Possible solution in adding factions problem!

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Yesterday I decided to use one of my new colours for a custom battle with the normal factions and it CTD. Strange I thought. So, I decided to use one of my new factions with a normal factions colour. I used loads of problematic units like the feudal units and the chivalric units. And it worked I have since tried loads of added factions using traditional factions' colours and they've all worked. I haven't assigned battle shields for my factions, so they normally get whatever faction's colour I'm using. I've fought about 50 custom battles these way and had no problems thus far. Strangely though, the Irish, Scots and Welsh don't work even though their colours are already in the game.

The colours I have entered in the startpos did not match the colours in the shields section. I thought this could be the problem so I changed my Genoa so it had just one uniform aqua blue colour. However, the game CTD. So I tried giving the Portuguese just one colour, a dark pink and it worked with the complicated units. This seems inconsistent so I'm not sure if the colours are hardcoded. Only the real factions' colors are safe. Maybe giving them a tried and tested colour shield will get them to work fully, but I haven't tried.

Forgive me if anyone knows this already, I just thought I'd pass the hint on. Perhaps someone like Grell can exploit this further and fill me in if you get anywhere. Hope this helps people

[Kekvit Irae]

The CTD occures when loading the battle on the campaign map, not in custom battles. Your test of 50 custom battles was wasted :P

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I'd hardly call it wasted. I and other people's crashes to desktop in custom battles also. Have you tried copying a factions colour shield, re-naming it and then trying a campaign? I haven't had time, but it could work.

[Grell]

This is not wasted - you might have solved the mystrey new faction CTD problem New weird colours might cause probs when on the battlefield the computer tries to depict unit new colours. This could explain why Kingdom of Jerus seemed more stable (i think i reversed Egypt) while others always seemed to crash (which were assigned completely new colours).

I will give up Multiplayer for a while and go back and test this out - NIce work BOhemia

[Lord Of Storms]

Any time spent on a potential solution for this particular problem is IMO well spent good job BKB keep at it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif