Greece Non-Playable in Historcal Battles?

**Zerthamel** · April 28, 2007, 12:58 AM

in my map I made it only lets me play as Parthia and not Greece whats wrong with that

perisa is lit up and they both say non-playable but if you contine it will play you as persia how can I make it so I can play as either one or just greece?

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**Spartan Kid** · April 28, 2007, 01:22 AM

try not setting a home faction
it might work
other thermopylae maps people have made dont have a home faction

**Zerthamel** · April 28, 2007, 01:26 AM

no it didn't work

this is so gay!!!

**Spartan Kid** · April 28, 2007, 05:30 AM

sorry but i dont think you can fix
i posted a thread about it a while back but no replies

**Spartan Kid** · April 28, 2007, 07:28 AM

try delting both the armies and do the persian army first and spartans second and then try that

**Antagonist** · April 28, 2007, 08:04 AM

I think I may have a solution to your problem, although I'm not sure what the cause is. I've done a lot of historical battles for the Arthurian Total War mod for BI, and I've sometimes found what you describe: that no matter what you do in the editor only one side is ever playable.

The solution I use (which is not ideal) is go find the historical battle file itself (it should be in data\world\maps\battle\custom\YourBattleName\YourBattleName.txt) First of all, check that the faction you want is listed in the "playable" section at the top. Second, make sure that within that section the faction you want appears first. So for example, if it displays:

Code:

playable
	parthia
	greek_cities

change it to

Code:

playable
	greek_cities
	parthia

If it still doesn't work, try going through the battle and copy-and-pasting the unit and layout info so the one you want is first all the way through. You'll notice that there are different blocks of text for both the units in each faction, and then further down the coordinates of these units. Change these around so that the playable faction appears first, making sure to keep the spacing between the block of text.

Hope that helps,

Antagonist

**Zerthamel** · April 28, 2007, 03:48 PM

o sweet man I got it to work thank you so much your way rules!!

**Antagonist** · April 28, 2007, 04:08 PM

Glad to hear you got it working. Now if only I could work out how to stop it happening in the first place.

Anyway, cheers. Good luck with your mod.

Antagonist