RELEASE: SPARTA_TOTAL_WAR_III

[Killerbee]

yes it is

for more realism


where is the link about changing to overhand phalanx please

So we should expect the player makes buildings that cost denarii , but have no purpose or bonus whatsoever ?

there's no link , since it was really easy to do , quetzl decided that the player himself could do it .. And if you did it , you could upload it , so other players don't have to do it

[clone]

yes

[Amorphos]

thanks everyone!

vaneeliuse

did you read the readme in the mod? the image for the icon is provided, just send the icon to desktop then change icon, browse and find the image in the sparta folder.

fresco

Only a two things:a)misses unit card in description of “Athenian Marine”

the card is in the mod...
yeah one of our beta testers said that, but the card is in the ui folder. the spartans have the card as do athens, so have a look in each folder to see if it is missing or not named correctly.

Names for Cretan are still Egyptians

yeah the names for corinth and epirus are eastern too. to change all of this [and everything else that needs doing eventually] would have added 6 months onto the release, it will all be done for the next release but for now i wanted to play this. mads can be overdone y’know, that is why they take so long to make.

clone
have a look at the skeletons, you will see there are a few overhead types, currently the ROP version is used for the iranian spearmen, so you could just paste that for any unit you want.
i don’t think such units use swords, so you may want to look at that too i.e. get rid of the sword skeleton then use all zero’s for the secondary attack in the EDU.

thanks for your suggestions, we will do all of that for the next release! we will make the next version at a time when athens was at its height and sparta was jealous lols.

also the greek generals should have hoplites not horse units.

hmm yes i suppose the heavy horse units were later ~ nice eye candy though. good point for next release.

theo

the overhand skeleton is in there but it was designed for bi shield wall, so i havent implemented it. beside they did use both the underhand and overhand spear [front ranks often used the underhand way], they also dug the back of the spear in the ground against cavalry. so there isn’t really a definitive way imho, although i am quite crap at history lols.

[Amorphos]

i don’t get why the athenian marine card doesnt show, i just checked it and the card is in there and it is named correctly?

any ideas anyone.

[Killerbee]

Do you have one for every faction that owns the unit in the appropriate faction folder ?

[clone]

yes it is



So we should expect the player makes buildings that cost denarii , but have no purpose or bonus whatsoever ?

there's no link , since it was really easy to do , quetzl decided that the player himself could do it .. And if you did it , you could upload it , so other players don't have to do it

i hate comparing mods and i dont think it is right.mods like eb and many othere try by adding many building about a more unique atmosphere for factions .for example greek festivals are reprezented by buildings

for example we can compare rome total war with se(x)as the SIZE OF THE feelings(children are reading this forum) isimportand but the mind plays a significant role.so the buildings and generaly the atmospere of a mod plays an importand role.they would have happiness or law.i made this comparison
beacause i wanted to declare how importand it is not that they have somthing in common .
but first its the first release of the mod (well done )
and you are working on this mod not me .i just suggest thinks
something last what file i need to change for overhead phalanx

[clone]

Quetzalcoatl said
theo

the overhand skeleton is in there but it was designed for bi shield wall, so i havent implemented it. beside they did use both the underhand and overhand spear [front ranks often used the underhand way], they also dug the back of the spear in the ground against cavalry. so there isn’t really a definitive way imho, although i am quite crap at history lols.

the greeks used the underhand spear animation BUT the use it if the whole unit was scatered and the every man was from himself
as a unit they used the uperhand animation
correct if iam wrong

[Amorphos]

theo

Do you have one for every faction that owns the unit in the appropriate faction folder ?

yes they are in there and they show on my pc, so i don’t get it at all.

clone

something last what file i need to change for overhead phalanx

DMB text file in your main sparta/data folder.

find this; [press ctrl + f and copy this text into the searchbox]
fs_o_f_spearman

that is the ROP skeleton for overhand phalanx, there are a few others you can try in the anims folder,+ there is the one i thin XGM and RS use, if i remeber rightly it is...

fs_s1_hoplite

haha no you are right, mainly they used the overhand.

[bladerunner900]

i don’t get why the athenian marine card doesnt show, i just checked it and the card is in there and it is named correctly?

any ideas anyone.

If you look at the name closely, you will see that the s has been droped. The name should be athenian_marines_INFO.tga

[Amorphos]

oh i see thanks blade

i only checked the unit card not the info card.

[Vetner]

Ok i just registered ive been coming to the forums for a long time now just never had to post anything until now, i need help, ive downloaded lots and lots of mods over the time ive been playing since rome tw was pretty new i think, anyway ive never been able to mess with files and change stuff because i end up messing everything up and having to do a reinstall but i cannot get this mod to work at all, i even made a copy of Rome from the creative assembly directory and put it in the "activision\rome total war file and just had this mod in it and it still wont work ive reinstalled and patched rome and BI twice with nothing but rome and this mod and when i open up the mod to play it still displays the roma surrectum loading screen and says it cant find half armored horse, what is this? i found it in desc_mount in the original rome files but i have no idea what to do, i copied all the files like the read me said the first few times then tried copying the whole data folder but still no luck i cant believe im having this much trouble can someone please tell me what im doing wrong ive been here for hours... thank you!

[KingLarsofMars]

The Greek mods are starting to fly out now. The Greek Wars broke the curse and this proves it!

[Agisilaos]

Ok i just registered ive been coming to the forums for a long time now just never had to post anything until now, i need help, ive downloaded lots and lots of mods over the time ive been playing since rome tw was pretty new i think, anyway ive never been able to mess with files and change stuff because i end up messing everything up and having to do a reinstall but i cannot get this mod to work at all, i even made a copy of Rome from the creative assembly directory and put it in the "activision\rome total war file and just had this mod in it and it still wont work ive reinstalled and patched rome and BI twice with nothing but rome and this mod and when i open up the mod to play it still displays the roma surrectum loading screen and says it cant find half armored horse, what is this? i found it in desc_mount in the original rome files but i have no idea what to do, i copied all the files like the read me said the first few times then tried copying the whole data folder but still no luck i cant believe im having this much trouble can someone please tell me what im doing wrong ive been here for hours... thank you!

it should never show a roma surrectum loading screen. it is not compatible with roma surrectum cause roma surrectum is not mod foldered. it will change things from the original game!
you will have to do a fresh new installation of rome and patch it to 1.5 version. if you have the gold edition you do not have to do it, cause it is already patched to 1.5! if you are confused go to the options of the game and up on the right it will show you which version of the game you have. it should be 1.5
so since you have a clean installation unrar the mod and follow the procedure you will find in the read me text file.

[JOHANNES]

congrats

[Big Pacha]

Seems nice, I'll DL it, but how do you launch the mod? Is there a shortcut. Do we have to create it? Is there a dos prompter? Please tell us.

[Vetner]

it should never show a roma surrectum loading screen. it is not compatible with roma surrectum cause roma surrectum is not mod foldered. it will change things from the original game!
you will have to do a fresh new installation of rome and patch it to 1.5 version. if you have the gold edition you do not have to do it, cause it is already patched to 1.5! if you are confused go to the options of the game and up on the right it will show you which version of the game you have. it should be 1.5
so since you have a clean installation unrar the mod and follow the procedure you will find in the read me text file.

Ah man when i first installed rome and BI i patched and copied so i would never have to get out the disks i would just have to copy the backup i had, i guess something of rome surrectum must have gotten on my backup somehow, weird, i just wasnt sure because i didnt know if maybe for some reason the mod used that loading screen?? gah crap anyway thanks for the pretty quick response ill do a full reinstall with the disks and let you know how it turned out, thanks again

[Killerbee]

Ah man when i first installed rome and BI i patched and copied so i would never have to get out the disks i would just have to copy the backup i had, i guess something of rome surrectum must have gotten on my backup somehow, weird, i just wasnt sure because i didnt know if maybe for some reason the mod used that loading screen?? gah crap anyway thanks for the pretty quick response ill do a full reinstall with the disks and let you know how it turned out, thanks again

You probably first downloaded RS , and then made the copy .. To get RS and still have your vanilla version , you need to make a copy of your RTW , and then install it in your copy .. Also , you need to drag the 'SPARTA' folder (not the sparta_total_war_III) folder to your main RTW directory (so whn you open the 'Rome - Total War' map

I hope it works now !

[Conqistador]

gratz man, great mod! +rep

[Amorphos]

big pacha hi

how do you launch the mod? Is there a shortcut.

the shortcut is in the main folder of sparta, just right click on it, then click ‘send to dektop’ then once done just click on the icon now on your desktop to start.

if the icon image doesn’t show then right click on the icon, click properties then change icon, then browse, then find the image i provided in the main sparta folder [where the icon and the readme is], click on that image and click ok.

these instructions are in the readme i thought?

[badapple]

I wanted to try your mod but after following the install instructions all I get is vanilla total war. I placed the sparta folder in the rome total war folder. I then click on the sparta shortcut but just get vanilla total war. The sparta icon is just an icon and doesn't launch the game. So does anyone know what I am doing wrong???