Country descriptions/strategies

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In the presentation screen, after you select a campaign and a country, below the country description there is a button that says strategy, however pressing it produces no effect. Is this feature implemented? In text.csv some countries have strategies for the grand campaign, like Sweden, yet this strategy does not appear when the button is pressed, at least in my hands. Am I missing something?

 

[Ciçatrix]

I have never seen it work, perhaps it is a leftover from EU1, but it would be nice if it could be used.

 

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I think that in vanilla (or maybe another mod) Strategy and Description are different, so there is a way to edit them, but I don't know where. Text.csv.

Look on the lines 6469 & 6470 (vanilla file) to see how it is labelled. I suppose you only need to put a country's tag in the right place to add descriptions for other countries, as in the scenario files I don't see any mention of "include FRA_GC_VPTACTIC" or the like.

EDIT : because GC doesn't use them.
From the Age of Exploration's scenario (.eug) file :

    FRA = {
        desc = "FRA_GC_HISTDESC"
		[B]scenariotactics ="FRA_GC_HISTDESC"
		countrytactics = "FRA_GC_VPTACTIC"[/B]
		countrydifficulty = 7
		countryeconomy = 6
		countrymilitary = 7
		countrydiplomacy = 6
		missiontype = 1
	}

 

[Garbon]

Look up Llywelyn. He had a whole thread about doing this /got a few I believe. If I recall correctly, you can only add them for the nation that are pre-selected.

 

[LlywelynII]

In the presentation screen, after you select a campaign and a country, below the country description there is a button that says strategy, however pressing it produces no effect. Is this feature implemented? In text.csv some countries have strategies for the grand campaign, like Sweden, yet this strategy does not appear when the button is pressed, at least in my hands. Am I missing something?

Thanks for the nod, Garb. The thread is here. The feature is fully implemented and just involves some things being adjusted in text.csv; however, the problem quite simply is that it requires a whole lot of writing that people only intermittantly get involved with. Any additions you want to make would be welcome, Fod.

I'd never seen anything that said the nations needed to be the preselected ones - is that right?

jay.

 

[Garbon]

Maybe I'm totally off on that. o

 

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I'd never seen anything that said the nations needed to be the preselected ones - is that right?

The file that has to be modified to include the calls to the strategy descriptions is "1419 - The Grand Campaign.eug" within the scenarios folder. This file only contains the countries that are shown at the initial screen and are tracked for the graphs, and those are already as many as practically feasible.

So it looks like Garbon is right. However, if you select a different country from the list, it's difficulty, economy, diplomacy and military are also displayed as colored dots. I don't know where that information is stored, but it is theoretically possible that wherever it is, the call to their strategies could be inserted there.

The matter should be researched by someone with better hunting skills than myself.

For the moment, I will submit the strategies for two countries in the list, ARG and CAS, together with the needed modifications in "1419 - The Grand Campaign.eug" with the rest of the package for the reworked Union of Spain once it is done.

 

[LlywelynII]

For the moment, I will submit the strategies for two countries in the list, ARG and CAS, together with the needed modifications in "1419 - The Grand Campaign.eug" with the rest of the package for the reworked Union of Spain once it is done.

Thanks!

The rest

Hmph... IIRC, text.csv stores them all just fine; while it's not the worst thing in the world if the only scripts that work are the default choices, it'd still be much better to have advice on how, eg, to handle Indian minors... I'm probably not good enough to figure out where the call should go but I'll try to find it...

jay.

 

[binTravkin]

Hey, but there was already one discussion about strategies some time ago.
I even remind copying it's contents to my FlashDrive to use while playing at home!