[WIP] Party Like Its 272 BC

[Commissar Caligula_]

This is kind of a cheat mod, mostly just something I made for myself and decided to share with everyone. I have reverted the Western Roman Empire’s start position to be similar to Rome’s start in Total War Rome 2.
Do not get your hopes up, this is not an amazing 10/10 zomg mod such as DEI, its something I just spent about an hour on. Once Creative Assembly release the Assembly Kit I will be able to improve it a bit, but until then I’m unwilling to attempt to do anything because I’m lazy and I don’t like doing a lot of work on a mod, I prefer to just switch around faction’s starting positions and muck around with it.


What this mod does:
ALL of the Western Roman Empires land except Rome, Neapolis, Tarentum and Rhegium have been given to the Eastern Roman Empire
Rome has been made the Western Roman Empire’s capital city.


Things To Do:
Wait for the Assembly Kit to be released
Move armies to Rome and Tarentum
Fix the buildings for the Eastern Roman Empire
Add a few armies to the Eastern Roman Empire so they can guard their new found provinces.


Tutorial Section:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You need the ESF editor http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-Array-Editing
Open up your startpos.esf at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Total War Attila\data\campaigns\main_attila or whatever your directory is
Open up COMPRESSED DATA – CAMPAIGN_ENV – CAMPAIGN_MODEL – WORLD – REGION MANAGER – REGIONS ARRAY

Rome is REGIONS ARRAY 41 but its ID is 42. This is shown by the top value (idk why the REGIONS ARRAY and ID are different)
Look at the 11^th value, (14) this means that this is region/city belongs to the Western Roman Empire.
Go to COMPRESSED DATA – CAMPAIGN_ENV – CAMPAIGN_MODEL – WORLD – FACTIONS_ARRAY
The Western Roman Empire is Faction_Array 12 (ID 14) and Eastern Roman Empire is Faction Array 11 (ID 13)
If you change the 14 from REGION ARRAY 41 to a 13, the Eastern Roman Empire will now control Rome.

Now how to make Rome your capital.
Go to COMPRESSED DATA – CAMPAIGN_ENV – CAMPAIGN_MODEL – WORLD - FACTION_ARRAY - FACTION_ARRAY – FACTION
Place the new capital region ID in the 8^th and 9^th slots (so change 8^th and 9^th values to 42 for Rome)

Problems so far:
Settlements inherited by the Eastern Roman Empire from the Western Roman Empire have the wrong building types – unwilling to fix this until the Creative Assembly release the Assembly Kit.
The Western Roman Empire has armies all over the place
The Western Roman Empire starts off in huge debt due to the army upkeep
No idea how to fix the starting camera, it focuses on Mediolanum.
The “Choose Your Faction” map preview screen hasn’t been changed yet.


Installation and Download
Download the mod from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/wa...1/startpos.esf
Copy and paste the startpos.esf to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Total War Attila\data\campaigns\main_attila
Enjoy. It will be compatible with all mods, unless they edit the startpos.esf as well.


Credit/Allowing other people to use this:
So far I've made this mod myself, using knowledge from past modding in Rome 2.
ANYONE is free to use this mod/stuff from it so long as you
1: Give me credit
2: Send me a PM with a link to your mod
You don't need to ask my permission to use any of my stuff.

[Commissar Caligula_]

Forgot to add this to the Installation and Download section, make sure you make a backup of your vanilla startpos and save it somewhere that is easily accessible, so when you are done with this mod you can delete my edited startpos, and replace it with the vanilla one.

[FieryMastermind]

Maybe you could instead of giving the west territory to the eastern Romans, you could perhaps give it to the emerging factions?

[Commissar Caligula_]

The mod is kinda broken lols, got about 20 turns in to a campaign then the Huns attacked the Eastern Roman Empire and the entire game keeps on crashing on the end of that turn.
The game seems to think I still own the "regions" (the areas of land which the provinces/cities exist in) and I still have garrisons within the Eastern Roman cities even though the Eastern Romans control the actual city. Lets just say this was a horrible failure and could someone lock this please?
Unless someone knows how to fix it that is.