Another Cabbageness Question

[Xehh II]

Please do not laugh at this question.
Can I unlock other factions by winning with an unlocked faction.

[Askthepizzaguy]

In order to unlock a faction the legal way, you must defeat that faction in campaign mode with a rival faction.

This is easy to do once you build a massive empire with your favorite faction... just go for the enemy's throat and slay them by force, ignoring your own casualties.

[Andaius]

The legal way opens all the playable factions once you complete a grand campaign. So play a short campaign and quickly achieve your victory conditions, so you can then start a long one as your faction of choice.

[Rhedd]

To answer your specific question; Yes.

[BigTex]

Go into your Medieval total war folder go to data/world/campaign/imperial and select descr.strat text file. Change the unlockable lines to playable.

This page has good intructions with visuals. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=72055

[sirnoob]

The problem is that caused loads of problems installing the patch so now i've changed it back and have to do a another campaign

[Rhedd]

Go into your Medieval total war folder go to data/world/campaign/imperial and select descr.strat text file. Change the unlockable lines to playable.

This page has good intructions with visuals. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=72055

That's the extra-special hard way! It's the only way to play the Aztecs, etc., but just for the unlockable factions, there's a much easier way.

Go to your medieval2.preference.cfg and add these lines somewhere:

[misc]
unlock_campaign = true

The next time you start the game, all factions will be unlocked and the added lines will magically disappear from your CFG.