How to play as the Mongols/Timurids without modding!

[Epistolary Richard]

Barbarian Invasion players out there may recall that I once released an All Factions mod for BI which including allowing you to play as the various emergent factions as they appeared in the vanilla game by having the game auto-pilot to the point they emerged and then handing the player control.

I was going to release a similar mod for M2, however CA have made it so staggeringly easy that no modding is required!

Here's what to do:

Have a look in your Medieval II Total War folder and you'll see a file called medieval2.preference.cfg - right click on this file and go to Edit and the file will open in Notepad.

Add the following three lines to the [multiplayer] section (which were originally posted here):

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false


Then start a campaign as normal and select England (remember to deselect any other factions additionally highlighted).

Launch the campaign and bring down the M2 console by pressing the ' key.

Type in:

control mongols

or

control timurids

depending on which you want to play as. Then type in:

control england




The game will then autopilot you (warning this may take a while) to the appearance of your chosen faction and give you control of them.

[Rurik the Chieftain]

Awesome!

[Shahed]

Ohh man THAT is AWESOME. How did you know I wanted to play Mongols ? ;)

Thank you so much

[sapi]

Nice find! It's very intersting to see how the AI expands without you there, and getting access to the timurids and mongols is just an added bonus :P

[Varyar]

Awesome Mille grazie!

[Subedei]

Thanks a "loot"!!!!!

[Daveybaby]

Genius stuffness.

[Shahed]

Mama Mia ! Que Figata !

[Divine Wind]

Holy Horde Batman!

[Lord Magus]

So can I also play 2 factions in the campaign with this :D?

[Barny Bangs]

Great find! Thanks a lot, will try this as soon as I am home from work...

[Lord Magus]

Hmmmm...
The game auto calculates the battles when an AI faction attacks me(I'm playing as the Mongols)...

[serenius4tsd]

^ You can change that in the preferences folder

Does this mean that we can do autorun campaigns? Like the -ai command?

[serenius4tsd]

EDIT: Yes it does!!! w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Callatian]

Can this info be scripted to? We could use a traitor sistem. Like open the scroll for the x faction leader - change to its faction - etc.

Can you also pls ask how NewFactionLeader works or ManofTheHour? and how we could script it.

Then start a campaign as normal and select England (remember to deselect any other factions additionally highlighted).

it does not work for me - are you sure this is in a simple singleplayer campaign? Do we have to delete the rest of the multiplayer info? Select and deselect what and were?

Edit - it works.
MP should look like this:

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_update_ai_camera = false
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = false
hotseat_save_prefs = true
hotseat_disable_console = false
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = true

make sure is read only and you must type twice once to give your faction to the AI and once to gain control over a new faction.

[Lord Magus]

serenius4tsd, you mean the "hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0"?
It's just affects your attacks, if you AI will attack you on their turn it will autoresolve it.

[Orda Khan]

Ohh man THAT is AWESOME. How did you know I wanted to play Mongols ? ;)

Thank you so much

Regnum Dei mod already does this

......Orda

[todorp]

Wow! This is great! Can it be done with the Aztecs?

[Lord Magus]

It can be done with the Aztecs and with the Rebels...
(For Rebels type "control slave", that's kinda cool :D)

[knoddy]

serenius4tsd, you mean the "hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0"?
It's just affects your attacks, if you AI will attack you on their turn it will autoresolve it.

my suggestion would be to, edit ur config file and zoom forward to the mogols/turmids, then save as soon as u get there, exit the game and re edit the config file back to normal. this theoretically SHOULD fix ur problem, but i havent tried it so it may not work.

as for playing as aztecs/rebels, no need to zoom, just jump in and go "control Aztecs" i would think. although u will be very lonely on that island by urself. if u really wanted to mod this i would suggest getting the all factions mod, which allows u to recruit mercenary carracks and invade europe!!!


Cheers Knoddy

[Shahed]

that would be funny !

[katank]

Oooh, pajama dudes overruning Europe. What religion are Aztecs again? Pagan? Do they get any priests? Religious unrest might be a problem.

[mor dan]

the reason you are getting auto resolved battels against the AI is because only "player 1" has actual full control. this was discovered for the purpose of being able to play multiplayer campaigns. this has been discussed in detail on that thread (don't have the link handy). whenever you set control to the other faction it is essentially making that selection "player 2" in a multiplayer campaign. in the multiplayer campaign battles of 1 vs 2, 2 has always been AI controlled so far...

...unless a fix has been found since i last read about it.


personally i like it for the purpose of just watching what effects my mods have the game. for instance, once i started England off with all of the Isles and fully built (Citadels and Huge Cities, fully built). in 50 turns they basically took over all of present day France and had their eyes on the Iberian Peninsula. However, when I upgraded some of their "English Only Units" to superman type abilities, 50 turns later all they had picked up was Rennes, Bruges, and Antwerp.

[wolftrapper78]

Sorry if this has been posted before...but...
What do you have to do in order to get a capital city and settle down?
The Horde first appeared in Sarkel.
First I thought it would be Kiev - no
Then I thought it would be Constantinople - no
Then the Georgian city - no
Then Yerevan - no
Then Antioch (I was sure this was the one) - no
Bulgar, Iasi, Iconium, Adana, Edessa, Baghdad, Moscow, Ryazan, the entire Middle East except Trezibond, Novgorod...
What am I missing? Any help is appreciated even though I don't mind just rampaging.

[elbasto]

Sorry if this has been posted before...but...
What do you have to do in order to get a capital city and settle down?
The Horde first appeared in Sarkel.
First I thought it would be Kiev - no
Then I thought it would be Constantinople - no
Then the Georgian city - no
Then Yerevan - no
Then Antioch (I was sure this was the one) - no
Bulgar, Iasi, Iconium, Adana, Edessa, Baghdad, Moscow, Ryazan, the entire Middle East except Trezibond, Novgorod...
What am I missing? Any help is appreciated even though I don't mind just rampaging.

Have you tried ordering your men to occupy the city?

[sapi]

personally i like it for the purpose of just watching what effects my mods have the game. for instance, once i started England off with all of the Isles and fully built (Citadels and Huge Cities, fully built). in 50 turns they basically took over all of present day France and had their eyes on the Iberian Peninsula. However, when I upgraded some of their "English Only Units" to superman type abilities, 50 turns later all they had picked up was Rennes, Bruges, and Antwerp.

Unfortunately that's the trouble with the AI - in 50 turns (even without that boost) a human player would have got much, much further than that.

As for the upgraded units, i'd wager that the AI didn't expand as much because they didn't 'know' that the units were more powerful, meaning that they won the battles that they were involved in but didn't get any more aggressive.

[~Isabella of Castile~]

what folder is this file you have to edit to be able to do this editing in to play them?

[~Isabella of Castile~]

I got to control the Timurids, but I waited 102 turns seeing nothing but the fog of war! talk about boring!! so I saved the game to wait later!..

[dph948]

thats a simple fix, press ~ to open up the medieval shell, and type "toggle_fow" to see the whole world. I'd make sure you have the settings so that you dont have to watch every AI stack in the entire world move though.

[Skott]

Does this work for the Papal states? I'm trying to figure out how to play them in a campaign without downloading an entire mod that has a bunch of other things I dont care for.