One good way to limit elite units is by requiring upgrades to get them. For example, suppose you could only get an ogron elite veteran unit by spending extra to upgrade an ogron infantry unit, after it had acquired at least one level of experience. Comments and the structure of the game data files c...

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Mass Titan? unless you are doing Apocalypse game. I agree this could be balanced a little better. On the lower difficulty levels, you have more than enough points to buy all titans. On the higher difficulty levels, this could be possible, but it's much less likely. Probably, reducing the points ava...

The files like avail1.whdat are supposed to control which units are available for selection in each scenario. If you look in avail5.whdat or later, you can see that each line has three fields. These are supposed to be the unit number, the base unit from which to upgrade, and an upgrade cost. For exa...

Unfortunately I don't think there is any way *modders* can define new traits or abilities. The files available for modding only include the basic numeric stats like shots, damage, etc. Traits and abilities are hard coded. As a request for the game developers, I agree this would be nice. People's Gen...

The easiest thing (as a mod) would be to remove about 50 units by editing the availability table.

Yes, it is certainly possible. See the forum posts on the Tau and Tyranid mods which are already out.

I don't know anything about the lore. But, based on the stats, I can see the differences between weapons. I actually like the idea of one unit with a variety of weapon ranges, including gaps (like no short range on arty). This post has all the details to figure out the weapon differences: http://www...

I find the huge number of unit choices, with tiny tiny differences, to be a little overwhelming. Is there really a reason to have over 75 different tank units, or 45 different infantry units? There are no two *quite* the same. Even if the unit name is the same, the red, blue and green variants are f...

Is this bug of "no additional points" true for all campaigns or just the dlc? I was about to start the act 1 campaign on challenging, but if you never get any reinforcements that seems *too challenging*. That is what some other games call an "iron man" mode (XCOM for example). ED...

I see a number of posts from months ago complaining that the recon trait doesn't work: http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=235&t=54574&p=509610&hilit=recon#p509610 This makes it very difficult to scout properly. Apparently this works in most of the other games using the same ...

Thanks for the insight. I looked around in the files but I can't tell how units gain experience and what the level breakpoints are. Is this known, from some file? I can see in diff.whdat that the player gains double experience at "easy" but all the other difficulty levels have the same exp...

I've played most of the way through the campaign one time on normal difficulty. Do units gain experience faster on higher difficulty levels? I have one unit with five skulls but it didn't really seem any stronger than a starter unit. Of course it is a destroyer which always has 100% to hit at any ra...

According to data\exp.whdat, each experience level adds +1 to initiative, +5 to accuracy, +1 to attack and +1 to defense. For most units, this is not very valuable. Especially for some units which have 100% accuracy anyway. I was hoping that there would be a good incentive to avoid getting experienc...

Are you trying to edit the text for an existing scenario or save game? That doesn't appear to work:

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Has anybody figured out how to change text in the existing briefings, for example to correct a spelling error or similar? This thread says it can't be done: http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=326&t=54435#p507756 The text is in the strings.whdat file. But modifying the strings.whdat ...