How to manually unlock the other factions?

**Lord Janos** · November 10, 2006, 05:44 PM

I have played a while on my Spain campaign... am loving it but have made some stupid decisions which may cost me the campaign, but I'd like to play some factions apart from the starting ones. How do I do this without doing the campaign? desr_strat files don't work this time. Cheers!

I'm not having much luck with the methods I've tried.

**Mr.SKunk** · November 10, 2006, 06:09 PM

nooooo they took away the desr_strat

**Feliks** · November 10, 2006, 06:11 PM

If it's like Rome you have to destroy their faction, but I haven't been lucky enough to have been born in a foreign country to get a U.S. made game early, so I'm not really sure.

**Lusted** · November 10, 2006, 06:12 PM

They do work, you just have to right click, go to properties and untick the read only box.

Must be the 5th time i've said that today.

**Feliks** · November 10, 2006, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Lusted

They do work, you just have to right click, go to properties and untick the read only box.

Must be the 5th time i've said that today.

Really? I thought that they were going to have to release "tools" to enable that kind of stuff, or is that just for more extensive modding?

**Lord Janos** · November 10, 2006, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Lusted

They do work, you just have to right click, go to properties and untick the read only box.

Must be the 5th time i've said that today.

Someone mentioned that you needed to edit the preferences file a while ago, but I couldn't open it properly and thought better of it. Hence the reason that I felt descr_strat didn't work. After fiddling for a bit I found out that you need to open the preferences file in something like wordpad so you can add the line that someone mentioned. [misc] unlock factions = true or something like that... I can't remember now but it worked!