Random Factions as Enemy Sides in a Multiplayer Campaign

[SigurdFireDragon]

As part of my Random Campaign, I decided it would be cool to create a 1 player, 3 scenario campaign under the Multiplayer button, so that a player can easily play a mini-campaign with whatever Era they download.

This would make use of the Era chosen on the map selection screen to do the following:
1. let the player pick his faction like for a normal multiplayer scenario.
2. use a Random faction from the era for each of the enemy sides in all three scenarios of the campaign.
3. Do 1 & 2 in such a fashion that any Era downloaded from the add-on server can be used.

I'm not sure if this could be done, or how easy it would be if it can be.

Ideally, I'd specify an enemy side in each of the scenarios with a side tag something like this:

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			[side]
				side=2
				allow_player=no
				controller=ai
				faction=Random
			[/side]

and that would be it for determining side leader & recruit list. And configure the rest of the side info from the Multiplayer Game Setup menu (such as gold, income, fog status, ect.)
(and for future scenarios change the values of gold & income based on the original settings)
but my understanding of the [side] faction key is that it doesn't work that way.

Can it be done at all?
With WML?
With Lua?

[Dovolente]

I'm not sure if this could be done, or how easy it would be if it can be.

Try it a few times without specifying a faction, and see what you get.

[SigurdFireDragon]

Thanks, did that, and it's working the way I want, but only for the first scenario.

I can't seem to figure out how to get player 1's leader & recruit list to persist to the second scenario.
Also can't figure out how to get random sides in the second scenario.

I tried following examples from 2 different MP campaigns, (World Conquest & 2player Battle System), but couldn't get those to work in my campaign. They are both 1.8 Campaigns & I'm doing this in 1.9 not sure if that's the problem, but there's nothing on the wiki about significant side tag changes. Tried how I have it set up in my SP campaign that doesn't work either.

also, I am jumping from scenario 1 to 2 using debug mode's :cl

I figure I gotta have id & save_id the same, but that's not working.

Here's my latest attempt. I am using this in the 1st & 2nd scenarios:

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	[side]
		side=1 
		id=Player1
		save_id=Player1
		persistent=yes
		canrecruit=yes 
		controller=human
		team_lock=yes
	[/side]

How do I need to write a side tag to get Player 1's faction to persist?

EDIT- Hmmm...the error seems to have something to do with how I'm using the [generator] tag. When I use a premade map, it works, at least for side 1.