Tosa patiently taught me how to set up a Kingdom's Hotseat game that allows the GM to open up the console. I believe in "sharing the wealth" and I would love to see a large and vibrant Kingdom's Hotseat community in here so I will share his instructions with all of you.

The following guide is from Tosa with my additions in italics

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1 Go to the M2TW main folder.
2 Find medieval2.preference.cfg
3 Right click on it and select properties.
4 The properties window for the file opens.
5 At the bottom is the Attributes field.
Deselect Read-Only.
6 Hit the Apply button. Close the Window.
7 Open the file with wordpad/notepad.
8 Find [hotseat]
9 Add below that admin_password = yourpassword
"yourpassword" means what ever password you want
10 Save the file.
11 Right click it again, select properties and enable the Read-Only attribute.
12 Create the hotseat save like normal. Disable the console if you don't want others getting into it.
Go into the first player's login screen.
13 Check whether you can open the console with ~
14 Type in the console "logon yourpassword" which is what ever password you entered in the config file and hit enter.
15 Do you get an error message? make sure the ` is not in the field like it is when I first open the console
16 If not type "logoff" and hit enter
save the game
17 Quit the game, start the game again, load the save and repeat step 13-16 to check.

18 It should all work now, start playing and have fun.
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You will then have admin access to your hotseat game. Just enter in your admin password at any player login screen. Even with console disabled, you can still access the console in there.

Here are some basic commands from Tosa (his words are in quotes).

To reset someone's password:

If a player drops, and you can't find a replacement, you can set their faction as AI controlled:

To set someone elses password:

Other cheats should work but it is advised that you inform your players so everyone knows.


I have been able to successfully start and test an admin accessible Kingdom's Hotseat game. So, let me know if you have any questions.

Happy gaming!

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FactionHeir very kindly made a guide to help people set up a M2TW hotseat. And he patiently wrote it so even I can understand it.

Also one note about the auto_resolve section of the code, if you want to enable battles to be player controlled, then pick 0 instead of 1

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To set up M2TW for hotseat in the first place.
Open medieval2.preference.cfg

Find [multiplayer] or [hotseat]
If they do not exist, create them before the [ui] section. Even if they do exist, overwrite with the following:

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 1
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[hotseat]
admin_password = abc

Where abc is the password you want as admin password.

Save the file, close it and mark read-only.

Start up the game, pick grand campaign and select your factions for the game. Clicking on a faction icon will highlight it, clicking again deselects it. Choose as many factions as you like.

Then choose the other available settings and start the game.

On the game turn screen, Admin access you be set to "yes". If it is not, exist M2TW and start it up again (first verifying whether you did the first steps correctly).

Then open up the console using the appropriate key for your particular localized keyboard. There, type:
And you should get a feedback message telling you it was successful.

Rest as per PK's guide.

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Tosa made a Wiki entry on the subject of Hotseats. You can find it here:https://forums.totalwar.org/wiki/index.php/Hotseat

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what am i doing wrong?

I am trying to play a Broken Crescent hotseat ith my brothers and i followed all the info.

here are the lines in my preferances:



[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

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

help please!

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p.s. I have kingdoms if that matters.

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Can you give us more details on the problem? Where is it going wrong? Does the game not start at all? Ddoes it start single player properly but doesn't allow for multiple faction selections for hotseat?

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sorry

the game does start but it won't allow me to have multiple factions

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Have you ever successfully done multiple factions before?

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While hotseat games get played here, I'm not sure how many experts we have on the technical side of it. Try posting in the Apothecary as well. That's our tech support forum and you may be able to get some help there that we would be unable to provide here.

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Hi, how can I reset and change the admin password? Admin have to play with a country now, and admin guy must be changed. How can we reset the admin password?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi @tberkaya

I do not believe it's possible to change the admin password once the campaign has started, unfortunately. Your best options are probably either starting a new game (hopefully you weren't too far in!) or not having a non-player admin and just trusting all of the players to be honorable.

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