Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26393217-20160405103359

Hello,

1°) I've peered into the v1.03.25 army.cfg file and got quite struck by the fact that  there could be some "bugs" which hadn't been corrected in the various non official patches.

As I can't alter this file yet (MFC don't seem to work on my XP system yet), I can't check what flag induces in-game properties (weather effect, killer/XP skills, faction researched upgrades). Perhaps these many flags are overwritten by some hard-coded flags, and thus there's no bugs after all?

However, these "bugs" could explain why:

- Elven Hunters don't benefit from clear weather (no +2 Combat bonus);

- Reapers and Summoners don't benefit from some Daemon upgrades, and seem to be highly resistant or immune to Bannish spell (perhaps Summoners are humans or elves?) (not flagged as extra-planars);

- Spiders and Queen Spiders don't appear in the Swarm's pre-battle unit screen (they aren't flagged as Swarm, although they may be produced by the Swarm)...

Also, what's the consequence of the Foresmaster not being flagged as a missile unit? Does it use full combat when surrounded? (Not so bad, then)

2°) What could be done on a new page on this wiki (providing one's can read the source code) is: what game mechanics or spell uses which flags or definitions.

- Unit's code (e.g. AECX);

- Category flag (e.g. A for Dark Dwarf), including monsters, contraptions, dragons, and none;

- Size, MIssile and Movement flags;

- Infantry/Cavalry flag;

- Titan/Extra-planar flag;

- Faction flag, where a unit may belong to several factions. This one is confusing me, because lists of units codes (below category headers) seem to duplicate or complement it...

- General flag (obvious);

- Category lists, below this flag table: Minotaurs, Allies, Animals, etc.

This page/how-to would allow to alter safely the army.cfg without any side-effect, save some minor game balance. For instance, what to change for having the minotaurs regenerate when they kill eagles, bats, griffons, pegasus and dinosaurs? Only adding those units' codes below the Animals heading?

Again, I can't change a flag and see what is its effect in -game. 