaign map... You see the icons at the top scrolling by, and right when it reaches Thracia (before the rebels and back to your turn) it crashes.

[Shaggy1973]

Can you post your saved game please?

[ChErNoByl]

Sure.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0L2KPLOO

[gaddow]

I've had three CTD's playing the mod for about 3 hours. The one thing each CTD had it common was that it was after I had defeated and killed Pyrrus in a battle after he attacked me (they were all ironically enough Pyrric victories).

[stu3216]

well im at year 201 bc with the united romans and i have had no ctds yet
and y does phyruss have to units?? it looks like to generalls with the same stats??

[Shaggy1973]

I suspect it is name related

Therefore only happens sometimes and is down to chance. Finding it hard to catch and fix >.<

I noticed the Pyrrhus thing, looking into it.

[ChErNoByl]

My case seems to be very consistent, though. I've tried it perhaps a dozen times now doing different things that turn and it still crashes at that spot.

Should i perhaps just go to an earlier save and hope it doesnt happen again?

[Shaggy1973]

Yes if it is a name problem it is occuring cos the game is creating a new character with an invalid name. As the major change I made in the mod is to the name files i suspect it is this. There are dozens of names so you may have just got really unlucky. When you save a game, and reload it, you will notice the same things happen during the ai turn...... so it saves the new character being created and boom.

If you can go back even 1 year in saved games you will probs be able to carry on with your campaign.

Sorry for the troubles

[DARTH VADER]

Shaggy also can you pls tell me what you have changed in EDU file that resides in the mod and is shared with DarthMod?
Also for sm_factions bcs it is also in big map mod there and also shared with DarthMod.

As for names , it is not only this. A ctd will occur bcs you may have not used correctly the family tree/names.
I remember the headaches I had to debug Mundus Magnus for DarthMod.
Somethings are so small and can cause so much.

For example, ages etc.

[Shaggy1973]

EDU greek_pikemen now have greek_cities added, and corresponding DMB entry giving the macedon skin to greek_cities. This is just for the opening battle for the epirot phalanx pikemen for Pyrrhus.

sm_factions gave Carthage prefers naval invasions.

mistake with family tree would occur regularly, I have run games to 100BC with no CTD which is why it is so hard to catch....

Got a new family tree made for unified romans now which includes four famous families in the one tree...... could just release that i guess as im drawing a bit of a blank on the CTD

[DARTH VADER]

This is a file which can guide you how you can add extra units without interfering with DarthMod's
So I added Pyrhus Pikemen without altering the internal but adding at lower end of text files the unit to files EDU, DMB, and export units. Then the UI name is changed and Desc_strat insertions is finished with correct naming.

The units will be shown correctly and no black peasants.
Pls follow the similar method so as not to alter DarthMod files.

Thank you again for your very good Add-on Mini mods.