Adding new playable Countries

Minimal version: 1.02

You can add over 10 new playable countries to the game.
Head to the [Countries] list section and add your country to the list. You can give it any name you want.

NOTE: Playable countries must not be listed after the unplayable.
Be sure that GDI, Nod, Neutral and Special stay at the end of the list!

Add your country name (i.e. "Italians") to the side it should belong to. The lists can be found in the [Sides] section.

Now add the section for your country (i.e. "[Italians]"). Simply copy a section from another country, but remember to assign the correct side to it!
Now remember to add your country to the owner list of the concerning side's MCV.
For example, if you added "Italians" as an Allied country, set "Italians" as an owner of "AMCV".

In order to make flag, loading screen etc work, check out the following tables:
(the tables are examples for country #10 in the [Countries] list; for another number simply change the 10)

Filenames

Flag PCX File	c10_flag.pcx
Loading screen SHP File	c10_ls.shp
Loading screen palette	c10_ls.pal

Stringtable Entries

Country's name	Name:Country10
Country's special weapon	Name:Country10SW
Load brief for the country	LoadBrief:Country10
Skirmish menu, status bar text	STT:Country10

Taunt filenames You can also have taunts for your new countries.
Simply add the WAV files into the [RA2 Dir]\Taunts folder and give them names of the following format:

tauXX##.wav

## stands for the country number (i.e. 10), XX for the taunt number (like the original taunts). You can add taunts only up to country 16.

The last thing you might want to do is making the game able to pick the new country by "Random".
To do that, add the following tag in the [General] section:

NewPlayableCountries=1 ;this is NOT the total number of countries in the game, but the amount of countries you added!

NOTE: If your mod removes countries, you can also use a negative value here to prevent the game from selecting the removed countries as random!