Faction Difficulties

[ULC]

I have been playing the Total War series for quite some time now. I have played all but RTW and its' expansions, which I have just purchased. I love modding, but I am slightly vexed as to how to successfully enable all the factions. I have checked the Scriptorium, but the link to the guide was a dead end. Any help would be most appreciated. I have RTW, BI, and Alexander.

[Aradan]

Open the descr_strat.txt, which lies insde your data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign folder. The first lines should read:

campaign		imperial_campaign
playable
	romans_julii
	romans_brutii
	romans_scipii
end
unlockable
	egypt
	seleucid
	carthage
	parthia
	gauls
	germans
	britons
	greek_cities
end
nonplayable
	romans_senate
	macedon
	pontus
	armenia
	dacia
	numidia
	scythia
	spain
	thrace
	slave
end

Just cut + paste the factions you want from the nonplayble and unlockable sections into the playable section. To avoid some bugs, you should probably leave rebels and the senate as they are. So the final code would look like that:

campaign		imperial_campaign
playable
	romans_julii
	romans_brutii
	romans_scipii
	egypt
	seleucid
	carthage
	parthia
	gauls
	germans
	britons
	greek_cities
        macedon
	pontus
	armenia
	dacia
	numidia
	scythia
	spain
	thrace
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
	romans_senate
	slave
end

The proceedure is the same in BI, but there you gotta be careful when it comes to emerging factions, as they require some more complex modding.

[ULC]

Thanks! No special modding is required for the unplayable factions for vailla RTW?

[Aradan]

No, you just put their names in the playable section and that's it. Rebels and senate are a whole different story though, I wouldn't recommend messing with them for now.