Missing special historical characters traits.

[Kraut and Tea]

This is something I think is worthwhile mentioning to you all. I opend a thread about this on the official forum, but the people there seem to be more concerned about when the Hunnic half naked Spartans with flaming lightsabers who fly into battle on dragons will be added, than with what can be seen in the files and what questions it brings forward.

When searching through the db tables for mod ideas, traces of cut content and hints for future DLC I came across a table called "historical_character_traits_tables".

It is coloured blue with pfm and in it you will find two boxes, one for historical characters where you enter the key of a historical character and the other for traits.

I am pritty certain that this was put there with the intention to create special historical generals with specific traits. If you play the game now, the famous historical characters such as Aleric and Attila are essentialy random characters with a special model. Random in the sence that they dont have any specific traits that make them unique and therefor give them an actual personality. Instead they are just like all other usual generals with randomly spawned traits.

Right beneath that table is "historical_characters_tables", but the only historical character in it is Attila (and since the DLC Ybor). But that was enought for me to try and get it working. I extracted the table into a pack, added the Attila key and then added traits that would make him less vulnerable to agent attacks and give him a significant boost in battles.

When I tried it out, it unfortunatly didnt work.

So I am left to assume that CA either tried to make unique personalties for our faction leader characters, failed and then scrapped the entire thing from the game.

Or that this feature is unfinished and that we might see it added in the future via patch.