FOW, Start money altering

[Monarch]

Hello,

I am new to RTW but I would like to turn FOW off and give myself increased start money. How do I do this?

[Ignite]

Open your console with the tilde key ( ~ ).

toggle_fow: turn fow on/off
add_money XXX: where XXX is the amount you wish to add to your coffers. Maximum per entry is 20,000.

If you have patch 1.3 upwards, you can use the commands as often as you like. If not, you can only enter the commands once per session. After that, you'll need to quit RTW completely, restart to use them again.

Cheers.

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

1) In the RomeShell console, type in toggle_fow to display the whole strategy map. You may need to bind RomeShell to a shortcut key from your options menu.

2) How to alter starting denari:

* Create a backup of descr_strat.txt @ C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign

* Open descr_strat and browse to the faction of your choice; Ctrl+F is a quick way to do this

* You will something like this:

faction    romans_julii, balanced caesar
denari    3000

* All you have to do is change the starting denari to whatever you like. Watch out, however, there is an upper limit to the amount of starting denari you can allocate, which I think is documented in Hard-Coded Limits. Go over this limit and you'll start with negative funds

[EDIT:]Ignite, you beat me to it

[GiantMonkeyMan]

with patch 1.3 onwatds add_money goes up to 40000 and you can do it as many times as you want

[Monarch]

It is odd, whenever i press tilde it did not work (console doeasnt show). I just did all my cheats through the games files instead.

Not having FOW on is cool, I didnt really give myself any substantial money, just enough to raise an army to capture Patavium from the Gauls.