Upgrading Unit by tech

[dajayalol]

I am just a noob around here, tring to find a way to contribute

Here's my question

Is there any way to make a tech button script such that

It can convert a kind of unit of yours, say, all your roman hastati into Marian Legionnaries.,

and preserves your previous weapon upgrade effect

since roman 's may get "Reforms" in their tech

Anyone got any idea of how to script this?

I have read binaries\data\mods\public\\simulation\data echnologies\

but seem it can only modify values of armor,hack,health...etc right now

for example:the immortals tech

{

"genericName": "Immortals",

"description": "The Anusiya champion infantry train twice as fast, but lose a little max health.",

"cost": {"food": 200, "wood": 0, "stone": 0, "metal": 200},

"requirements": {"tech": "phase_city"},

"requirementsTooltip": "Unlocked in City Phase.",

"icon": "fist_spear.png",

"researchTime": 30,

"tooltip": "Anusiya -50% train time, but also -10% health.",

"modifications": [

{"value": "Cost/BuildTime", "multiplier": 0.5},

{"value": "Health/Max", "multiplier": 0.9}

],

"affects": ["Champion Infantry"]

}

Edited January 10, 2013 by dajayalol

[Mythos_Ruler]

Right. I don't think there is yet the capability to swap a unit to another with a currently implemented tech effect. I agree though that it would be useful to be able to do this in the future -- "Marian Reforms" or "Military Reforms" etc. I could see a "Marian Reforms" tech for the Part 1 Romans that turns all the player's infantry into Marian Legionaries for a high cost, similar to the Norse "Ragnarok" in Age of Mythology. And then, of course, we could add other "reforms" techs to other civs, like the Ptolemies, Macedonians, and Seleucids to upgrade their pikemen to later forms or to upgrade their Thureophoroi to "Roman-style" Thorakites, or Hypaspists to Silver Shields.

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

Likewise, it would be nice if the Spartan pereoikoi could be upgraded to pikemen through an upgrade. The same could be done with elite Athenian hoplites after researching Iphikraean Reforms.