[WIP] Third Century Mod-"Desperatis Rebus: Delatum Paene Imperium Romanum" Desperatis Rebus: The Official shortened version!

[Autaritus]

This mod can be a masterpiece... The III century crisis is a period made for TW playing, hehe. I shall be closely following its development.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

This mod can be a masterpiece... The III century crisis is a period made for TW playing, hehe. I shall be closely following its development.

I truly hope so, and I agree with your sentiments about the Third century, I never understood why CA did not try it themselves?

[XxClon]

I want this mod

[Deciusalexius]

Desperatis Rebus

The Severan dynasty, or as Septimius would have us believe a continuation of the Antonine dynasty. Septimius marks the last stable ruler for quite some time, though a period of crisis is a modern invention and not something that Greco Roman sources were aware of or wrote about.

The Mod
The mod will attempt to create the historical situation at the time that Septimius Severus breaks with his Caesar- Clodius Albinus, by promoting his own son to the rank of Caesar as posterity has come to know as Caracalla! This naturally creates the last of Septimius civil wars, as Albinus declares himself Augustus in Britannia and Gaul.

The period of Crisis, this cannot be forced on the AI or the player, but the Attila mechanics I believe can be made to increase the chances of revolts with ineffectual emperors on the throne. The family tree (I think?) can be made to have the Severan family ineffectual therefore increasing changes of revolts. A system will then be devised to replicate armies propelling their general to the purple...I hope.

With regards to Parthia a weak Parthia will start with an increasingly powerful Sassanid dynasty as a puppet state, with a hatred of its master. It will not be long before they rebel and take over the reigns of power.

Ahistorical factions for example Huns will have to go..
Germanic confederations and tribes will get their deserved treatment also and be as historical as sources allow


Volagases VI
208-228 AD Brother to Artabanos IV, who was defeated and killed in 224 AD when the Parthian kingdom was ended.



Sapor tramples the defeated Gordian III, although Roman sources mention no such defeat!
The Sassanid dynasty brought stability and military glory to the Iranian peoples after a period of defeats and humiliation at the hands of the Romans. Although it is often assumed in our Greco-Roman focused sources that the Sassanids were focused on the west, but this was far from the case.


Recruitment

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TEAM;
Gaius Historical,/archaeological research, unit advice, dB editing
Anna_Gein historian dB editing
Naddum Parthian, Sassanid (Iranian,/eastern cutural adviser and historian
Tomysvk,Christianus historian

Pleased to announce we have new members:
Lucilla historian, I am sure many of you will have read Lucille's essays on Roman imperial woman, if not, do so now!
KLA will not only bring his historical knowledge but his artistic talents too, so hope to see some great Parthian horseman !!
Cesco a battle mechanics expert on board now and
*** RoYaL sPaRtAn GuArD *** brings his unique talents to the mod!
Happy to say we have three new members in last couple of days, I will just mention their names and let them drop by and introduce themselves! Its an honour to welcome, 'The Germans are coming' and 'Dicer' and XIIICaesar
So far I have a silent partner UNITS and historical/ modding help (I will allow their own introductions)

Help with stuff and historical help. I am predominately an historian and an archaeologist by trade.. But I am trying to learn all the modelling skinning stuff

Still Recruiting!! Please PM if you fit the profile.. What we really need is:
another unit maker - particularly someone interested in Arsacid and Sassanid dynasties and/or Germanic confederations/tribes, also Sarmations
Someone to guide and help with ....

DB :
to add units
to add new technologies and techtrees
to add new buildings and building chains
to edit startpos

3D artists could have to create :
Campaign building models - replace things like churches with secular basilicas etc
Equipments
Engine models
Unit models
Thank you for your time.

Coming in the near future, a brief historical outline and a unit teaser!

I can support you in the work of rebuilding the empire ... give me your mail on priv and I will send you a selection of materials ...

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Desperatis Rebus

salvēte
I am posting again, in the hope that there may be some fresh recruits out there.
Unfortunately KLA has been torn away by RL (all is well, just busy ) not easy to step into shoes such as his, but if anyone feels up to the task of making a late Parthian/ early Sassanid roster please PM a member of the team. See post #1
Also there are many other roles that still need help with, and even the roles filled the more the merrier.
So please, if you have an interest in the Third Century please do not hesitate to contact us. We have big plans, but we need to actually finish one mod at a time and with your help we can.

Happy to announce that, when I said it would be hard to fill KLA's position I was right, but tyche/fortune favoured us and such a person filled the role, Linke has stepped up to the task!

But fellow fans of the Roman and Eastern empires, Germania, not forgetting Sarmations, We still need you!! So please contact via PM a team member and join immediately. Big plans require big talented team.
Thank you for your time.

[gary]

Hello there, just wanted to say good luck with your mod and i will keep popping back to see how this project is developing. Are you using the RTW2 or Attila engine, well they are pretty much the same barring the odd change?

[Linke]

Hello I'm now part of team. I have already started working on some units. ("eastern")
We are doing a version for rome 2 and a primary version for Attila. That doesn't mean the Rome II version will be lacking in quality though. The will have slightly different start dates and the Rome II version will have Kushan empire in it. (Unfortunaly they don't fit into the map of Attila ) Also we think we now how to do aor unit for attila with the new tools.

[Julio-Claudian]

This will be a hoot. Really looking forward!

[Jezza93]

So how is this going?

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

All going well behind the scenes, as soon as there is something worthy of a proper preview you can be sure we will provide one. Thank you staying interested

[Linke]

I'm doing work on Sassanids. Goal is withing 3 or so weeks to be done.
we have forgoten this thread kind of as we've been using or private group to talk (amongst devs)

[Jezza93]

Excellent, I'm glad all is going well. The 3rd Century Crisis is just such a critical turning point in Roman history.I'd recommend reading Harry Sidebottoms Warrior of Rome series if you haven't already.

[Brivime]

I'll be helping out with research and nomenclature for the Arab factions and units, hopefully you'll start seeing some research after June 10th.

[IoannesPaullus]

I am totally into this mod! It is my favorite period in Roman history to read about and it totally works with the game. I hope to see this mod grow into something great!

[MADMAN.the.GREAT]

I'm doing work on Sassanids. Goal is withing 3 or so weeks to be done.we have forgoten this thread kind of as we've been using or private group to talk (amongst devs)

can you post some pics of what the units will look like for this mod? it seems that converting Attila to the 3rd century would take a phenomenal amount of work. unless you are not planning to change the units then I guess you can just modify the campaign map. although that would be a bit disappointing. so is this basically just a campaign map mod? or is this dead already

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

No it is not dead, yes we are doing all new units to match the time period. The craftsmen are at it as we speak. When there is a decent amount of completed units we will present a preview. Thank you
Gaius

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

DP!

[Linke]

WIP! Persian Cataphracts

[IoannesPaullus]

Looking pretty snazzy! Can't wait to see you guys' take on the Third Century Legionaries

[ceaser the small]

can you post some pics of the romans?