Custom WotR Scenarios

Tutorial for Battle for Middle-earth II BFME 2

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Created:	Tuesday February 14, 2012 - 17:06
Updated:	Tuesday February 14, 2012 - 17:32
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Summary:	Creating your own War of the Ring campaign scenarios

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This page will show you how to change the boni, CommandPoint limits and BuildingSpots. The default regions are defined in data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworldregions.inc. The Region blocks contain quite a lot of stuff (mostly for visual effects). The following fields can be set within a Region block:
- ArmyBonus: the number of additional command points this region will grant its owner on the living world
- ResoureBonus: the percentage of additional gathered resources in any RTS battle
- LegendaryBonus: the number of additional spellbook points in any RTS battle
- AttackBonus: the percentage of additional attack strength in an AutoResolveBattle (this obviously affects the attack strength of hero armies but I am not sure whether this only applies in offensive battles or in defensive battles too, as in garrison armies that deal more damage...)
- DefenseBonus: similar to AttackBonus but for defense.
- ExperienceBonus: the percentage of additional experience units gain in a AutoResolveBattle.
- CPLimit: the command point limit for any garrison army in this region (though I believe the AI sometimes accidently ignores this value :-/ ).
- AllyCPLimit: the command point limit for each ally garrison army.
- CreateAutoFort: if this field is set to Yes the region will always have a fort in AutoResolveBattle (but not in RTS).

Default every region has two BuildingSpots except for regions with a special fort (Erebor, Dol Guldur, Helm's Deep, Isengard, Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith) which only have one. A BuildingSpot defines the coordinates on the whole world where the player can build one of the four livingworld buildings in this region: Resource, Fortress, Barracks, Armory. If you add any more BuildingSpots to a region take care the coordinates are within the region (it would look rather strange if a barracks which belongs to Rivendell appears in Mordor :)
Additional to the number of buildings being restricted by the number of BuildingSpots you can explicitly set a limit for the different kind of buildings:

Code



RestrictBuildings

    Buildings = Fortress

    NumberAllowed = 0

End

   

RestrictBuildings

    Buildings = Barracks

    NumberAllowed = 2

End

These two blocks will restrict the number of barracks to 2 and forbids the building of a fortress completly in the Region they are defined in.
I have not yet worked with ConnectsTo since it probably would require changing the .map file by creating wotr entrance points on the map.
In addition to all single Regions data\ini\campaigns\common\livingworldregions.inc also contains concurrent regions such as Arnor, Eriador, etc.

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ConcurrentRegionBonus

    Territory = LW:TerritoryArnor

    EffectName = Arnor

    Regions = Arnor Buckland Ettenmoors Rivendell The_Shire Tower_Hills

    ArmyBonus = 0

    ResourceBonus = 0

    LegendaryBonus = 0

    AttackBonus = 0

    DefenseBonus = 0

    ExperienceBonus = 20

    UnifiedEvaEvent = WorldUnifyArnor    ; Played when local player gains all the regions in this territory

    LostEvaEvent = WorldLostArnor     ; Played when local player had all the regions in this territory but lost one

    LookAtCenter = X:-1121 Y:2072

    LookAtHeading = 0

    LookAtZoom = 0.55

End

All the fields in this block should be either selfexplanatory or already described above.

If you don't want to change the regions for all scenarios you may write your own include file. In this case however you will need to define another LivingWorldRegionCampaign in data\ini\campaigns\riskcampaign.ini and use it in the scenario (but more on that later):

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LivingWorldRegionCampaign AnotherCampaign

    ;// Visual stuff

    RegionConqueredSound = Gui_RegionConquered

    RegionEffectsManagerName = WotRRegionEffects

    ArmyPlacementPos = X:-0 Y:0            ; 10 o'clock offset

    ArmyPlacementPos = X:0 Y:0            ; 2 o'clock offset



    ;// Strings

    RegionBonusArmy            = LW:RegionBonusArmy_Good

    RegionBonusResource        = LW:RegionBonusResource

    RegionBonusLegendary        = LW:RegionLegendaryBonus



    ;// Army Size Command Point Caps

    HeroOnlyArmyCommandPoints = 0

    SmallArmyCommandPoints = 120

    MediumArmyCommandPoints    = 240



    ;// Hero army retreat

    ArmyRetreatRounds    = 25

    

    ;// Including the regions

    #include "Common\OtherLivingWorldRegions.inc"

End

There are a few interesting fields in there:
- HeroOnlyArmyCommandPoints: If the command points of all units in a hero army (including the heros commandpoints) are less or equal to this value the hero will only have no pip above its banner at all (Since a hero army will always contain the hero this should never be the case).
- Small-/MediumArmyCommandPoints: If the command points of all units in any (garrison or hero) army are less or equal to these values the army will have one/two pips above its banner. If the value is even higher than MediumArmyCommandPoints it will have three pips.
- ArmyRetreatRounds: This is the number of AutoResolve rounds an enemy army may execute on a retreating army (though the default value of 25 seems a bit high to me).
To use your custom regions just change the path of the include command.

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Unknown - Saturday February 25, 2012 - 8:36

This is a good tutorial :)
A lot of people forget about WotR XD

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