How to:Script spawn armies(make your own spartacus and hannibal!)

[Keyser Soze]

great, thanks.

just one more question: the spawn army is only from faction which are in game from start, yes? it is not possible to spawn faction?

[Squid]

You can have emergent factions, like in BI, but no you can't spawn a faction through scripts. You can spawn an army for any faction on the map.

[Keyser Soze]

thanks.

[coit105]

Dear Squid,
you seem to have been quite a good guide for me so far, on that one post, and you have quite a reputation it would seem. Could you tell me, is it possible to script the handing over of certain settlements from the players faction to emergent factions like a Roman rebel faction for instance?

[chris10]

Dear Squid,
you seem to have been quite a good guide for me so far, on that one post, and you have quite a reputation it would seem. Could you tell me, is it possible to script the handing over of certain settlements from the players faction to emergent factions like a Roman rebel faction for instance?

yes but only with a workaround and depending on the situation it can require heavy modding of a lot of files and some scripting obvioulsy

[century x]

How can you see the X and Y coordinates of the map? I want to be able to place my spawn armies in proper areas of course.

[Squid]

When in the campaign open the console, put the mouse over the desired positions and type show_cursorstat and hit enter it will give you the coordinates.

[century x]

When in the campaign open the console, put the mouse over the desired positions and type show_cursorstat and hit enter it will give you the coordinates.

Thank you very much Mr. Squid

[ussafish]

Hello. Goodness help me but even after reading this VERY informative thread, i still can't get my army to spawn. clearly im pretty new to scripting. So i stuck this at the bottom of my EBBS_SCRIPT.TXT, and cant get it to work. Am i putting it in the wrong place? do i need triggers? any help would be most appreciated. I'm not too good with this sort of stuff and ive been knocking my head against the wall trying to figure it out.


monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
and FactionType seleucid
and I_TurnNumber = 2

console_command kill_character "CaivsB Romanvs"

spawn_army
faction seleucid
character CaivsB Romanvs, named character, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 20, x 96, y 129
unit roman cavalry eqvites consvlares,
end

terminate_monitor

end_monitor

while I_TurnNumber < 9999
suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

[Badger-dude]

I am trying to write a script which essentially randomises the distribution of settlements and armies between two factions at the beginning of the game.

It should fire as soon as the first player's turn begins, and should generate a counter. From that, it either spawns the character for 'byzantium' or 'france'.

However, in game there is no indication of anything happening what-so-ever. The script syntax is likely as not correct, as other campaign_script functions work well.

In descr_strat, the settlement begins ungarrisoned and in 'French' hands.

	

	monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
		and I_EventCounter Mooton_Declare_Targ = 0
		and I_EventCounter Mooton_Declare_Bara = 0
		generate_random_counter Mooton_Declare 1 10

		if I_EventCounter Mooton_Declare >= 2
		set_event_counter Mooton_Declare_Targ 1

		historic_event Mooton_Declare_Targ

		spawn_army 
		faction byzantium 
		character	William Mooton, named character, male, age 44, x 91, y 110
		traits GoodFighter 1 , LoyaltyStarter 1
unit		SE Bodyguard,				exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Peasant Archers,				exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0 
end

	console_command give_ancillary "William Mooton" maidenpool

	end_if
		if I_EventCounter Mooton_Declare <= 1
		set_event_counter Mooton_Declare_Bara 1
	spawn_army 
	faction france 
character	William Mooton, named character, male, age 44, x 91, y 110
traits GoodFighter 1 , LoyaltyStarter 1
unit		NE Bodyguard,				exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Spear Militia,				exp 0 armour 1 weapon_lvl 0
unit		Peasant Archers,			exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0 
end

	console_command give_ancillary "William Mooton" maidenpool
	end_if
	terminate_monitor
	end_monitor