the joy of hex

So you missed out on all those cool magic items earlier in your campaign? And we all know it's a chore to start all over! Fret no longer!

Follow these simple steps:

• First go backup all your save files!
• You need a Hex Editor and you can download the one Im using from BreakPoint or go to ZDNet and do a search on Hex editors
• Start your editor and open up one of the savegame files.
• You'll see lots of alphabets and numbers but note a smaller column to the right, where if you scroll downwards you'll see all your troop names. And yes there's a pattern to it. Name-lots of dots-name-lots of dots-name ...
• To the left and larger column, you will also see a pattern of FFFF about 7 to 8 of them in a row for every unit you have. These are vacant slots for your magic items; and any slots taken up will always be to the left of where all the FFFF starts. And you can decipher any existing items by using the table below

   

  1600	Bright Book
  1700	Ice Book
  1800	Waagh Book
  1900	Dark Book
  0100	Grudgebringer Sword
  0200	Skabskrath
  0300	Runfang
  0400	Hellfire
  0500	Stormsword
  0600	Lightning Bolt
  0700	SpellEater Shield
  0800	Dragon Helm
  0900	Shield of Ptolos
  0A00	Enchanted Shield
  0B00	Heart of Woe
  0C00	Potion of Strength
  0D00	Horn of Urgok
  0E00	Ring of Volans
  0F00	Banner of Arcane Warding
  1000	Banner of Wrath
  1100	Banner of Defiance
  1200	Mork's War Banner
  1300	Staff of Osiris
  1400	Wand of Jet
  1500	Book of Ashur

   

• And its simply a matter of replacing a vacant address (FFFF) with your choice of magic item. Or overriding an exisitng item if u wish
• Save the file and try it out.
• Ofcourse if you do something stupid like assign a Bright Book to your Archers it will crash your game.
• Um, if this works for you, thank Thorgrim not me ;-)

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