Is there a Campaign mod for...

[Thrax]

Is there a Campaign mod out there for allowing people to use the hungarians, sicilians, etc?

Would love to get it.. experts not tough enough

[Ivan Bajlo]

Yes. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Kraellin]

doc and i are both working on mods that turn on the minor factions. both shld be almost ready. however, these are not straight mods that only turn on the minor factions; they do other things as well, like turning off the land bridges, adjusting who owns what, starting money and so on.

if you want to make a mod that ONLY turns on the minor factions, it's very easy to do. just go into your folders, find the folder, "Medieval-Total War\campmap\startpos\early.txt" and open this up in wordpad. yup. wordpad works just fine. scroll down to the lines that say:SetActiveFaction::

FN_HUNGARIAN FT_MINOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_NOVGOROD FT_MINOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_PAPIST FT_MINOR
SetActiveFaction:: FN_SICILIAN FT_MINOR

SetActiveFaction:: FN_ARAGONESE FT_MINOR

and change all those 'FT_MINOR' labels to "FT_MAJOR" (without the quotes). then scroll back up to the top of the file and rename the campaign name titles...this stuff:

cn_predefined::true
cn_title::"Early Period Title"
cn_short_title::"Early Period Short Title"

to something else other than early. you may also have to change the 'true' to 'false', as i'm not quite sure of all the rules regarding that, but if you start a new campaign and see something like { before your title name, then change the 'true' to 'false'. otherwise, leave it as 'true'.

then, 'save as' the file using a new name. and voila', instant mod playing the minor factions as majors.

if you also want to play the minors as majors in the high and late periods, just do the same thing with the 'high.txt' file and 'late.txt' file in the same folder.

MAKE SURE YOU MAKE BACKUPS OF FILES BEFORE MODDING

K.