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Your hero is now looking good, sounding good, and behaving good, and for some reason the AI doesn't seem to like him/her very much, so here I will talk about the basic AI your hero needs. First will let the AI to recruit your hero, to accomplish this we'll need to go to the data>ini>default>skirmishaidata.ini file, when you open it you'll see the basics of all the AI. So, now that you're here we must go to your faction's ArmyDefinition. If you scroll down you'll see a variable named "HeroBuildOrder", what this variable does is to set a pattern to create certain heroes.

Picture 2 different factions, one has this HeroBuildOrder instances:

HeroBuildOrder = RingHero Hero1 Hero2 Hero3 Hero4

What this does is that tells the AI "first try to create the Ring Hero (if you have the One Ring and enough money)", if it fails to create the Ring Hero, it will jump to Hero1 and then to Hero2 and so on, once it's done with the list, it will start all over again. The jumps are NOT done immediately one after the other, it takes a little while to make a jump.

Now take for example the next HeroBuildOrder

HeroBuildOrder = RingHero Hero1 Hero2 Hero1 Hero3 Hero4 Hero1

With this order the AI will do the exact same thing as explained before, however having multiple instances of the same hero will increase the odds to make the AI recruit that hero. In the example above, it is very likely that the AI will recruit Hero1, simply because it has more entries.

Having this in mind, go to the HeroBuildOrder of your faction and place the name of your hero, in my case this will look like:

              

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HeroBuildOrder = MordorSauron_RingHero AngmarMalvack AngmarWitchking AngmarRogash AngmarMalvack AngmarMorgramir AngmarHwaldar AngmarKarsh

0k. Now the AI will recruit your hero, but it won't use his/her powers majorly because it doesn't know how to use them. For the most part, every power has an AI module somewhere, this module tells the AI how to use a power, the parameter that the AI needs to know is the commandbutton name of the power.

So let's give our hero the AI modules of his powers; the first power he had was Gloin's Shake Foundation, so we go to Gloin's ini file and look for that module, after looking for it we found this:

              

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Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate ShakeFoundationAI         CommandButtonName = Command_SpecialAbilityDwarvenGloinShakeFoundation         SpecialPowerAIType    = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER_STRUCTURES         SpecialPowerRange    = 200     End

Look how it doesn't tell which SpecialPowerTemplate is using, but the name of the commandbutton that is linked to the power. We copy this module and paste it in malvack.ini somewhere in the bottom of the file. Now we have to change the name of the commandbutton so the AI actually use the power. Now malvack's file will look like this:

              

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Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate ShakeFoundationAI         CommandButtonName = Command_SpecialAbilityAngmarMalvackShakeFoundation         SpecialPowerAIType    = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER_STRUCTURES         SpecialPowerRange    = 200     End

For the CaH's AI you have to go to the data>ini>object>createahero>createaheroaipowers.inc file and copy the AI modules that you want. For the spellbook powers you go to data>ini>object>system>system.ini and there you'll find the AI modules for all the spellbook powers. Once you copy/paste the modules and change the commandbutton names yourhero.ini file should look like this:

              

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;///////////////////     ; AISpecialPowers     ;///////////////////          Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate GondorFighterHordeStanceBattle         CommandButtonName = Command_SetStanceBattle         SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_STANCEBATTLE     End     Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate GondorFighterHordeStanceAggressive         CommandButtonName = Command_SetStanceAggressive         SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_STANCEAGGRESSIVE     End     Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate GondorFighterHordeHoldGround         CommandButtonName = Command_SetStanceHoldGround         SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_STANCEHOLDGROUND     End     Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate ShakeFoundationAI         CommandButtonName = Command_SpecialAbilityAngmarMalvackShakeFoundation         SpecialPowerAIType    = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER_STRUCTURES         SpecialPowerRange    = 200     End Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate CrippleStrikeMeleeHotWL2AI     CommandButtonName = Command_MalvackCrippleStrikeMelee     SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER End     Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate SpellBookDarknessAI         CommandButtonName = Command_SpecialAbilityMalvackDarkness         SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPELLBOOK_ALWAYS_FIRE         SpecialPowerRadius = 100     End

You can delete the AI modules of Boromir BTW.

Now not only the AI will recruit your hero, but will also know how to use him/her.

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