how to make it so that leaders don't start on keeps

[Aramil312]

Can anyone tell me how to make it so that leaders don't start on keeps? Using the map editor I cant figure it out.


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[zookeeper]

Leaders will always start on keeps. What you can do to make it look like they don't, is to change the terrain at their starting locations from keep to something else using the [terrain] tag in a prestart event, for example. So, if you're only drawing maps without writing a scenario, you're forced to always start on a keep.

[Aramil312]

Thanks zookeeper, but although I have read the wiki for that tag, I am having trouble understanding it. Can you or someone else give me what I need to type in?

[zookeeper]

If the starting location of player one is 10,2 and the starting location of player 2 is 17,19 and you'd want them both to start on grassland instead of a keep, you could do this:

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[event]
    name=prestart

    [terrain]
        x,y=10,2
        letter=g
    [/terrain]

    [terrain]
        x,y=17,19
        letter=g
    [/terrain]
[/event]

[toms]

If it appears more often that you don´t want a keep, you could make a general macro.

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#define RESETKEEP SIDE TERRAIN
[store_starting_location]
side={SIDE}
variable=keep
[/store_starting_location]
{VARIABLE_OP x format $keep.x}
{VARIABLE_OP y format $keep.y}
[terrain]
x=$x
y=$y
letter={TERRAIN}
[/terrain]
{CLEAR_VARIABLE keep}
{CLEAR_VARIABLE x}
{CLEAR_VARIABLE y}
#enddef

I used that too.

[Aramil312]

thanks very much

[Viliam]

The other way to do this -- if you want some keep, but you just want your leader to start somewhere else -- is move the leader in a "prestart" event. Like this:

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#define MOVEUNIT DESCRIPTION X Y
	[store_unit]
		[filter]
			description={Description}
		[/filter]
		variable=move
		kill=yes
	[/store_unit]
	[set_variable]
		name=move.x
		value={X}
	[/set_variable]
	[set_variable]
		name=move.y
		value={Y}
	[/set_variable]
	[unstore_unit]
		variable=move
	[/unstore_unit]
	[clear_variable]
		name=move
	[/clear_variable]
#enddef

[event]
	name=prestart
	{MOVEUNIT MyLeader 51 60}
[/event]