Features of Roma Acta est Fabula

[Rex Inanimatus]

Starting in 438AD the Vandals have settled in Africa fighting a war over that continent with the Romans. The Hunni are getting restless on the north side of the river Danube, Suebians and the Visigoths are eyeing the lands that the Romans left. The Burgundians and the Mauri are at peace right now, but maybe waiting for an opportunity. And Rome... it's borders crumbling down, lost so many lands to the Bagaudae... Roma Acta est Fabula, Rome the play is over.... or is it not.

Features:
Historical map with accurate province names (where possible) and proper city names
7 playable factions:
Imperium Romanum Occidentalis
Regnum Burgundiae
Regnum Vandalorum
Regnum Visigithorum
Regnum Suevorum
Regnum Maurorum et Tomanorum
Hunni

Game is redesigned around what is possible to squeeze out the AI. Especially proper historical big field battles of 5th century era: Skirmishers in front followed by infantry followed by archer and diverse cavalry either to harass the enemy or charge into enemy lines.

Since I almost redone all files regarding to AI behaviour I have made many game-changing settings I altered to create a different experience of total war. This mod focus on the last days of the West Roman Empire. It has it's base on the mod Invasio Barbarorum II Vandalorum, though it has become a stand alone mod because almost everything (beside unit models and in-game artwork) has been redone.

Current version 0.9B Is full playable, though without some extra features (including better siege defense mechanics), I am still working on.


Features: (difference with old game)

only mayor changes are here

Version 0.6B

complete overhaul of unit stats
complete overhaul of building stats
33 new provinces
4 turns/ year
extended timeline to 506
new looks
new loading screens
removed princesses
removed permanent forts
removed rebelling characters
removed different religions (now state religion only)
reworked ancillaries
new traits (adapted from vanilla because of too much RTW interference)
new money script
adjusted difficulty levels

Version 0.9B
new diversified campaign AI
new improved battle AI (much more tactical!)
re-balanced factions
reintroduced sprites (less heavy graphics for laptop users and low end computers)

[Rex Inanimatus]

Game recommendation :

The field battle AI is tested and designed on Normal size units, small size works as good, though Large and Huge size is not recommended because it causes serious issues with walls. Simply because AI unit can only act and react when on 1 surface, otherwise it will try to unite first before it starts acting.

Also in field battles it can cause issue like units entering melee fight too early because of units falling behind. Large and huge armies maybe fun to see, but it hinders the AI and so a lot of tactical AI behaviour is not showing with those sizes.

This mod is not compatible with reallybadAI mod.

[Reno Melitensis]

What map are you going to use for the mod, the Vandalorum one.

Cheers

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

What's the Campus Volgadensis? 438 AD is in the middle of the Gothic War for Aetius, same year he defeated them at the Battle of Mons Colubrarius.

[Reno Melitensis]

What's the Campus Volgadensis? 438 AD is in the middle of the Gothic War for Aetius, same year he defeated them at the Battle of Mons Colubrarius.

Campus Volgadensis was a battle faught between Clovis and his Burgundian allies against the Visigoths in circa 503 AD. Its all the way out of the mod time frame.

Cheers

[Rex Inanimatus]

Campus Volgadensis was a battle faught between Clovis and his Burgundian allies against the Visigoths in circa 503 AD. Its all the way out of the mod time frame.

Cheers

Clearly it's not : Timeline 438-506 (just before the battle by Campus Vogladensis) , it is complete overhaul modso also extended time frame . And yes i used Vandalorum map but has 33 extra provinces.

Greetings from the East

[Riothamus]

Looking forward Rex. Looks very interesting and has unique ideas

[Rex Inanimatus]

Looking forward Rex. Looks very interesting and has unique ideas

Thank you for the support! Hopefully I can send you a preview this week. I just have to work my way around 2 annoying (hardcoded) issues that came up during beta testing and I think needs to be resolved before going public.

Greetings from the East

[Leonnatos]

My dear Rex Inanimatus, your changes are great. I wish you luck and success with them and look forward to lead the armies of Rome to victory over the invaders and petty tribes.

Greetings from Lower Germany

[Rex Inanimatus]

My dear Rex Inanimatus, your changes are great. I wish you luck and success with them and look forward to lead the armies of Rome to victory over the invaders and petty tribes.

Greetings from Lower Germany

Thank you for your kind words, hopefully you'll enjoy it as much I do.



Greetings from the East

[Rex Inanimatus]

(final) Version 1.0 will be released somewhere next month with additional features. What they are I won't reveal it just spoils the fun.

[bobbyr]

(final) Version 1.0 will be released somewhere next month with additional features. What they are I won't reveal it just spoils the fun.

Great news thank you mate!

[Rex Inanimatus]

Thank you, I hope you will like it

[J/K]

In the mod Tolosa is a Roman city, wasn't it in 438 a Visigoths' capitol or at least major city?

[Rex Inanimatus]

In the mod Tolosa is a Roman city, wasn't it in 438 a Visigoths' capitol or at least major city?

There are some in-accurate things but game-play and balance is more important than hyper accurate history facts. Just imagine that Attila had a nosebleed in 438 what then? You alter history anyway when you start turn 1.

[Rex Inanimatus]

features and recommendations are updated

[Leonnatos]

Cool, if I could rep you, I would

[bobbyr]

Any updates on the release of 1.0 mate?

Cheers

[Rex Inanimatus]

Any updates on the release of 1.0 mate?

Cheers

almost finished, it became a bigger project than expected, hope to release it one of these days/weeks, not a promise though. Thanks for waiting.

[Rex Inanimatus]

Another update of progress. Since I received some great unexpected help on some model work, it will be implemented as well in 1.0. At this moment we are discussing some issues and solutions. It was not initially part of 1.0, more a nice to have issue, but since I can implement it, I will do that, because it sure is a bonus.

The siege AI project is 100% finished and the other one at 90% but still needs to be tested and reviewed.

Thanks for waiting, deadline within 4 weeks (I am sorry about that)