Factions Unlocker For Custom Battles - v0.2 for ROTR out!

[Demokritos]

Factions Unlocker
for custom battles
v0.2

Hi TWC friends et al,
got some modding news for you.

After one of the latter updates from CA, I found that all factions unlocker mods for R2 out there, including izanagi11's great Playable Factions and Custom Battles (which has served me perfectly for a long time - credit to him), had stopped working. Since I needed a mod like that for the continued development of ACR I took it upon myself to create a new one. This is WIP. I'm currently expanding ACR into covering Empire Divided and Rise of the Republic, so the first factions that I've unlocked are from these DLCs alone. The version number stands for the number of campaigns unlocked.

The good news are that this mod not only unlocks the normal factions, but also civil war factions and secessionists, even rebels, which ought to be uncommon. Here's the new selection screen for ED accordingly:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The less positive news are that since the process of making units recruitable in custom battles is a separate and time-consuming thing nowadays the number of units that I've enabled so far is limited, as I don't need more for my own modding purposes. But anyone with basic understanding of how the Pack File Manager works can add the missing units him- or herself. Once I've finished the ACR project I may complete the rosters for this factions unlocker, but this is quite a long way down the modding road. Figured it could still be of use to some players as is and therefore uploaded it.

Based on my modding plans for ACR, I'll unlock the various campaigns usually in the order which they're listed in the db factions table. So the version numbers will become the following:
v0.1 + Rise of the Republic = v0.2
v0.2 + Imperator Augustus = v0.3
v0.3 + Caesar in Gaul = v0.4
v0.4 + Wrath of Sparta = v0.5
v0.5 + Samnite Wars and Hannibal at the Gates = v0.6
v0.6 + Grand Campaign = v0.7
v0.7 + complete unit rosters = v.1.0

Again, all factions in the game are already visible on the selections screens, but in this second version of R2FU (Rome 2 Factions Unlocker), only in the ED and ROTR campaigns are units recruitable for all factions.

If you have any use for such a mod:
DOWNLOAD HERE.
Unzip downloaded file.
Move its contents to data folder of R2.
Enable mod in mod manager.
Have fun!


Credits:
CA - for producing a game like this and making it moddable.
daniu - for making a working PFM available.
Larynja - for making an updated PFM schema available.
Dresden - for the feedback about getting this mod to work.

[Demokritos]

R2FU has now been updated to include Rise of the Republic.

Still no update on www.honga.net about ROTR, so I'm uncertain about the proper unit roster for several of the factions in this campaign. For example, I thought the Illyrian Pirates ought to have units of the inv_ill_barbarian_raider-type (inv_ill_barbarian_raider_melee_nobles etc), but none of these seem to be recruitable, so I had to give them something else. Also, the role of factions of the "inv_inc"-type (inv_inc_helvetii etc) in the game is unknown to me, as I have not played this DLC properly yet, so it's possible they should have other units.