Roman Modification leading to a CTD

[Lucky_Shotz]

I have an interesting problem; when i congealed the Romans into 1 faction (Julii) and gave them post Marius soldiers and made lots of other changes to descr_strat, i get an interesting result. After I make these changes, I choose to play as Thracia, then ally with Scythia, and the game crashes in the diplomacy screen. I have traced the issue back to the Julii, through intensive trial and error. Can anobdy even concieve of why this is happening?

A few additional pieces of info:
I have BI but no later patches
The diplomacy proiblem crashes as other factions as well, including the Julii
I have only my modded descr_strat file in with all original files
I cannot post my descr_strat file, as im not interent enabled at the moment, writing from a cafe

I have several other problems, but they are irreleant for now as they deal with other files. This crash makes the game unplayable. :( I'm looking forward to your help solving this problem. :)

[Poulp']

I don't remember precisely, but I think there's more to mod than the mere descr_strat file if you want to unite Roman factions.

There are plenty of thread dealing with this subject, like this one:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=70329

For CTD issues, you should first check in here
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=58801
Did you kept a note of what you changed ?

Then, have a look in the Scriptorium, and in modding answers

More importantly
Do you have a back up ?

If you manage to go back to the original version, I think there's a united rome patch somewhere. It should definitely come in handy.

[Caius]

MAke sure you have an only faction leader and an only faction heir.
This can cause the CTD if you have two or more factions leaderes or heirs

[Lucky_Shotz]

well, thanks for the help. I found the problem. i had changed the brutii ans scipii to other factions, then deleted them completely..whoops! Intsead of strating another thread and clogging the board. I'll post my other questions I referred to.
First, I have followed the directions for adding more hidden resources, but whenever i have the game generate a new map.rwm, the game will not run, it crashes when i click on a faction to start the imperial campaign. I noted that whenever I do this map.rwm thing, 2 files appear in the creative assembly file.
1 is corrected_regions.tga or some such name, and I don't remember what the other one is. I have changed territory ownership in descr_strat.

Is it possible that I need to replace descr_regions with this new file...corrected_regions? I know its not part of the bi patch. I really would like to add some hidden resources.

Second question, what programs are needed to mod Rome Total War's every useful aspect? I want to go into depth with my modding but lack any of the necessary programs except notepad
thanks for the help.