Indivdual Unit Abilities?

Fynmiir · Post by **Fynmiir** » March 11th, 2006, 2:03 pm

I sometimes dabble in WML and was just wondering if an indivdual unit can be modified to have an ability his type usually doesn't have.

for example:

Say the leader of my scenario is named Bob and he is a bowman. Is it possible to modify him so that he could have a leadership ability?

Is this possible?

Alks · Post by **Alks** » March 11th, 2006, 2:09 pm

There's probably many ways. One is simple and possibly easiest - make for your Bob different .cfg file, and then you can give him whatever you want. Copy bowman .cfg, change what you want, change unit id to Bob the Bowman and add leadership.

scott · Post by **scott** » March 11th, 2006, 2:10 pm

Not at the moment.

One thing to do is create a copy of the bowman's unit config file to make a new unit type (with a unique id but keep the name as "Bowman") that has leadership. Then switch the unit type whenever the unit gets leadership with [store_unit].

If you're trying to make an item that gives leadership to any unit, you would have to repeat this for every possible unit in your army. It sounds tedious, but with the right macros it wouldn't be that bad. Clunkier things have been done.

Fynmiir · Post by **Fynmiir** » March 11th, 2006, 2:11 pm

Okay thanks a lot

scott · Post by **scott** » March 11th, 2006, 2:12 pm

Alks wrote:There's probably many ways. One is simple and possibly easiest - make for your Bob different .cfg file, and then you can give him whatever you want. Copy bowman .cfg, change what you want, change unit id to Bob the Bowman and add leadership.

Since we came up with the same first answer, what is the second way?

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » March 11th, 2006, 2:12 pm

AFAIK xan is working on it.

Alks · Post by **Alks** » March 11th, 2006, 2:12 pm

I edited post a bit - that's a misunderstanding. Edit came almost at the same time as Scott's post. There's no second way at the moment, but you know that.