Can you play as the Mongols in the Vanilla game?

[homefry]

If I finsih the game or defeat the Mongols, can I play as them in the vanilla game without any mods or tweaks?

[Cadwallon]

Nope. As they appear after the Grand Campaign begins.

[Fate]

i wouldnt be suprised if a mod did appear for it; just like there are mods for the emmergent factions in BI. Give it time my friend.

Unless it hardcoded in, then you're screwed! :P

[Heinrich VI]

the regnum dei mod and i bet several other mods made the mongols, timurids and aztecs playable in the grand campaign.

[Captain Pugwash]

You can of sorts see a entry by faction heir who has a mod for this as part of his set up. I am unable to post his link. You might also find it in the mod section

[Captain Pugwash]

posted by hoplite7
I was going to release a similar mod for M2, however CA have made it so staggeringly easy that no modding is required!

Here's what to do:

Have a look in your Medieval II Total War folder and you'll see a file called medieval2.preference.cfg - right click on this file and go to Edit and the file will open in Notepad.

Add the following three lines to the [multiplayer] section (which were originally posted here):

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false


Then start a campaign as normal and select England (remember to deselect any other factions additionally highlighted).

Launch the campaign and bring down the M2 console by pressing the ' key.

Type in:

control mongols

or

control timurids

depending on which you want to play as. Then type in:

control england




The game will then autopilot you (warning this may take a while) to the appearance of your chosen faction and give you control of them."

Credit is due to author of this thread:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...ngols+timurids