Post Release Aristeia News

**Zhuge_Liang** · March 08, 2010, 06:32 PM

9th March 2010

I will shortly begin work on the final release of Aristeia. I intend to work only on one more release of Aristeia but encourage fans to make their own content, historical battles and campaigns. If anybody is interested in this then please contact me and I will try to help where possible.

Features for the final release-

- New provincial campaign focused on trojan area.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

- Fix all recorded bugs.
- Add Astyanax and Neoptolemos.
- Add Helen.
- Alter unit balancing slightly regarding heroes.
- Alter economic balancing slightly.

23/04/2010

Aristeia Added to moddb
http://www.moddb.com/mods/aristeia

**Mediteran** · March 08, 2010, 08:40 PM

cant wait

this is definitely the best mod out there

**The Spaniard** · March 08, 2010, 10:53 PM

This sounds awesome. The first thing to come to my mind when I read this was: "I hope ROFL can hold his excitement in for this addition too"

. Anyways, I foresee many hours of my time being spent reloading the Aristeia page for news, here we go again

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**Zhuge_Liang** · March 09, 2010, 05:35 AM

Well, it will be quite a while before it is released so hopefully people won't get into a frenzy like last time.

**Spartan198** · March 09, 2010, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Zhuge_Liang

- Add Astyanax and Neoptolemos.
- Add Helen.

Astyanax was an infant/toddler during the war. How is he going to figure in?

Will Helen be a controllable hero?

**Zhuge_Liang** · March 09, 2010, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Spartan198

Astyanax was an infant/toddler during the war. How is he going to figure in?

Will Helen be a controllable hero?

They will be added to the family trees. We will maybe add helen as paris' wife given the mod start date - I shall discuss with zenith.

**Claudius the God** · March 09, 2010, 01:06 PM

Fantastic - the zoomed in Troy provincial campaign idea is an excellent one!

Could we possibly have some more unique hero models/skins for semi-major heroes like Glaukos, Antilochos, Thrasymedes and Telemachos (not necessaryily all of the, they're in the order I'd say is most important, and there may be others too)

**Nikolos** · March 09, 2010, 02:06 PM

Does this mean there will also be a longer broad campaign like ttw, where you start in your respective city states?

**Ajax_The_Great** · March 09, 2010, 02:09 PM

add more armys to the acheans and heroes to Odysseus,Diomedes and Aias

because i fight a lot of battles and stay without men to fight and a ally takes troy most Neleus

**Zenith Darksea** · March 09, 2010, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by Nikolos

Does this mean there will also be a longer broad campaign like ttw, where you start in your respective city states?

No. The current Aristeia campaign is the 'longer broad campaign'. There is a reason why we are not doing a campaign like TTW. At any rate, it should be obvious that we are only going to add what Zhuge mentioned in his post.

**Ajax_The_Great** · March 09, 2010, 04:32 PM

There is no way to make a provincial campaing about the Argonauts?

**Zhuge_Liang** · March 09, 2010, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ajax_The_Great

There is no way to make a provincial campaing about the Argonauts?

They covered a larger area than the current campaign map and didn't really fight any set battles.

**Mediteran** · March 09, 2010, 05:12 PM

the argonauts weren't an army, i don't see how you could do that in rtw

**Ajax_The_Great** · March 09, 2010, 06:23 PM

Just add the heroes at least would be cool they fighting in the trojan war.

**Zenith Darksea** · March 09, 2010, 06:56 PM

The Argonauts went on a journey to Colchis, got the golden fleece, and then fled without fighting a single actual battle (even when the Sparti appeared Jason hid and let them kill each other before he emerged again). They then spent the rest of their journey trying to escape King Aeetes' pursuing fleet, and finally arrived back in Thessaly, still not having fought a proper set battle.

**Saint_jimmyz** · March 10, 2010, 01:16 AM

Could you add a dozen or so character portraits for minor heroes, and adopted heroes? Using the default Greek portraits seems to ruin the atmosphere set by the rest of the campaign map. Obviously skins and models arent needed, for all minor heroes, but a couple of extra skins wouldnt go amis.

One minor thing: just before you upload the mod can you change the starting screen resolution to 1024x768? While I have manually changed the screen resolution to something my screen can display, I have to have the mod running in administrator mode to apply the changes to the preferences.txt file.