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This page will show you how to change the number and type of units you have at the start of a WotR campaign.

First we need to tell the game what kind of armies there are for each faction in data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworldstartingunits.inc. You will see several entries of LivingWorldPlayerArmy blocks, e.g.

              

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LivingWorldPlayerArmy     Name = BoromirPlayerArmy     DisplayNameTag = LWA:MenHeroArmy         ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorBoromir         Quantity = 1     End End LivingWorldPlayerArmy     Name = MenOfTheWest_StartingArmy     DisplayNameTag = LWA:MenOfTheWestGarrison     ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorArcherHorde         Quantity = 1     End     ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorFighterHorde         Quantity = 1     End     ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorKnightHorde         Quantity = 1     End End

You may recognize them as the default starting units you had in every WotR campaign until now.
- The Name field is the name used for reference in the SpawnArmies (see further down).
- DisplayName is the name displayed when you hover the mouse over an army.
- An ArmyEntry specifies one unit (or rather banner since all units on the living world are displayed as banners) in this army.
- ThingTemplate specifies what unit to use
- Quantity is the number of battalions this banner.
Therefore if you want to create an army consisting of for example two separate GondorRanger battlions:

              

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LivingWorldPlayerArmy     Name = MenOfTheWest_EliteArchers     DisplayNameTag = LWA:MenOfTheWest     ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorRangerHorde         Quantity = 1     End     ArmyEntry         ThingTemplate = GondorRangerHorde         Quantity = 1     End End

You may ask now what the difference between 2 separate ArmyEntries and one ArmyEntry with a Quantity of 2 is: 2 separate ArmyEntries will create two banners on the living world which can be commanded separately. One ArmyEntry with a Quantity of 2 however will create only one banner on the living world but 2 battalions in RTS.

As far as I can see you may add your entries to data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworldbuildableunits.inc instead (have not actually tried it but should make no difference).

Now that we have specified what kind of and how many units there are in an army we need to tell the game to spawn them and also which units for which faction. For this we need to alter data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworlddefaultarmies.inc. To spawn the ranger army we defined in livingworldstartingunits.inc we need to add another SpawnArmy block:

              

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SpawnArmy     ScriptingName = EliteArchers     SpawnForTemplates = PlayerMen     PlayerArmy = MenOfTheWest_EliteArchers     Icon = MoWArmyIcon End

- The ScriptingName may be used to spawn this army explicitly in a region but more on that later...
- SpawnForTemplates specifies which faction to spawn this unit for. All players with this faction will recieve this unit at the start of a WotR campaign.
- PlayerArmy tells the game which PlayerArmy to spawn. In this example we use the name of the LivingWorldPlayerArmy we defined above.
- Icon speficies the style of the banner on the living world.

Adding a SpawnArmy like the one above will result in every player of the specified faction starting with this army in addition to all the other SpawnArmies in all WotR scenarios. If you don't want to use this SpawnArmy in every scenario you can add SpawnAtActStart = No to the SpawnArmy block. Armies that don't spawn at the start of the act have to be spawned explicitly in a scenario (more on that later).
There are SpawnArmy blocks for the hero leaders too but how to add new hero armies is not a part of this tutorial. Spawning minor heroes (not army leaders) as a garrison army (for the difference between garrison army and hero army see the ingame WotR tutorial) however works just like any other SpawnArmy (you don't even have to add any LivingWorldPlayerArmy since they are already defined in data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworldbuildableunits.inc):

              

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SpawnArmy     ScriptingName = MinorHero1     SpawnForTemplates = PlayerMen     PlayerArmy = FaramirArmy     Icon = MoWArmyIcon End

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