This mod adds a new playable faction to the game: S.P.Q.R. Nova Roma.
The idea behind this new separatist faction is that a group of military hardliners have broken away from Rome, seeking to go back to the older and more proper ways.
NEW UNITS
Auxilia Hastas
Auxilia Gladiis
Auxilia Equites
Auxilia Archers
Legionary Cohort
Legionary Cavalry
Praetoriani Nova
These units are exclusive to Nova Roma, and have been (fairly well) balanced versus vanilla units. Both the Legionary Cohort and Cavalry units are able to be built very early in the campaign, in order to balance this their cost is greatly increased depending on the tier of the building recruiting them.
Tier 1 : 2.5x
Tier 2 : 2.0x
Tier 3 : 1.5x
Tier 4 : 1.0x
This way you are able to recruit very powerful units at an early stage, but you will bankrupt yourself quickly if you try to build more than a few. As you progress through the research tree and upgrade your buildings, their cost steadily decreases until reaching it's normal value. The stats of the Legionary units have been balanced according to their final cost.
The Auxilia units are also very high quality, and are buildable right from the start, but they are also fairly expensive. However I may add cost scaling to them (at a lesser curve) if feedback shows they are too strong.
Nova Roma's naval and artillery units are the same as the other Roman factions.
This is the first release, I do have more planned, but I wanted to start getting feedback to get (and keep) the new faction balanced as it grows and progresses!
LINK: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=446817040