making two units able to recruit

[Gambrous]

hey, I was attempting to make one of my heros into a leader for one scenario but can figure out how to make a second leader. Can anyone help?

Gambrous

ps. This is it at the moment

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    [side]
      side=1
      controller=human
      team_name=Glenfirians
      user_team_name= _ "Glenfirians"

      type=Noble Captain
      id=Gambrous
      name= _ "Gambrous"
      canrecruit=yes

      recruit=Elvish Fighter, Elvish Archer, Elvish Scout, Elvish Shaman

      {GOLD 100 50 0}
      {INCOME 10 5 0}
      [unit]
        id=Offgar
        name= _ "Offgar"
        unrenamable=yes
        type=Mage
        side=1
        x=40
        y=10
        {IS_HERO}
        [modifications]
          {TRAIT_LOYAL}
          {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
          {TRAIT_STRONG}
        [/modifications]
      [/unit]
      [unit]
        id=Pelor
        name= _ "Pelor"
        unrenamable=yes
        type=Elvish Archer
        side=1
        x=41
        y=9
        {IS_HERO}
        [modifications]
          {TRAIT_LOYAL}
          {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
          {TRAIT_QUICK}
        [/modifications]
      [/unit]
    [/side]

And I would like to make Pelor able to recruit as well as Gambrous just for this scenario.

[TheScribe]

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      [unit]
        id=Pelor
        name= _ "Pelor"
        unrenamable=yes
        type=Elvish Archer
        side=1
        canrecruit=yes
        x=41
        y=9
        {IS_HERO}
        [modifications]
          {TRAIT_LOYAL}
          {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
          {TRAIT_QUICK}
        [/modifications]
      [/unit]
    [/side]

This should work.

[Gambrous]

gave that a go but it didn't work, he's still just a normal hero

Gambrous

I also tried this:

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      [unit]
        id=Pelor
        name= _ "Pelor"
        unrenamable=yes
        type=Elvish Archer
        side=1
        canrecruit=yes

        recruit=Elvish Fighter, Elvish Archer, Elvish Scout

        x=41
        y=9
        [modifications]
          {TRAIT_LOYAL}
          {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
          {TRAIT_QUICK}
        [/modifications]
      [/unit]

but it didn't work either

[Crendgrim]

Units with canrecruit=yes do not take upkeep, so you do not have to give them the loyal thread. Are you sure that it does not work, and that the unit is not able to recruit? Maybe it just displays the wrong icon.

[TheScribe]

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      [unit]
        id=Pelor
        name= _ "Pelor"
        unrenamable=yes
        type=Elvish Archer
        side=1
        canrecruit=yes
        x=41
        y=9
        [modifications]
          {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
          {TRAIT_QUICK}
        [/modifications]
      [/unit]
    [/side]

This should work. I forgot to remove the IS_HERO macro.

Also, the reason your's didn't work is "recruit=" isn't supported under the unit tag, only the side tag. If you want him to have a different recruit list use "extra_recruit=" under the unit tag. (He'll still be able to recruit the regular team recruits with this, so if you don't want that then use extra_recruit for the other leader too.)

[Gambrous]

This is really fustrating me now. I'm attaching the whole campaign to let one of you guys look over it and see where the problem is because it's just not working. If someone can fix this I'd be really grateful. It's the third scenario that I want Pelor to be able to recruit in as well as Gambrous.

Gambrous

[TheScribe]

I can't run 7z files. Could you post it in a different format?

[8680]

@TheScribe: Windows: 7-Zip, Mac OS X: Keka, Posix in general: p7zip.

[Crendgrim]

I understand your problem now. You are creating a unit with the id Pelor. This unit, however, still exists from the previous scenario, so it will get recalled there automatically.
If I put this inside the start event, it works (despite him still showing up the silver crown instead of the golden, if that really bothers you, you could kill Pelor first and then re-create him as a leader with his old EXP and HP):

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      [modify_unit]
        [filter]
          id=Pelor
        [/filter]
        canrecruit=yes
      [/modify_unit]

[TheScribe]

@TheScribe: Windows: 7-Zip, Mac OS X: Keka, Posix in general: p7zip.

Wait, I'm running Windows. I tried to open it and it said I couldn't...

This unit, however, still exists from the previous scenario...

I totally missed that fact. Sorry...

[Gambrous]

this would explain a lot. For 7z files or any other compression type I use universal extractor as it's free and does a load of them (will only extract though, not compress). For plainly 7z there's also 7-zip and the program I use to create the 7z files which will also extract them is un-zip for windows file manager. All the listed programs should be free.

Anyway thanks for your help and I'm not bothered with the silver crown, I'll just make sure the player knows that for this scenario pelor is also able to recruit. To take this function away again in later scenarios do I just not put the canrecruit=yes event in or do I do a similar event which says can recruit=no?

Many thanks

Gambrous

[Crendgrim]

I think it will keep the canrecruit=yes, so you'd need to put the exact same event with canrecruit=no in the scenario where he is not supposed to recruit anymore, yes.

[8680]

@TheScribe: Try setting .7z files to open by default in 7-Zip File Manager, however that works on your system.

[JaMiT]

(despite him still showing up the silver crown instead of the golden, if that really bothers you, you could kill Pelor first and then re-create him as a leader with his old EXP and HP)

You don't need to kill a unit to remove the silver crown. Just add

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    {UNMAKE_HERO Pelor}

to whatever event is appropriate (probably the one that makes him able to recruit). There is also a MAKE_HERO macro for when the silver crown should be restored.