How to add traits for children in campaign?

[rzz41]

The regular shogun 2 campaign lacks traits for tokugawa ieyasu, oda nobunaga, date masamune and does not even include honda tadakatsu, toyotomi hideyoshi at all.

The thing is im trying to add custom traits to tokugawa and nobunaga but they are still kids at the start of the campaign. any way to add traits to them? im still fuzzy with esf editing and my changes in the character_details branch of startpos.esf are causing the game to crash.

also, it would be great if someone could tell me how to make honda tadakatsu and toyotomi hideyoshi appear with custom traits midway into the campaign.

[rzz41]

also I made some custom traits indicating various talents that only get assigned at start or when a general gets created:

talented martial artist: + melee attack and ++defense for bodyguard
strong as an oni: ++melee attack and +defense for bodyguard
charismatic leader: +morale and +50% to bodyguard size
talented administrator: -upkeep
greedy: -2 morale
patient man: -30% to movement range, -10% upkeep
ignorant man: -30% to aura radius, +10 to bodyguard charge bonus, +2 charge bonus for all cavalry
exceptional tactician: +30% to aura radius, +3 to base command
student of sun tzu: +20% to aura radius, +3 to base command, -10% to attrition
talented marksman: +accuracy for bows
avatar of bishamonten: +2 conversion, +50% to inspire ability
demon king (for nobunaga): -50% resistors in regions conquered, +2 morale for ashigaru, enable night battle
tiger of kai (for shingen): enable stand and fight, +30% aura radius, +6 charge for cavalry
dragon of echigo (for kenshin): +4 bodyguard melee atack, +8 bodyguard defense, +80% bodyguard size

I've added most of them and got all the ones except for the nobunaga one to work (presumably because nobunaga is a child instead of a general)

[rzz41]

also, I need to know how to disable loose formation. I want to disable aspects of the game that give a disadvantage to the AI because the AI never uses loose formation and spearwall. this causes the AI to always lose in skirmishes.

[revan.be]

actually saw the ai (vannilla S2) use spearwall when attacking in a battle yesterday,
only did it with one unit though.