but it crashes the game

@killer_klown94 You're just missing a brain cell. The mod still works.

your a piece of shit and your mod dont work

Very realistic to pay extra for horses.

Ok. Keep in mind that when you redeploy your general and you change the bodyguard, you will have to pay for it again, which is not the case if you keep the same type. You will have a complete unit, though, which is not always the case otherwise as you can see in the picture.

Not sure anymore if you can choose (without extra payment) when you deploy your general for the first time.

Nice work, will try it out! Thank you for your message!

The mod still works, just installed the game and checked it in the grand campaign with the Alamans.

You just need to use the "replace general option" (the kicking boot - left lower corner in the general details) or raise a completely new army. Both options are still possible.

This feature was not in the original game, it was a remnant of Rome II, just something that I tried out.

I think it won't work anymore since new updates. This is sad, because my general is dying all the time when fighting against Huns (sniped by horse archers). I could avoid this by giving the guy a mount, but the game does not allow this logical move. Very stupid gamedesign, very flawed. Worst TW ever.

Only works when you raise a new army. So you have to send your general home first or replace him. Haven't checked this game and mod in a long time, so maybe it doesn't work anymore because of some update, although I doubt that...

How do I select a cavalry unit as the bodyguard of my general? My Danish generals are sitting ducks for atilla, while the rest of the army is on horses...

ah ok thanks

No, tha would be startpos stuff... but you can change bodyguards from your own faction by replacing/disbanding them, and assigning them to an army again afterwards.

Thanks for making this. Is there any version of this mod that makes starting generals' bodyguards mounted as well?

work OK and good MOD, thx...

No, there isn't as far as I know.

ill check on that! and btw is there any way to create a better screen to choose from different unit types as bodyguards? pretty annoying as it is :-( i hope you dont mind me asking you so many questions :D thank you

Well, you must have done something wrong... Probably taken the wrong skin type... Been a while since I worked with it, but I believe you need a cinematic type... Also make sure that he doesn't change appearance because of multiple hairtypes etc. ;)

Hey skidvar so i managed to edit the various meshes and got the appearance i was looking for but now my high king has no animations on the campaignmap... it just stands there in a static position :-( what did i miss here? could you help?

It's quite difficult... Especially because you have the 2D and 3D variant.... You need the variant editor for it. 3D for the campaign & battle maps, 2D for unit cards if you want to do it well...

i again have a question :D how could i manage to change the appearance of the king/general? looks weird if the general still looks like from the vanilla game... thx in advance!

Alot! Thanks for your time!

Of, course, it is up to you if you only use this feature for your king, if you want your other generals to use the standard bodyguard... But If you make this option available for the AI, the other factions won't think the same way, of course, so be vareful with that. I assume this unit you speak of is already available to your faction in the mod that you use, so it should work just fine if you make a pack with just the table called commander_unit_permissions, add the unit there, and link it to your faction. A bit more mod-friendly version would be the same file in a pack, but renamed (with a prefix, e.g. mod_commander_unit_permissions), and delete all the rows and just add a single row with the unit and faction... A renamed table is just an addition to the vanilla table, so the game will read the vanilla table + your table + the table from any other mod with a renamed table. Hope this helps - cheerS

Hi there! quick question... can you edit the kings unit as well? which files do i need to change in PFM? my plan is to equip my king in charlemagne with the knights of the silver swan unit from LOTR pack... :D

Not that I know.

Is there a possibility to make a scrollbar for the unit selection menu if more units than two are added?

Would you make it work for the new factions from the mod "Total War - Imperium"? :3 and i want to say thank you for your mods, they are very very good! :D

do we need your UI mod? to make it work correctly?

I think what he is saying is when the general gets killed, and you select a new general. The cavalry selection ends up behind (background) the generals and you cannot select the appropriate unit because you can use the mouse to select it. It should be in the foreground.

It should work, the unit selection. XAI Tharbbg is a modified version of another of my mods, should be good! ;) Maybe you can use my UI mod, that makes it a bit clearer. Just watch out that you take the right one!

Great mod! Although is there a way to make this work when a general gets killed and the general selection conceals the unit selection? (BTW, I'm using this as part of XAI THARBBG Module.)

thank you for making this mod, this is how the game should of been made....

Slavic bodyguard added and adjusted upkeep cost to 90% of the standard costs.

I don't think I found an appropriate cavalry unit. Do you have any suggestion?

Does this work for the new slav factions? Now when I choose to raise an army I don't get the option to choose cavalry units. It worked when I tried with the Saxons

Subscribing is for the steam version. The mod gets downloaded when you start the game and you have to tick the mod in the launcher. I'm afraid that the other versions, the non-steam links) are outdated.

I wanted to try this out but I can not get the download, it says subscribe to download, well I subscribed and I don't see how that makes me able to download now.

I tried the two links but seems that the links within those link to download it are no longer good.

Thanks for any help, I think this would be a useful mod.

would this mod be updated to the latest version?

Okay, for further reference, this is why I usually leave the modding to the folks who know what they're doing: because I do not. Apparently, my general's bodyguard doesn't have a general. Or bodyguards. Just horses. Whoops.

I've used this mod in the past with the Saxons, and I know it worked then, but in switching from my laptop to my desktop, this mod no longer works. Looking at the file in PFM, I don't see any entry for Saxons in the unit_variants_tables, or the units_to_groupings_military_permissions_tables. Something tells me that strange things are afoot.

@Skidvar How do I do that?

They do, but only as a linear progression. The king starts with the camels but all other new generals are the Ras Guard tier 2 spearman, which is upgraded by tech to the Desert Chieftain tier 1 camel heavy melee cavalry (which upgrades to Desert Warlords later.) Frankly the Ras Guard is a better unit than the Desert Chieftain, save for speed and charge bonus of course. So for a defending force or the infantry side of a soldier/cavalry pair of armies, you'd want to stay with the Ras Guard.
Having the option to go melee vs cavalry would be nicer, but I guess that means a higher tier spear unit would have to be added? I haven't gotten to play the Beher's Chosen or Kushute Shotelai yet, or the two spear units you get later on based on your religion (but I bet that would be difficult to check for) but I'm sure one of them could be used.

@ Brennus Tigeir: The thing is I'm limited to 2 units, otherwise we have trouble with the UI. I chose for cavalry as it is the most obvious for a leader (i.e. mobility). It's always possible to change this, but that wasn't my intention. You can easily make changes yourself with PFM. It only requires adding the unit you wish to the list in commander_units_permission_tables. I only made this mod more elaborate as I wanted to add the units to the existing ones, with new names etc. for mod compatibility. So you can use this mod with any other mod that makes unit changes.
@ Mazdek: I thought all of them already had cavalry general units, don't they?

If you feel like expanding this mod again, the Desert Kingdoms factions could use this sorta thing too. :)

Can you do a mod that allows later units to be used as Generals? What really bites is that the highest tier General that can be used is the Royal Archer for Caledonians.

@SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!: You can upgrade, no problem. Just not the one that I have added, so you will have 2 cav options in most cases.
@erykolos [PL]: nope, I don't know how to juggle with UI. That's why with this mod you will not have more than 2 bodyguard options. Maybe one day I will know how to add a sliding bar or replace UI parts, but not yet.

So you're saying if we use this mod we can't upgrade our general's bodyguard units later down the line in the tech tree like we can with vanilla game?

can you make that mod in a horizontal line rather than vertical becouse if someone (like me) have mods that add new general units they not fit ?

wow thanks man, such quick turn around, you made my night! Cavalry generals were the only thing missing from my campaign I thought and I still was forever away in upgrading so thanks a bunch

Fixed it... So, save, exit and load your game again... Suebi used to be part of the core_units military grouping, now they have their own roster. I also changed the recruitment/upkeep costs for the general horse units to 400. It used to be 600, which is quite a lot early in the game.

No, you are right. Forgot to update this pack. I'll fix it. Should be save-compatible.