Medieval II:TW - Modding Tutorial: Unit Stats 

I love this little peak behind the curtain Galu, makes a simpleton like myself appreciate all the mod team's hard work even more. Keep it up!

Ah now I can have a 4 snaga archer battalion with 9999 in all stats, moving at 10000% movement speed that engage in hand to hand combat with Sauron as it runs circles around the poor fool

Note to author: I've rewatched this so many times, and even took notes . . . thank you so much for making this!

I used this video to turn Variag Swordsmen into very expensive "samurai". I just absolutely love the Khand models, and their back-banners made me want to go full "shogun 2". Thanks for putting up such an extensive and well thought out guide for doing any kind of change and tweaking, large or small. Its these kinds of guides that help people get into modding in the first place imho. Many people who have yet to dive in, just want to pick their favorite unit and change something small about them, just to see if they actually have what it takes to mod. Awesome video, bookmarked

You made my day, this tutorial is very good! Seems like they are all going to be way better than the ones you did previously, you already pointed some things you omitted last time I believe. Cheers for the service mate! Can't wait for the other ones! (Fingers crossed you'll also do a model/texture editing tutorial :p I know its asking a lot, but they are none out there, just bits there and there.. :( )

4 AM here and im half a sleep, so when i looked at the thumbnail i though it said united states, then my mind envisioned the U.S. somewhere in the sea west of middle earth. then i thought about how we could have just nuked mordor. im gonna go to sleep now, goodnight.

An idea for a video might be to show of all the settlement battlemaps. Going through every level for every faction and custom battle maps, although the customs ones can be a separate video if necessary. It would be handy so that if you want to play as a faction you know what battlemaps are easiest to defend. Of course if certain factions have the same battlemaps you can mention thqt and you don't have to show them twice

Wow this is great, very useful for anyone who want to start with minor tweaks!

Another great video! Hopefully the next one will be able to address an issue I've had while trying to "mod". I want to put the fort building back in, but without the "fort" units. So far it has just caused crashes! haha

Great! I was hoping for something like this! Especially exctied for the Buildings part, since I was already a litte bit acquainted with modifying unit stats, although there was quite a lot of new stuff!

This is awesome. All i want to do is give Aragorn a horse and I'm set :D so this is excellent

Time to make Byzantine Cataphracts a good unit now

Thank you Galu. Ive been watching lets plays of this for a long time. i am glad to finally play it. this was really helpful

Thank you, now my Barrow-Wights are cheap evil spirits! 👍🏼

Thanks. It was very helpful video.

Thank you for this!

Thanks for this, it will enable me to experiment with reducing elven and dwarven unit sizes, and increasing elite unit costs. Would you be willing to do a video on how to change towns to villages and how to remove city and castle upgrading?

Finally🙏🙏🙏

Thankyou.

30:13 Stat FOOooOOooOOOooD :D

Really helpful tutorial but your high desktop resolusion and grey background make it REALLY DIFFICULT to see what''s on screen - everything is so tiny. I definitely learned a few things i needed to know, for instance the mod i'm using has alot of speed modifications and i was unsure if i could remove those lines or not but now i actually know how they work, - also the unit priority for the AI was good to know. Thanks for the great tutorial!

Hey, can anyone please tell me if there is any way to / how to reduce the time in between training units and how do you find out names for settlements?

Watching this gave me an idea for Harad, troll men Archers with a new arrow, heavy arrow, it would have a heavier mass

Hi Galu I tested the second stat_health number by changing the stats for Dunedain Scouts and then auto-resolving the same battle vs bandits six times (standard DAC campaign vh/vh). Results 1,1 (min) - 6 losses, average 34.5 men lost 1,6 (default) - 5 wins, average 16.5 men lost 1,15 (max) - 6 wins, average 7.3 men lost Note that the auto-resolve gave a 9 to 20 power rating for every battle, so it doesn't seem to factor into that calc. It seems that it does have an impact on auto-resolves (at least for a human vs AI battle, obviously there are many more units/situations to test), which I think is interesting and leads to a further question. If it also impacts AI vs AI battles, what do you think about changing this stat for cavalry heavy nations (Rohan, Khand, Dol Amroth) to see if it helps them survive a little longer when played by the AI (and to allow human players the option to auto-resolve battles when playing those nations without such a high chance of just being slaughtered)? By the way, I love all your videos and DAC so please keep up the great work!

Anyone able to help me? I'm looking for the file that shows what triggers or adds 'points' towards getting a particular guild type??

Really really interesting and clear video just well made. I never really dabbeld match with the stats and files in MedII or Rome eventhough the countless hours I played. But this really makes me want to try it out. I was like yeah I watch this some day for now I just watch the first 2 min and I just watched in straight until the end. So happy you are doing this as you have a really good and clear way of explaining this and well have a pleasant voice. But I still got questions what are the min_agnle and max_angle (24:14-24:35) and how do they corrolate with the range if anyone could tell me. The stat_charge_distance (30:08) says how far away from the enemy the unit will start charging but is this also the minimun distance a unit has to be a way from another unit to do a proper charge? And secondly what does the stat_food is used for, I know he said it doesn't matter but now I'm really curious. Was it just never implemented in the game or... whats it purpous. (30:14)

Hey Arachir! Would be great if you can do a video on settlement modding too. For example, I want to move population from one settlement to another to kickstart population increase and town upgrades.. but some towns are named with special characters. Where can we find the names of these settlements?

I have a question about armor upgrades and save game compatibility. I am well into a WR campaign. I have upgraded my elvenking units to their maximum armour tier (they only get one). I would like to give them a second and third armour tier. Would I need to start a new game for them to apply ?

It may be an idea to upload a new video showing how to enable borderless windowed mode/ edit the settings file, as I had to search for one of your old videos as to how to do it after i installed version 4.5! As an aside, is there any reason borderless windowed isn't enabled by default? Love the mod and your videos and thank you for everything you do for the community.

I don’t know if you’ve made one, but can you do a let’s play of Gondor? I’d like to see how you handle Mordor’s overwhelming amount of men it can throw at you

Great Video! I think the different Elves should have different recruitment times, with the High Elves having the best units, best armor, most expensive units and slowest recruitment. The Woodland Realm had the highest population and unlike the others their population actually grew durning the 3rd age and they weren't into sailing to the west, so their recruitment times should be faster, with their big weakness being a lack of heavy armor and limited cavalry, while having a ton of great archers, shock infantry and a few spearmen. The different Elven fractions should, IMO, all play a bit different. The High Elves should stay as they are, the Woodland Realm should be like I described and Lothlorien should be compromise between the 2, they already have an unique set of units in your mod. Sorry for my (not so short) rant, it was just something that I wanted to get off my chest.

Galu, after you go over the stat and buildings files, can you please go over the audio files. It would be helpful to now how to add custom music and/or voices.

Great stuff! Did you ever make a mod for Rome TW? I've created a world in my head when i was a child and even though it's not that complex, i still want to be able to play in it. A very detailed portion of the world is inspired by greek and roman culture so RTW would be a better game to try to realize it than Medieval. Does it work the same way? Cheers and best regards, a fellow youtuber with a sindarin name ;)

Is there a way to mod custom generals to use different weapons? I would love to give Cirdan Aeglos when he is actually fighting instead of just a normal sword.

Sir, can you not use bigger scrren resolution than 1920-1080 its so small hurts my eyes, thanks for the video hope more will come.

I dont know if I have missed it but is there a line in there that affects how quickly the unit replenishes in towns so you can recruit it?

Is there a way to make each individual soldier larger (~1.7 times the normal human soldier size) to get small elite units of Giants?

All I want to do is change some unit sizes but my game won’t load plz help

how comes that for some mods e.g. call of warhammer: you can edit the unit stats without breaking a savegame, while for others: planetwar and thera, this will break your save?

I have an issue, when I reached data, I double click and the only options that are available to me is : Animations, Cursors, FMV, Sounds and World. How to get access to Export_Descr_Units?

Does anyone know how to chance the unit of the nazgul of isengard back the black numenorians?

So, I tried to give the Venetian archers stakes like it is told in this vid, but nothing happened in-game… Any help please?

24:15 can you explain it more please? Coz the range is 120 and max angle is 70 so what's the range of the unit then? I'm confused :(

Nice, but how to make soldier immune to stagger?

Is there a trigger for my General bodyguard to get + (said number) attacks or bonuses

I want to give Templars to Byzantium (as remnants after the order's official arrest), and so far everything's succesful EXCEPT the skins of the riders, no matter which I give them, the Templars always appear as regular crusaders! The horses seem alright, the problem is with the riders only. Please advice!

Anyone with advice on creating a Kings Crossbows unit for Erebor in 4.5? Can't seem to do it but I am definitely a modding noob. Help grateful!

Hi Arachir, Perhaps a nice idea, make a video explaining the rebel armies, what their stories are and why they are where they are now :)

How do you change the maximum blacksmith buildings/upgrades?

I tried changing the number of misiles per unit, but it always remain the same. Do i need change something else? Thnx in advance

Hi, i download from steam, and there isnt any .txt file in data folder. Pls help me ty.

I have an suggestion about the difficult of the game in general. What about this if its possible: instead of 1 War of the ring campaign there would be two. You could choose between 2 difficulties "normal" and "hard". Cause it seems like the community is divided. That some of the players "veterans" thinks DaC is too easy and needs more of a challenge and the casual and new players thinks its too hard. So my suggestion is to make normal and hard campaign. cause now there are campaigns that are too easy and some that are "too hard". I mean that if your favorite faction is one of the more easier campaigns then you are forced to pic another one to get some challenge. So point is to make all factions challenging in the "hard" version. And the normal version would be the version that is now available. But the question is that is it possible to have 2 different modded campaigns on the mod? i hope Galu that you understand what i mean. And the hard version would be like fore example the Dol Amroth campaign that is really a struggle. unless ofc you use mega cheese tactics like stack up all generals and rush Umbar like you Galu mentioned in the previews episode if i recall. Anyway how would it sound? would it be too much work. I don´t ofc have solution of how each campaign would be done more hard, but some scripts that would put the Ai attack you. and overall make the AI more aggressive or the AI would get extra stacks from time to time. But ofc not just only add stacks after stacks that would be dumb ( like you did mention in some of your video that in Vanilla med2 it was endelss grinding stack after stack). But that could be and open decision in for example discord about how to make each faction hard in its own unique way What say you?

Galu I know you may not see this but it is possible to move units from a mod or expansion to the vanilla game.

the attack of the units can be up to 63 I guess it doesn't accept more. Is the game correct?

Are these changes save game compatible?

How do you give "cannot be staggered" stat?

checked my data for teutonic campaign and all so shows is animation fmv sound world nothing else

Im interested in how the game calculates kills.

How do you add the relentless trait? The one a few units have, that allow them not to be staggered

Is how accurate a unit is related to the ammunition they wield or is it an actual stat on the unit itself?

I'm trying to find out how to add a faction to stainless steel 6.4 and was wondering if you could do a video going through how to do that in dac or would it take too long

hola brooo , soy de argentina y me cuesta seguirte , ya que no ahi nada en mi idioma , entiendo muchisimo del modding aprendiendo solo , pero me falta un detalle , como darle armadura dorara y arma dorada a las unidades , si me puedes ayudar con eso seria un gol a lo maradona :D desde ya muchas gracias

Ok a quick question. In 4.5 Royal guard has the mailed horse2 mount which is actually worst than the standard eorlingas mount. Is that an oversight or an intended feature??

Finally, I can change it so that the Woodland realm actually has the best archers. I hate them being outclassed by the other elves at every tier.

please, there is a way to have a imortal general?

Would you show us how to move a unit from one mod into another? If thats possible

This is save game compatible

this does not work