Rebels?

**Feragorn** · February 07, 2009, 01:59 PM

I was in a game yesterday, and one of the faction choices was the rebels. How do you get them to be a faction choice?

**Selifator** · February 07, 2009, 03:49 PM

This only happens in Multiplayer, and I'm not certain as to which version allows and which one doesn't, but I think that it's only in BI 1.6 (I've never played 1.3, so I don't know.) but they might also be in RTW 1.5.

**Feragorn** · February 07, 2009, 04:08 PM

It was RTW 1.5 vanilla, and yes, it was in multiplayer.

**MaceMan** · February 07, 2009, 08:40 PM

I've only ever seen Rebels as an option when playing against one specific player (who was the host) in RTW 1.5, but I'm not sure why...maybe the host has to have some game file modified in order to allow Rebels as an option. Try asking in the modding forum, I'm pretty sure you're more likely to find an answer there.

**Seleucid king** · February 17, 2009, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Feragorn

It was RTW 1.5 vanilla

ok, what is the difference between Vanilla and normal RTW? i thought Vanilla was only v1.0?

**Sun Devil** · February 07, 2009, 09:00 PM

You have to put them as playable for the single player, then they will be there for multi.

**Lucullus** · February 08, 2009, 01:50 AM

How to make rebels playable online?

* Go to your rome folder: C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data
* There you should go to Data.
* In Data there is a file you should look for called "descr_sm_factions.txt"
* In this file you have to scroll all down to the bottom.
* There you will see the faction called "slaves"
* Down there you must set "custom_battle_availability" to yes
* And rebels should be working.

**Sunday213** · February 16, 2009, 03:18 PM

Ive played as rebel onlines very hard because they have low morale and poor troops.

**Selifator** · February 17, 2009, 01:41 PM

We call any form of Rome Total War that is not modded with 'official mods' vanilla. So you also have unmodded hence vanilla BI and Alexander.

**Seleucid king** · February 18, 2009, 08:28 AM

do patches count as mods?

**Selifator** · February 18, 2009, 08:32 AM

No, I'm amazed that you apparently use 1.0! The patches have improved the game a lot, plus it's mandatory for online.

**Seleucid king** · February 18, 2009, 08:39 AM

no i use 1.5. i have BI and Alexander.

**Selifator** · February 18, 2009, 08:59 AM

Well, simply because almost no-one uses 1.0 anymore, we call 1.5 vanilla. But BI is sometimes called RTW 1.6, and for some older mods you need 1.3 etc.

**Seleucid king** · February 18, 2009, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Selifator

But BI is sometimes called RTW 1.6

well actually when u first get it it is v1.4, and to get it 2 1.6 u have 2 patch it. it is the same for Alexander i think.

**Selifator** · February 18, 2009, 03:04 PM

You get what I mean.

**Seleucid king** · February 18, 2009, 05:09 PM

yes. i just like fixing mistakes made by people who have more experience(sp?) than me lol

**Lord Thesaurian** · February 20, 2009, 11:07 AM

rebel morale sucks, but if they are playable on MP then what kind of units would they have? They have pretty much every low-end unit in the world available to them, so how would it work?