How to play as the Rebels

Adding Rebels To The Campaign

To add rebels in the campaign, go to your Medieval 2 Total War file, then go to the descr_strat file in Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign.

Change this: playable england france hre spain venice end unlockable sicily milan scotland byzantium russia moors turks egypt denmark portugal poland hungary end nonplayable aztecs mongols timurids papal_states slave end To this: playable england france hre spain venice slave end unlockable sicily milan scotland byzantium russia moors turks egypt denmark portugal poland hungary end nonplayable aztecs mongols timurids papal_states end The "slave", or rebel, faction will now be playable in the grand campaign.

To summarize this section, to make the rebels playable in the grand campaign, move the slave faction from nonplayable to playable.

Adding Rebels To Custom Battles

To add the Rebels to the custom battles, you must first unpack your game. As a warning, you should back up your game before you do any major modifications such as this. It can break your game. To do so, run the unpacker and let it finish. After that, go to the medieval2.preference, and deselect read-only under properties. Next, open it and add [io] file_first=true Then select read-only when you are done editing the preferences. This will allow you to run Medieval 2 with the unpacked files.

Next, go to descr_sm_factions, and search for the "slave" faction. Under their tag, you will find "custom_battle_availability." Change the "no" to "yes." To have it appear on the faction selection screen, go to another faction and change "custom_battle_availability" to "no". The full roster will appear only when you have "All Periods," otherwise you will only see 2 units.

The Rebels have the most varied roster, due to the various armies they represent. They field interesting units such as many Crusader units, Hussites, which are effective crossbowmen, and Elephant Rocketteers.

If you host a multiplayer battle with these modifications and others without them join, the rebels will be available.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=540407189					

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