wow those are some really good looking units i is excited to play this one
wow those are some really good looking units i is excited to play this one
great idea guys. Aurelianus was a great man!
I'm really looking forward to this mod. Just a couple of questions:
Are the cities going to have the required buildings and infrastructure for their size? My biggest gripe against BI was having cities with huge pops and no buildings( aquaducts etc..) leaving cities in revolt. My view is that cities should start out with the basic buildings needed for their population size. Rome itself should already be maxed out aside from special buildings built after Aurelian's coming to the throne--the great temple of Sol Invictus being an example.
I hope you're thinking of using a map similar to the one Rio uses in his IBFD mod. It spreads things out and give a feeling as to the size of the empire.
thanks
julianus heraclius can answer this best, but I think we all share the same idea. that is one major gripe I have against vanilla total war games, I mean Thessalonica in M2TW has a palisade ?!!!Are the cities going to have the required buildings and infrastructure for their size? My biggest gripe against BI was having cities with huge pops and no buildings( aquaducts etc..) leaving cities in revolt. My view is that cities should start out with the basic buildings needed for their population size. Rome itself should already be maxed out aside from special buildings built after Aurelian's coming to the throne--the great temple of Sol Invictus being an example.
aside from that jh has also been working on multiple temples and other buildings for IJ w/c would most probably make it here also
once again jh will have the final say but problem with warmap is that u'll end up with a very much reduced Sassanid empire w/c will reduce their threat factor.I hope you're thinking of using a map similar to the one Rio uses in his IBFD mod. It spreads things out and give a feeling as to the size of the empire.
Ramon Gonzales y Garcia
INVASIO BARBARORVM II
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If we had gone so far, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants
The mod starting with Aurelian is set before the tetrarchy, so there should not be an Eastern Roman Empire until the division of the Empire between Augustii and Caesars made by Diocletian and the Civil Wars that followed.
That said, this looks really promising, guys. An old dream come true.
When you read the factions list those on the left are the hard-coded vanilla names.
For each one there is an corresponding faction for the game. For this mod the east roman faction is palmyra, as yes there is no east or west roman empire till the mid-late 4th C.
so for the Aurelian mod, the ERR faction is called Palmyra. For the Constantine campaign this faction is not playable as by this timeframe Palmyra as an empire no longer existed, it of course being defeated by Aurelian.
Wow guys, I was looking around today thinking "It would be nice to see a mod span the period between 'standard' imperial legions and the "Diocletian Reforms" legions. Needless to say, this really excites me!
Yes, I hate the fact RTW is out and I still have a Japanese title. Come on now admins- let's get with the program.
im looking forward to restitutor orbis, especially constantine's campaign. good old civil war, romans against romans, that will be a bloody one. i hope my favourite emperor maxentius will have sympathetic portrait.
Will there be a "Marian Reforms" type event to signal the Diocletian reforms, or will it be more along the lines of player preference? I'm not a great modder by any means, but I have a limited amount of skinning experience if you want some rough help.
Yes, I hate the fact RTW is out and I still have a Japanese title. Come on now admins- let's get with the program.
That's something we are still discussing. I would like to have some kind of "marian" reform probably revolving more around the time period of Constantine, so I would envisage some time after he became sole ruler, but the date is arbitrary. I'm open to suggestions. I'm not good at scripting and would require some assistance in this. Any help from anybody in this regard would be really good.
I don't know much about campaign coding, tbh. I've only coded on N2TW, so I have adding units to the DMB and so on to a 'T,' but not campaign. the Descr_strat is a pretty substantial piece of work!!!
Yes, I hate the fact RTW is out and I still have a Japanese title. Come on now admins- let's get with the program.
Good luck! just don't forget(helpful advise):
1-moors=not arabs (something from IBFD that ground my you know..)-but you probably know that
2-arabs at the time used straight swords that were like spathae
3-Arabs used chain, not scale with silk over it (I'm tired of hollywood stereotypes in BI)
(I base this on wikipedia, osprey's yarmouk book, a website that discussed that, common sense, and EB's research)
4-show all units that you make on this preview.. please
also some questions:
1-why does everyone have scale instead of chain (out of curiosity-they look awesome)
2-why no helmet for that first cohort from the west? (I'm aware of the coiff on him, but still)
fortuna Bona! deus te et tuum fortunam benedicat
(good luck, may god bless you with good fortune (with this mod))
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Hi, this mod looks good, can't wait to play it. I hope that it isn't so hard that it's aweful to play.
DHS
"Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome"
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Hello Ramon and JH, Here are a couple of maps I included on the Gallic and Palmyrian Empires. Hope they come in handy.
NM
It's the 3rd century crisis! it will be the silver surfer(NES game) of the IBFD series!
www.angryvgnerd.com find the movies part, and look for his silver surfer review
PS: I'm hust kidding-still this is the 3rd century...
I think that this mod will be SWEET but it would be cool to have a reform.
it would realy make you feel like your in the time of change and shed light on legion to Comitatenses but I have no clue at realy how you would go about doing that so one can only hope....BUT if you do need any historical help I cant try to do my best. GOOD LUCK YAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I know BI (and even M2 iirc) has marian reforms included. So the script should be able to be copied from RTW and placed, with some changes, into BI.
Yes, I hate the fact RTW is out and I still have a Japanese title. Come on now admins- let's get with the program.