Chinese Horse Archer

Age of Mythology: Retold Retold - Modding
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Apparently the Chinese have a mounted archer unit that just isn’t accessible in the game?

If it is just a matter of allowing player to recruit it, could someone make a mod that just adds it to the Chinese Baolei?

I already have a mod that adds one more units to the Baolei (the unit being the Giant Siege Crossbow) but if the Archer Horse needs to replace it’s recruitment button, it is fine by me. Anyway, just a suggestion really, kinda surprised no one tried doing this (apart from the “Tale of The Dragon: Retold” custom campaign)

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There’s also a unit called “Qing Rider”

Damn, they all look so cool ;-;

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The Qing Riders already work well as light cavalry for raids. Their only problem is that they don’t change names with cavalry upgrades, but that can be easily fixed

As for the Horse Archers, they don’t benefit from the stat increases from archer upgrades (although it does change their appearance)
This is more difficult to implement

For the Tale of The Dragon Retold campaign, I had to manually change the names and statistics of these units according to the tech in each mission… The result is functional, but rather crude

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I’d thought about making this mod, but I didn’t think anyone would be interested. It’s easy for me to do, just takes a little time, so I’ll do it when I have time.

This is easy to implement, I don’t know how to explain this in a technically correct language, but you have to “SetUnitType” “ArcherLineUpgraded” to the “GongQi” (Bow Cavalry)

      <effect type="Data" amount="1.00" subtype="SetUnitType" unittype="ArcherLineUpgraded" relativity="Absolute">
        <target type="ProtoUnit">GongQi</target>
      </effect>
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Yippe!!! Thanks friend! I really liked them and was looking forward to use them in skirmish and the campaign ^-^

Take all the time you need too and thanks again for considering it! I wish all the best things to you friend, may your skeleton be forever full of calcium :heart:

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I’m still playing the campaign, only on mission 3 so far, but I’ve been loving it! A very faithful adaptation so far and I’m very impressed by how you managed to recreate the original Tale of the Dragon tech tree, units and buildings!

If I may ask tho, what motivated you to go so far? Making all the modifications to better resemble the old DLC from EE. Also, is there a version of the Campaign with the vanilla Chinese tech tree?

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Thank you very much! This campaign took months of work, and it’s always very encouraging to get positive feedback!

What motivated me to do it was that I’ve always loved totd, despite its countless problems
I think the campaign has some really cool ideas and offers a variety of environments
By recreating it on retold, I was able to take the opportunity to try to fix the “problems” that prevented me from fully enjoying it
(And I also really like the old Chinese civilization from EE)

Unfortunately, it is not possible to play with the vanilla tech tree, as the modifications are added one by one to each mission.
In fact, the mod does not affect the game data at all; it is just by playing with the triggers that I recreated this “fake tech tree” (and it is the same for the garden)

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Hey, I’m not sure about it, but apparently there’s also two cut Japanese units from the new Heavenly Spear DLC?

Those being the “Sakimori” and “Bushi Yari” infantry units. Firstly, are they real? I’ve only seen info on them though the AOM wiki and haven’t confirmed their existence in the editor yet.

And, if they are real, could you also add them?

Gosh, sorry for making another request already. I know this is annoying, my apologies :backhand_index_pointing_right::backhand_index_pointing_left:

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