Want 40 units fighting under one General? Here is how!

[caissus]

I'd do it, but my performance right now is just too terrible. Also, doesn't upping it to 40 cards kinda mess with BAI and CAI? I'd imagine the AI would rarely, if ever, get a 40 unit stack.

[|Quintus Sertorius|]

80 unit stacks work perfectly, as it has since ETW. However unique legions can't be merged, so don't expect creating 6 legions with their own history etc and combining them before a battle.

My findings with ETW and NTW is that 80 units vs 80 units work great. The AI uses them to his advantage and battles are a lot more difficult.

[Baltizar]

I don't know if this would work as I am at work just now. Regarding the multiplier...what if you cut and paste the multiplier line from the shogun 2 preference files and added it to the rome 2 preference file, would that work?

[theDaedricPrince]

+Rep!

[Epic28]

I am only 16 turns into my Roman VH/VH campaign and as you can see from my spy the enemy AI does utilize the 40 units/army as well shown below, 31 units/40 units. Granted it isnt a great mix of unit selection, but nonetheless. Also you can see the graphic error with the black bars filling up the remaining unit banner. Oh well.

[Agorix]

Thanks man, have some rep!

[Heinz Guderian]

You are a great man Epic28

[Lexis]

What happens if you change this to 40 run few turns, then change it back to 20?

[Biggus Splenus]

Is there a computer on earth that can handle this?

[Biggus Splenus]

How do react AI on this? Do they also recruit 40 units?

They're all good with it, surprisingly.

[Epic28]

Is there a computer on earth that can handle this?

The screens from the OP taken during the 40 unit army of Egypt fighting against roughly 10 enemy garrison units seemed to play fine for me, I didn't notice any severe performance drops.

*Update

I am 42 turns into my Roman campaign and no CTD's or flawed mechanics resulting from this. As of now the only issue I have run into is the minor graphic of the General's banner filling up with black, making it hard to distinguish on first look who the faction is. The Battle UI is flat out just a pain in the ass though, and personally I don't like it. From the first screens in the OP I wished it would lay out your units in Battle similar to the campaign (an overlapping manner) rather than how you see it in the Egyptian battle...

Time to try 40 units per army in battle, with double unit sizes...
40 units x 320 men/unit = one 12,800 man army (roughly)...

Or one gigantic lag fest.......

[Louis Davout]

Genius Epic Indeed! Btw if anyone cant find App data you need to unhide hidden files in the control panel to find it

[Kadoken]

Looks great! I actually kind of like the blacking out of the flag. It's like a stamp of death coming your way. Almost looks like a flag from the 1700s to now in that screenshot of the celts you took.

[DavidtheDuke]

Next, I wonder if it'll ever be possible to edit reinforcement limits. That would be perfect.

Hell, AI controlled reinforcements would be acceptable (that you can refuse help).

[Condottiere SOG]

I play with armies that can have up to and including 100 units...save-game changes with SF Editor...I currently have a Spartan army with 74 units in it.

[Atepa]

I had to make an account so I could pop in here and say thanks for figuring this out. Much appreciated.

[jtfjtfjtf]

Is there are way to have more than 40 units on the battlefield at once?

[WarlordZ]

Is there a way not to let the banner black out? Are you working on a way to figure this out epic? btw, we all very much appreciate your quick thinking on this!

[freelancerX]

the only issue with using such a large army under one general that ive seen is attacking a city from the water. Most maps don't have enough spaces to land 40 units on the spaces available for beach landings.

[Shaggy1973]

Excuse my ignorance, is it possible to release this as a mod?