How to change secondary weapon into primary? Need help.

[Sarissofoi]

Anyone know how to take pilum or javelin from any unit?
So their secondary melee weapon become primary?
For example take pilum from hastati so they become a normal plain swordsmen.
Any simple solution?
I look for some answers but or I am unlucky or what I find didn't work.
Thanks for any help.

[pacifism]

Hold down the Alt button before sending the Hastati to attack. The javelin attack mouse icon thingy turns to a sword attack mouse icon thingy if you do it correctly.

I find holding down the Alt button to choose whether you have melee combat significantly easier than modifying the unit info files.

[Sarissofoi]

Thank for good will. I was unclear.
I mean mod it from the game. Switching primary/secondary in EDU didn't help. They fight with javelins using them like a melee weapon.
Switching models didn't help either. They now use javelins like sword in melee.
Trying to reduce ammo to zero but they still have some to throw(so I assume minimal value is 1).
So what I have:
Inf ->throw pilum on charge-> then melee.
#What I want:
Inf->charge to melee, no pilum. Secondary weapon become primary.
But hastati are just example.
Hoplites->spears and swords.
Hoplites with only sword and no spear visible.
Any simple method that not involve modifying models/textures?

[Fallen851]

Yes. I'm assuming your running Vanilla RTW version 1.5

Open your export_descr_units.txt, search for Hastati. You should get an entry similar to the one below as a result, copy and paste this entry over what you have (the bold and italicized parts are the changes):

type             roman hastati
dictionary       roman_hastati      ; Hastati
category         infantry
class            light
voice_type       Light_1
soldier          roman_hastati, 40, 0, 1
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation        1, 2, 2, 3, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         7, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  5, 4, 5, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 1, flesh
stat_heat        3
stat_ground      2, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental      6, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 440, 170, 50, 70, 440
ownership        roman

As you can see, I copied the secondary weapon to the primary weapon, and removed the secondary weapon from the game.

Then, open your descr_model_battle.txt, again search for Hastati. You should get an entry similar to the one below as a result, copy and paste this entry over what you have (the bold and italicized parts are the changes):

type				roman_hastati
skeleton			fs_swordsman
indiv_range			40
texture				romans_julii, data/models_unit/textures/unit_roman_hastati_julii.tga
texture				romans_brutii, data/models_unit/textures/unit_roman_hastati_brutii.tga
texture				romans_scipii, data/models_unit/textures/unit_roman_hastati_scipii.tga
texture				romans_senate, data/models_unit/textures/unit_roman_hastati_senate.tga
texture				slave, data/models_unit/textures/unit_roman_hastati_slave.tga
model_flexi_m			data/models_unit/unit_roman_hastati_high.cas, 15
model_flexi_m			data/models_unit/unit_roman_hastati_med.cas, 30
model_flexi_m			data/models_unit/unit_roman_hastati_low.cas, 40
model_flexi			data/models_unit/unit_roman_hastati_lowest.cas, max
model_sprite		slave, 60.0, data/sprites/slave_roman_hastati_sprite.spr
model_sprite		romans_senate, 60.0, data/sprites/romans_senate_roman_hastati_sprite.spr
model_sprite		romans_scipii, 60.0, data/sprites/romans_scipii_roman_hastati_sprite.spr
model_sprite		romans_brutii, 60.0, data/sprites/romans_brutii_roman_hastati_sprite.spr
model_sprite		romans_julii, 60.0, data/sprites/romans_julii_roman_hastati_sprite.spr
model_tri			400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

As you can see, I removed the fs_javelinman skeleton, because it is no longer needed. Hastati should now fight without Pilums, using the correcting animations.

Good luck.

[Sarissofoi]

Thank you for help.
I try this method before. What I get was a hastati beating enemy with javelins using a blunt side with great effect(they keep they like swords but a sharp side to earth and swing them like swords - so they have extremely murderous slashing sticks).
So I try it again using your advice and get the same result. Which is hilarious and fun to watch but still leave me where I stand.
Thanks for good will anyway.

[Squid]

You'd need to change the model used by the unit (i.e. the cas file(s) so that the primary weapon of the mod was not a javelin/pilum) either by editing the CAS file or by using a model that already uses a sword as a primary weapon.

[DutchGamer82]

I have come quite far modding units. as to your question.
You need to change a couple things for what you want to change in the base file :
lets take this :

type roman hastati
dictionary roman_hastati ; Hastati
category infantry
class light
voice_type Light_1
soldier roman_hastati, 40, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 7, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 5, 4, 5, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 3
stat_ground 2, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental 6, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 440, 170, 50, 70, 440

1 we change the type of unit it is (after all we change it PRIMARY weapon from melee to missile)
2 we see the soldier type roman_hastati, we will need to change this too, we go to Descr_Model_Battle.txt and look this up :

type roman hastati
dictionary roman_hastati ; Hastati
category infantry
class light
voice_type Light_1
soldier roman_hastati, 40, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 11, 2, pilum, 35, 2, thrown, blade, piercing, spear, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr prec, thrown ap
stat_sec 7, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 5, 4, 5, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 3
stat_ground 2, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental 6, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 440, 170, 50, 70, 440
ownership roman

The skeleton determines how a unit moves -> linked to this is also whether a unit is slow, normal or fast (keep in mind though not all skeletons work for all units)
sure you can make your own skeleton, but thats a whole new level of modding. As we can see in this case we use two skeletons (one for trowing pilaii, one for swordfight) If we want to remove the second combat abilty we should remove that swordsman skeleton, if we want to keep it, it might be needed to reverse them (not sure though) It is also possible to copy-paste some other skeleton type to here (for example if you want to make a certain unit be faster or have fire missle ability, you might save time by just copy paste some other skeleton) -> editing skeletons themselves while possible I have not tried yet.
So lets presume we just remove the sword skill alltogether.
so we just get :
skeleton fs_javelinman
now step 3 : removing secondary skill (see change below)
the line under stat_pri and stat_sec read the same :
base attack value - extra attack when charging - type of missile* (no if not missile) - range of missile - number of missiles carried - Weapon type (melee, thrown, missile, siege_missile) - Tech type (simple, other, blade, archery, siege) - Damage type** (piercing, blunt, slashing, fire) - Sound by hitting (none, knife, mace, axe, sword, spear) - delay between attacks
*you can see&change what every type of missile does here : Descr_Projectile_New.txt
**changing damage type seems to do nothing, these settings are instead now included in the skeleton builds
so to make the stat_sec inactive we should change it to :
0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
and now :
stat_pri 11, 2, pilum, 35, 2, thrown, blade, piercing, spear, 25 ,1
Seems fine, we do want to give it more than 2 missiles, or it will run out to fast, lets give it 30.
so now it should read :
stat_pri 11, 2, pilum, 35, 30, thrown, blade, piercing, spear, 25 ,1
and now what causes the bug (in both cases, also if you want to make it a swordman)
stat_pri_attr prec, thrown ap
this line can add specific options, all those options are :
•ap = armour piercing. Only counts half of target's armour
•bp = body piercing. Missile can pass through men and hit those behind
•spear = Used for long spears. +8 vs. cavalry and -4 defense vs infantry
•light_spear = Same as spear, but unit has less pushing power than Spear.
•spear_bonus_x = used with spear or light_spear. This adds an extra bonus (x) to the effect.
•long_pike = Use very long pikes. Phalanx capable units only.
•short_pike = Use shorter than normal spears. Phalanx capable units only.
•prec = Missile weapon is thrown just before charging into combat. It can still be used in "Fire At Will" mode.
•thrown = The missile type if thrown rather than fired.
•launching = attack may throw target men into the air.
•area = attack affects an area, not just one soldier
we see that the one causing trouble for us is the prec command, remove it.
Finally we will want to remove the charge distance alltogether
the line :
stat_charge_dist 30
should be changed to 0
now our unit would be ready, a nice new javalin trower that would look like this :

type roman hastati
dictionary roman_hastati ; Hastati
category infantry
class missile
voice_type Light_1
soldier roman_hastati, 40, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap
formation 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 11, 2, pilum, 35, 30, thrown, blade, piercing, spear, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr thrown ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 5, 4, 5, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 3
stat_ground 2, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental 6, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 0
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 440, 170, 50, 70, 440