Regarding Factions 3.1

**PaulH** · February 04, 2012, 03:50 PM

I've been attempting to mod recently without much success in my attempts to add more factions to the game, at first I thought that this was due to me being a newbie at Medieval 2 Total War modding, but recently I heard that it might be something else. When I attempted to add a new faction, I tried to make use of the Aztec slot, but the other day I heard that the reason my mod did not work is due to Minas Tirith making use of the Aztec slot.

What I was wondering is, if we could get an official list showing what each of the vanilla factions are being used for, as this will help both myself -and- other people who are trying to learn to make sub-mods for this Mod. That way once we know, we won't accidently make use of already used slots.

Faction Slots:

Aztecs = ?????
Byzantium = The Kingdom of Arnor
Denmark = Custom Settlements
Egypt = High Elves
England = Mordor
France = Isenguard
HRE = Orcs of the Misty Mountains
Hungary = Palantir Script
Ireland = Custom Settlements
Milan = Rohan
Mongols = Silvan Elves
Moors = Dwarves
Norway = Custom Settlements
Papal States = Dark Lord of Mordor
Poland = Custom Settlements
Portugal = Orcs of Gundabad
Russia = ?????
Saxons = ?????
Scotland = Dale
Sicily = Gondor
Slave = Bandits
Spain = Harad
Teutonic Order = Custom Settlements
Timurids = The Fellowship
Turks = Free Peoples of Eriador
Venice = Rhun

**Mhaedros** · February 04, 2012, 03:57 PM

I'm not sure, but Hungary is used for the palantir script

**PaulH** · February 04, 2012, 04:38 PM

That bit of knowledge is helpful thanks!

Editted the first post to include known factions

**mattttb** · February 04, 2012, 04:43 PM

Quoted from data/text/expanded.txt

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

So that lists not only the factions and their equivalent M2TW names, but also the cultures used in TATW and their M2TW equivalents.

So if you wanted to add more factions it looks like that from that list, the factions not currently being used are:
{AZTECS}The Aztecs
{TEUTONIC_ORDER}Teutonic
{NORWAY}Kingdom of Norway
{IRELAND}Kingdom of Ireland
{POLAND}Poland
{RUSSIA}Russia
{SAXONS}Saxons

if anybody thinks this list is wrong then please correct me

**PaulH** · February 04, 2012, 04:50 PM

Thanks for the list! Unfortunately those ones which are seemingly unused could be being used for other scripts, cities, forts, etc. The first post now has a list of all the different ones that are known, and highlighted the ones which are not. I'll edit it as people supply information.

**francis86** · February 04, 2012, 07:54 PM

what faction are you planning to introduce?

**PaulH** · February 05, 2012, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by francis86

what faction are you planning to introduce?

My aim was to split the Silvan Elves at first, then to split The Dwarves and Orcs of the Misty Mountains. Eventually I wanted to remove the autonomy scripts and have mini-factions of The Shire, Trolls and Fangorn.

**Mhaedros** · February 05, 2012, 12:59 AM

I think you can say that the ones in expanded are used, but I'm not completely sure as I havent really fiddled with the files yet

**Emperor of Hell** · February 05, 2012, 06:46 AM

Some factions are used for for unique settlements, and are thus not useable. Those are: Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Poland, teutonic_order and the timurids (also used for fellowship)

**PaulH** · February 05, 2012, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by Emperor of Hell

Some factions are used for for unique settlements, and are thus not useable. Those are: Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Poland, teutonic_order and the timurids (also used for fellowship)

Thanks for the info! I heard that the Aztecs may be being used for custom settlements also. Any idea if any other factions are being used for scripts?

**francis86** · February 05, 2012, 08:03 AM

a split corsair and harad faction would be awesome 2

**sebsebseb1234** · February 05, 2012, 08:50 AM

Is it possible to make the Greek / Elves Settlement available in custom battle?

Like they did with the custom culture and gondor culture (Osgliath)

**Emperor of Hell** · February 05, 2012, 09:05 AM

No

edit: There are some weird hard coded limits with the greek culture. They're not in custom battle in vanilla either. Same story for the orcs (eastern_european)