Hello Everyone i need help

**AbuDhabi** · February 21, 2015, 07:55 PM

how is every one doing, i haven't been on TWC for a long time and need some help please. I know M2TW has been out for years now and i do still play it on a reg bases anyway i have finally broken down to try to make my own mod with adding factions my first one i would like to do is Saxons, i have made it with leader and family records and stuff gave them a starting location work in the campaign but for some reason i cant figure out how to get more units to be available to them along with being able to have churches to recruit priest and ships.

**AbuDhabi** · February 21, 2015, 09:42 PM

i guess this is not the right place to ask for help

**Vipman** · February 22, 2015, 04:14 AM

Yes, modding question belong in the Mod Workshop.

First look through the Tools, Tutorials and Resources Index, there are tutorials on how to add a new faction, add a new unit from one faction to another, etc.

What are you modding? I suggest to work on Bare Geomod or Retrofit mod, not directly on vanilla. You add units by giving a faction ownership of units in EDU (export_descr_unit), add unit's texture to that faction in BMDB (battle_models.db) and make it available to recruit in EDB (export_descr_buildings). In the last one also add saxons to the buildings you want them to be able to build.

**AbuDhabi** · February 22, 2015, 08:38 AM

thank you Vipman, if i understand your question right i want to add factions as playable in the grand campaign i have started with the saxons i can play as them in the grand campaign but i cant seem to figure out how to add units to them i will look at the links you have given me and see if i cant find some help, oh and i dont know what Bare Geomod or Retrofit mod is.

**Vipman** · February 22, 2015, 09:23 AM

You need Kingdoms expansion to install Bare Geomod or Retrofit mod. If you don't have it you'll need to unpack the game.

Retrofit is a modfoldered version of vanilla, using Kingdoms.exe and has some of it's new features. Bare Geomod is the same thing + some fixes and it's adapted to use with Geomod, a mapping tool.

Guide to EDB here. But if you just open the file (in *modname*/data folder) and find the barracks you can see how units are made recruitable and just add the saxons to existent units, or new units, check for units with saxon ownership in EDU.

BTW there are some mods that adds the saxons, but they're old and the download links may be dead, unless they're uploaded directly on TWC.

**AbuDhabi** · February 22, 2015, 11:23 AM

i have retail boxed gold edition for m2tw, i have put saxons in the building i want them to build and units that i want them to recruit but the church and all but 4 units wont show up idk if its because i haven't dont the unit textures or not, the units that show up are, peasant archers, peasant spearmen, theigns and husecarls not sure if thats spelt right

**AbuDhabi** · February 22, 2015, 01:20 PM

think i'm going to try Bare Geomod

**Vipman** · February 22, 2015, 03:21 PM

Since saxons were supposed to exist only for the tutorial, they probably have only those units. You will have to add new units or existing units from another faction to saxons. You could use HRE units since the colors are similar, black and gold yellow.

This is a tutorial that shows how to add an existing unit to another faction http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nother-faction

You might need a formated battle_models.db file to do so, download from here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1180 , rename it battle_models.db and put it in data/unit_models folder of the mod you use.

**AbuDhabi** · February 22, 2015, 04:10 PM

i just uninstalled and re-installed so i'm starting fresh, after i unzip all files should i make a back up of data files or create one now, and should i make a folder that says Mymods since i will be trying to at-least make one ?

**Vipman** · February 22, 2015, 04:41 PM

No need to back up anything, unless you want to modify the vanilla (original) game. If you install retrofit or bare geomod, they will be in main M2TW folder in /mods . You then modify the files of that mod. You can make a backup of the mod if you want. You may want to ask a moderator to move this thread to the workshop, I won't be able to reply anymore until tomorrow night at least.