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i've read several places that you can unlock other factions such as denmark and the 13 colonies and so on but then again i've heard that you cant? Does anybody have a desicive answer for me or is everybody in the dark as i am

Thus far there is no way to unlock the other factions, but the modding community is on it and I'm positive that it will be possible after a while. At the moment, however, modding Empire: Total War seems to be extremely hard and maybe impossible before CA releases modding tools.

No.

Whenever you unpack the files and edit something, Steam automatically puts them back to vanilla when you load the game--online or offline.

The modding community I lurk at is really ****ing ****ed about it.

Well once you complete the first 3 chapters of Road to Independence campaign it unlocks the 4th chapter in which you play as the 13 United States and have access to all 3 theaters and the missions are to basically take over all of USA.

So yes you can unlock the 13 United States as a playable faction.

Not sure about the others mate but I hope this helps

In the old games it used to be that if you conquered a nation you could play as that nation, but I don't know about this one.

I conquered the Mughal Empire in a short campaign and nada... no new playable nations

I've been looking at all the files, and i can't figure out how to edit anything. Older tow games were so easy to mod, i wanna give my ships like 500 firepower =)

500>??? why so weak? why not 50 000 or more? the more the merrier i say. Decimation is at hand