Tutorial: Making bigger companies

[rebel5555]

In this tutorial I will describe how to add more units to companies

 

(I will be using the rebel's heavy tank for this example)

 

*First open GROUNDCOMPANIESREBEL.XML

 

*Find "Rebel_Heavy_Tank_Brigade"

 

*Next, find the tag it should look like this:

T4B_Tank, T4B_Tank, T4B_Tank

 

  Copy and paste one of the T4B_Tank and it should look like this

 

T4B_Tank, T4B_Tank, T4B_Tank, T4B_Tank

 

Now you have a company of four tanks instaed of three.

 

You can do this for any other unit as well.

I know the artillery for the rebels as two types of units in it's company. So, you might be able to make a company which has infantry and tanks in it although I haven't tried this yet.

[WarHawk_pff]

good to know.

[kingdark]

and about space units?

[DragonShadow]

Except fighter squadrons, no space units have companies, but it may be possible to create them.

[rebel5555]

Ill have to check into that DragonShadow. thanks for the idea!!!

[DragonShadow]

Your welcome. I was actually pondering the possibilities of squadrons of Star Destroyers a couple of hours ago.

 

Love your sig by the way...

[Mikan Cyclone]

Oh I did it.  I created a group of three star destroyers that were as small and fast as fighters.  I don't remeber how I did it though...Ah, I'll remeber later.

[kingdark]

how about some screens? i cant image a sd as small as a destroyer...

[Mikan Cyclone]

Oh, I took them out so it would be balanced....Hey! that gives me an awesome idea! 

[MajorPayne]

Be careful doing this though as the companies do still have limits on the numbers. I found that if you try making the troop companies have a total amount of higher than 30 it'll crash the game (I was hoping to make a complete company have around 50 troops in 5 groups of 10).

[Sashala]

actually it is possible...a few weaks ago i made rebel companies of 30 troops per squad out of 90 per company and ims 48 per squad out of 96 comapany

[kingdark]

screeeeenieeeeeeeees

please lol

[Prophion]

When adding extra fighters to a squadron, remember to add more entries to the ' Squadron_Offsets ' group...one for each new fighter. Or fiddle with them to get different formations.

 

30.0,0.0,0.0

0.0,15.0,0.0

0.0,-15.0,0.0

-30.0,30.0,0.0

-30.0,-30.0,0.0

[MajorPayne]

Yep, and it does work with more than 30 troops or so I found out. The basic premise is as follows:

 

Do a search in the Groundcompaniesrebel XML file for this line:

 

"Rebel_Infantry_Squad"

 

and change the part under to read:

 

                          Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper

 

Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper,Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper, Squad_Rebel_Trooper

10

 

This will give 10 troops per squad and four squads. I would suggest that each line of the be seperated so you can keep closer eye on it. I'm thinking its definately possibly to increase this amount exponentially (perhaps up to 100 squads or more, each with 10 units). Remember that by doing this this method adds only 1 to the ground pop cap, so if you make it 100 troops then it'll be quite a battle.

 

Imperial entry is specific to the Groundcompaniesempire and do a search for  "Imperial_Stormtrooper_Squad". Editings are done in the same fashion as above but remember to back up any files BEFORE editing them.

Edited March 15, 2006 by MajorPayne