Is there a battlefield map mod for Dom III?

Epaminondas · #1 December 22nd, 2006, 08:38 PM

Back in the olden days when I used to play Dom II, a helpful soul made a battlefield map mod of sorts where I could easily pit any types of units against each other to test how effective certain units or unit combinations were against each other. Is there a similar mod for Dom III?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Basically, I want to test various units against each other to test their combat effectiveness. If this can be easily modded myself, please let me know too.

UninspiredName · #2 December 22nd, 2006, 09:08 PM

I think Gandalf Parker has what you want, but I'm too lazy to link it.

Epaminondas · #3 December 23rd, 2006, 02:54 AM

I browsed his website, but all his downloads were maps?

UninspiredName · #4 December 23rd, 2006, 12:43 PM

Ah, I was thinking of the map he made that allows you to (inconveniently) punch in which units you want to fight which and then have the battle in only a few turns. Unfortunately, Dominions 3 doesn't have anything that simple.

There was actually a pretty long argument over whether a battle-testing option would go against the 'spirit of the game'.

Epaminondas · #5 December 23rd, 2006, 01:52 PM

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UninspiredName said:
Ah, I was thinking of the map he made that allows you to (inconveniently) punch in which units you want to fight which and then have the battle in only a few turns. Unfortunately, Dominions 3 doesn't have anything that simple.

There was actually a pretty long argument over whether a battle-testing option would go against the 'spirit of the game'.

Yes, I remember this type of map for Dom II, but is there one for Dom III?

If so, please link?

Agrajag · #6 December 23rd, 2006, 02:32 PM

You could probably just use the one from DomII (Don't have, nor a link, so don't ask

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UninspiredName · #7 December 23rd, 2006, 03:41 PM

Oh, wait, Gandalf linked to the Dominions 2 one. At any rate, here it is. http://www.dom2minions.com/Mini.shtml

solo · #8 December 23rd, 2006, 08:58 PM

Rather than use Shift-I to obtain commander and unit numbers, it's easier to just enclose their names within quotation marks, just as Gandalf has done for magic items.

For example:

#commander 356
#unit 10 369

is equivalent to:

#commander "onyx priestess"
#unit 10 "nightmare"

Either creates an Onyx Priestess commanding 10 Nightmares.

Edit: Thanks for the correction. I've changed it here, too.

Valandil · #9 December 24th, 2006, 10:19 PM

Note: quotation marks, not parentheses.

Epaminondas · #10 December 25th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Ok, fellows. I downloaded the map, but I don't seem to be able to edit the map file to try differnt unit combinations.

In fact, I can't even open it in order to edit it. I tried with both MS Word and NotePad and neither worked. What program do I need to edit the map file?

Thanks in advance.