High Elf recruitment bug

[Mr.Jester]

So Im around the 40s in turns, and from time to time before, with no damaged buildings, nor enemys within the borders, I could NOT recruit any high elf units with the exception of agents and boats. But now I can't recruit anyone, and its lasted for about 5 turns which is irregular and annoying.

(Haha, Ironically Im playing while writing this post, and when checking who I could recruit, I noticed a rather scary army beside my castle with a daemon prince)

Now I know all the units need ports, which considering the eleven situation and settlements, makes sense. BUT. Why can't I recruit men? I have dark elves up my rear and a chaos navy all-up-in-my-grill and need men to die for the sake of their people.

Can someone point me towards a solution? I looked around the threads already and came up empty, so please help. Also, my eleven priest text is in russian text.

[Yogimanz]

During winter as DE/HE you cannot recruit units. I believe this effect can be extended if winter gets even worse, you will get informed of that. I didnt play those factions for too long tho, so i am not sure as of how many turns is this downtime but you gotta be carefull during winters as you cannot replenish your forces. Elven forces are generally strong and can fight multiple stacks(one by one) so this is made up to make it challenging/balanced/perhaps lorewise too.

[Mr.Jester]

Ah! That makes alot of sense. Thank you kind sir! I shall purge some chaos with fire and steel in your name.

[Maltacus]

The lore explanation is that winter storms prevent seafaring and therefore reinforcements from Ulthuan from arriving. The Druchii work in the same way (though one wonders if the Black Arks can't handle a bit of rough seas). The texts that describe different things on the Campaign map can be found in the mods data/text/expanded.txt document. Search for England until you find the entry for priests and then replace the Russian text with something else.

[wassabi]

is there anyway to make it so u can recruit any time of the year because this way i can hardly build an army and it gets really boring really fast..it takes about 6 turns to build a port, 6 turns for winter to pass, 6 turns before any decent units are recruitable and another 6 turns buildtime..

[Vossie]

is there anyway to make it so u can recruit any time of the year because this way i can hardly build an army and it gets really boring really fast..it takes about 6 turns to build a port, 6 turns for winter to pass, 6 turns before any decent units are recruitable and another 6 turns buildtime..

Yeah sure, all you need to do is edit the file called export_descr_buildings and find the High Elf units and remove the part shown in the example. ( Do note that it will unbalance the game )

Example:

Default: recruit_pool "High Elf Spearmen" 1 0.15 2 0 requires factions { england, } and building_present_min_level port port and not event_counter winter 1

New: recruit_pool "High Elf Spearmen" 1 0.15 2 0 requires factions { england, } and building_present_min_level port port

Remember to backup your files.

[wassabi]

thnx dude thats alot better