Kingdoms not unpacking/ no .exe

[darksmeagol]

I have recently downloaded the gold-version of Med.2TW from steam (windows 8.1 64bit). I then had to realise that there was only the .exe for the main game without kingdoms. When I tried to open kingdoms via steam itself it did not work.
Kingdoms was only in the mod folder and still unpacked. After reading somewhat in the forum i transferred msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll to the unpacker folder and tried to unpack all. The unpacker closed after zapping through different stuff but it did not realy unpack, or I just havent gotten the .exe for kingdoms. Does anyone know a solution or can someone help?

[CavalryCmdr]

You don't need to unpack kingdoms campaigns to play them, there is no "Kingdoms.exe" to find, Steam has compiled Medieval2 and Kingdoms.exe into a single file (for whatever reason) named Medieval2.exe

Make a shortcut to the medieval2.exe, right click and select "Properties", and add --features.mod=mods/campaigntoplay to the "target" line. So if you want to play the Kingdoms British isles campaign your "target" line on the shortcut should look like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\medieval ii total war\medieval2.exe" --features.mod=mods/british_isles

of for the crusaders campaign:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\medieval ii total war\medieval2.exe" --features.mod=mods/crusades

Some will tell you to add the mod=mods part to your steam options. It works, but I like having the separate shortcuts for the different campaigns.

If you want to un-pack the campaigns TomatoesYay, who is also running windows 8 just recently posted about that,
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ack-expansions