[Medieval 2 Total War Create Unit
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Give city more population - addpopulation
Get indicated amount of gold - addmoney [number]
Give any trait your faction can have to a specific general - givetrait
Anything in city's building queue built automatically - processcq
Get indicated amount of gold - addmoney
Toggles fog of war - togglefow
Press Auto Retaliate button to automatically wins; enter code at the battle scroll - autowin
Give ancillary to specific general - giveancillary [character] [ancillary] [level number]
Create unit - createunit "[settlement or character]" "[unit ID]" "[amount from 1-5]" "[experience from 1-9]" "[armor
from 1-3]" "[weapon from 1-3]"
Elephant Artillery to selected city or unit - rogan
Elephant Rocketeer to selected city or unit - vindaloo
Elephants to selected city or unit - madras
Mercenary Monster Bombard to selected city or unit - istanbul
Mercenary Monster Ribault to selected city or unit - george
Mercenary Rocket Launcher to selected city or unit - houston
Reset stuck character - characterreset
Show current coordinates - showcursorstat
Move object - movecharacter [settler or unit name] [x coord] [y coord]
Detailed codes for several Console Commands
Push to access the console. As described above, the "givetrait" command works with several different traits to add to a specific character. In order for this to work, you must have the character selected and outside of a town. It works like:
Below is a list of TRAITNAMES and the maximum number you can put after to determine the level of the trait. These are a list of the most beneficial traits, message me if you want me to post the more obscure ones.
Faster Game Play in campaign:
When your in campaign mode and you move a unit to a selected spot. The unit moves there but walks there and moves very slowly. To speed thjis up just hold down the right click on the mouse and this will speed up how fast the unit gets to where you want it to go. Also this works when your turn is up and the other country's are taking there turn.
Traits:
Use the following values with the "givetrait [character] [trait] [level number]" code. Note: Some of these can be accompanied with a "level number", usually ranging from 1 to 5, giving additional bonuses or penalties.
Unlimited Cash and See Everywhere:
Just press the button bellow escape this 1 and put in addmoney 999999 and keep on doin it to get all the cash you want.
If you want to see everywere just put in togglefow
Unlock All Factions:
Find your way to the Medieval II Total Wardataworldmapscampaignimperialcampaign directory and youll see a file called descrstrat. Cut and Paste the unlockable section into the playable section. Now just save and close and youll have all your factions unlocked.
Ancillaries:
Use the following values with the "giveancillary [character] [ancillary] [level number]" code. Note: Some of these can be accompanied with a "level number", usually ranging from 1 to 5, giving additional bonuses or penalties.
In our Total War: Pharaoh review we gave it 80%, but I haven't fallen in love with it like I did with Creative Assembly's last mammoth-sized historical Total War. Even with its laser focus on a specific era of Chinese history, Three Kingdoms is a vast strategy game, decadently rich in historical and legendary heroes and boasting a vast roster of unique units. It feels experimental, like the Sagas, but has the scale and ambition of the main series. Sadly, support for Three Kingdoms ended swiftly, and Creative Assembly has yet to announce a follow-up.
This was going to be Total War's take on grand strategy, giving us the whole world to fight over. And equally as exciting was the promise of battles that felt entirely different to the infantry/archers/cavalry dynamic that every other Total War used. Guns! Ships! Death marches under a hail of bullets! Every single screenshot and tease had me vibrating with anticipation.
Lamentably, the reality proved to be disappointing. Empire was Total War at its buggiest, and everything that was fascinating or novel was quickly undone by the atrocious AI, which was incapable of handling a campaign of this scale and was equally inept during battles, gladly making suicidal moves that made no sense. Ranged combat was just a mess, broadly, and I often found myself screaming at my units as they refused to fire just because a couple of soldiers couldn't get into formation. And after a few fights, the novelty of the muskets wore off, revealing the lack of unit diversity and potential tactics. Ship combat, meanwhile, looked incredible, but was ultimately a shallow diversion that left me wanting to escape the sea as quickly as possible. But there was so much good stuff in that messy game that it feels wrong not to give it another go.
In the proceeding years, Empire was much improved by patches and modders. The AI never stopped being iffy, but the bugs were ironed out, and even more improvements were made by DarthMod, long considered one of the best things to come out of Empire.
Nick Thomadis, the creator of DarthMod, went on to join Ukrainian developer Game-Labs, where he served as lead designer of Ultimate General: Civil War, among others. Civil War's approach to the battles of the era really feels like a blueprint that Creative Assembly should follow. The unit diversity issues, for instance, are handled superbly by making units so much more versatile. This era isn't really conducive to countless different troop types, but what Civil War did was make them more flexible, with lots of different historical weapons altering their capabilities. And greater importance was given to how you actually used the troops. Taking advantage of terrain, equipment and flanking manoeuvres made all the difference. So many Total War battles still come down to what units you pick, and the classic rock, paper, scissors paradigm, but Civil War's battles placed skill and tactical decision making at the forefront.
Creative Assembly's work on Warhammer, meanwhile, has shown the studio has become more capable of building games that manage gargantuan campaigns. The Immortal Empires campaign is so huge I can hardly fathom it, with hundreds of factions fighting over a whole fantasy world. It's just one continuous space, not split up into different theatres, and while Total War's AI still isn't flawless, it's a lot more able to deal with such a vast playing field than it was back in the Empire days.
This combination of potential influences and Creative Assembly's experience makes it much better positioned to tackle Empire again, and it also feels like a shake-up the historical games need. Even with Three Kingdom's hero duels and the tactical quirks of Troy and Pharaoh, Total War's real-time battles haven't dramatically changed since the early days, at least not when it comes to the moment-to-moment action. You still, broadly, smash units into each other, trying to make sure your unit type has an advantage over your foe's, and when the enemy is engaged you get some troops in behind them, surrounding them and whittling down their numbers and morale.
Sure, this distilled description ignores a lot of nuance, but you can absolutely get by on doing nothing more than this. With its 18th and 19th Century setting, however, Empire gives us an entirely different way to fight. The proliferation of firearms and artillery completely transformed the battlefield, and while Empire didn't nail it the first time around, there's no denying that it felt like a completely new breed of Total War. It's just unfortunate that this style of battle ended up being an evolutionary dead end for the series, with the exception of Shogun 2's excellent Fall of the Samurai DLC, which has sadly since been rebranded as a standalone Saga and stuck in a more expensive bundle.
I suspect, though, that Sega is going to push for something more conservative. Creative Assembly is going through a bad time at the moment, with its ill-advised FPS, Hyenas, getting scrapped right before it reached the finish line. On the Total War side, meanwhile, offering smaller DLCs without reducing them in price has created a lot of bad blood with the community. This is exactly the kind of environment where I'd expect a publisher to play it safe with something more familiar and popular, maybe Medieval 3? But I'd love to be surprised.
Fraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog. "}), " -0-7/js/authorBio.js"); } else console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available'); Fraser BrownSocial Links NavigationOnline EditorFraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog.
My first balance fix was to decrease the damage of the defensive arrow towers, which the community had correctly pointed out were far too strong. However, when the patch went live the community suddenly found it was now impossible to hold unwalled settlements without a garrisoned army. The arrow towers no longer did enough damage to enemy heroes, who would now kill the entire garrison with impunity.
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