How to make non-playable playable?

[FaveoKatro]

If anyone can help me that would be great. *NTW*

[Quintus Maximus]

Undoable in Medieval I believe. Try a mod...

[Belisarius]

ok iether download the mod or ... go to ... RTW/data/worlds/maps/campain/imperial... open text file DESCR_STRAT.txt and cut the unplayable and paste them to playable

Home this helps .. :

OHH medieval .. i donno try a mod

[Adder]

GENERAL, he's talking about MTW.

[lar]

i would to like to know which mod exactly. the only two i see are big changing mods. i just want unplayable to be playable

[Portuguese Rebel]

Ok go the ..../medieval total war/campmap/startpos/early.txt

Make a backup of this file before you do anything.

Search on that file for something like this:

SetActiveFaction:: FN_ALMOHAD FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_BYZANTINE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_EGYPTIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_ENGLISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_FRENCH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_GERMAN_HRE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_ITALIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_POLISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_SPANISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_TURKISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_DANISH FT_MAJOR

SetActiveFaction:: FN_ARAGONESE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_HUNGARIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_SICILIAN FT_MAJOR

SetActiveFaction:: FN_NOVGOROD FT_MINOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_PAPIST FT_MINOR

Change FT_MINOR to FT_MAJOR and you have it. Next time you start medieval you'll have the new faction in the early campaign.

You can't play GA campaings, only total domination this way.

[satanicmantis]

Ok go the ..../medieval total war/campmap/startpos/early.txt

Make a backup of this file before you do anything.

Search on that file for something like this:

SetActiveFaction:: FN_ALMOHAD FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_BYZANTINE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_EGYPTIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_ENGLISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_FRENCH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_GERMAN_HRE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_ITALIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_POLISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_SPANISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_TURKISH FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_DANISH FT_MAJOR

SetActiveFaction:: FN_ARAGONESE FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_HUNGARIAN FT_MAJOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_SICILIAN FT_MAJOR

SetActiveFaction:: FN_NOVGOROD FT_MINOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_PAPIST FT_MINOR

Change FT_MINOR to FT_MAJOR and you have it. Next time you start medieval you'll have the new faction in the early campaign.

You can't play GA campaings, only total domination this way.

If you make the Papacy playable, can you excommunicate other factions and order crusades, or do they just become another faction same as the others?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

You can't order crusades and excommunications, but if people attack you they're automatically excommunicated. Which is fun

I'd say the best faction of the lot, non-playable wise, is the Golden Horde in the late period. They get lots of units without building up, and you can practically take from Khazar to the edge of Germany within 30 years or so. Russia's a pushover, and then you can annex Hungary and the Byzantium; Poland too, if you're rich. Then, if Egypt hasn't knocked out Turkey, they're easy pickings. I'd leave the Egyptians and Almohads to fight amongst themselves, just stop the Egyptians from entering Europe. Constanstinople is the limit. From there, get some boats in Finland and move your troops to Scandinavia, take all of it. That gives you two entries into Germany when you're ready. If you did a good job on Hungary, you should hold Croatia, and from there Italy is easy. Avoid the Papacy though. Once Italy's done, you can start on Germany.

From there, it's pretty hard to lose, I'd say, unless you go bankrupt.

[DarkKnight]

Also don't play glorious achievements with a minor faction that you modded to major.

[salamander1000]

hi to my failure to develop the non-playable factions playable I've tried to do what was here but I get a message:

the file c: \ program files ..... \ Creative Assembly \ Medieval - Total War - Gold Edition \ campmap \ startpos \ early.txt not make
check that the correct path and file name are entered correctly

I hope someone can help

gr salamander

[salamander1000]

I forgot to put it on the gold edition is

[salamander1000]

can somebody please help me

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Oh I thought the question was how to make playable factions unplayable, becuase I can think of multiple ways to achieve that, some of them involve a gigantic electromagnet.

[salamander1000]

no the things listed here in this topic I can not succeed me, the Russians and the papist can i not make playable by that gene that is above

[Xerrop]

Don´t know what your problem could be. Normally it works with FT_Major.

Or could it be that you edited the wrong starting era? There are three files: Early, High and Late. When you edited only high and want to start a campaign in early the faction won´t be playable obviously.

[Kylan271]

Appreciate this data also.Must work the file you will use in game,as stated: ie Early/High/or Late.

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

If anyone's interested, I've added this tutorial to the how to unlock all factions page on the Wiki which can be found here.

[ImperatorMichael]

hi to my failure to develop the non-playable factions playable I've tried to do what was here but I get a message:

the file c: \ program files ..... \ Creative Assembly \ Medieval - Total War - Gold Edition \ campmap \ startpos \ early.txt not make
check that the correct path and file name are entered correctly

I hope someone can help

gr salamander

I have the same message when I tried to save the desc strat file for RTW Gold after I tried to unlock a few factions I wanted to play. Hope whatever suggestion given to you can be applied to my situation, because I REALLY want to try RTW with the Spain, Numidia, Macedon, and Pontus factions unlocked.

I could also apply this to my RTW:BI game and unlock the Romano-Briton, Lombardi, Burgundi, and Celti factions