Unable to play as all factions in 1.3

[Barbarossa82]

Having installed BI, I tried to start an R:TW 1.3 campaign as Armenia. I edited descr_strat.txt to make Armenia playable, and it shows up on the faction selection screen, but when I click on it I get a CTD. This also happens with Thrace, Numidia and Scythia, all factions I've played with before 1.3.

At first I thought it might be due to some modifications I've made to descr_strat.txt and export_descr_unit.txt, but restoring backups of these didn't help. (Obviously I had to modify the descr_strat backup to make Armenia playable, but other than that they were untouched).

It doesn't seem to be a problem with the factions themselves, as these all function perfectly well under AI control when I launch a campaign as another faction. It happens immediately I click on their icons on the faction selection screen, which made me think it might be something to do with not being able to display a map/leader pic/description for the faction.

Does anyone else have this problem? Or do I need a re-install? :help:

[Conqueror]

There's other posts around about this subject. IIRC, it's something about you need to modify multiple files now, to unlock factions.

[Garvanko]

Yeah, have that problem too.

Some factions like Macedon and Germania can be unlocked the usual way; others like Dacia, Armenia just cause a CTD.

[Barbarossa82]

Problem solved, I should have looked in the modding forum. Anyway for anyone else who's stuck, what you do is not only make them playable in descr_strat but also insert a description into Rome - Total War\Data\Text\campaign_descriptions.txt. For example:

{IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_ARMENIA_TITLE}Armenians
{IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_ARMENIA_DESCR}Armenia is a nice place.

This seems to do the trick. Actually I did try it before starting this thread, but it didn't work because I spelt Armenia wrong - d'oh!

[MiniKiller]

Someone got all the factions that u can play as in 1.3 and bi (except the emerging factions) and its a page or 2 back. Theres a topic bout playable factions and inside is a link to the download auto install fix.

[Dutch_guy]

if you don't want to do any moddinbg yourself , check this mini mod :

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?p=948623#post948623

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