is there anyway to...?

[Cyrus The Great]

I have 2 questions about moding:

1.is there anyway to disable knights hiring?I meant to force the player(not AI) to use royal family as cleric,marshal,spy,...

1.and how to disable auto battle mod and force the player to fight in battle view

thanks

[Shane]

I don't know anything about modding, but...
1. Why would you want to limit yourself to four knights (usually less) only using royal family? And you can't just limit the player to doing that, as far as I know you'd have to limit the AI too.

2. Why disable auto battle? One of the main strenghs of the game is auto battle, so you can concentrate on diplomacy, espionage, etc. This is one of the main things that put KoH on a completely different category than MTW, and in my opinion, in a higher category. Battles are fun, but it would be very annoying to have to fight them all the time.

[Elvain]

1. you don't need to mod the game - just limit yourself :)
any modding in this case would limit AI aswell so it would be nonsense...

2. why to force the player? why to fight battle where you have 9 squads of feudal knights against 9 peasant squads? it's a waste of time...

Remember in KoH you play the king, why should king bother by leading such unimportant and already decided battle?

but to answer your question: I don't know about no way how to do it

[Cyrus The Great]

I know elavin,I can limit myself(actually I did it before asking this question) :))
one of the reasons that make this game too easy is that we can have a marshal forever
but as you know kings are not alive forever it makes a good balance between our power and AI's.
also doing diplomacy is easy for a wealthy kingdom!!!so it would be nice to have limitation in number of merchants.

I thinks I should add some explanations about 2 too:
its obvious for you that AI is weak in making strong armies,but I realized that AI is fight better than I (and I hope than you!!!)in battle view,so it would be nice to fight in this view(I think this will make the game harder(in the way I like)of course I can force myself in this case too!
and its obvious too that a king can not fight and doing diplomacy at same time!

I also find province capturing easy without a wall.I changed the "town templates.ini" to make battles harder.also its sooooooo unrealastic,anyway I like this change:

[misery]
weight = 200
structures = 0
add = bulwark

[small poor]
iweight = 400
structures = 2
add = bulwark

[small good]
weight = 400
structures = 3
add = bulwark

[medium]
weight = 100
structures = 3
add = bulwark, training grounds, town watch

ok now all towns have bulwarks!so you can guess that province capturing in battle view is harder now.

[Angryminer]

1. I don't think you can prohibit yourself from recruiting "paid knights" but stick with royals as knights. The last time I tried that I completely removed all marshalls from the player. Anyway, taking a look at the menu-files might be worth it, because the menu-files only affect the player.
2. It won't last long and you'll be able to win a "loosing" battle against the AI. I won't give you hints, because I guess you want to figure it out yourself. :wink:
Have fun playing. :go:

Angryminer

[Shane]

From what I've heard, battles are usually hard to get used to at first, then really easy (and fun).

[Cyrus The Great]

good idea angry miner,thanks.I will take a look at this pak.