CTU - Carcaju's Temple Units 1.1 (Greek factions complete)

[Carcaju]

CTU?

First of all, if you are history-freak, and can't stand fictional units, than this mod is NOT for you.
Second, this is my first mod, so probably it's way unbalanced, buggy, and everything else, I expect to get better the more I work.

CTU is about special units, when I am playing Rome 2, I often imagine new combinations of units and other crazy stuff. As the name say, my pack is all about Temple Units, but mind that HIGH-TIER units, that you can only unlock on the latest levels of the ingame temples. For my first try I focused on the Greek Gods (and for now only Athens can build those units), but I expect to expand the idea to the Celts, Eastern and Roman cultures.

But enough talking, I hope you enjoy my units! Any critics and feedbacks are more than welcome!

Changelog:

Version 1.1 / 09-11-2013
4 New Units -
Poseidon's Marines
Hermes Stallions
Fire Throwers of Ares
Hammers of Hephaistos
Recruitment Changed - To make the game more enjoyable, made all units avaiable earlier. All units will be avaiable when you build a Tier 3 Temple, at Tier 4 they gain +2 Exp and at Tier 5 +4.
Greek Factions - All Temple units are avaiable to the playable Greek Culture Factions: Athens, Sparta, Epirus, Macedon and Pontus.

Sons of Heracles - Changed the Frenzied Charge abillity to the Infantry Frenzied Charge (it makes more sense now)

Version 1.0b / 01-10-2013
Changed the names of the units:
Followers of Athena to Faithful of Athena
Followers of Diana to Artemis Chosen Hunters
Followers of Zeus to Sons of Heracles

Version 1.0 / 30-09-2013
Launched

UNITS

Faithful of Athena
Avaiable from Tier 3 Athena Temple and above
Type: Heavy Phalanx Unit
Abilities: Steady - Form Pike Wall - Cavalry Counter Tactics

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Artemis Chosen Hunters
Avaiable from Tier 3 Nymphs Temple and aboveType: Stealthy Missile Unit with Wardogs
Abilities: Precision Shot - Quick Reload
(Somehow I fixed the animation from the shield, since I based this unit on the Cretan Archers. When the Cretan where forced to do melee, they wouldn't use their shields, I managed to fix that)

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Sons of HeraclesAvaiable from Tier 3 Zeus Temple and aboveType: Heavy Melee Unit
Abilities: Frenzied Charge - Killing Spree
(there is a mesh problem with the lion pelts, which can cause a little clipping).

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Poseidon's Marines
Avaiable from Tier 3 Poseidon's Temple and aboveType: Heavy Naval Melee Unit
Abilities: Form Pike Square - Use the Whip

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Fire Throwers of Ares -
Avaiable from Tier 3 Ares Temple and aboveType: Special Ranged Unit
Abilities: Quick Reload - Rapid Advance

My idea for this unit was to copy that strange unit from 300, the pot throwers from the Persian Army. Everything went well, except for the projectile, since the pot projectile is only avaiable to the artillery units. As modding features advance I'll try to change the projectile and animation to the pot ones. I know it looks a bit silly, but for now it's the best I can do.

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Hermes Stallions -
Avaiable from Tier 3 Hermes Temple and aboveType: Special Chariot Unit
Abilities: Form Wedge - Quick Reload - Rapid Advance

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Hammers of Hephaistos -
Avaiable from Tier 3 Hephaisto Temple and aboveType: Heavy Cavalry Unit
Abilities: Form Wedge - Stampede

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Installation:

- Just extract the pack files into the Data folder (In order to make the Unit Cards work, you must also put the UI folder that comes with the mod, inside the data folder).To remove just delete the pack file from your data folder.
- To use the mod you'll need mod manager.


Download:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7d3ee14vj...ts_ver_1_1.rar

Steam Workshop Link:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...47&searchtext=


Special Thanks:

daniu for the friendly and initial tutorial on how to mod, for the PFM
.Mitch for the Mod Manager
husserlTW for the Rome 2 Editor
Radious for discovering how to add UI to the custom units
Prometheus ts for finding the lion pelt structure and letting me use it
Master Necromancer for giving me some cool new names!

[xxxMoRaVexxx]

Awesome units! Maybe cap it to around 2 - 4 units at any given time. + rep .

[Carcaju]

Awesome units! Maybe cap it to around 2 - 4 units at any given time. + rep .

Thaks MoRaVe, forgot to mention, they are already capped at 4 units max!

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

A fantastic idea! One thing: Rename the "Followers of Zeus" to "Followers of Herakles". He was the son of Zeus, and his image was depicted with a lion pelt and a club.

[VladimirTW]

This is very cleaver! Looking forward to what oddities you can imagine

Elephant mounted balista? Armored Camel lancer? Spartan female soldiers?

[Carcaju]

A fantastic idea! One thing: Rename the "Followers of Zeus" to "Followers of Herakles". He was the son of Zeus, and his image was depicted with a lion pelt and a club.

Yeah I Imagined Herakles when I made this units, but since there are no Temples of Herakles, I put them as Zeus instead. But I'll give that a thought! Thank you for your support!

This is very cleaver! Looking forward to what oddities you can imagine

Elephant mounted balista? Armored Camel lancer? Spartan female soldiers?

I tried adding a female as standard banner for the Followers of Athena, but since there are no female battle models (yet, since I saw Barbaric Screaming Women as a hidden unit)...

My next units will be:
Followers of Poseidon (naval): Much like hoplites, but with a trident instead.
Followers of Hades: Not sure yet, thinking off a Siege equipment, but that's yet unexplored by our brave modders. And also loved the Black Myrmidon concept, but don't want to copy any ideas.
Followers of Hephaistos: Greek Cataphracts (with the best armour made from Hephaistos followers)
Followers of Hermes: I'm divided between a fast light horse unit or chariots.

After those I'll begin working with Celtic and German Gods. Thank you for your support!

[Master Necromancer]

Haha very nice love it!

Maybe it would be nicer to make the names less generic, instead of Followers of "add god here":

Athena: Faithful of Athena

Nymphs: Artemis Chosen Hunters

Zeus: Sons of Heracles

You know like that.

P.S. Diana is a Roman Goddess.

[fernando77]

How did you manage to fix the Archer going into melee shield animation? I've been trying to figure that one out.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

Nice Idea

[necronox]

good idea, i like it. just a thought, make the follower of poseidon a naval unit?

[Murfmurf]

Nice units!

But you should switch Diana to Atremis if we're going to be pedantic about it!

[Carcaju]

Haha very nice love it!

Maybe it would be nicer to make the names less generic, instead of Followers of "add god here":

Athena: Faithful of Athena

Nymphs: Artemis Chosen Hunters

Zeus: Sons of Heracles

You know like that.

P.S. Diana is a Roman Goddess.

Nice units!

But you should switch Diana to Atremis if we're going to be pedantic about it!

Oh my god, newbie mistake! Of course, it`s Artemis, so sorry guys, tonight I`m changing that right away.
Master Necromancer, I loved those names, do you mind if I use them? Credits given off course.

fernando77, I had to create a different animation for this unit, that changed his melee instance from "knife" (I believe) to "sword and shield". Feel free to look at the files and how I fixed it!

necronox,that`s the initial idea, but since I can`t control where the player will build their temple, I came up with 2 ideas. 1 - The player should "role-play", and so he can only build the Temple of Poseidon on Coastal Cities. 2 - Make them a land unit, but when they go into water, their transport is different, rather than a simple transport, it will be a Quinquirreme or stronger, altough it`s a bit "cheating".

[Master Necromancer]

Oh my god, newbie mistake! Of course, it`s Artemis, so sorry guys, tonight I`m changing that right away.
Master Necromancer, I loved those names, do you mind if I use them? Credits given off course.

Please do use them no credits needed.

I could help out with the naming for the future units if you want.

[necronox]

necronox,that`s the initial idea, but since I can`t control where the player will build their temple, I came up with 2 ideas. 1 - The player should "role-play", and so he can only build the Temple of Poseidon on Coastal Cities. 2 - Make them a land unit, but when they go into water, their transport is different, rather than a simple transport, it will be a Quinquirreme or stronger, altough it`s a bit "cheating".

perhaps just make the temple a new top tier building for the military shipwright (or some other port), something like Poseidon's docks, and make it a unique building like the colisseum or leonida's monument, not sure how you do that tho. maybe that'll work.

otherwise you could other make two of them, one that is recruited in a top tier military wharf and another which is purely for land if you see what i mean.

[Arabian]

Wow, this is a great concept! I had lamented the lack of depth in the Greek rosters, and this is an innovative way to fill them out. And they're not without character, these men!

I do wonder though what your plans are for the war-god, Ares? Something having to do with bloodthirst or heavy armor, no doubt?

[Carcaju]

Wow, this is a great concept! I had lamented the lack of depth in the Greek rosters, and this is an innovative way to fill them out. And they're not without character, these men!

I do wonder though what your plans are for the war-god, Ares? Something having to do with bloodthirst or heavy armor, no doubt?

I'm still considering some options, I tried to create a special siege unit, but with no sucess (tried to create the Heliopolis outside the siege battles). I'm considering an Axe wielding unit, another naval units, who knows?

Also, small update, changed the names of the units, the Followers of Diana was very wrong since Diana is a Roman Goddess ( bad rookie mistake). Big thanks to Master Necromancer for the names, and Murfmurf for pointing the name error too.

[Arabian]

What kind of inspiration are you looking for, may I ask? Something realistic, or historically based? Or something more whimsical to add some flavor to the game?

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

The followers of Haphaistos could be bearded, topless, and have hammers or aprons or something. Would be badarse. Better than a cavalry unit IMO.
I imagine these units to be the fanatical militant branch of the temple from which they come.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

also, don't forget to have a unit max of 1. This is pretty important

[Master Necromancer]

Awesome work! Really can't wait for more. +rep