How to jump to a future year

[Epistolary Richard]

Barbarian Invasion players out there may recall that I once released a Year Jump mod for BI which allowed you to give your control of your faction to the AI and the game would then auto-pilot to the year of your choice.

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 the faction you want to play as (remember to deselect any other factions additionally highlighted).

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

Type in:

control timurids
control the name of your faction

The game will then autopilot you - at any time, type:

control the name of your faction

again and the game will stop at your faction's next turn and give you control.



Jumping 50 turns from the start of the game, as in this example, means you'll be facing far stronger and more developed opponents.