Advice needed on how to add units to Faction Unit Roster

**Leothelion888** · April 09, 2014, 10:22 AM

Hi All,

First off would like to say I have been a long time player of RS 1&2. The modders have done a fantastic job with it and I can honestly say this is the only version of RTW I play anymore

I have been wondering for quite some time now on how to add units to a faction's unit roster but for a specific province. Example - Macedon having the ability to recruit Boiotian Pezhetairoi in Thebes, Boiotia but no where else. I know you can recruit them as mercenaries but I have not yet been able to so as far as I can tell this is not possible.

I have had a search through the forum on similar topics but I have not yet found a tutorial to do this nor could I find the descr file that contained what I was looking for.. I am assuming I am being a blind idiot haha!

In all honesty I am not sure if this is maybe a larger task that I am anticipating it to be but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

**Alavaria** · April 09, 2014, 11:31 AM

The Boiotian Pezhetiroi are an AOR (Area of Recruitment) unit, that's why they're restricted to a specific set (or single) settlement.

Recruitment code is found in the EDB (export_descr_buildings) in the data folder (or in the play_macedon/data folder for that specific campaign)

**Spartan999** · April 09, 2014, 06:50 PM

Do you just want to recruit them everywhere? Cause you have to be careful on the words you have to modify.

EDIT: Will post a recruit everywhere export building soon

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Just do what I did here, don't copy and paste it. The trick here is that you got to erase most of the Botian pike so

that you don't get a "double" unit which will crash the game. Works about the same with Legionary (manage to

make them all recruit able and not make the game crash

Can we merge this with the other thread that was posted few weeks back?

Re Edit: Reading this I might have misread it, what unit do you want to be able to recruit and where

do you want to restrict it?

**Leothelion888** · April 10, 2014, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by Alavaria

The Boiotian Pezhetiroi are an AOR (Area of Recruitment) unit, that's why they're restricted to a specific set (or single) settlement.

Recruitment code is found in the EDB (export_descr_buildings) in the data folder (or in the play_macedon/data folder for that specific campaign)

Yeah that makes sense.

Ahh I found the file. Typical, I had looked at this file before but at the top it says not to edit by hand so I promptly closed the window

Originally Posted by Spartan999

Do you just want to recruit them everywhere? Cause you have to be careful on the words you have to modify.

EDIT: Will post a recruit everywhere export building soon

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Just do what I did here, don't copy and paste it. The trick here is that you got to erase most of the Botian pike so

that you don't get a "double" unit which will crash the game. Works about the same with Legionary (manage to

make them all recruit able and not make the game crash

Can we merge this with the other thread that was posted few weeks back?

Re Edit: Reading this I might have misread it, what unit do you want to be able to recruit and where

do you want to restrict it?

Right ok. I read through the text and it may be due to me having just woken up but I could not spot the changes that had been done lol, sorry! Also I read somewhere the best way to 'remove' entries is to use the ';' to 'comment off the line' so changes are easily undone?

Ahh no worries mate. The unit I am discussing here is the Boiotian Pezhetairoi but keeping it's AOR the same (in Boiotia, Thebes) but I can think of a fair few more I would like to do once I can do it properly.

Thanks for all your helps everyone!

**Alavaria** · April 10, 2014, 05:49 AM

Ah, ok ok, I think I got it.

"Recruit as mercenaries" means you're looking for the "Levy and Mercenaries" building. Once you have a tier 3 barracks, you will be able to build the merc building. That's how you have regular access to "mercenary units" (it's not the same as recruiting mercs in the field)

Please take a look at your capital, you either have (or are able to construct) such a building there.

**Leothelion888** · April 10, 2014, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by Alavaria

Ah, ok ok, I think I got it.

"Recruit as mercenaries" means you're looking for the "Levy and Mercenaries" building. Once you have a tier 3 barracks, you will be able to build the merc building. That's how you have regular access to "mercenary units" (it's not the same as recruiting mercs in the field)

Please take a look at your capital, you either have (or are able to construct) such a building there.

I have checked in the past and not all units I would personally like to recruit as mercenaries are there. Is there a way you can add units to this queue?

Also how would one enable recruitment of a partciular unit. For instance (weird example) Pontus having the ability to recruit Falcrata infantry (flaming javelin unit) that the spanish celts have access to. I had a look in the edb but I was not too sure how to proceed.

All help appreciated,
Cheers

**Alavaria** · April 10, 2014, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by Leothelion888

I have checked in the past and not all units I would personally like to recruit as mercenaries are there. Is there a way you can add units to this queue?

Yeah, that's also EDB editing, in the mercenary building instead of your faction's barracks building.

Originally Posted by Leothelion888

Also how would one enable recruitment of a partciular unit. For instance (weird example) Pontus having the ability to recruit Falcrata infantry (flaming javelin unit) that the spanish celts have access to. I had a look in the edb but I was not too sure how to proceed.

you will look for the following line: "building merc_building"

then you're going to look for lines starting with "recruit" eg: Rhodian slingers...

recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area9 and hidden_resource r9
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area9 and hidden_resource r10
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area9 and hidden_resource r11
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area9 and hidden_resource r13
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area12 and hidden_resource r8
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area12 and hidden_resource r9
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area12 and hidden_resource r10
recruit "rhodian slingers" 0 requires factions { parthia, nomad, barbarian, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area12 and hidden_resource r11

these are available in specific "area" and "region" pairs.

Meanwhile another unit:

recruit "levy clubman" 0 requires factions { nomad, romans_julii, boii, dacia, germans, spain, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area1
recruit "levy clubman" 0 requires factions { nomad, romans_julii, boii, dacia, germans, spain, greek, egypt, armenia, } and hidden_resource area13

These are available in two different "areas".

Check your data\Important files thing for AOR maps folder. Some of the maps there will identify areas and regions for you.

**Leothelion888** · April 11, 2014, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Alavaria

Yeah, that's also EDB editing, in the mercenary building instead of your faction's barracks building.

you will look for the following line: "building merc_building"

then you're going to look for lines starting with "recruit" eg: Rhodian slingers...

these are available in specific "area" and "region" pairs.

Meanwhile another unit:

These are available in two different "areas".

Check your data\Important files thing for AOR maps folder. Some of the maps there will identify areas and regions for you.

Cheers for that! That really helped me understand quite a bit actually! The hidden resources especially.. I had no idea what that meant

Expanding on all the help so far I attempted to insert two units to be recruitable from the Spartan Level 3 barracks. Can anyone tell me why the 'Achaian Phalangites' + 'Achaian Elite Phalangites' are not recruitable from Sparta?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I assume there is another file I have not found that tells RS that each faction can recruit X unit and as the two units are not on that list, even though I have it listed here, they are not recruitable. In the description of the barracks I can see the names of the aforementioned units but not unit card.. This also matches up with another test I tried where I tried adding a unit that was not normally a merc unit to descr_mercenaries.. It inserted a unit with the correct stats + description and a unit card with a vanilla peasant card.. almost as if there was another location I had to enter information into. This is all guesswork though so I could be completely wrong haha.

I also tried removing the region requirement but no joy there either.

Also just to allay any fears I did a backup before doing anything at all!

Thanks again for all the help.

**Alavaria** · April 11, 2014, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by Leothelion888

Cheers for that! That really helped me understand quite a bit actually! The hidden resources especially.. I had no idea what that meant

Expanding on all the help so far I attempted to insert two units to be recruitable from the Spartan Level 3 barracks. Can anyone tell me why the 'Achaian Phalangites' + 'Achaian Elite Phalangites' are not recruitable from Sparta?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I assume there is another file I have not found that tells RS that each faction can recruit X unit and as the two units are not on that list, even though I have it listed here, they are not recruitable. In the description of the barracks I can see the names of the aforementioned units but not unit card.. This also matches up with another test I tried where I tried adding a unit that was not normally a merc unit to descr_mercenaries.. It inserted a unit with the correct stats + description and a unit card with a vanilla peasant card.. almost as if there was another location I had to enter information into. This is all guesswork though so I could be completely wrong haha.

I also tried removing the region requirement but no joy there either.

Also just to allay any fears I did a backup before doing anything at all!

Thanks again for all the help.

There is another file. The unit needs to have ownership in the EDU (export_descr_unit).

The play_sparta folder does not have an EDU, so you will be looking at the one under the main RS2 file.

Look up "achaian elite phalangites" and, let me check

type achaian elite phalangites
dictionary achaian_elite_phalangites
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Heavy_1
soldier elite_phalangites, 50, 0, 1.05
officer elite_phalangites
officer greek_standard
officer greek_flutist
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap, very_hardy
formation 0.9, 1, 2.4, 2, 10, square, phalanx
stat_health 1, 5
stat_pri 18, 9, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, spear, 25, 0.405
stat_pri_attr long_pike, spear, spear_bonus_6
stat_sec 10, 9, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, slashing, sword, 25, 0.477
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 14, 21, 10, leather
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground 0, 0, -6, -2
stat_mental 21, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 1
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 0, 2290, 656, 115, 161, 286
ownership britons

You see that bottom line? You are not "britons"

You will want to change that to "ownership britons, greek_cities" which lets Sparta use it.

In fact, ADDITIONLLY, the unit will CTD your game in battle, as the soldier "elite_phalangites" might not have any textures assigned to the Sparta faction. That needs you to edit the descr_model_battle

type elite_phalangites
skeleton fs_thp_f_spearman_p, fs_s1_slow_swordsman
indiv_range 40
texture egypt, data/models_unit/textures/tone/ptolemaic/kleruchoi_agema_ptolemaic.tga ;;ptolemaic kleruchoi agema
texture pontus, data/models_unit/textures/tone/pontus/elite_phalangites_pontus.tga ;;pontic chalkispides
texture seleucid, data/models_unit/textures/tone/Seleucid/elite_phalangites_seleucid.tga ;;argyraspides
texture britons, data/models_unit/textures/tone/freegreeks/elite_phalangites_achaia.tga ;;achaian elite phalangites
texture slave, data/models_unit/textures/tone/freegreeks/elite_phalangites_achaia.tga ;;achaian elite phalangites
texture merc, data/models_unit/textures/tone/freegreeks/elite_phalangites_free_greek.tga ;;hyrkanian elite phalangites
model_flexi data/models_unit/elite_pikemen_high.cas, max
model_sprite 50.0, data/sprites/RS_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite egypt, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_egypt_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite pontus, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_pontus_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite seleucid, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_seleucid_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite britons, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_britons_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite slave, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_slave_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_sprite merc, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

You will want to add a line so it has both textures and sprites for your faction, so add:

texture greek_cities, data/models_unit/textures/tone/freegreeks/elite_phalangites_achaia.tga
model_sprite greek_cities, 50.0, data/sprites/RS_britons_elite_phalangites_sprite.spr

to the appropriate parts.

I don't know if anything else might be missing, if so the game will CTD and politely give you an error message...

**Spartan999** · April 12, 2014, 08:54 AM

We forgot to tell him about how to applied the unit card

So this is the the simplest part. Go to data in your RS 2 folder look for the folder UI.

1: You have to look for the folders UNIT_INFO and UNIT folder.

2: You have to look for the faction folder so go to the BRITONS folder in the unit folder

3: look for #achaian_elite_phalangites.tga and copy and paste that to the GREEK_CITY State folder

4: go to the Unit_info folder and do the same expect this time you are looking for achaian_elite_phalangites_INFO.tga

This is so that you don't get the butt ugly peasant unit card

Right now I am enjoying a campaign where I am playing as the Romans and fighting the Spartans with their own units

(FYI: since I owned the units I can bribe them to fight for me

what a troll I am)

**Alavaria** · April 12, 2014, 09:37 AM

I actually want to make some "overhand spear" units that use the Roman shields... or maybe some phalanx using the heavy peltast shield (the really tall & narrow one) but meh...

**Leothelion888** · April 12, 2014, 04:08 PM

Success!! Thanks for all your help guys! If I was able to rep you guys then I would

I can't remember how many posts it takes but once I am able to, I shall rep you both!!

Originally Posted by Alavaria

I actually want to make some "overhand spear" units that use the Roman shields... or maybe some phalanx using the heavy peltast shield (the really tall & narrow one) but meh...

That would be awesome... a thorakitai unit with a scutum would be interesting!

**Alavaria** · April 12, 2014, 04:42 PM

This what what I had in RS1, I modded some roman unit into a short_pike phalanx.

**Leothelion888** · April 18, 2014, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Alavaria

This what what I had in RS1, I modded some roman unit into a short_pike phalanx.

Looks like they would have come in handy

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