playable rebels?

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

I was wondering if there was any simple way to make the rebels playable (I remember doing this in rtw by getting into a certain file) and if you could make them playable would you be able to get welsh longbowmen?

[sirnoob]

hi hellenic hoplite open up the console by pressing ' or @ then type control slave this allows you to control the rebels or any other faction if you type there name in. No idea about longbows.

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

thanks ill try it out

edit* I tried it and it didn't work does it only work if you have patch 1.2?

[sirnoob]

Now it doesn't work for me either
I think it might be because before i had the hotseat option enabled i'll put the text on in a minute

[sirnoob]

Yep you need to enable hotseat put this in your medieval preferences folder
[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 0
update_ai_camera = 1
validate_diplomacy = 1

and enjoy

[alpaca]

It's something like this actually:

[multiplayer]
playable = 1

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 0
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

when I go to the prefrences folder all it says is

"advice"
"keys"
"player"

[alpaca]

There's a file called medieval2.preferences.cfg in your M2TW folder

[HoreTore]

I think you have to put all of that in the config file.

[Mailman653]

Can you actually lose as the rebels? They always seem to pop up, plus can you control heritics?

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

There's a file called medieval2.preferences.cfg in your M2TW folder

it says windows cant open this file

[WhiskeyGhost]

right click, use "open with" then use like Wordpad or Notepad to open it up

[sirnoob]

also have you got rid of the read only attribute?