Ahoy!
King Philip II talked about this mod and I was quite eager to play it, and quite sad that it was lost, but it's obviously understandable, so I decided to try out something myself. Since these are just some minor edits compared to the original mod of this thread, I guess I will post it here instead of making a new thread, especially since I have already been discussing this mini-mod here -
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...y-as-Spartacus
As known, the 'Roman Rebel' faction (as 'new_faction') is already existent in the 77BC mod, I merely unlocked it and made some minor adjustments on the 'descr_strat', only on the Spartacus faction and the SPQR faction, and also, only in Italy. I just opened the file and started tampering it, I have no previous TW modding experience so I haven't set any victory conditions, no new characters, skins, maps, or any kind of story/plot, etc.., that can be made in the future, time will tell.
There has been a recent Spartacus uprising with the Starz series, which lead me here in the first place searching for mods, so basically I made this mini-mod a bit based on these series despite not being able to create new characters, but at the moment, it's just player roleplay to recreate the story and some battles on your own, no scripts yet as I've referred above, it's just free to roam.
You can start as the Roman Rebels with 3 armies lead by Spartaco, Crixo and Oenomao near Brundisium consisting of trained experienced gladiators and rebels, or you can start as the Romans/SPQR with Crassus, Caesar and Pompey in the settlements right above Spartacus and his armies.
Note: I included Caesar assuming he was involved in the Third Servile War taking Starz's series in mind.
So this is the 'descr_strat' -
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7q57p2
The installation process is the same as the one on the first post, download the file, and place it on:
data\world\maps\campaign\barbarian_invasion\descr_strat
For uninstall purposes, before copying the file above, first click on the original 'descr_strat' and select copy (CTRL+C), then just paste (CTRL+V) and you should have a ''descr_strat - Copy' file created, so in order to uninstall this mini-mod, you just need to delete the 'descr_strat' and rename the 'descr_strat - Copy' back into just 'descr_strat'.
Please remember this is a very raw mini-mod as I have no experience in TW modding and had little time to enhance this, but it was entertaining actually defeating Crassus and Caesar, followed by Pompey, and then conquering the rest of the world through Spartacus' legacy :]