Amazon:Total War - Reignited, Beta Release Out

[Juffo Wup]

I went to the custom battles(no egyptian chariots in custom battles ).I'm not sure if some units are there/missing in custom that are in the campaign mode.And your version of egypt seems more historically accurate though.One other question are the elephants a bug? Egypt has them (maybe I'm dim on this one ) I didnt know egypt or ptolemy's egypt had them.

[Resef]

While Alexander never liked elephants his successors were in love with them.

An excerpt from Polybius on Raphia Book V
Most of Ptolemy's elephants, however, declined the combat, as is the habit of African elephants; for unable to stand the smell and the trumpeting of the Indian elephants, and terrified, I suppose, also by their great size and strength, they at once turn tail and take to flight before they get near them. This is what happened on the present occasion; and when Ptolemy's elephants were thus thrown into confusion and driven back on their own lines, Ptolemy's guard gave way under the pressure of the animals.."

[parthian shot]

I agree with Resef and during our research for this mod, we did not encounter any reference to the ancient Egyptians deploying elephants for battle, but the Diadochi, including the Ptolemaic generals, certainly did.

I went to the custom battles(no egyptian chariots in custom battles ).I'm not sure if some units are there/missing in custom that are in the campaign mode.And your version of egypt seems more historically accurate though.One other question are the elephants a bug? Egypt has them (maybe I'm dim on this one ) I didnt know egypt or ptolemy's egypt had them.

While Alexander never liked elephants his successors were in love with them.

An excerpt from Polybius on Raphia Book V
Most of Ptolemy's elephants, however, declined the combat, as is the habit of African elephants; for unable to stand the smell and the trumpeting of the Indian elephants, and terrified, I suppose, also by their great size and strength, they at once turn tail and take to flight before they get near them. This is what happened on the present occasion; and when Ptolemy's elephants were thus thrown into confusion and driven back on their own lines, Ptolemy's guard gave way under the pressure of the animals.."

[wumpus]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there was a third kind of elephant { seem to recall it from the History channel--am not sure], which was smaller than the African kind, but is now extinct just like the Numidian lion [the kind that Samson killed in the Bible] is also extinct. Maybe this kind of elephant was what Hannibal used to invade Italy, and also the animal used by the Seleukids and others, not the African or the Indian kinds. Hawooh.
But, hey, how can I download this new Amazon mod? There's a U.S. Federal thing b locking the http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5NTT19VJ site, like my RTW diplomat has encountered an enemy army. Somebody help! >

[Armatus]

wow looks like megaupload got busted! don't expect it to come back anytime soon, I'd say this qualifies for a new place of storage.

edit: wait, it says "charging" them? shouldn't they be first "convicted" prior to such a public notice? I wonder if they got hacked?

[parthian shot]

We have not used megaupload for a while. Our download is alternating between location depending on which site gets upload faster.

You can access the latest download which is 6.0h [here]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there was a third kind of elephant { seem to recall it from the History channel--am not sure], which was smaller than the African kind, but is now extinct just like the Numidian lion [the kind that Samson killed in the Bible] is also extinct. Maybe this kind of elephant was what Hannibal used to invade Italy, and also the animal used by the Seleukids and others, not the African or the Indian kinds. Hawooh.
But, hey, how can I download this new Amazon mod? There's a U.S. Federal thing b locking the http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5NTT19VJ site, like my RTW diplomat has encountered an enemy army. Somebody help! >

[wumpus]

Thanks a lot, milady. Got your ATWR 6.0H from the above site, downloaded and installed it, and test-ran it last night [or maybe early this morning]. However, when I started to run the Imperial campaign, the game crashed and complained something about the script being wrong with Dacia having a different name. Maybe it's my PC that's buggy, or maybe my installation of RTW-BI has deteriorated. Does this thing happen too with others who installed ATWR 6.0H? What do you guys out there say about this? Be hearing about it soon. Thanxomuch to one and all. Hawooh.

[tianzong]

It doesn't has anything to do with this but are you planning to make another mod after this is really bug free or are you going to stick with this? Oh and something else, it would be really awesome if someone could create this for M2TW!

edit: has been answered already. look to thread above

[Armatus]

I've already asked about that, first there would need to be a team, however if PS ever wants to migrate to Mount&Blade I've offered her a position with IG (we actually plan to include Amazons shhhhhh!

[wumpus]

It doesn't has anything to do with this but are you planning to make another mod after this is really bug free or are you going to stick with this? Oh and something else, it would be really awesome if someone could create this for M2TW!

edit: has been answered already. look to thread above

There was somebod [am truly, dreadfully sorry to have forgotten his name ] who made a ver-ry tiny-weenie tweak to Parthian's ATWR 6.0H, and it works tremendously well with me so far. The improvement is still called ATWR 6.0H. Thanxomuch for that slight improvement to PS's work, buddy--that small thing did a great lot.
xxx
@ Parthian Shot--you made such a magnificent work, Lady. One could not begin to imagine how great your work is!!! Having a mod using M2TW would be fine [Med2 has great graphics and you could recruit more than one unit at the same time], but personally I'd very much prefer the RTW-BI kind, thank you.
Hawooh.

[tianzong]

Do you mean resef?
Also she didn't want to do it for M2TW. (forgot why)

[parthian shot]

With the new battlefield map and 512x512 Skin for animation, the RTW is about the same as M2TW.

Without the overhead of redundant models for every unit.

I really like the original MTW game engine, but not so much on the M2TW's. Would be nice to have a RTW compatible animation engine with MTW's AI engine.

Do you mean resef?
Also she didn't want to do it for M2TW. (forgot why)

[Armatus]

What about Empire or Shogun2?

[Totalwar14]

With the new battlefield map and 512x512 Skin for animation, the RTW is about the same as M2TW.

Without the overhead of redundant models for every unit.

I really like the original MTW game engine, but not so much on the M2TW's. Would be nice to have a RTW compatible animation engine with MTW's AI engine.

When you say MTW2 do you mean redesigning everything to Rome timeline like EB2 or do you mean moving the timeline forward as it were to the actual medieval period?

[Totalwar14]

What about Empire or Shogun2?

Not sure bout modding, but Empire seems a very different game and would need a lot of work to turn into a European only classical world game.

Shogun 2, if you wanted Amazons in East Asia that would be the way to go. But if you've only got Japan then it wouldn't really be ATW but Shogun with an extra Amazon faction or units.

In fact I once played a fantasy themed MED2 mod that had some pretty sweet warrior women on it. Mod itself kept crashing but the units had loads of detail n were really good.

[tianzong]

Witch one was it? Also were they like the amazons or someting else?

[Totalwar14]

It was called Four Seasons and unfortunately it kept breaking for me and despite getting patchs I could never get it to work. After five years it crashed. I think those models were taken from another mod however.

They were this nation whose population was like 90% female, they might have been called Valkyrie actually, were on an island suspiciously like Australia and I personally liked them because they all wore outrageous animae style heavy armour. One of the Musketeer units looked really good.

BTW are there any mods for Rome which have China in? I've seen the Three Kingdoms mod but aside from the cities didn't think much of it. Every faction being the same is a bit bland....



Chinese Amazons.

Actually, does Chinese mythology have any warrior women in it? I know about Mulan of course from disney I think thats meant to be a Ming Dynasty tale; them jobless exam students with nothing better to do than write about warrior women.

[Armatus]

Check Blue Lotus for RTW.

[Totalwar14]

Don't suppose you have a screenshot of the campaign map or some of the Chinese soldiers? I can't find any on the thread for Blue Lotus.

[Armatus]

It's hosted at the Org, http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumd...?96-Blue-Lotus

it's inspired by eastern mythologies with lots of exotic units, just visit their screenshot thread.