FOE Macedonia

[ricka83]

Hi,

sorry if this has been covered before but i have searched the pages and havent seen it.

Is there anyway to unlock the macedonian faction? Ive been told they can be unlocked in custom battles but not how this is done.

Also, can they be unlocked as a playable faction in the campaign?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

[Maurits]

They are a horde that is spawned after campaign start, so no, they can't be made playable.

However, I don't know about the custom battles. Wait for VII, then you'll see them in full glory! And I can assure you that they are awesome from my very own experience!

[ier]

Ricka83, do you mean for RTW vanilla, or RTR 7?

[Maurits]

Ier, the title of the thread says ''FOE Macedonia'', which indicates that he'll mean VII (7 is a different chapter)

[Caligula Caesar]

I'm not sure. But the units aren't great, tbh. They have been completely redone for VII, and look awesome now

[Tony83]

The Macedonian "Horde" units used in FOE are RTR6 units, which have been "breathed" on by Quetzalcoaltl. He has done a good job but their origins cannot be completely disguised. However, with RTRVII we go from one to six playable greek oriented factions (In FOE there is only Epeiros), and we have had to expand the FOE Greek roster to add variety. We have taken the opportunity to replace all the older RTR6 sourced material with newer, more up to date models and, as Caligula Caesar has said, Macedon has done particularly well and has a fine looking set of units to go to war with.

[Pat89]

No matter if the units are from RTR 6 or reskinned, or new models or whatever, the guy's initial question was how to make them available in Custom battles.

to do that, I think all you need to do, is open "Rome Total War\FOE\Data\descr_sm_factions.txt"
And change for the faction "slavs" (which is Macedon) "Custom_battle_availabilty no" to yes

I must warn you though, that we have not tested or balanced this...

Btw, I also think you might want to do the same for the faction "greek_cities".... No guarantees on the workings of that though, but well... maybe you'll like it

[ricka83]

No matter if the units are from RTR 6 or reskinned, or new models or whatever, the guy's initial question was how to make them available in Custom battles.

to do that, I think all you need to do, is open "Rome Total War\FOE\Data\descr_sm_factions.txt"
And change for the faction "slavs" (which is Macedon) "Custom_battle_availabilty no" to yes

I must warn you though, that we have not tested or balanced this...

Btw, I also think you might want to do the same for the faction "greek_cities".... No guarantees on the workings of that though, but well... maybe you'll like it

Thanks Pat, just played a custom battle as the mac's. Kinda one sided tbh but fun.
Oh and the units looked great
thanks again

[ricka83]

Btw, I also think you might want to do the same for the faction "greek_cities".... No guarantees on the workings of that though, but well... maybe you'll like it

[/QUOTE]
Had a peek at this but the game crashes with a 'textures' error when i tired a battle, no big loss just a bit of fun

[Tarusinas]

Hey Pat, doesn't the Hordes (macedons in this case) appear much later in the campaign? I'm not sure if they will be playable...and I tried to unlock a midifaction and it was impossible, nearly not playable, 'cos your losing money too fast.

@ricka83 You should wait for the Macedons of RTRVII...they are brilliant. And: No...there won't be a preview of them anytime soon

[Pat89]

Hey Pat, doesn't the Hordes (macedons in this case) appear much later in the campaign? I'm not sure if they will be playable...and I tried to unlock a midifaction and it was impossible, nearly not playable, 'cos your losing money too fast.

He was asking about the Custom battles. That doesn't cause problems with them being a horde

[Caligula Caesar]

We have a preview planned, but we are saving the Greeks for later