XGM Diadochi 0.93b CARTHAGE PREVIEW!

**Maraxus** · October 05, 2008, 01:06 PM

The latest version of XGM - Diadochi introduces an all new Carthaginian roster. I hope you enjoy playing your campaigns with these new units.

Levy Hoplites, available everywhere but not reliable.

Civic Hoplites, available everywhere and slightly more reliable, but not a lot.

Civic Lancers, available everywhere, decent charge but limited melee abilities, notice the Sacred Band Cavalry officers on both Civic cavalry units.

Noble Cavalry, available everywhere, good charge and melee abilities.

Sacred Band Hoplites, available right away in Carthage and New Carthage, but expensive and requires multiple turns to recruit.

Poeni Marines, Great skirmishers with decent melee qualities, available at 2nd tier ports.

Elephant Riders, what else do I need to say, they're guys on elephants.

Liby-Phoenician Light Spearmen, available in Africa, basically Thurophori.

Liby-Phoenician Light Pikemen, available in Africa, a light short spear Phalanx

Liby-Phoenician Heavy Infantry, available in Africa, essentailly imitation Legionaries.

Liby-Phoenician Heavy Pikemen, available in Africa, a heavier short spear phalanx

Assorted Numidian AOR Infantry, I included archers and Slingers as well as Peltasts.

Numidian Camel Lancers, reskin of the old XGMD model.

Punic Officers, the officers for any Civic or Liby-Phoenician Infantry Unit. Carthage had a great officer core so I included a bunch of them.

Beware playing Carthage is unbalanced, I know nothing about stat balancing so I guessed, expect nerfing or beefing up in the appropriate places. Also The Iberian AOR for Carthage is still in progress so the are sloppy right now, but Carthage is still very playable.

**HeroSK** · October 05, 2008, 01:35 PM

Great work, as always..

**Athenogoras** · October 05, 2008, 01:41 PM

Excellent news. Well done Maraxus

**Stilgar CG** · October 05, 2008, 03:59 PM

Great job, Maraxus.

Sacred Band is a blast.

**Spartan198** · October 05, 2008, 05:24 PM

Awesome, they look great.

**Mathais** · October 05, 2008, 11:10 PM

They are the best Carthaginian I have ever beheld thank you for your hard work you made Carthage what it should look like.

**gaunty14** · October 06, 2008, 01:42 AM

^-^

**RedFox** · October 06, 2008, 05:51 AM

I think there's not enough praise to really show the magnitude and awesomeness of your work on Diadochi, Maraxus. You've really made wonders with the textures recently, especially the Macedonians and now these awesome Carthaginians.

I hope TWC will allow me to +rep you again soon enough!

**jakobh94** · October 06, 2008, 09:20 AM

Let me just drewl on this for a sec.......

.......... done ....... and let me poke at it to see if its real........

........ done ..... and btw ....
LOOKS AWESOME!

**DimeBagHo** · October 06, 2008, 11:25 AM

Excellent work again Maraxus.

**Suppanut** · October 06, 2008, 11:39 AM

Excellent work as ever, Maraxus!

+Rep for them.

**atraps** · October 06, 2008, 12:25 PM

Carthage's looking nice in their new uniforms.

Great job Maraxus.

**RedFox** · October 06, 2008, 02:07 PM

For those who fancy large screenshots, I took the liberty of taking these: (sorry 56k users..)

Lybian Spearmen and Liby-Phoenician Spearmen in phalanx

Carthaginian Noble Cavalry

Liby-Phoenician Heavy Infantry - Heavy assault infantry

Civic Hoplites - well armed, but inexperienced soldiers, widely available

Trusted numidian allies/mercenaries - valuable skirmishers

Allied Iberian units - cavalry and infantry

More numidian skirmishers in front of the main battle-line

Kudos to Maraxus, not all UI cards are there, but that will be fixed.

**speedythefreak** · October 23, 2008, 10:43 PM

Where can I get those units, they're amazing !!!

**Stilgar CG** · October 24, 2008, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by speedythefreak

Where can I get those units, they're amazing !!!

They are part of XGM-Diadochi, as you might guess. Install and enjoy. (see the main forum Download thread).

**speedythefreak** · October 24, 2008, 11:35 AM

I've downloaded the mod, but I did not install it because I just need some units for my personnal mod. I've run the exe for 0.92 and looked through the UI folder and looked in the Unit_info and units folders but it the unit cards look like the vanilla ones (not the ones displayed here) and went through the Data/model/unit looking for the TGA files opened them with photoshop and they didn't look at all like the ones appearing here. I did the same with 0.93B with the same results. Where should I look exactly for those unit cards and textures, thanx in advance...

**RedFox** · October 24, 2008, 11:39 AM

speedythefreak: It isn't very nice to pull out units like that from other mods, especially without permission. And I doubt Maraxus and I will allow you to loot our work like that. That said, stop doing whatever you are trying to pull here.

**speedythefreak** · October 24, 2008, 12:54 PM

Dear RedFox

I think I wasn't clear enough in my statement, by personnal I meant that I'm actually customizing a version of RTW for my own personal usage, no public diffusion of that mod is intended, I'm doing it for my own use, so I implement some units that I consider the most graphically beautiful into my own mod, no offense intended, so I'm not a public modder, and I use various units and skins from Ferres, KLA, Lusteds, as any other RTW player...and I'm in no way related to any mod team, I would have ask the permission, I'm not that of a newbie. I've got a handful of posts but I've been lurking for several years, since shogun came out years ago. So that my point is clear, I would still appreciate some help.