How to: have more than 8 men per squad?

[Aekar]

In my scenario I tried to stay good with the books and to set a 15 men count on Bloodclaw squads.
Then 10 on Grey Hunters, 5 on Long Fangs.
To make room I also halved Unit Size.

I put this in Squads.csv by creating new units, and used them in the Editor only.

The game turns out only showing 8 units.
Some units have a "black" hitpoints bar, as if some men had no hp.

Once running the scenario, worse things happen:
It hangs up when it fires with these units once a few bullets have been fired.

[Mophead]

If it isn't a matter of adjusting one of the scripts in $Default.BSF then it could be the need for a new formation.
http://archonwiki.slitherine.com/index. ... Formations

Thought I saw somewhere that 16 is max men-count for squads. Maybe formation isn't setup - for that many men in that squad- and this is incorrectly setting health and bugging out while calculating shots.

[pipfromslitherine]

It is possible that there is some internal setup scripting that doesn't work for more than that many men. The internal limit is 16.

Cheers

Pip

[Aekar]

Thx Pip and Mophead.

Well I did not have the time to find a fix for the contest scenario, so I had to quickly rollback to 5-men units.
It immediately makes everything stable.

I'll post here again once I find a workaround, but if you come to any more information or if someone finds out I'll be very glad to hear!

[Mophead]

I'm not certain, I think it has to do with setup in Init.BSF

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// target info
	AddAttrib("manHP1");
	AddAttrib("manHP2");
	AddAttrib("manHP4");
	AddAttrib("manHP8");
	AddAttrib("manHP16");

	
	SetAttrib(me, "manHP1", GetAttrib(me, "HitPoints"));
	SetAttrib(me, "manHP2", GetAttrib(me, "HitPoints"));
	SetAttrib(me, "manHP4", GetAttrib(me, "HitPoints"));
	SetAttrib(me, "manHP8", GetAttrib(me, "HitPoints"));
	SetAttrib(me, "manHP16", GetAttrib(me, "HitPoints"));
	
	AddAttrib("ValidCounter1");
	AddAttrib("ValidCounter2");
	AddAttrib("ValidCounter4");
	AddAttrib("ValidCounter8");
	AddAttrib("ValidCounter16");

"manHP1", "manHP2", "manHP4", "manHP8", & "manHP16" make five HP variables for a squad and could pertain to only having five men in a unit, max. These show up in:
Init.BSF, Abilities.BSF, StartTurn.BSF, CombatTools.BSF

I was not able to get the HP applied to a 9-man Gretchin unit. I had the formation modded in the campaign folder; Callbacks.BSF : FUNCTION FORMATION_CALLBACK(me)
see that wiki link, though I do not think the lack of a modded formation is causing the HP to not be distributed correctly, for larger-man counts than five.