Historical MP/SP for RS2

[Mulattothrasher]

HISTORICAL MP & SP CUSTOM BATTLES

for

ROMA SURRECTUM 2

GOALS

- Provide a realistic view of Iron Age armies in the late B.C./early A.D. period, the time frame that RS2 encompasses

- Give all factions full fledged historical units that can makeup their armies.

- Have the mod as historically accurate within reason.

PROGRESS

Factions should be pretty much finish, barring some minor changes to units and/or errors I made placing them. Here they are, barbarians first!



CIMBRI


I listed the Cimbri first because I made some deletions to it's roster that might upset some folks. Gone are the Bear warriors, naked warriors, and Cimbri Noble cavalry. Reasons being are:

1) The tribes east of the Rhine were not major heavy cavalry users, much less ones with chainmail. So the general unit remains the main heavy hitter, but plenty of quality light and medium Germanic cavalry is available to help compete with the neighboring Celts and their cavalry.

2) Berserkers and east Rhine nude warriors were not all that common on the battlefield; nude warriors in much fewer numbers than what you'd find in Celtic lands. Wolf warriors stay, however, so the Cimbri have an excellent fear inspiring unit with a more common Germanic panoply.

The Cimbri will have great light and medium infantry compared to other factions.


SARMATIA


SCYTHIA


I only have a passing understanding of the steppes. Anyone wishing to copy the EDU and tell me whats wrong, if any, I'm all ears. I gave each the Bastarnae unit because of that tribes proximity to the steppes.


BOII


Northern Italian, Alpine, Eastern Celts, and Illyrians give the Boii great all around infantry and cavalry.


GALLAECI


Great selection of superior skirmishers with strong infantry and cavalry.


DACIA


Strong in many areas with excellent heavy cavalry and shock infantry.


BELGAE


Fields the best Celtic infantry in RS2, but lacking in cavalry abilities with other Celts.


ARVERNI


Arverni gather the supreme Celtic cavalry in RS2 compared to other Celts, and heavy southern Gallic troops.




..and now those other factions that folks like for some weird reason

CARTHAGE


Great mix of African, Iberian, and Celtic troops.


PERGAMON



ARMENIA



PARTHIA



SPARTA



PONTUS


Part Greek, part Persian, part Celtic Galatian. Great troop types.


MACEDONIA



PTOLEMIES



SELEUCIDS



FREE GREEKS and the ROMANS are done, too, but so many units are there I did not picture them. Load up this EDU and you can see them.

I have not made any changes to stats, attack, defense, etc/ (at least that I know of) so these are original RS2 stats. Changes to that will come later of course. What I need feedback on at this point are making sure I did not misplace a unit in the wrong faction. If I did, let me know.



The EDU is attached below. This goes into your RS 2 installation/data folder. Where the /data folder is you'll see many 'Play_xyz' faction folders as well. Make a backup of the original export_descr_unit file. Start up some custom battles and try it out!


Enjoy!

[apple]

Great job mate.

[|Sith| Max]

but if people use this instead of the normal version, wont that cause desynchronization? and wouldn't it be hard for new people to define the key units if they have to pick from so many?

[apple]

Well this will be placed in it's own modfolder so think about it as an alternative MP.
+ you can play against each other if both isn't using the same files due to incapability.

[|Sith| Max]

tru dat. the search for the cause continues...

[Mulattothrasher]

but if people use this instead of the normal version, wont that cause desynchronization? and wouldn't it be hard for new people to define the key units if they have to pick from so many?

I like the variety of so many units that RS2, its a bonus by far over many other mods.

I think that players should be able to fight with many RS 2 units because there are so many. Otherwise, the only other time a player would ever see them is on a single player campaign (if they take the whole map) or custom battle controlled by the A.I. This will hopefully remedy that!

Core units will be up to how the player fights, I would think.

[|Sith| Max]

I like the variety of so many units that RS2, its a bonus by far over many other mods.

I think that players should be able to fight with many RS 2 units because there are so many. Otherwise, the only other time a player would ever see them is on a single player campaign (if they take the whole map) or custom battle controlled by the A.I. This will hopefully remedy that!

Core units will be up to how the player fights, I would think.

yes for SP it is indeed a bonus. for MP you will only be using a select bunch of units anyway then u end up with 90 % of the units not being used in favour of the most effective for the current matchup.

[apple]

Not when you are playing in a Historical manner and that's what this about.

[Mulattothrasher]

yes for SP it is indeed a bonus. for MP you will only be using a select bunch of units anyway then u end up with 90 % of the units not being used in favour of the most effective for the current matchup.

Well if a player only wants to use the same 10% of units over and over again, then there no reason to play this mod.

[|Sith| Max]

no, if it keeps desynchronizing there is no reason. if you want to play historically thats ok, but what we have now is balanced enough.

[DarthLazy]

Its in a seperate network with a different EDU, how would it cause desync?

[apple]

It wouldn't.

[|Sith| Max]

What gave you the impression i was referring to a yet to be created module lol. im talking about the normal MP mode.

[apple]

Well then why are you talking about it in this thread. Please stay on topic.

[|Sith| Max]

i am talking about it because he said that the mp not being historically correct would be a reason to quit playing it. i disagreed and replied that the desync might be a reason but certainly this mod looks so good that i aint gonna stop playing because a certain faction doesnt have a certain unit.

[DarthLazy]

Man, this is a DIFFERENT EDU that will be modfoldered and played on a SEPERATE network and will have no interferance from the old networks

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Does it exist any native Gallaeci archers in the mod?

[apple]

Don't think so.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Don't think so.

I figured as much, that's probably why "the mysterious man" adviced me to give the Spaniards Erytanes Toxotes, I was surprised to learn that they were from as far away as Scythia tho

[|Sith| Max]

Man, this is a DIFFERENT EDU that will be modfoldered and played on a SEPERATE network and will have no interferance from the old networks

i do not understand how you keep bringing this up. for the last time there is no connection between desynchronization between two different versions because only 1 version exists. you lot should scroll up to before you lost what i was talking about cause im not going to explain it again