Playing as other Countries?

[WahooSS238]

1. Which DLC do I need to play as some of the smaller countries in the campaign game?
2. Can anyone provide a list of which smaller countries are unlocked or become available?

[Horcerer]

There is none. You can play as all minor factions with the Empire Total Factions mod, however.

[Insaniac]

Can't be done. But you can add them yourself with relative ease.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Minor factions revenge mod and Darthmod are 2 of the best mods and add minor nations and improvements over the base game.

[Triggerhippy]

Darth mod allows any country even the pirates to be played.

[Horcerer]

Darth mod is also balanved like crap and makes the game absurdly easy.

[WahooSS238]

Can't be done? What a shame. It would be fun and challenging to play Portugal, Denmark or the Italian States. I stay away from mods as they tend to mess games up and crash. I'll stick to official DLC releases. What (or whom) is a "minor faction", ie Empire Total Factions? Is this not a country? Thank you all for responding.

[Horcerer]

Empire Total Factions allows playing as every country. The only problem with it is a few countries, such as the Crimean Khanate, have only 2 or 3 troops and thats it. Most, however, have a normal amount.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

without mods your experience will be...ergh...pointless at some point after you finish all Major nation´s campaigns.

Try this mod. everything pretty much stays the same. all nations added but no new content than vanilla.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?350349-EMPIRE-TOTAL-FACTIONS-(Last-updated-17-08-2011)

[Carolina Reaper]

引用自 Horcerer：

Darth mod is also balanved like crap and makes the game absurdly easy.

Wtf? Darthmod doesn't make the game easy at all. First time I played the mod, I got gang r*ped by the Commonwealth, and Russia as Prussia - only 10 turns into the game.

引用自 WahooSS238：

Can't be done? What a shame. It would be fun and challenging to play Portugal, Denmark or the Italian States. I stay away from mods as they tend to mess games up and crash. I'll stick to official DLC releases. What (or whom) is a "minor faction", ie Empire Total Factions? Is this not a country? Thank you all for responding.

There most likely will never be another DLC release. I'm pretty sure the developers have moved on from this game considering how old it is.

The only current DLC's avalaible are the Faction DLC. A faction is the country that you're able to play in-game (France, Austria, Prussia, etc). The DLC's are simply skin DLC for your infantry for each seperate faction. There is however the Warpath Campaign DLC, which adds a nice little campaign that introduces a few more factions into the game. However, they only apply to the Americas.

Basically, none of the DLC are actually **necessary**

[Insaniac]

It can't be done in the base game. Your best bet is to mod the game yourself. Empire: Total Factions is good but breaks multiplayer just to achieve something that can be done without breaking multiplayer. DM just spoonfeeds you money and unfinished units.

[Pookaka]

Just install Darthmod, the vanilla game is garbage without it.

[Alwyn]

If you want to play as minor nations and are prepared to consider a 'minimalist' mod which just unlocks them (and does noting else), then you could try All Factions Unlocked: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?262048-All-Factions-Unlocked-No-FOW-Bug!-WORKING!-Downloadable-Now!&p=15094003&viewfull=1#post15094003

Empire Total Factions is pretty similar to this - it makes a few small changes (for example, Fifth Rates can be recruited in trade ports. I think this was intended to give small nations a chance of avoiding having their main trade port blockaded).

All Factions Unlocked allows you to play as 'minor' factions but not emergent factions. Empire Total Factions allow you to play as minor and (most) emergent factions.

You might wonder what is the difference between minor and emergent factions. Minor factions are non-playable factions which exist on the campaign map at the start of the Grand Campaign, such as thhe Thirteen Colonies, Denmark, Hannover, Venice, Morocco, Persia and Mysore. Emergent factions are non-playable (except for the United States, in the Road to Independence campaign) nations which can emerge if there is a rebellion in their 'home' regions, such as Mexico, Quebec, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Hessen and Punjab.

Even if they are unlocked, some smaller factions are very difficult or impossible to play, usually for either (or both) of two reasons:
- They have a very limited roster
- They have a powerful neighbour who they're unlikely to be able to defeat

The first problem can be solved with a unit mod, such as the amazing Additional Units Mod or the more basic Minor and Emergent Factions Unit Pack (both available from: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?1520-Unit-Packs-and-Stats)

The second problem can sometimes be solved with a unit mod. For example, playing as Ireland, I usually can't defeat the British invasion which normally happens, but I can sometimes achieve it with a unit mod, especially if I can ambush the invading British army, as shown in Éirí Amach: Irish Rising (an Ireland AAR): http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?668990-%C9ir%ED-Amach-Irish-Rising-(Ireland-AAR)-updated-February-22-2015. Another way to solve it is by giving the powerful neighbour military access to your country (this is an exploit, which works because AI factions don't end military access agreements and can't invade countries they have a military access agreement with).