good leaving ladies and gentlemen this
is human and welcome to the special
gamescom edition of rome total war where
today we're looking at how you can
unlock
all of the factions for the campaign now
most of them are pretty simple aren't
they you get these three roman factions
at the start
and by defeating these guys over here or
winning the imperial campaign you can
unlock
all of them obviously there are a few
other factions and it's very simple
to go and add those in the game files
although we're going to specifically
look at spqr because there's just a tiny
bit of extra tweaking that we need to do
to make them work properly so let's head
into the files and let's see how we can
make this happen
i should say this is very much a guide
for the computer version of roam total
war obviously on the mobile version you
can actually unlock
all of the factions apart from i believe
the rebels but that aside
if you're on the computer version once
you've found where roam total war is
you can head inside of data scroll down
to world
and we're going to go through maps
campaign
imperial campaign this takes us to the
really godly godly file which is desk
underscore strat
so much of the editing you ever want to
do with this game comes from this file
right here
as soon as you open up the file then
you'll see that what we needed
right in front of us the list of
playable campaigns
the unlockables which of course were
available on that title screen a minute
ago
because i've completed the imperial
campaign and then a selection of
non-playable factions now it is really
as simple
as cutting and pasting them from the
list here
up to the list over here and once you've
done that they'll be playable
the only thing is is that there isn't
actually enough space on the main screen
of the game
to actually put all of the different
factions this always means that one of
them is going to get chopped off
so you need to go and leave one behind
so let's just go and leave new media
poor old new media
we'll go and cut those guys out and
we'll go plonk them back over here
in the non-playable section so we'll
save that up we'll load the game
and now we'll be able to play as
whichever faction we like
here we are then on the imperial
campaign screen and now you can see
we've got ourselves the senate and
people of rome as well as the rebels and
the fractions and the dations
all those factions we couldn't play as
of course i could put new media in as
well if i wanted to
but as i said there isn't actually any
more room to fit them on the screen here
so you've always got to leave one as a
sacrificial lamb we'll leave that to
numerate
but we can now go and play a game as
spqr
now there is one other thing i want to
go change in the files let's just load
it up and we'll just have a little look
at what the situation is
for some reason you do get yourself a
barbarian introduction
but hey ho that is something that you
can fiddle around with in the files if
you so wish
i guess they just put it in as a
placeholder but here we are then
we are rome and we have ourselves the
big army that you would expect them to
have
and this of course does mean that you
can go and bulldoze the world very
quickly if you so
wish we have ourselves all these
powerful units
units like triarii which you can't
always get very early on in the game
and usually get replaced as soon as you
can get them which is a little bit
irritating
they always have free experience and we
have a bigger force than any of our
roman friends
now as the senate you can actually
declare the war
you can attack your ally you can go and
give them a poke obviously i'm going to
lose that battle
what that means is you can start the
civil war on turn one
should you so wish that will of course
ruin my alliance with
my other roman allies but didn't
actually declare the war on them
straight away but um yeah truth be told
it will happen the very next turn
as soon as one of them's at war with you
the rest will immediately start the
civil war
as well so uh just a little warning for
you there nonetheless
you can actually use all these troops to
go and take out all of the roman friends
of yours
in about five ten tens it's pretty
simple you've got the superior unit
you've actually got superior numbers
right at the start as well
so if you want you can go and bulldoze
everything as quickly as possible
or you can sit around and wait for the
civil war to happen that can kind of be
fun as well
the one thing we are missing though is
any kind of temple
and for whatever reason they decided not
to give rome any temples the senate
have no access in the building tree here
for
any temples whatsoever so if you do want
to play this campaign
you'll probably find as soon as you've
gone and taken all of italy
you kind of can't go any further because
you're lacking any infrastructure for
the old temples
and cause you quite a lot of problems as
you can probably imagine
so what you need to do from this point
onwards is to go and
fiddle with the game files just a little
bit more and go and in the buildings
that we need to make this a viable long
campaign
of course the financial situation is
pretty dire now if you go into smash
with your roman friends immediately
that's no problem whatsoever you'll soon
have a big huge
bustling economy but if you want to play
the slow game and
wait for the civil war to occur then
you're going to need to sort this
out and to do so it's probably just the
case of getting rid of some of the units
probably hastati and the vertex they'll
still leave you with three principes
free tree rei's and three generals
you'll be perfectly fine in order to
defend yourself it
will mean that you can start to have
some money and build some infrastructure
so that's just something to bear in mind
although if you are too weak
the romans will just come and
immediately attack you so it is a bit of
a balancing game
certainly when i have had a little play
around with this campaign
yeah if you don't have a big army here
they will come and start the civil war
so it might be something worth thinking
about of course the elephant in the room
is this button over here the senate
button
can we control our roman friends choose
our favorites and select them for office
or shun those we don't like well
sadly not no this button here will crash
the game so
do not and i repeat do not press the
senate button over here
or indeed its counterpart the senate
offices list
unfortunately they just don't work it
would be lovely to play the political
game as the roman senate but
we can't they are just a normal faction
like any other and this is just far
too hard coded there is no simple fix to
this problem
so if you want to avoid the crashing
just ignore the big red
shiny button off the senate and just
play the game normally
it's uh if you've been playing as romans
recently it can be a little bit tricky
to avoid clicking on this to be honest
but um
yes just avoid it and all will be fine
now anyway let's get back into the files
and let's work out how we can sort out
these religious buildings
to do this we're going to head inside
the data subfolder of rome total war
and once inside there we're going to
scroll most of the way down to export
underscore deska
underscore buildings this file here will
have all we need to change
any factions building trees once inside
the file here you'll find a plethora of
information about all the different
factions and the buildings that they can
build indeed if you want to edit any of
these things it's quite simple to do
i don't actually have a guide on that
i'll put a link in the description below
and in the end card
but of course you can go and change the
cost the construction turn
the units that you can build here the
experience they come with which
faction gets them you can essentially do
whatever you
like with this file although yes do be
careful about the formatting
it's quite a nickety one nonetheless you
can see all sorts of things in here
in fact including the hidden resources
for sparta and rome which is intriguing
that's despite hoplite and presumably
linked to the marion reforms
interesting but indeed if we want to go
and find out about the temples
we need to search further down the file
so that will bring us
to the first temple which is actually
about halfway down the file
temples are a huge amount of the
buildings in this game so
quite a lot to do if you want to fiddle
around with it
indeed we can see here that we have the
temple of battle for daesha and
frase you can see all the different
names that the temple gets as it goes
onwards but
eventually awesome temple etcetera gives
a happiness bonus
of one construction cost of one turn
cost 400
denarii and you need to be a town
in order to build it now this is all
well and good but of course we want to
move on
and find the romans here and if we keep
looking down
we will eventually get to the first
roman faction
which will be over here the temple of
fertility
you may have noticed that the temple of
fertility is only accessible to the
roman juliet and not
on romans in general that's because the
game files here refer
sometimes to romans as a culture which
means all four can access this
particular thing
or sometimes just the individual
factions so in this case we don't want
to give it to all the romans we just
want to give this temple
to the senate as well so this is the
file name we
need romans underscore senate might be
times
that you want to go and look at the file
and find
what the name of your faction is so is
for example britons
and dacia and germans carthaginian you
need to have the right file name in
order to make
all of this work so if we go down
further in the files we'll find that
under the amphitheater
we can see the roman senate and the
junior eye can get the same night
gladiators
marvel so this is the correct name we
have for the roman senate
but what we've done so far is add it to
only the first level of the temple
so we want to do is just copy that move
down to
the second level of temple and just keep
on adding it in
be careful with the spacing you need
that space after the comma and another
one before the bracket
and be careful to just make sure you get
it in
every one of these lines because you
really don't want to miss one out this
can be a very picky picky
file so same as you go along testing
that it's still working probably best to
save it
elsewhere maybe just on the desktop and
then you can always go and replace the
file once you're happy
that it's completely working now at this
point we've obviously got ourselves the
pantheon which is great
we now have access to it just like the
julie
but this one over here is might be the
one that you want to be focusing on
more specifically temple of the forge
now you can choose whichever you like
you could add
yourself to all of them if you so wish
but i'm going to go
for the temple of the forge because i
think this one is rather marvelous
it gives you extra weapon and armor
which means as the romans
as the skippy eye and what now is the
senate as well we can get ourselves
gold armor and gold weapons which is
just
magnificent so i'm going to add us in to
each of these different sections here
and then we have ourselves the pantheon
of the forge absolutely brilliant
let's save this up load the game back in
the campaign map then and the shrine to
series and the shrine to vulcan are now
available options and indeed they have
inserted themselves into the building
browser
which is marvelous indeed you can
actually add the senate on to
any of the temples that are on that list
anything is if it's not one that's a
roman based temple
then you'll need to go fiddle with the
ui folder as well but there's more
information on that
in my video to mod in the buildings one
final thing to note when playing the
senate is that actually they don't need
the temples for public order at all
really you're only adding the temples
for their other benefits
because just like the rebels you can't
have a revolt against you
when you play as spqr look at just how
negative the public order is over here
in alexandria
and likewise in thieves they are
miserable i've even moved the capital
over here so it can be as far away as
possible and indeed if i just click my
end turns here
nothing is going to happen with any of
these cities
in fact i don't actually lose any of my
troops
for the rioting either they are
incredibly unhappy
but the variety isn't taking place so
just like the rebels
there is no problem there whatsoever bit
of a strange
little feature of playing this spqr
thank you for joining me today on this
games guide to unlocking factions in
rome total war
whilst the focus here has obviously been
on spqr because of the need to edit
their building browser
this will actually work on all of the
factions as i said
there's always one faction that's going
to get cut off the list if you try and
put them
all as playable so some people sometimes
get stuck figuring out how the rebels
are playable
they are very much easy to put on the
list as i said just make sure you leave
that one
on the end and of course if you do want
to do any editing to the files
please make sure that you have a backup
file and finally it's pretty worth
mentioning on the discussion page of the
channel i have brought up that i'm
taking just a quiet few weeks here
just need to recharge my batteries
really in the meantime
i'll try like here to release a video
every week or so
but fear not those series will return in
the coming weeks but that is indeed all
for now i'm thomas this is tenets of
human and this has been our guide to how
to unlock spqr thank you
and goodbye they are just throwing
themselves to their deaths
chunky chunky chunky death oh that
wasn't a very good charge
oh we're flying
there is no one here beside him
yeah axe in their heads axe in the head
yeah beautiful