A long time ago (in 2003), when RTW was still in the cradle, CA team considered including the Illyrians. This project never materialized in the final version, but some elements survived, icons, skins, and names. Later, probably the very first famous mod on RTW, RTR, gave them birth. They were generally seen as one of the most difficult faction to play. Now CATW delivers a new, massive, and updated version of this relatively "exotic" faction. Set in 300 BC, the Illyrians left a strong image for both Greeks and italic neighbours, of pirates, somewhat anachronistic warbands falling into banditry, partly hellenized, partly celticized and living like their fellow thracian brothers in the Homeric age, split into rival kingdoms. They left names like Bradyllis, and Teuta, queen of the pirates, which inherited from her deceased husband, Agron, the first true unified illyrian kingdom. This was 230 bc, and Illyrian pirates threatened and infested the entire Adriatic sea, and forced the romans, for the first time, to leave their homeland peninsula, launching a massive and fast blitzkrieg style conquest on the rugged balkan coastline. What follows is a well-known history...
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