create 21 faction

[♔Gollum♔]

how can i make 21 factions?(im useing the alexander exe)

[Lord Dakier]

Im not sure about Alexander but there is a maximum of 22 factions in RTW. What specifically do you want to do?

You can only have the number of factions which you see in vanilla.

[jakobh94]

That's alot of work ...

[♔Gollum♔]

but i sew thet in EB mod they somehow add new faction(saba)
and i can hendle a lot of work but i need to know how

[Salvor Hardin]

That was because they renamed the romans_senate faction in order to make it fully playable. But if you are using the alex exe you do not have to rename any faction; just to add entries to several key files.

[Lord Dakier]

I sense now he will now ask how to rename... well not before I do... How the hell do you rename all factions as its been boggling my brain for awhile now.

[♔Gollum♔]

I sense now he will now ask how to rename... well not before I do... How the hell do you rename all factions as its been boggling my brain for awhile now.

welll...no i know how to rename faction but i want to add new faction (im using lotr tw mod, it alredy have 20 factions)

[CaesarVincens]

welll...no i know how to rename faction but i want to add new faction (im using lotr tw mod, it alredy have 20 factions)

Unless it is changed with the alexander.exe (which I very much doubt), RTW has a maximum of 21 factions, including the slaves. So, if there are already 20 full factions, sorry, you're out of luck (because the game requires the slaves faction).

[Salvor Hardin]

With a lot of precaution

Seriously, I think there was a tutorial somewhere, but I fail to find it so I will try to explain how I did it:

- I placed myself inside my mod's data folder and did a search for all the files containing the name of the faction that I wanted to rename. I went on opening the files from the search results list and changing the name of the faction inside of it. As there are some files that have the faction name only a few times (descr_strat or descr_names), while there are others that have it thousands of times, I recommend to use the "search and replace" command in files like EDU, DMB and EDB.

- After that, I renamed the folders that contain the unit cards to the new name of the faction.

- I ran a test in order to see if I had forgotten about something.

- Finally, I changed all the faction description, name and so on in the files in the /text folder (expanded_bi, shared, campaign_descriptions,...)

[Lord Dakier]

Well tell me how to rename it then lol...

If you want to add a new faction just use the vanilla RTW and everything in the Lotr folder just drag into the Vanilla folder. You should then have a more insighted look at what needs changing the fast way.

If you want to do it the slow way then you will firstly need to know who has been changed who. E.g. Armenia > Gondor... (Just an example)

EDIT - Damn... im considering not going to college just to do it now lol. Ahh I'll do it when I get back. Sounds an effective way though. Does the search find text of the faction name inside text files then?

[♔Gollum♔]

you can rename factions with expanded_bi
in C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\alexander\lotrtw\data\text folder

[Ramashan]

Making Brutii & Scipii into separate factions

Here's how you cut up the Roman factions. Also, I believe either Pontus or Parthia are not both used in the vanilla. Also, you will need one rebel faction I believe.

[Lord Dakier]

Thanks Ramashan

[♔Gollum♔]

i know how to cange faction!!!
what i dont know its how to creat a new faction

[Squid]

As has been pointed out, you can't, if the mod you want to alter already has 20 non-slave factions you are unable to create a new faction. If you want a different faction from those already in the game you will have to replace an existing one. Yelling about it does not and will not change this fact.

[Ramashan]

You can't.

There are 21 slots and that's all you can use.

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...ht=new+faction

We were just suggesting better ways to take advantage of the 21 that are available to you.

[Lord Dakier]

Which files is it that you replace when doing the renaming for the factions?

[Ramashan]

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=51368

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=57554 I don't know if Bi and RTW is different in 1.6 and later, but here are the different ones anyway.

[Lord Dakier]

Billions shall worship you after they are done worshipping me lol.

[Ramashan]

Honestly, when i started modding this post, a list of many important tutorials and resources was my go to book mark for most if not all of my questions until I got into more complicated parts of modding.

Good luck and I hope it helps you as much as it did me.