2) all the text descriptions are held in the localisation.txt file. ou cannot just change this file as other txt files it has to be recompiled, instructions can be found in the mod kit available on this forum.

I tested this in the sandbox. 1 on 1, kinsmen v immortals, and kinsmen won quite easily in the melee after suffering 3 casualties due to arrows. In my view the Immortals should have stood up a little better in the melee. NB Immortals were not only archers but also elite spearmen.
As a contrast I ...

Off the top of my head, elite archer barracks are only available for persians and if you are a greekcavalry side then elite light infantry are not available to you. All cavalry seem to be weak, The HC need their defence against projectiles beefing up, LC are especially weak, no armour.

download the modkit in the stickies section, file squad.xls will give you a more readable version

Revisiting Spartan/GoT after many years, can you please tell me how I can get the building icons. Are they hard coded within the exec? In CoW they are in a folder.

I had similar problems see my thread on this at http://www.slitherine.com/eslitherine/f ... php?t=1935

Yes there is a feel good factor

street traders, bazaars and marketplaces increase happiness of the settlement

Can anybody tell me how the amount of silver/ gold required is calculated for Vassalisation diplomatic option is calculated?
Why do some states require just silver and others Gold and Silver? eg for the Odryssian Thracians to make a vassal of Persia 500 million silver is required (a trifle ambitious ...

Well i made a copy of the lang.str file as lang_a.str and put it in the mod/data directory.
This seems to have sold my text problem apart from the missing troy map optons but i can live with that situation.

thanks to possum i am now getting to undertand vassalisation a litter better.

It does cost ...

Thanks for the explanasion Possum

я понимаю моего друга

I have managed to get my mod to use the moded localisation text by renaming the Lang_a.str file at the expense of losing the new msgs in GoT for Vassalization. I included them in the mod of localisation.txt but to no affect. Hence I receive message "Phocians spare Boeotians" instead of "Phocians ...

One problem solved another rears its head.

I seem to be suffering similar problems that possum had namely the wrong localisation text being picked up.

My spartan mod now is using GoT text.

as far as i can tell it is something to do with the localisation_a txt in the GoT directory which seems to ...

Thanks possum but i had tried that before but no go

What i failed to do was make the mod sub directory the same as one of the GoT sub directories

in the Spartan mod it was Grand Campaign which is not one of the GoT maps

I have now renamed it GCBasic and voila success

I have now got Gates of Troy

In Spartan i had a mod directory which i could select

after installing gates of troy i was no longer able to see the mod in the LHS panel

i shifted the mod from the Spartan directory to the GoT directory

i could now see and select my mod in the LHS

however i was ...

Well I have been working on historical mods for some time I never seem to be quite satisfied with them.
Basically i start at different time periods and as far as possible set the sides attributes,squads available, areas and cities controlled as historically accurate as possible. I also mod the ...

Yes I was crazy enough and it does work.
The map editor software was on the old forum.

Thanks for the reply, do you mean to say that the AI disregards the starting resources for a side in the Sides.txt file and the trading limits determined by the buildings.txt file. I know that the starting resources in the sides file for this side are too small to continuously build units as i have ...

I have come across a couple of things the AI does or does not do which have got me puzzled.
First, I have noticed that sometimes the AI seems to build Mercenary Hoplites in a city to a much greater extent than the resources of that city should allow. Is the AI randonising the resources available for ...

I mean when a cities happiness drops from content thru to discontent, protesting , on strike then you lose control of city and it reverts to "peasant rebel" side. A peasant army is introduced into the city with side type tribal. Therefore the composition of this army is made up of what squads are ...

When a city goes into revolt, what determines the size and composition of the rebel army and can it be changed?

Is it also possible to put an individual city in revolt instead of the whole side?

I can randomly change the happiness of any side by adding code 2 the random event text file, I also ...