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Originally posted by PaleHorse76
Is there a way to delete the unit from the save so you don't end up accidently reusing that ELITE unit and wondering why you never get any leaders? That wouldn't be cheating b/c you would be just disbanding the troops.....
Deleting units in an editor is tricky. Even on un-hacked save files the Gramphos Multitool Save Game Editor always crashes or corrupts the file when I try to add or delete a unit. Maybe it's because I run WIN2000. You might know which units are "used up" but if you are like me you will lose track of them, so I use a hex editor to check the flag in the UNIT record.
When you know which one is "used up" you can just disband it in the game itself. But sometimes that is impossible without a hex editor, like when you are defending and your stack which has 100 elites in gets attacked 100 times. Which one created the leader?
I've suggested this to someone else for his findings and thought I would suggest it to you guys also:
I suggest that you post your findings in Tutorials, Reference, & Guides.
Good idea.
I'll also ask on the CIV3 Multitool forum first to see if they can think of a way to display a unit differently but leave everything else alone.
There is a way, but I don't like it. You create extra unit types for your favorite units with slightly different names for the unit type. For example, there is a unit type "Horseman" and another unit type which is exactly the same except for the name, "Impotent_Horseman." So when your horseman creates a leader you save the game, go to the Gramphos editor and change that unit type to the "Impotent_Horseman" type. I am assuming that that operation doesn't reset the "used" flag.
One problem is that you probably have to create all these extra unit types "Impotent_Tank" "Impotent_Mech_Infantry" etc. etc. etc. before you start the game, so if your games are long and carefully planned (like Killer's and mine) you don't want to have to start over.
Another one is that this procedure will be error-prone, so if you forget to do something or do something wrong you have to start over.