[Download] Version 1.0 released!

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New faction - Bosporan Kingdom

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The mod is to make RTR more realistic and epic. It adds many changes and fixes for realism and also some "What If" things. The mod requires RTW-Alexander and it also includes features in Rome-ALX: unit retraining, aggressive naval invasion and improved battle AI.

Download:
Stable Version 1.0, 66MB (NOT save-game compatible with previous versions)

Major Changes:

1. Corrected unit animations
   Spear-armed cavalry are changed to overhand style; phalanx (phalangite) units are changed to 2-handed style with smaller and weaker shield; hoplites or similar spearmen fight in correct overhand style.
2. Overhauled recruitment system
   Solved unit info CTD problem; 0-turn recruitment for levy units such as Hastati and Warband; Unified barracks and archery ranges; also add region limits to barbarian units, etc. Elite cavalry units are no longer recruitable - you have to use generals.
3. Rebalanced unit stats
   All units have 2-hp, lowered morale and weapon lethality, shield defense is reduced, archers and cavalry are more powerful and help AI to make more balanced armies. Costs are more than doubled and now it's no easy to replenish dead troops (though recovery rate has been increased a lot).
4. Moderate population growth.
   Base farm levels are reduced and grain imports are completely removed. Ports and stone walls can help to increase population, and squalor is no longer a problem.
5. Economic Changes
   Mines, silks and grains bring much more income than ever. Buidlings and units are also more expensive. The difference between poor regions and rich ones are now very significant - and you must choose your expanding directions carefully
6. Late-period development for barbarian factions
   Unlocked: Large/Huge city levels and "civilized" buildings such as Academy and City Plumbing etc. However, barbarian families lack some management traits and their recruitment system is very limited.
7. Wall-less towns and cities.
   Wooden walls are removed and stone walls can only be built in minor/large cities at very high cost; Many of your cities would have no wall and thus very vulnerable to sudden attack by neighboring enemies. To protect them you must monitor the borders and shorelines carefully.
8. New faction: Bosporan Kingdom.
   A kingdom of greeks mixed with scythians and sarmatians. It replaces the Sarmatians faction because nomads can't be represented well due to RTW limit.
9. Imperial-era Legionary and many new units
   New legionaries from godzilla & ferres' modding legions full pack. Other new units include: onagers, cataphract archers, bactrian armoured horse archer, pontic bronze shield, etc.
10. Fixed trait system
    Add movement and healing traits - in friendly regions your army can move faster and have much higher recovery rate from battle. Stupid traits caused by not listening to advice or too much money in treasury have been removed, and barbarian's city governors are allowed to gain all good traits from academic buildings...

Installation:

1. Requirements: RTW-Alexander and RTR-PE 1.9 mod-switch. You do NOT need to install full RTW-Alexander in order to use it with the mod - instead you can just copy RomeTW-ALX.exe from Alexander CD to the directory where your RTW is installed (that's the whole installation process if you only want to play Alexander with mods).
2. Copy & override the files under the RTRPE directory (same for any upgrades) and run RTRPE\campaign_map_reset.bat
3. Copy the RTRPE-BI shortcut and modify to: "C:\........\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -show_err -nm -mod:RTRPE -noalexander

Old saved games would not work unless specially mentioned.

Screenshots:





New Units: Link to New UI cards

Credit:

• Bosporan armoured horse and infantry except for the levy spearmen and royal hoplite are reskined by myself.
  You're free to edit and use the re-skined parts in any other mods without asking me.
• Carthaginian Poeni Legionaries from limes' Ancient Empires Elysium 1.0
• Carthaginian's Elite African units from Halie Satanus' Shed
• Imperial Legionaries, Auxilia, Light Auxilia, and Officers from modding legions full pack 1.5 by GODzilla and ferres
• Other new units such as cataphract archers or numidian general come from discarded/hidden models & textures in RTR.
• Sarmatian ring-pommel sword by Halie Satanus!

Many Thanks to:

• Europa Barbarorum for all the great animations (already in RTRPE), greek unit names, and many ideas and inspiration!
• Filter Forge Library for texture materials. The creation of my new units wouldn't be posssible without their high-quality texture pictures.
• Valhalla Leathercraft for armour ideas
• DR. Hobo. PHD. for his fur & scale textures
• ... And many many others in workshop forum who take their time to help me

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The Legend Condos Pattaya

[Emperor Domitianus]

I hope to see al factions in the next builds. Romans would be awsome. May I suggest to work on Ferres units as they cover both Republic & Empire and have all the units needed.Thx