New Army Variations? Pretty Easy To Do!
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:09 am
After getting some advice & encouragement from RBS on another thread (see below), I've created a couple of new ECW armies using existing troop types. I wanted to post a note on the main forum to say that it's pretty easy to do, and a lot of fun - and to encourage people to have a go!!!
My aim was to create two paired armies that would provide the option for an ECW cavalry v cavalry skirmish, inc some dragoons, as this happened pretty frequently during the ECW (mostly on a fairly small scale). I'll need to play around with the balance between the two forces a bit more to make it an even contest against the AI, but the main process is really straightforward. At some point I'm aiming to create a list for Montrose Scots to provide the Covenanters with a local opponent. That'll involve a bit of research, but if it seems decent enough when I've finished it I'll share it on the forum.
Adding the two new lists in a clone campaign folder was mostly straightforward, though inevitably I ended making silly mistakes that took a few tries to iron out. But editing the relevant text files - ArmyList.txt and Text1.txt - is fairly intuitive and not at all daunting (providing you don't overwrite the original campaign files that is!!!). Here's the original discussion:
Postby rbodleyscott ยป 14 Nov 2014 18:53
Miletus wrote:Talking of Skirmish mode battles Richard, is there a way to set up a cavalry v cavalry skirmish?
This can be done fairly easily by adding cavalry only (or mostly cavalry) army list variants to the ArmyList.txt file. Although there is already a Royalist raiding force variant list which is mostly cavalry.
We advise you not to edit your main game installation.
You can make a clone of the campaign using the Editor by selecting the option to make a new campaign as a copy of one of the vanilla campaigns. This will be stored in MyDocuments/My Games/Campaigns/NameofCampaign. You can then change the name of the campaign displayed in the campaign menu by changing the text for IDS_CAMPAIGN_NAME in text1.txt in the cloned campaign folder.
The English Civil War and Italian Wars campaign folders already contain ArmyList.txt files that you can edit. The TYW ArmyList.txt is in /PikeandShot/Core. Make a copy of that to your cloned TYW Campaign and you can safely edit it there.
My aim was to create two paired armies that would provide the option for an ECW cavalry v cavalry skirmish, inc some dragoons, as this happened pretty frequently during the ECW (mostly on a fairly small scale). I'll need to play around with the balance between the two forces a bit more to make it an even contest against the AI, but the main process is really straightforward. At some point I'm aiming to create a list for Montrose Scots to provide the Covenanters with a local opponent. That'll involve a bit of research, but if it seems decent enough when I've finished it I'll share it on the forum.
Adding the two new lists in a clone campaign folder was mostly straightforward, though inevitably I ended making silly mistakes that took a few tries to iron out. But editing the relevant text files - ArmyList.txt and Text1.txt - is fairly intuitive and not at all daunting (providing you don't overwrite the original campaign files that is!!!). Here's the original discussion:
Postby rbodleyscott ยป 14 Nov 2014 18:53
Miletus wrote:Talking of Skirmish mode battles Richard, is there a way to set up a cavalry v cavalry skirmish?
This can be done fairly easily by adding cavalry only (or mostly cavalry) army list variants to the ArmyList.txt file. Although there is already a Royalist raiding force variant list which is mostly cavalry.
We advise you not to edit your main game installation.
You can make a clone of the campaign using the Editor by selecting the option to make a new campaign as a copy of one of the vanilla campaigns. This will be stored in MyDocuments/My Games/Campaigns/NameofCampaign. You can then change the name of the campaign displayed in the campaign menu by changing the text for IDS_CAMPAIGN_NAME in text1.txt in the cloned campaign folder.
The English Civil War and Italian Wars campaign folders already contain ArmyList.txt files that you can edit. The TYW ArmyList.txt is in /PikeandShot/Core. Make a copy of that to your cloned TYW Campaign and you can safely edit it there.
