Emergent Faction List

**Subotan** · 03-14-2009, 19:08

Will we ever be able to play as these emerging factions?

**Megas Methuselah** · 03-14-2009, 19:18

Once we can properly mod the game, I assume we would be able to give the emergent factions a province to start with so we could play with them from the beggining.

**Subotan** · 03-14-2009, 19:21

...But wouldn't that be inaccurate?

**Megas Methuselah** · 03-14-2009, 19:22

... It's inaccurate for the US to emerge in the 1720's. But it happens.

**Subotan** · 03-14-2009, 19:24

Yes, but that arises due to conditions that are different from realirty. If we have, say Hungary, independent in 1700, then that's historically inaccurate.

**Megas Methuselah** · 03-14-2009, 19:28

I am inclined to disagree. If you want to talk about accuracy, let's go to the EB2 Forum. Vanilla Total War games aren't where it's at.

As for Hungary being independant, make it start as a protectorate of Austria. Saxony starts as a protectorate of Poland-Lithuania, and playing as Saxony, the only way I found to free myself was through war.

Wanna play some multiplayer battles right now??

**Subotan** · 03-14-2009, 19:30

I don't have E:TW running yet...
Besides, if you were to have every single faction on the map playable from the start, it would be unsustainable!

**Cecil XIX** · 03-14-2009, 23:12

Originally Posted by Subotan

Will we ever be able to play as these emerging factions?

For R:TW BI, there was a mod for emergent factions where the game would start playing with the AI controlling all the factions. Once the emergent faction you chose appeared, you started controlling it.

Of course, since there's no guarentee in Empire that any given faction will emerge there's a bit of a risk. Still, I like that approach best.

**Megas Methuselah** · 03-15-2009, 03:17

That's nice. But you're correct in that not all factions inevitably emerge. The appearance of most emergent factions in my game were the direct result of my deliberate actions to see them emerge.

**KozaK13** · 03-15-2009, 03:28

I think all emergent factions arise from revolts, even teh ones listed as created by a faction being destroyed.

Eg. Afghanistan emerged on its own in one of my games and no faction had to vansih, but it also emerged when i took all of perisa save afghanistan, the revolt destroyed persia as a faction.

Plus maratha rebels appear when a maratha province rebels, not when a foreign power lises in its how.

And did CA not say awhile ago that USA emerges when any faction in the US region of North America suffers a revolt? Except in indian controlled areas ofcourse.