Amazon: Total War 6.0 Release

[straszi88]

Thanks for the prompt help, shot. Sorry for the late reply, went to bed an hour after my last post (when it was midnight in my time zone) and just came back from school.
The megaupload link works fine, installed it without any problems and the game seems to run perfectly fine.
There seem to be two mistakes in descr_strat though.
1. "resource wild_animals, 198, 48" results in a wolf sitting on water just off the shores of Sidon.
2. When you start with any Amazonian nation except Lybia, you are not at war with the Greeks, when you start with another nation, all Amazons are at war with the Greeks, when you start with the Greeks, you are only at war with Lybia. I couldn't find the source with my limited knowledge though.

Thanks again for the quick response and for uploading this great mod (as far as I can tell from the hour I spent so far with it)

[parthian shot]

You are welcome!

The wolf icon is supposed to be by the beach, I will try to move it over to the beach in the next release.

The script is conditional, so the behavior changes depends on which faction you are playing.
What you described was exactly as intended, as a matter of fact, it is inherited from SubRosa Florins 3.0c script. The idea is that all Amazonian factions should be at war with Greek Cities, but the Amazon faction the player is playing should not be involuntarily at war with Greek Cities unless the player wants it to be.
The exception is the Libyan Amazons, if you read the background story of the faction, the reason they are in 'volkerwanderung' is because the Greeks forced them out of their homeland and they lost the Sacred Isles of Hesperides because of the Athenians.

The wolf (leopard) is supposed to indicate wild animals which symbolizes the availability of race/hunting horses by the seashore of Sidon. In the Re-ignited mod, only the regions with race-horses can recruit units with race-horse cavalry or unless the faction's cultural development is advance enough (circus maximus level) to import cavalry horses. The cavalry units with race-horse can ride as fast as light-horse but with heavier load. Following the BUM principles, their riders' can have heavier equipment, ie with better armor protection and more ammunition re-loads. The wild-animal meant that horseback hunting is popular in that region, and therefore, selective horsebreeding is available.

Thanks for the prompt help, shot. Sorry for the late reply, went to bed an hour after my last post (when it was midnight in my time zone) and just came back from school.
The megaupload link works fine, installed it without any problems and the game seems to run perfectly fine.
There seem to be two mistakes in descr_strat though.
1. "resource wild_animals, 198, 48" results in a wolf sitting on water just off the shores of Sidon.
2. When you start with any Amazonian nation except Lybia, you are not at war with the Greeks, when you start with another nation, all Amazons are at war with the Greeks, when you start with the Greeks, you are only at war with Lybia. I couldn't find the source with my limited knowledge though.

Thanks again for the quick response and for uploading this great mod (as far as I can tell from the hour I spent so far with it)

[z3n]

yeah, the dld-link is there, but the file was deleted pretty fast by megaupload since granto found the link dead about 60 hours after you posted it.
I mean I could dld 6.0a, but since 6.0b is theorethically available, I thought that asking first wouldn't cost much

I found the link dead too.

[parthian shot]

I found the link dead too.

Thanks for the heads-up!

does anyone just download the gamefront or megaupload ?

Someone from around here complaint to megaupload that we are posting pornography!!

I really don't know why anyone would say things like that. But if megaupload keep up the censorship, we will switch to different server.

[parthian shot]

I just want to take this opportunity to thank Resef. Had he not tried to upload to GameFront, we would ended up with dead link and nowhere to post the new release.

[GRANTO]

pornography , far out and strange that someone should report you , gamefront works best for me , i had lots of problems using megaupload with there dissapearing servers and phantom deletings , good luck with it all

[z3n]

http://www.moddb.com/downloads/mirro...adadbbf317d7b1 6.0b
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/mirro...c2df233ba1cad3 6.0a

I uploaded them both to moddb as promised too.

I agree with granto's post


Also if anyone needs a links to a different potentially faster server I can post the Netherlands, two US servers, one UK server and a worldwide one.

[Anakarsis]

New units look excellent +rep

[SakyaIllidan]

wow, you have a good mod

[parthian shot]

Finished Uploading Release 6.0c to MUL.

We are taking Resef's approach and placing them on ModDB.

Will Post when the new upload on ModDB is available. Happy Thanksgiving

[Anakarsis]

Thanks for the heads-up!

does anyone just download the gamefront or megaupload ?

Someone from around here complaint to megaupload that we are posting pornography!!

I really don't know why anyone would say things like that. But if megaupload keep up the censorship, we will switch to different server.

Ah, i love those attitudes, they are moral guardians on a videogame but dont have the balls to came and say what they think or at least identify themselves

[parthian shot]

New 6.0c is posted in OP (the first posting of this thread).

6.0c is reposted again on Nov 27, because the original upload was 2mb short.

This would not be uncovered had chrisb not posted the alert.

[parthian shot]

6.0c is up, the download address is posted on OP [the first post of the thread]. Unlike the previous upload, the new 6.0c upload is complete.

[parthian shot]

6.0B is no longer available, as the 6.0c release is much more reliable.

Appreciate everyone to continue to report any issues.

[parthian shot]

This is to update everyone about text issues with 6.0, because we have to test out solution to unexpected problems, and coupled with the last minute .cas update, I had to separate all the 6.0 text out for the release 6.0a to release 6.0c, hopefully, I will add them back in 6.0d, if anyone encounter issues with unit_info files and unit help description, Please feel free to post them here or at the problem report thread.

Thanks,

[parthian shot]

6.0D changes are as follows...

1. use the newly tested result from Darth Vader Foot Missile Bug parameters to enhance
the AI's battlefield tactics.
2. corrected some mercenary units missing skins errors
3. re-alignment of unit description and units name to be more fitting to the story line of the mod.
4. Re-integrated text for unit description and unit_info
5. Might release the Roman faction as Red as suggested by quite a few community members.
6. New titles for Amazon faction, so instead of generic name like Faction Leader,
each Amazon faction will have their unique naming hierarchy for their general, faction leader,
and heir.
7. new adjusted skins to make the Amazon unit more photo-like.
8. new Amazon unit .cas files
9. add more horde options for more factions
10. new sprite files as well as more sprite changes for existing files.
11. Changes to give peasant and light units more ragged look, in keeping with the Balanced Unit Modeling principle (aka Parthian Shot's 5 Laws).
12. Because changes in #11 will make unit identification more difficult (Amazon TW has the banner turned off to make the battle more realistic), each peasant unit as well as light unit is given a standard bearer for easier unit identification.

New Armenian skins and unit configuration
1. New Armenian Color and standard bearer
Based on the Artaxiad Dynasty flag [as pictured from wikipedia]


2. Armenian Immortals
3. new armored Sparabara (conscripted spearmen)
4. new Armenian armored archer
5. Finally making Armenia hordable, if time permits.

Armenian factions now are of two things:

- Their units are the best equipped, and almost exclusively all iron armored
- They are awfully expensive, both in recruitment and upkeep.


Goal is to release in the middle of Christmas week.

[Juffo Wup]

Say looking great but I have a question...the amazon gadius cohorts.Why are they in amazon factions and not rome? ( seeing as only the romans called their units cohorts ) shouldnt they be in rome as well?I know they have amazon auxillaries but historically the descendants of auxillaries who lived out their military term and earned roman citizenship COULD join the army as full legionaries rather than auxillary troops.So that amazon cohort can be the descendants of amazonian auxillaries who finished their military term ( saying that the amazonian facitons copied theirs from the romans )

[parthian shot]

These are great suggestions.

The word cohort came from Latin cohors, which defines a band of people who spent time together and share some unique experience together.

The name Gladiatus (note, not Gladiatrix or Gladiatrices which denote female gladiator(s)) Cohort is used to differentiate from another unit call the Gladiatus Band. While they are both named after their short swords. The Gladiatus Band is a unit a light infantry who specializes in gladiatorial fencing with round shield and short stabbing sword.

Whereas, the Gladiatus Cohorts denote units who spent a great deal of time together trained on infantry formation and close quarter combat as a group. A lot like the Roman Legion, but the idea of the gladiatus cohort (according the storyline) is that the Amazons copied the ideas from the Armenians Legionaires who, in turn, copied them from the Romans.

[parthian shot]

I have got a few messages from people asking why the discontinuation of the 6.0B.

Well, tested as much as we can, the mod crashes when the Armenian faction is using Amazon Gladiatus Cohorts. One of the last minute change add an officer, and her skin was not available to the Armenians.

So please feel free to use 6.0C (download link at OP) which is far stable and feature rich mod than 6.0B

[Spartan198]

I booted up 6.0C to see what's been done since I last played and I got an error on closing of the mod. Pic is attached.

Also, regarding changing of the Romans to red, I'd like to say I disagree with that since just about every mod does Romans in red and ATW using SPQR purple for them makes it unique in that respect. But that's just my $.02, so take it as you will, Pathian.