Slitherine

What are the conditions needed to get a hero or an elite unit ?

Is there an action needed ? Is there an amount of experience needed ? Is there an amount of kills needed ? Or is it just a random thing ?

Thx

In case of heroes the conditions are determined by the \Panzer Corps\Data\gamerules.pzdat file. At the bottom of this file you can find this:

Hero1KillsMin 50
Hero1KillsMax 100
Hero2KillsMin 101
Hero2KillsMax 200
Hero3KillsMin 201
Hero3KillsMax 500

meaning that a unit will get the first hero anywhere between 50 and 100 kills, and so on. This only seems to apply for the standard nation of the campaign set in the campaign.pzdat file. I do not know how the Italians get their heroes in PC v1.10 and later as I do not have the AC expansion just the patch. But, in your case, it does not matter as you have already set Slovakia as the standard nation in your campaign, so Slovakia should get the stock German heroes after the pre-set number of kills. If you want to get Slovak heroes instead, you have to edit the names of the heroes in the \Data\strings.pzdat file to Slovak ones and also the images in the UI\heroes\ folder.


In case of the elite units, you have to add the "bonus" trait in the end of the "Add Traits" column of the equipment.pzeqp file to the appropriate unit. Then these units will be added on an absolutely random basis as elite units (if they are available at the time), the only restriction is that you can have only 3 elite units at a time. I have not tested it, though, as I think it unbalances the game and thus I do not use it. Even when I was playing the vanilla campaign I just disbanded these units as they made my core unbalanced. If you are lucky you get a useful elite unit early on, if you are not so lucky you might never get any. I think it is quite silly, so I do not use this feature at all.

Thx McGuba

I was wondering why I wasn't able to get a hero.

I already changed names, images and awards.

I will lower the number of kills.

What about awards ?
What should I modify to make them easier to get ?

AugustinMalar wrote:What about awards ?
What should I modify to make them easier to get ?

Panzer Corps\Data\awards.pzdat

In the column 'Kills', there is a number, this is the amount of kills needed to get the award named in the first column.

So for example, IDS_AWARD_IRON_CROSS1 (first Iron Cross) in the base (vanilla) game needs at least 50 kills.

For the DLC's, they have a separate awards.pzdat in \Panzer Corps\DLC\GC39\Data (or GC40-45), those have higher requirements, in this case IDS_AWARD_IRON_CROSS1 is set to 100.

ThvN wrote:

AugustinMalar wrote:What about awards ?
What should I modify to make them easier to get ?

Panzer Corps\Data\awards.pzdat

In the column 'Kills', there is a number, this is the amount of kills needed to get the award named in the first column.

So for example, IDS_AWARD_IRON_CROSS1 (first Iron Cross) in the base (vanilla) game needs at least 50 kills.

For the DLC's, they have a separate awards.pzdat in \Panzer Corps\DLC\GC39\Data (or GC40-45), those have higher requirements, in this case IDS_AWARD_IRON_CROSS1 is set to 100.

Thx ThvN