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[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi sjmxru,
Sorry, yet destroying a faction does not allow you to play. Sorry.

The unlockable factions become available to play once you have completed a campaign, long or short, with a ready unlocked faction.

The unlockable factions are The Greek Cities, The Seleucid Empire, Egypt, Brittania, Germania, Gaul and Parthia.

With a little bit of good old fashioned modding you can easily make them all completely playable at the start. Simply go into your, if you own Gold, "C:\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt" or "C:\Activision\Rome - Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt" should you own the standard version, not Gold.

Simply cut and paste all the non-playable and unlockable factions into the playable section making sure that there are tabs before each faction's code name. Then start up Rome and all factions should be playable.

Good luck and enjoy your game, cheers!

BTW, this will, sadly, not work in 1.3, it requires 1.5 to work correctly or it will CTD on the campaign start. If you desire more information regarding the patch update then don't hesitate to ask and I will be more than willing to aid you.