Greek Mod v. 2.3 with AOR system (last update 23/02/2010)
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Hellas Mod v. 2.X
This is version 2.X of Greek mod with many changes that aim to make it more interesting and more joyful. The most obvious changes are in textures. There are some fine textures made by Anastasios and some temporary made by me. All the textures should be reworked from Anastasios in next releases. Some units historically had traditional uniforms and guns. I've tried to make as closed it was possible due to serious limitations in changing models.
However the most important change in the game play are the changes in units stats and units recruitment. Stats where reworked having in mind the VH level where Greece normally has no chance. Even now it is very challenging and only a TW expert has a few chances to succeed.
Game play info and tips:
The regular units are expensive and limited in numbers thus with better stats and full sizes. This reflects the small economy of the new established Kingdom. Greek units can be recruited only in Moreas, Greece and Rumelia. The only global units are the irregulars and Chorofilakes (infantry and cavalry) that historically had also police duties. Naval units are also global. You won't be able to make more than 3-4 full stacks with regular units because of the limitations. Also the high prices in buying and keeping them will discourage you to recruit many of them early in the game before you develop your economy. But the enemies will never let you do that in land and sea...
A good strategy is always to avoid quick expansion and develop your economy. All the building slots in Athens lead to prestige buildings that boosts your economy. Sacrifice one of your towns for making a school for technology research. To protect your lands base your starting armies in irregulars that are cheap to buy and maintain. They are veterans of the Greek Revolution and especially in melee combat are excellent fighters. Also Philellenes (foreign volunteers) should be your early solution in recruiting line army and cavalry. They have also low cost in recruitment and up keeping.
Greece starts with 2 commercial and 1 naval port, reflecting the strong power that has traditionally in sea trade. Even during the Revolution the Greeks used trade vessels transformed to battle ships. There are 4 special unique naval units that should help you survive from the see threats with low cost in recruitment and up keeping. Also Greek 5th rate line vessels can beat easily the 5th rates of other factions and will be a challenging opponent for bigger enemy ships with the help of the unique naval units. Historically this power should be met in smaller vessels but in Late Campaign there are many big ships of the line around, so 5th rate is considered a small vessel even in the beginning of the game.
As mentioned the limitations in unit numbers will not let you make more than 3-4 full stack of regular units and these only in home regions and Rumelia. For the rest of the world you can recruit local units. More than 130 units are recruitable by Greece with the included AOR system.
Since the depth in game play is a main objective for this mod your suggestions and ideas in this filed playing with Greek mod is mostly welcome.
Changes in version 2.3:
* Includes all previous fixes. * All reported bugs have been fixed. Changes in version 2.2:
* New units * New textures by Anastasios * Darth compatible version available * Other changes
Changes in version 2.1:
* New textures added for Taktikos Stratos and Artillery units, created by Anastasios.
* Fixed issue with Steam Ship
* Square formastion added for Philellenes
* Other minor changes Changes in version 2:
* Greek army reformed completely to reflex the time period. Historical accurate names and descriptions. * New skins for Greek units. * AOR system added for Greece. * Greek ships of the line (1st-6th rate) retextured. * Four special Greek naval units. * Land and naval Greek units stats reworked. * Four new prestige buildings. * BAI improved following some ideas of Darth Vader. * Animations improved thanks to tiyafeh,s mod. Now officers point in the battlefield, or look through telescope etc. instead of staying still. Also man_musket_sabre animations changed so when charging and in melee some of the men will use sabres and others will use muskets. * Greek titles have replaced European (Basileus, Prothipourgos, etc.). * Many other minor changes.
Prestige Buildings
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Anaktora (government). The neoclassical three-floor structure designed by Friedrich von G?rtner and completed in 1843, originally served as a palace for the Greek monarchs. Academia,Acad?me, or the Academy are collective terms for the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research. The word comes from the akademeia, just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. Oplostasio was the central wherahouse of military equipment assigned to Artillery Administartion.
Gramateia Stratiotikonwas the center of the army leadership and command of the Greek Kingdom.
The Greek Army:
Irregulars
Royal Phalanx
Royal Phalanx was honorary corps of veterans of the Greek Revolution. The carried musket and sword, were dressed with their traditional clothes and they had excellent melee skills.
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Ethnofilakes (National Guards) where responsible for the protection of the country side from rebel attacks. They were Veterans of the Revolution, very experienced in combat with excellent skills for melee battle. They carried a musket and a sword and were dressed with traditional clothes.
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Orofilakes (Mountain Guards) where responsible for the protection of the mountain areas from rebel attacks. They were Veterans of the Revolution, very experienced in combat with excellent skills for melee battle. They carried a musket and a sword and were dressed with the traditional clothes.
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Acrobolistes (Sharpshooters) were Veterans of the Revolution used in the battlefield as supporting force to regular army. They were very experienced in combat with excellent skills for melee battle. They carry a rifle and a sword and they were allowed to wear their traditional clothes.
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Regulars
Bavarian Corps was a military force that accompanied the Bavarian first King of Greece, to secure his authority in the new established Greek Kingdom. NEW texture by Anastasios
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Bavarian Royal Guard NEW texture by Anastasios
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PhelellenesPhilhellenism (the love of Greek culture) was an intellectual fashion prominent at the turn of the 19th century, that led Europeans like Lord Byron to advocate for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire. NEW texture by Anastasios
Phelellenes Ippeis Texture by Anastasios
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Taktikos Stratos Greek Taktikos Stratos (regular army) was organized in 1833 as the european modern armies of that period. New texture by Anastasios
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Marines
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Evelpides are young officer cadets, attending the Evelpidon Military Academy of Greece. They are well trained, but young and inexperienced light infantry units armed with rifles. Texture by Anastasios
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Naval Cadets are young officers straight away from the Hellenic Naval Academy. They are well trained in melee fighting, but very often they prove themselves adept in handling rifles, that provides them a handy versatility in battle. Texture by Anastasios
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Michaniko (Engineers), was a special technical force for constructing military facilities, bridges, roads, etc NEW texture by Anastasios
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Chorofilakes (state guards) were military corps loyal to Greek monarch and responsible for maintaing the low and the order in all the state, the military camps and the army. It included infantry and cavalry units.
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Chorofilakes Ippeis NEW texture by Anastasios
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Lonchoforoi Ippeis (Lancers) was the first cavalry force of Greek Army.Texture by Anastasios
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Epanastates Off. where officers of the regular army that often protest or made movements against the King's authority disappointed by his military or foreign policy.
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Artillery units NEW texture by Anastasios
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Non Historical units
Revolutionary Guards New Unit textured by Anastasios
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Republican Guards New Unit textured by Anastasios
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Campaign Line InfantryNew Unit textured by Anastasios
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Heavy Cavalry NEW texture by Anastasios
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Greek Navy:
All line ships have been retextured. Also 4 unique special naval units have been added.
Download Link 2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQ2OL823 Download Hellas_22.7z and extract it to your [...]empire total war/data folder. None of your files will be overwritten. Activate the 3 pack files, Hellas_patch22, Hellas_naval, Hellas_models with Mod Manager and start a new grand campaign. Then proceed with v. 2.3 installation:
v. 2.3 Download also the Hellas_patch_23.7z, extract it in your data folder and delete Hellas_patch_22. Download Link
If you don't use Mod Manager and you edit manually the user.empire_script add the following lines:
Code:
mod " Hellas_patch23.pack";
mod " Hellas_naval.pack";
mod " Hellas_models.pack";
If you want to play something else you have to remove Hellas_loc.pack.
This version is compatible with light and standard Darth's mods (for DMUC 5.3 look here). Download Hellas_Darth22.7z from the above link and extract it on your desktop. Ignore the instalation.doc file. Copy the pack files and the folder campaigns in [...]empire total war/data folder.
V. 2.3
Download Hellas_Darth_ patch_23.7z, extract it in your data folder and delete Hellas_Darth_patch_22. Activate Hellas_Darth_patch23, Hellas_Darth_data and Darth's mod with Mod Manager and start a new Grand Campaign. Download Link
If you don't use Mod Manager and you edit manually the user.empire_script add the following lines:
Code:
mod " Hellas_Darth_patch23.pack";
mod " Hellas_Darth_data.pack ";
plus the line for Darth's mod according his instructions.
If you want to play something else you have to remove Hellas_loc.pack.
* Compatible with 1.5 patch
* Greece playable in Late Campaign
* Greece starts with greece and moreas regions
* New textures
* Loading screens
* Other minor changes
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The Team:
Founder of the mod:Demis 14
Mod Leader/Coder:HusserlTw
Lead Skinner/2D artist:Anastasios
Skinner/2D artist:sam100255
Research: Starlightman, HusserlTw
Thanks to:
Demis14 and his team for making this mod.
1. Just for EsfEditor, Koras321, alpaca, erasmus777 for the later development.
2. LtChambers for PackFileManager and DbEditor.
3. Alpaca for modfoldering.
4. All the friends of Greek mod thread.
Last edited by husserlTW; February 22, 2010 at 06:37 PM.
This BETA version 1.4 is just a quick release before I go away for some time and get back in late August to continue work. We are open in response to some errors or suggestions, but have always in mind that a lot of improvement or changes are subject to be done until the final v1.4 release. In this BETA you can get a glimpse of the new units with Anastasios' great new textures and the new republic flags made by Sam.
This mod is not aimed at historical accuracy
simply put, to anyone complaining about historical accuracy or authenticity, simply DONT DOWNLOAD THIS MOD or View this mod thread!
Details of mod:
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Regions: Greece Victory conditions: Short Campaign: 15 total regions, including Greece, Morea, Rumelia, Anatolia (these surely) I also included Syria as it has the island of Cyprus and Bulgaria as the Balkans is an area that the Greeks have always wanted to dominate Long Campaign: 25 total regions, including Greece, Morea, Rumelia, Anatolia, Syria, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia (the last 3 as for seeking dominance in the Balkans) Prestige Victory: 15 total regions, including Greece, Morea, Rumelia, Anatolia, Syria, Bulgaria (same as short campaign) World Domination: 40 total regions, including Greece, Morea, Rumelia (just these as they approximately represent the regions that have always been the main land of Greece)
Other changes:
1.Changed the voice language of the characters, army and navy from Turkish to US English as Greek is non-existing (credit to LSD)
2.Changed Larisa from village to town in order to give a slot available for school and technology advancements.
Known Issues:
1. At the start you won't have a government and the government tab and taxes panels will be disabled, until you capture a new region.
I also weakened the Morea region that Venice controls to make it easy to capture early in the game and enable the tab.
2. Due to AI entries, the AI thinks that it still owns the Greece region and it may recruit a unit from time to time at the start of the game, but as the game progresses this should become very rare. Also we you destroy the Ottomans, the game crashes.
Also due to this, Athens has very bad wealth deficit and illogical minor problems. I strongly encourage you to follow the steps below to solve this! Together with the next update, a savegame with the steps already done will be released.
To solve this:
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After capturing Morea, open the savegame with esf editor and change the capital region to Morea and then give the region of Greece to Venice through diplomacy in game. In the same turn capture Greece back (it will be easy as it wont have any army) and then change again the capital back to Athens through esf editor. To do this:
1. Open the savegame with esf editor 2. Go to CAMPAIGN_STARTPOS\CAMPAIGN_ENV\CAMPAIGN_MODEL\WORLD\REGION_MANAGER\REGIONS_ARRAY\ and find the region_array of Morea 3. With REGION being highlighted, copy the second entry on the right-side which is the Region ID of Morea and a number of type Int 4. Then go to CAMPAIGN_STARTPOS\CAMPAIGN_ENV\CAMPAIGN_MODEL\WORLD\FACTION_ARRAY\FACTION_ARRAY and find the faction_array of Greece (it should be the first in order) 5. With FACTION being highlighted find the 12th and 13th entry on the right, which are the Capital Region IDs of the faction. Replace BOTH of them with the previously copied Morea ID. 6. After that, click save and run the game
NOTE: Normally, after recapturing Athens back, it should open a message which will say "Old Capital region recaptured" (or something similar).
If so, then Athens will be automatically changed back to capital region. If a normal message of capturing a region appears, then you have to manually change the Capital ID back to Athens,
so follow the same steps as above, but this time for Greece region instead of Morea.
(also note that Region IDs change when ownership changes)
I've played through turn 50 with no bugs or crashes, but i suggest you save your game before each turn, as it may crash randomly
Thanks to:
1. GeorgiaPeanuts for his tutorial on enabling emergents
2. Zach_the_Evil for his tutorial on changing victory conditions
3. Just for his wonderful esf editor
4. LtChambers for his amazing PackFileManager
5. Trasibulos for his republic flags 6. and of course special thanks to Anastasios for his great skinning and general support on the mod
Installation:
1. BACK UP your existing "startpos.esf" (data folder\campaigns\main) and "regions.esf" (data folder\campaign_maps\global_map)
2. Extract the downloaded "Greece_mod_V1.3.rar" file
3. Replace your old "startpos.esf" and "regions.esf" files with the downloaded ones
4. Copy the "Greek_mod.pack" and "Greek_mod_descriptions.pack" to the data folder of your ETW directory
5. Enable the "Greek_mod.pack" through Mod Manager or add the line: mod "Greek_mod.pack"; to the user.empire_script file that should be found under: Vista C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire XP C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire
The "Greek_mod_descriptions.pack" doesnt need enabling, just place it in the data folder.
6. Run the game as usual and enjoy
Also make sure you have no older version of Greek mod in your data folder!
Changelog:
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Update to V1.3-fixed:
-Fixed bug with Naval building slot in Athens, that caused to CTD whenever tried to upgrade the building
-Fixed building coordinates of newly enlarged Athens, to correctly fit the buildings in both campaign and battle map
Update to V1.3:
-Added Naval building slot to Athens in order to enable Naval tech researching
-Improved texture of Line Infantry, Grenadiers and 12-lber foot Artillery
-Retextured Greek Militia
-Fixed flag problem of netherlands, naples, tuscany, norway, new spain
-Changed city names from Izmir to Smyrna and from Instanbul to Constantinople, that is historically correct
Update to V1.2:
-Retuxtured Greek Line Infantry, Greek Grenadiers and Greek 12-foot Artillery
-Made Greece playable in Custom Battle
-Changed the Republic flag of Greece
-Added custom description of Greece
-Changed portrait of monarch in the Grand Campaign faction selection panel to reflect the correct person
Update to V1.1:
Made Greece to appear as major faction, in order to have Greece represented in the Prestige tab. (credit to LSD)
Future Changes in upcoming update v1.4:
1. Full retexture of existing Greek units and officers
2. Add new units including: Philhellene Volunteers "Φιλέλληνες", Evelpides "Ευέλπιδες" and Naval Cadets "Ναυτικοί Δόκιμοι" with unique textures, unit cards and descriptions
3. Add Marines for major naval powers (to balance out the addition of Naval Cadets to Greece)
4. Edit the Royal Family Tree and Ministers to reflect a more historical sequence
5. Add characters like Rigas Feraios as gentleman, Palaion Patron Germanos as Orthodox Missionary and other historical characters of 1821 revolution
6. Edit existing and new unit stats of Greece to balance out the Army strenght
7. Change Greek Monarchy flag and Battalion flag
Long-term changes (currently no breakthrough, as the we dont have the tools or method to do them)
1. Create new models & textures for the following units:
-Armatoloi "Αρματωλοί" (replacement of Militia)
-Klephts "Κλέφτες" (Skirmishers, will replace Pikemen)
-Evzones "Εύζωνες" (will replace Guards)
-Cretan Fighters "Κρητικοί" (Marines)
-Macedonian Guards (Elite Infantry)
2. Add unit-specific battalion flags
3. Make Crete and Cyprus (maybe even Macedonia) seperate regions
THE TEAM:
Mod Leader/Lead Coder: demis14
Lead Skinner/2D artist: Anastasios
Skinner/2D artist: sam100255
Coder: husserlTW
The following our outdated screenshots and info. New ones are due to be uploaded in some time.
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Greek mod v1.3 SCREENSHOTS IN GAME:
Greece Republic flags:
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Retextured Greek Line Infantry:
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Retextured Greek Grenadiers:
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Retextured Greek Militia
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Retextured Greek 12-lber foot Artillery:
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SAMPLE SCREENSHOTS of upcoming v1.4 new units/retextures:
Evelpides
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(Light Infantry) "Ευέλπιδες" (young officer cadets attending the "Evelpidon Military Academy" of Greece. They are well trained, but young and inexperienced light infantry units armed with rifles.)
Philhellene Volunteers
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(Line Infantry) "Φιλέλληνες" (a unit of european philhellenes who joined the Greek Army as volunteers as part of their sympathy for Greek freedom and are willing to fight to preserve it.)
Naval Cadets
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(Naval Infantry) "Ναυτικοί Δόκιμοι" (young officers straight away from the Hellenic Naval Academy. They are well trained in melee fighting, but very often they prove themselves adept in handling rifles, that provides them a handy versatility in battle)
Greek Hussars retextured
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Last edited by demis14; August 09, 2009 at 05:21 PM.
and injustice, but it would be disrespectful to the Ottomans.
Greece in 1700 was not independent.
disrespect to the British made
America in 1700 was not independent.
my friend Turkmen-Timur, as i posted above, in this mod am not interested in historical accuracy, i just posted a mod of my personal entertainment that i thought some other people would find enjoyable to play with Greece. After all it's just a game and nobody forced you to download this mod!
EDIT: I also dont understand what's the relevance of American Independence with this mod thread!
Last edited by demis14; April 26, 2009 at 07:09 AM.
Nice work m8 and if you reskin the faction aswell it dosent have to be historic which means if you can get a skinner or do it yourself theres no limits as to what colours you can use as greece had no standing army at the time or i could be wrong but thx for another faction to play..
Maybe one could make Greece a protectorate of the Ottoman empire? It may not be historically correct, but more so than a fully independant Greece. It would certainly provide a great challenge for anyone wanting to play as them, and in my dictionary, challenge = fun. I haven't tried playing as a protectorate before, so I'm not certain what the game mechanics allow or won't allow you to do though.
I agree man leave.It its not offending anyone.I am turk and I'm ok with it
Its kinda pointless to say those words TÜRKMEN-Timūr.
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Thnx guys, when I find some time I will invest in producing a more complete "Greek mod" with more uniqueness but I will need the help of some skinners and modders that know the thing well and actually I am waiting for the reply of some great Greek modders to help me!
As for the idea of making Greece a protectorate of the Ottomans, I think the Greeks if they have managed their independence, they would never settle for being protectorate of the Ottomans. But even so, it's not hard as far as I know to make Greece a protectorate of the Ottomans, it just needs one or two changes in the esf file...
P.S. As for my friend TURKMEN-Timur, please start making some more fruitful comments otherwise stop wasting our time
Greek Mod v. 2.3 with AOR system (last update 23/02/2010)
Greece Playable & Improvement mod BETA v1.4
Originally Posted by TÜRKMEN-Timūr
But even so, it's not hard as far as I know to make Greece a protectorate of the Ottomans, it just needs one or two changes in the esf file...
