More Units Available for Custom Battles

**Epicurean** · January 14, 2015, 12:42 PM

Hello,
I'd like to ask if you could make more regional units available in custom battles. Right now for example the Seleukidai has access to almost only Hellenic troops and it would be fun to be able to use their various regional troops together with them.

Additionally I think it would serve as a good indicator of what regional troops you can expect to be able to use when trying a new faction in the grand campaign.

**KAM 2150** · January 14, 2015, 12:54 PM

If you put too many units into custom battle list, the game will crash.

**Dresden** · January 14, 2015, 01:10 PM

I think he is suggesting that each faction has some of the starting AOR units from their areas, which is possible. The reason we only give these to certain factions (Carthage, Bosporus, etc) is because those factions historically relied on those units more.

**Epicurean** · January 14, 2015, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Dresden

I think he is suggesting that each faction has some of the starting AOR units from their areas

That's indeed it.

I'm sad that it sounds like it won't be happening. I like custom battles as a way to pit units from distant parts of the world against each other and simply to check out all the great artwork, so while I don't agree with the rational that only factions that relied on mercenaries should have access to them I can respect your decision.

**Faldor** · January 14, 2015, 03:57 PM

In fact it's not all that hard to do with some very basic modding skills:

- Download the Pack file manager
- make a new pack file (make sure it's loaded before DeI, so mind the file's name)
- in the PFM, click "add file" and double click the DeI pack file
- look for "unit_custom_battle_availability" (not sure if that's 100% the right name, I'm not at home to check it)
- double click one (or more) of the tables in there to add them to your pack (I think there's even a separate file called AOR_units... in there, and one for MERCS too)
- rename the ones you're using (so they don't replace one another)
- now all you have to do is look for the units you want to add to which faction (and of course put the name of the faction in the table with it)

This is a real fast and perhaps not very clear description, sorry for that but I'm studying so should be doing other things right now

Anyway I'm not very skilled at modding (don't know if you are), but with this very basic knowledge you can add whatever units you want to the custom battle screen without much effort.

Having said this, I typically add some of the more interesting AOR units and mercenaries to a faction's roster in custom battle before deciding to play a campaign.