S.P.Q.R: making it another faction

[Boz]

It's possible converting the Senate in a normal faction that does not give missions, and transform it for example in a normal faction like Illyria?

[makanyane]

I think if you take of the superfaction romans_senate line off the other Roman factions in descr_strat it might stop them giving missions... not 100% sure on that one, but adding it in BI makes the 'superfaction' give missions so logically....

The only way to get the romans_senate faction properly playable though is to internally re-name it to something else as there is other hard-coded stuff associated with the name.

For approx list of files you need to alter see first post here:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=59665
there might be some more for the senate, just run a search for files containing romans_senate and back up everything before attempting this - it is quite easy to mess up game and you can't do this step by step as it won't work until all the files are done!

Oh and I think you need to be running 1.5 or 1.6 to do this.

[Turk]

You have to change he Roman culture if you want to replace SPQR

Maybe this link can help you:http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=63904

[makanyane]

As this question keeps coming up and I think the only way to do it properly is to internally rename the romans_senate first, I've finally got round to doing a mod of the vanilla files, see Neutralised Senate, that changes the romans_senate INTERNAL name only to slavs - all senate office/mission stuff is disabled, but they are still on map with original starting position. You should be able to mod them into another faction from there though...

It's set up as a mod_folder and I've tested it under BI.exe (1.6) and a RTW 1.5 (that has BI also installed) - only thing I'm not 100% sure on is if it will work on a RTW 1.5 that doesn't also have a BI install as I don't know what happens to the expanded_BI.txt file in that situation.

Let me know if you have any problems with that as a base.