Need help with making CVL brigades

[unmerged(93067)]

# Early escort carrier
  application =
  { id        = 12100
    name      = TECH_APP_NAVAL_110_NAME
    desc      = TECH_APP_NAVAL_110_DESC
    position  = { x = 432 y = 228 }
    year      = 1936
    # ?
    component = { id = 12101 name = TECH_CMP_NAVAL_110_1_NAME type = naval_engineering difficulty = 5 }
    # ?
    component = { id = 12102 name = TECH_CMP_NAVAL_110_2_NAME type = naval_engineering difficulty = 5 }
    # ?
    component = { id = 12103 name = TECH_CMP_NAVAL_110_3_NAME type = aeronautics difficulty = 5 }
    # ?
    component = { id = 12104 name = TECH_CMP_NAVAL_110_4_NAME type = electronics difficulty = 5 }
    # ?
    component = { id = 12105 name = TECH_CMP_NAVAL_110_5_NAME type = technical_efficiency difficulty = 5 double_time = yes }
    required  = { }
    effects =
    { command = { type = activate_unit_type which = escort_carrier }
      command = { type = activate_unit_type which = light cag}
      command = { type = new_model which = escort_carrier value = 0 }
      command = { type = new_model which = light cag value = 0}

im having a problem with this part-the research part. it says that it cant read the light_cag lines. any help? pm for my complete files.

 

[Jamie550]

You need an underscore between "light" and "cag"

(are you sure there is a light_cag?)

 

[Fernando Torres]

You can't create new unit tags.

 

[unmerged(93067)]

so i cant make a seperate cag for light carriers? i just have to use fleet carrier cags? ive made the light cag brigades btw, they exist.

 

[Pilo]

You cant create new units or brigades. Even when you have hundreds of light_cag.txt, it wont work. You need to change an already existing brigade.

 

[HMS Enterprize]

so i cant make a seperate cag for light carriers? i just have to use fleet carrier cags? ive made the light cag brigades btw, they exist.

Probaly the easiest thing to do is drop the light carrier stats so when you add a regular cag the sum total is half the strength of a regular carrier...or mix and match fleet & light carrier stats until you find a good balance.

Spocky has done a CVL mod already I believe which has done most of this work already.

 

[unmerged(93067)]

i want to make my own version though . ive never modded b4 and its a good stepping stone. how do other mods like CORE make their own units though. btw, could i completely change other brigades like nav torps as they suck so bad.

 

[semaphore]

i want to make my own version though . ive never modded b4 and its a good stepping stone. how do other mods like CORE make their own units though. btw, could i completely change other brigades like nav torps as they suck so bad.

Yes, that would be how you'd go about creating a new CVL attachment.

 

[unmerged(93067)]

nav torps it is (who the f*** actually uses em?)

i can rename them right?

 

[semaphore]

nav torps it is (who the f*** actually uses em?)

i can rename them right?

You can't rename the file.

 

[unmerged(93067)]

i was also gonna make a "defensive fight group" cag (which we will call dfg). basically, its a cag with fighters only, giving enourmous air attack/defense but mediocore convoy attack and little sea attack. there may be a light 1 but idk, i made the light cags a) attachable to fleet carriers for flexability reasons and b) mainly fighters. the airattack/defense is close to regular cags but shorebombardment sucks. also, light carriers will be called escort carriers and will have good sub detection/attack (better than fleet cags) because escort carriers were good at sub hunting.

btw, heres how the cags will match up:

early-early improved-basic advanced-improved H.advanced-advanced semimodern-semimodern and the turbojets line themselves up.