Make all factions playable in BI

[Epistolary Richard]

Make all factions playable in BI
incorporating Professor Spatula's Unlocked Factions maps
& Rebel Commander


Version 2 released - Download
- Mirror 1

This is for 1.6 - note that it changes the mechanism by which you choose a faction. If you want to play as an emergent faction then you must start the game as the slave faction and click on specific cities to bring up the correct advisor. Full details in the readme.



Previous versions for 1.4

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Update 13/12/05 - Version 1 Complete now uploaded including professorspatula's excellent maps and new leader pic's

What does it do?
This mod allows you to play as all of the factions within BI as they appear or emerge within the vanilla game.

What version is this for?
It is for the vanilla Barbarian Invasion.

How big is it?
Approx. 3.9 meg

How does it work?
For all factions which are present at the start of the game just select them as usual from the campaign menu.



The emergent factions are marked as 'Not Playable at Start' on the Faction Selection Screen. To play as one of these factions, you must select one of the other factions that begins the game (as specified in the emergent faction's campaign description):


At the beginning of the game, the advisor will appear and ask if you wish to swap control to the emergent faction. If so, click on the 'Show Me How' button and the game will switch to auto-pilot until the faction emerges. If not, press the dismiss button. For example:



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Mod Compatibility
More advanced users may wish to make this mod compatible with their own personal mods. This mod should be compatible with most lightly modded games (eg, ones with modded skins, unit stats, unit formations, additional units etc.). It does however mod the descr_strat file which any map mod will also alter.

To make this compatible with a map mod, install it as normal but do _not_ replace the descr_strat file. Instead go into your original descr_strat file and move the emergent factions from unplayable to playable at the top of the file. This was the only change made in this file.