Hi everyone,
I think most of the RTW community can agree that CA left Alexander in an unfinished, unbalanced state with a way too small map.
However: I'm working on a mod that will overhaul RTW Alexander to what it could have been if CA put more time and effort into it.
The first version will have the following features:
-Several turns per year
-More factions
-Diplomacy
-Removal of fantasy units
-New units including artillery
-Balanced unit stats
-A bigger map
-Better animations
-Larger battle maps and ability to zoom out further
-Alexander's generals as unique units (similar system as characters in lord of the rings total war)
-Religion used as culture: Hellenic - Eastern - Tribalism
-shadowing enabled for the 2 major factions: Macedon and Persia
-A rainforest climate
-No more huge pine trees
-Bugfixes
-Better AI
-Much more
The graphical style of the first version will be vanilla, but the gameplay will be more historically accurate.
Also Macedon is going to be the only playable faction because:
1. The AI will never expand like alexander.
2. This allows to have a different unit stat and cost system for the player and AI (to make sure the AI recruits balanced armies and to improve AI battle behavior).
Once we have a balanced, bug-fixed and stable vanilla-style version, I would like to send the files to CA and ask them if they could use these to create an official update for the steam version of RTW Alexander and ask them to modify the code of the .exe to enable and disable the background script automatically.
New factions (WIP and subject to change)
A sneak peak of the historical battles we're overhauling (WIP)
Also, I took some screens of my edits to units: (again it's a WIP and subject to change)
Campaign map: (WIP and subject to change)
Signatures:
Small:
https://imgur.com/u82lYdG
Big:
https://imgur.com/QyRd8OV
The team & credits:
Mod leader: Me
"Second in command": The Winking Skeever, Kmhistories
3d artist: Me, Xeofox,
Leon Katakalon, also some models are taken from RTRVII, including Cretan Archers
2d artist: Me,
Leon Katakalon
Mapping: Me
coding: Me, The Winking Skeever, Kmhistories,
Leon Katakalon
unit, building and faction descriptions: Me, crazyroman, Kmhistories, RevanLegion
research: Kmhistories, Alexandros Megas, Pyres Δt Varanasi, The Winking Skeever, LinusLinothorax,
Leon Katakalon, RevanLegion
translation to Greek: Kmhistories, Morpice
public relations: Me, Kmhistories, Morpice
pre-alpha testing: Prince of Macedon, The Winking Skeever, Kmhistories
advice on nomadic factions: Xeofox
animations: Me, Prometheus, SignifierOne
environments: Me, 0AD (open source game), Eorl + the Fourth Age Total War team
Stay tuned!
If you are interested in helping me out, feel free to let me know