Question on a new faction

[Quirl]

Any help with these two questions would be great.

I am currently attempting to make a new faction for Medieval Total War that will work with the "Retrofit" mod. The faction I am hoping to make will be a Middle Eastern faction with Orthodox religion. Are this religion and this culture incompatible?

Also, in the export_descr_buildings.txt file there is an area where you can specify what church your faction can build. Are these buildings strictly for show and increase whatever religion your faction is set to? Or are the buildings themselves what affect what religion rises in the region they are placed in?

If anyone has any answers to these question I'd love to hear 'em. Thanks!

[Darkarbiter]

Any help with these two questions would be great.

I am currently attempting to make a new faction for Medieval Total War that will work with the "Retrofit" mod. The faction I am hoping to make will be a Middle Eastern faction with Orthodox religion. Are this religion and this culture incompatible?

Also, in the export_descr_buildings.txt file there is an area where you can specify what church your faction can build. Are these buildings strictly for show and increase whatever religion your faction is set to? Or are the buildings themselves what affect what religion rises in the region they are placed in?

If anyone has any answers to these question I'd love to hear 'em. Thanks!

No theres no such thing as incompatible culture and religion (I'm guessing your making cicilian armenia btw).
Yes there is. Temples/churchs/any buildings can increase any religion you want and it's not faction specefic I believe. E.G. you can't use an orthodox church to convert people to catholicism. You'd need to have 2 seperate churches... one buildable by Orthodox factions and one buildable by Catholic factions. Hell you could have a church that converts 2 religions at the same time I think.

More in depth answers from probably more knowledgeable people pending but I'm pretty sure the above is correct.

[Trajan]

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