All Factions Unlocked No FOW Bug! WORKING! Downloadable Now!

[Irmo]

You can now download 'Sikh.pack', with Sikh religious buildings, if you want to play Punjab!


The most annoying thing when playing as a minor faction is the Fog of War bug at the begining, which I am sure everyone has encountered. Well, now, thanks to erasmus777, you can play as a minor faction without the FOW bug! I never plan to expand this any further, but I just felt that this would be very useful to anyone who wants to play as a minor faction, and not have to get their hands dirty with any modding .

You now have two choices on what to download - with or without protectorates available. If you want the vanilla handover of 13 Colonies, Louisiana and New Spain to happen, choose Early Campaign No FOW Bug!.zip , if you want to play as 13 Colonies, Louisiana and New Spain, and the handover not to happen, choose Early Protectorates.zip. Or you could download both and swap at will.

Everyone thank erasmus777 for this!

This is mainly HusserlTW's work - he spent the time compiling the Line of Sight information for the factions, I have just made all the minor factions playable as well, added VCs and put it here. Most of the credit goes to him! Thank you HusserlTW!
Thanks to Cursisanafou, you can now play the grand campaign without the FOW bug! Thanks a lot for that as well, Cursisanafou. Also, thanks to Deadly Blowfish for the original late Grand Campaign startpos.

New 18\5\09
All factions now have victory conditions, and some of the small FOW issues have been fixed. Enjoy

New 20\5\09
Uploaded late campaign startposes with 2, 4, or 8 turns per year.

New 24\5\09
Have fixed fleets for pirates and portugal - if there are any other factions with fleets far away from their starting provinces that you can't see - tell me which factions so I can update this (I only know of Portugal and Pirates). Thanks!

New 21\6\09
You can now download 'Sikh.pack', with Sikh religious buildings, if you want to play Punjab.

New 24\6\09
Early Campaign can now compatible with 22\6 patch. Enjoy!

New 28\6\09
HusserlTW has kindly made a startpos compatible with 1.3. I have added VCs, and it is available for download NOW!

New 9\7\09
Early Campaign with protectorates playable now available. Diplomacy working 100% thanks to HusserlTW, and it is scripted so the handover won't happen.

Instalation
Just back up your startpos.esf, and extract this startpos.esf into your data\campaigns\main, and enjoy! For protectorates, extract the scripting.lua into the same folder as the startpos.
To install Sikh.pack, extract it to your data folder, and turn it on with the Mod Manager!

You can find your data folder here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\data

Some screenies:

Mughals:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Denmark:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Portugal:

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Venice:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Late Campaign
The late campaign is now available. I thought that 50ish turns was slightly too short for a full blown campagin, so I have also uploaded version of the late grand campaign with 4 turns per year, and 8 turns per year, as well as the original 2 turns per year. The grand campaign starts much later than the normal grand campaign, and there are new factions to play as, and the map has changed completely, leading to a much different gaming experience!

Spoiler for Punjab: 

Spoiler for Naples Sicily: 

HusserlTW has very kindly made a file with emergents playable. Download this link if you want to play it!

Originally Posted by HusserlTW

Update for emergent: portraits in menu-factions, victory conditions, remove FOW cherokee and inuit.

Download link

Credits:

just for his esf editor and turns per year editor
koras321 for his addition to the esf editor which made this possible
erasmus777 for how to remove the FOW from minor factions
Lazy Knight for LOS info for factions
Cursisanafou for late GC startpos
Deadly Blowfish for the original late GC

[helmersen]

Nice

[Lazy Knight]

Thanks Irmo for putting this into usable form for everybody.

This is basicly just a part from Imperial Splendour extracted for everybody to use.

I remove my links, Irmos file is just as good now.

[Aykis16]

Wow that's really cool. Do you think I could use that for Regalia of Nations?

[erasmus777]

Originally Posted by Lazy Knight

Thanks Irmo for putting this into usable form for everybody.

Yes and thank you for taking the time add all the LOS!

[Tride01]

I downloaded file, and the US or 13 colonies didnt show up.

[Welshman25]

I still have the FOW Problem

[erasmus777]

Originally Posted by Welshman25

I still have the FOW Problem

For which faction?

[Welshman25]

I had just tried the pirates.

[Lazy Knight]

Arr, i forgot the Pirates.

Aykis, you are fine to use it in Regalia of nations, though i suggest you use the original file found in the IS forum. It also contains Victory Conditions, and a scripting file fixing the Crash when playing Louisiana / Thirteen Colonies / New Spain.

[Takeda Shingen]

Great!
Now I can finally give it another go with Persia^^

Thanks for your effort!!

[Welshman25]

I will try it with another minor faction.

So does this version include victory conditions?

[Lazy Knight]

follow my links to victory conditions

[Welshman25]

Which part of IS is it? I don't want to download the whole thing cause I already use darthmod.

[Irmo]

Originally Posted by Welshman25

I will try it with another minor faction.

So does this version include victory conditions?

I will add victory conditions to this as well - so people don't get confused with which part of IS to download.

I will add pirates as well.

Also ,13 colonies aren't available, because they require an edited script to play, and are very glitchy.


Just as a note, Lazy Knight, you missed out corsica as well - thought you may want to know .

[Lazy Knight]

arr, i thought it belonged to france.
and it is the startpos part of IS

The file also contains the script required to play with 13 colonies, but they do not have 100% working diplomacy.

[Irmo]

Have updated - new one has victory conditions .

[PersianImm0rtal]

Can You play as the persians?!?!!?

[Lazy Knight]

yes

[Welshman25]

Thanks works great! Just tried it as Portugal.