NO Upkeep Costs cheats for Rome: Total War

NO Upkeep Costs

Well this is not really a cheat but still one

You have to edit a game file but don't forget to take a backup of this file.

So this goes like this

If you have saved game in C:\

Open file: C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\export_descr_unit

Open this in wordpad format

Now suppose you play Faction Egypt and you wish to have upkeep of chariots reduced to 0 then do followingtype egyptian chariot

Dictionary egyptian_chariot ; Egyptian Chariots

Category cavalry

Class heavy

Voice_type Heavy_1

Soldier egyptian_chariot_crew, 27, 9, 1

Mount egyptian chariot

Mount_effect elephant -8, camel -4

Attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, frighten_foot

Formation 7, 9, 15, 15, 2, square

Stat_health 1, 3

Stat_pri 13, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, axe, 25 ,1

Stat_pri_attr no

Stat_sec 12, 7, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, slashing, none, 25 ,1

Stat_sec_attr launching, ap

Stat_pri_armour 6, 1, 4, metal

Stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh

Stat_heat -2

Stat_ground 0, 2,-6,-2

Stat_mental 10, disciplined, trained

Stat_charge_dist 40

Stat_fire_delay 0

Stat_food 60, 300

Stat_cost 2, 660, 330, 70, 100, 660

Ownership egypt, slave

In second last line change value of 330 to 0

So it looks like

Type egyptian chariot

Dictionary egyptian_chariot ; Egyptian Chariots

Category cavalry

Class heavy

Voice_type Heavy_1

Soldier egyptian_chariot_crew, 27, 9, 1

Mount egyptian chariot

Mount_effect elephant -8, camel -4

Attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, frighten_foot

Formation 7, 9, 15, 15, 2, square

Stat_health 1, 3

Stat_pri 13, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, axe, 25 ,1

Stat_pri_attr no

Stat_sec 12, 7, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, slashing, none, 25 ,1

Stat_sec_attr launching, ap

Stat_pri_armour 6, 1, 4, metal

Stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh

Stat_heat -2

Stat_ground 0, 2,-6,-2

Stat_mental 10, disciplined, trained

Stat_charge_dist 40

Stat_fire_delay 0

Stat_food 60, 300

Stat_cost 2, 660, 000, 70, 100, 660

Ownership egypt, slave

And now just flood your empire with them as only training them costs money upkeep is zero.

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