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I'm trying to enable the officer pool for my Congo-Rwandan war scenario, but not having any luck. I have attached
a screenshot of what I have so far and need to know why it is still not allowing me access to the officer pool when playing the game.

Yes for the pool button to show up. You also need to specify a stringlist for the officerpool variable for a regime that has access to an officerpool.

Dont worry about the format of this stringlist if you are not using rulevar 345 (the random creation of officers).

It this regime officerpool setting is set and rulevar 343 = 1 then the button will show.

Best wishes,
Vic

How does one link the officers to this officer string?

Look at the New Dawn scenarios if you want to have RANDOM officers. Its an intricate list of types.
But more easy would be NOT to use RANDOM officers.
The stringlist itself is only used for these RANDOM officers.

For adding officers just add them in the lead(ers) tab and set their regime. If you do not assign them to a unit (in units tab) you will find them in the officer pool.

best wishes,
Vic

I was wanting to create "random" officers in a non-random scenario. That is the game is not generated with the random engine, but will be played pseudo random with regimes and peoples that I created. Is this possible?

I see in the RuleVars settings where the stringlists are set for each people type. But, if I want to have a scenario where I define a set of people, is it possible to set up stringlists to create "random" officers? I can't seem to figure this out, and when I start the game, even with officers allowed (but non in the historical pool) I cannot create an HQ with officer. Nor, can I figure out where the events might do this. I am sort of guessing that "Off: Last Officer to Initial" is called when the officer is created, but this does not check the name stringlists, etc. And neither does "FunctionOfficer". Then again, it is all moot, since it looks like I cannot create an HQ + officer without a "historical" officer pool.

In principle, I could make the names, etc. myself, but only if they can be created, and I can understand the event sequence. But, maybe it isn't doable.

OK, I have figured it out. Took some trail and error, and looking at a random game that was created.

ORIGINAL: Ormand

OK, I have figured it out. Took some trail and error, and looking at a random game that was created.

Yes the New Dawn masterfile is a good source to find out how to do random officers.
It is not that user-friendly though since a number of exact stringlist formats have to be used.
But defenitely possible.

Best wishes,
Vic