ANY faction playable in Custom Battles!

**pevergreen** · 03-08-2009, 04:35

Unlock Portugal.

1. Open patch.pack with a hex editor.

2. Search for hex values: 70006C0061007900610062006C0065
You will get 12+3 results which are the factions marked as "playable".

3. Any "playable" faction:

(RED) - Replace "playable" with "minor" and the value of that dot to 5 (original 8). That number is the length of the string.

4. (ORANGE) - Replace "minor" with "playable" and the value of the dot to 8 (original 5).

5. (GREEN) - Replace the values of the two dots to 1 (original 0).

"p.l.a.y.a.b.l.e" - 70006C0061007900610062006C0065
"m.i.n.o.r" - 6D0069006E006F0072

I found Venice
Hex: 560065006E006900630065

Edit: And Persia
Hex: 5000650072007300690061

This will replace a faction apparently.

Remember! Make backups!

If the file is modified by even 1 byte, it will crash upon load.

The Thirteen Colonies -> 54006800690072007400650065006E00200043006F006C006F006E006900650073

There is also unverified information about SDK coming with next weeks patch.

All you need to do is to unpack the game an delete "units_to_special_editions_juncs"-data in the db/units_to_special_editions_juncs_tables folder of your unpacked game! To get Death's Head Hussars, not confirmed if this gives other special units.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-08-2009, 05:36

Looks rather complicated...

No offense, but I don't really see the point of unlocking factions in custom battles. I doubt they have unique units, and the only ones I can think would be worthwhile would be the natives.

**pevergreen** · 03-08-2009, 05:40

Its a huge breakthrough in modding terms though.

It isnt easy.

**ljperreira** · 03-08-2009, 08:32

It was a little tough to get the hang of in the beginning, but really its easy (and I dont know shite about modding

). All I did was right click and cut "m.i.n.o.r" from Portugal's description, then pasted it in place of "p.l.a.y.a.b.l.e" for Poland (and vice versa for Portugal). When I did that the numbers changed automatically on their own, except for the small numbers (05, 08, 0101). Whats really exciting is that the Portuguese troops actually speak Portuguese!! Unlike MTWII where the Portuguese spoke English with a Spanish accent. Hearing Portuguese being spoken by the troops was music to my ears. The fact that CA took the time to do this tells me there are alot more great surprises in store for us (I hope). And it feels like adding those factions into the campaign is just around the corner! The only let down for me was the fact that the Portuguese Army units are a clone of the Spanish army units (including Irish units, I dont believe that Portugal employed Irish units like Spain did, but I could be wrong). But I have faith that once this whole modding thing is cracked, units and such will be worked out.....hint, hint.....

**ljperreira** · 03-08-2009, 08:41

All your troubles are over!!!! There is now a download where you can play as any faction in the custom battle HERE. You dont have to figure out how to do it!