Please Help to control several Factions in a Campaign?

[Alexandros Megas]

Ave Quirites!!

I would like to start an Imperial Campaign with the Seleukids, but I would like to control at the same time the Romani and the Kart-Hadast in order to avoid that one of these factions destroys the another one and so in the future I could fight against them. Is this possible???

I have several more questions.

1) Is there a different manner than using the key PrtScr in order to obtain a Screenshot?
2) I am using the Jirisys Mode Pack with Alex engine, and the game performance is really improved. The AI is more challenging. The only observation is that I don't like very much the submod of eastern hellenic portraits (at least for the Seleucid Empire). Can I disable this submod without affect the Mode Pack?
3) Is there a link to download the RS textures for battle and campaign to import in EB?
4) I want to add more offices to the submod for roleplaying (in specific the ancillary Satrapy of Syria for the Seleucids). Could anyone help me?
5) Is there a limit in unit numbers in EB? Because I want to add several units to the roster (Mercenary Arab, Ethiopian and Indian General; Indian Chariots; Arab Camel Riders) and to add existing units to another (Hoplitai Haplois for the eastern hellenistic kingdoms, Hetairoi Kataphraktoi to the Seleukids). I want to do this in a historical way, without disbalance the factions.
6) Is there a guide (like the Guide of Quintus Sertorius) about the historical way to play as Arche Seleukeia? The guide of Hax is very useful, however I want something more close to the real history. In fact I like to roleplay my characters and expand as a turtle (My campaign as Romani I am in 259 BC and I have conquered at the moment only Taras, Rhegion, Bononia and Messana. However I have fought 45 battles at the date!!). What would be your historical houserules for the seleukids?

I will appreciate a lot your advices and comments about this topic.
I really feel inspired when I read your AARS and guides, in spetial the Guide of Quintus Sertorius and Hax, the AAR's of Moriluk (I like so much your style in the presentation of the pictures, do you use any spetial program?) and Seleucid Empire (I have read all your AARs!!).

Thanks a lot. I wait for your answers.

[the man, the myth, the legend]

Welcome to the forums! as for your first question I don't think its possible, unless you could play a hotseat campaign against yourself, i'm not sure.

1. Download Fraps, its a program that lets you take pics, its easy to use and its free.
2. What is it that you don't like about them, historically the ruling class of the Seleucids were, for the most part, Macedonian and Greek. Did you want them to be more Middle Eastern looking? if thats the case you could change the portraits but then it would also change the portraits for every other faction that shares the same culture, like the Ptolemies. copy the portraits folder in EB/data/ui/eastern folder and past it into the EB/data/ui/egyptian folder and overwrite.
3.http://depositfiles.com/files/3rr91u0er
4. I think there are already "Satrapy of" ancillaries in the megamod pack. if you want to add more check out the tutorials section.
5. Yeah the unit limt it reached in the dmb. you'd have to remove units to add new ones.
6. Not sure check the AAR's for ideas and also theORG, they have alot of info for EB over there.
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumd...opa-Barbarorum

[moriluk]

hey thanks.
i made a submod too that has the rs textures. http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...?145854-submod
I used fraps for screen shots and i wrote and edited everything on powerpoint.
you cannot control multiple factions but you can temporarily swap factions. follow this guide
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...e-to-Civil-War
I typicaly use the add_money, move character, add_population cheats to bring balance to AI development. Sometimes i use fd to give and take away land too to keep political entities from going extinct or getting too big.