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Grant's Army of the Tennesse continued...

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I am currently looking for a capable & experienced modder to collaborate with who is blessed with extraordinary patience and doesn't mind taking direction from a prick like me. If you'd like to be involved then please do get in touch

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Can someone tell me why when adding the ability $abiDoubleCommand1, which appears as $abiAmerican-Indian in the abi_Alias file, the only thing I'm getting is Erroneous Ability/ABI_TEXT_ERRONEOUSABILITY? I've tried both $abiDoubleCommand1 and $abiAmerican-Indian but neither appear to work. Does this not work regardless of what I do?

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A general that is going to be added to v1.10 of the mod: The old warhorse, John Ellis Wool.

[AACW3Plz]

Oooh, Wool is a local. I visited his grave a few months ago. I always thought he was overlooked in this game. Nice add.

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Oooh, Wool is a local. I visited his grave a few months ago. I always thought he was overlooked in this game. Nice add.

I like that he just didn't want to give it up. He had to be ordered to retire. War was in his blood so it seems

[deguerra]

Oh very nice as well, I've always missed him in CW2. If I may critique very slightly, his neck looks maybe a tiny bit too long. Perhaps you could try moving the (I assume disembodied) head slightly further down?

Otherwise he's great!
-deguerra

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Oh very nice as well, I've always missed him in CW2. If I may critique very slightly, his neck looks maybe a tiny bit too long. Perhaps you could try moving the (I assume disembodied) head slightly further down?

Otherwise he's great!
-deguerra

From memory his neck is as far down as it can go but I'm sure I can lower the head slightly so it doesn't look as elongated. Not a difficult thing to fix

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I might even try a different portrait for Wool altogether. Same head but a different body... I'll work on that later today.

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Oooh, Wool is a local. I visited his grave a few months ago. I always thought he was overlooked in this game. Nice add.

Mate, perhaps you can help me here.
If recruiting/building brigades in Massachusetts for example (I'm in the process of creating infantry brigades, cavalry regiments, sharspshooter, artillery, etc for those states currently without), how do I ensure that those brigades have regiments with Massachusetts names instead of those wretched generic names? Is this something to do with the Custom Names in the models files? I could use some help here.

Muchas gracias.

[deguerra]

Not addressed to me, but perhaps I can help. I'm not at my computer with the game on it, so this is from memory, but yes: the model files each have one extremely long line with custom names grouped by state. I also once added a Massachusetts Brigade back in and from memory had to create a whole new "section" for Massachusetts in that line because from as far as I can tell, those custom names still date from AACW (the first game) when Massachusetts didn't even exist, so the only Massachusetts unit names were given to other states. All in all, those custom names could sorely do with a clean-up.

-deguerra

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Not addressed to me, but perhaps I can help. I'm not at my computer with the game on it, so this is from memory, but yes: the model files each have one extremely long line with custom names grouped by state. I also once added a Massachusetts Brigade back in and from memory had to create a whole new "section" for Massachusetts in that line because from as far as I can tell, those custom names still date from AACW (the first game) when Massachusetts didn't even exist, so the only Massachusetts unit names were given to other states. All in all, those custom names could sorely do with a clean-up.

-deguerra

Hey mate, thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate it no end.
Regarding Custom Names, etc, I thought as much but I just wanted some confirmation. But yeah, they're a bit of a mess to say the least but a mess than I intend to fix in the coming weeks. That is the next project, coupled with adding infantry brigades, cavalry regiments, sharspshooters, artillery, etc, to states (both Union and Confederate) that are currently sorely lacking in a number of areas. Massachusetts will be getting quite the touch up to say the least, and Florida will come out of it looking much less troop barren than it currently does - I've already added a 3-regiment infantry only brigade there. I'm excited to get it started.
Just finished adding the last batch of generals (maybe 100 or so) and I'm glad to be done with that let me tell ya...

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Another question: how many characters can I use in the naming of these units? Obviously there's a limit, but what is it?

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New England gets a new look, and about time

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Link to the latest version of the mod below.

To install, first delete all old CW2_AltaroMod files from your CW2 directory, download the latest zip file, extract it to the same CW2 directory, enter "CW2_AltaroMod" into your Modpath File and away you go

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mn34AX ... sp=sharing