Help with activating warhammer mod

[Calcanius]

I went though the read me file.  It talks about a line in quotations in the preference options of the short cut.

I put the file into the main folder.

I'm using Win 7 and I don't see anything like that.  I added the line of commands onto the address for the url.

I have little/no experience with this.

I bought RTW specifically to play warhammer.

Help.

[comrade_general]

Find the Rome - Total War shortcut on your desktop and make a copy of it. When you right click on the copy you can open the properties window.
It will look similar to this:

You can see in the target line where you will add the commands for Warhammer.

[Calcanius]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

My icon properties has 5 tabs, none of which say Shortcut.

General, Web document, Security, Details, Previous settings.

I went through them all and couldn't find the example you gave.

What should I try now?

Thanks again.

[comrade_general]

What is the exact path that your main Rome - Total War folder is located in?

i.e. is is .../Program Files/The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War or .../Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War ?

[Calcanius]

C:\Program files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\common\Rome Total War Gold\

WHTW is the folder that contains the mod

There are few problems that get me more frustrated than dealing with computers.

I really appreciate your help.

Thanks

[comrade_general]

Oh - STEAM. You failed to mention that fact.

I don't use steam myself so I cannot help you with my own knowledge, but perhaps one of these links will guide you:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?123528-Using-mods-with-Steam-RTW-including-BI-and-Alexander
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240335

[Jubal]

Or to paraphrase one of those:

right click in steam game list ->Create desktop shortcut, then edit the shortcut as shown in C_G's earlier post.

[Calcanius]

I hope you guys will hang in there a little longer for me.

The steam short cut preference only has a URL  steam://rungameid/4760

I still need help.

Thanks

[Jubal]

Then writing -mod:WHTW after that target should work. I think.

[Calcanius]

Unfortunatly no.

I really want to play this mod, but I don't know what to do next.

[Jubal]

Have you looked up general advice on installing mods for steam?

[comrade_general]

Should of been in those links I already posted?

[Calcanius]

Hey guys, Son of Calcanius here.

I had some trouble with the shortcut so I decided to circumvent the whole shortcut problem.
What I did was go into the \Rome - Total War Gold Edition folder and right clicked on the RomeTW.exe file itself & hit "send to desktop (create shortcut)".
Then I added the extension -mod:WHTW after the quotation marks like was suggested.

The problem I ran into is updating the intro movie. My question is:

What exactly is the file name of the Movie Swapper file? In the data folder all I see are .txt files and folders, nothing executable...

Thanks ^__^

[Jubal]

Yup, just checked and I maaaay have forgotten to package the swapper. My bad.

I'd just skip it for now, it doesn't have any effect on the gameplay and I need to make a new/better intro movie anyway. Glad you've got the main thing working. 

[Ninjasoup]

Hi, I have tried -
" had some trouble with the shortcut so I decided to circumvent the whole shortcut problem.
What I did was go into the \Rome - Total War Gold Edition folder and right clicked on the RomeTW.exe file itself & hit "send to desktop (create shortcut)".
Then I added the extension -mod:WHTW after the quotation marks like was suggested.", also have gold edition from steam, and I keep getting "Problem checking steam application" error.

Can anyone help with this?
Thanks