Creating Special Timelines

[Holy Roman Emperor]

How do you create special timelines to tell the game when to end. Like in MTW, the game is supposed to end in the late age (around 1400). Is there a way to make a game end at the year 2000 or just continue until the player conquers everything. Thanks for any help in advance.

[ShadesWolf]

You mod one of the files and change the end date from 1453 to xxxx

[Yukon Cornelius]

Go to the /Medieval - Total War/campmap/startpos directory and add a line to the startpos files for Early, High, Late, or whatever that says:
SetGameEndDate:: 1942

The game will then end in 1942. You can change the number to whatever you like. There's a maximum, of course, but I don't know what it is. It probably depends only on how many bits they use to store the date. If it's an ordinary signed integer you can set it to a little over 2 billion.