Rise of Hellas

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Rise of Hellas

Overview

Mod Name: Rise of Hellas (RoH)
Platform: (RTW)
Era: From the very beginning of the Classical period right up towards the start of the Hellenistic Period (505 BC – 300 BC)

Brief Description: Rise of Hellas is a modification for Rome Total War, which focuses entirely on the Classical Period of Ancients Greece. From the invasion of Persia to the Peloponesian Wars. The Rise of Hellas campaign map, only focuses on Greece and the Western half of Asia minor, allowing us to delve into extreme depth of Greece during this period in time.

Brief Overview

From constant and bitter enagements for the control of Greece, to the unity of all Greek Nations to fend off a foreign threat. Greece has seen so many epic enagements throughout history, play out right infront of her eyes. The creations of amazing new technologies to collossal feats of engineering achievements have made the history of Greece so diverse and inspiring.

Age of Hellas aims to recreate this very experience, allowing you to change the course of history and to take control of City states to engage in huge and epic battles, and to trade with neighbouring states to help you to finally unify Greece under one banner.

Development Aims

The Age of Hellas development team, aims to create most, if not all textures and models from scratch. Creating entirely new textures allows to increase the intensity of the graphics, and helps to create variety, between each unit.

Other main focuses are on the trade, and resource side of the game. We will try to make resources a much more vital asset to the game, and we will try to develop new options for you to use in your diplomatic talks with other City states to make the game much more involving.

Entirely new cultures will also be moulded, allowing us to get really indepth with Ancient Greece.

Faction List

This is the final faction list, and is not subject to change. However, this may be different for later versions.

Athens
Thebes
Thessaly
Epirus
Macedon
Kingdom of Rhodes
Lacedaemon
Argos
The Persian Empire
Achaia
Elis
Thrace
Corinth
Kingdom of Krete
Aetolia
Lokroi
Cyclades
Ionian League
Megara
Illyria

Screenshots

Screenshots

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The Campaign Map

The Campaign Map

The Campaign Map, focuses entirely on the land Surrounding the Agaean, Including Greece and the Eastern Part of Asia Minor.

This map is still currently underconstruction and the land ownerships are NOT final. Map will also be enlarged for later versions.

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Events

many historical events will be created and implemented into the campaign map, from the invasion of the Persian Empire, to the peloponesian Wars, each testing your ability to react and fend off foreign armies.

recruitment

Recruiting

If you are interested in helping out with the mod, then please don't hesitate to get in touch with me, as I would be extremely grateful for any help that I receive.

Team Positions

* Coding
* Modeling
* Skinning
* Mapping
* 2d Artist
* Scripting
* Research

If you do wish to join up then I will need to know the following

Email:
Country you live in:
Past Experience:
Time you can commit a week on average:

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Athenians

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Spartans

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[Lord Dakier]

I hate to break this but from what I am seeing here it just looks like XGM but more basic. I tend to not say this alot but only to those do this... why make a mod if there is already one just like it? How will be different from XGM? to save some time you may aswell make a mini mod for XGM which features your unit skin changes. Sorry its a bit blunt but it annoys me when people come here with new ideas which are already created. I mean hey if its different from mods similiar to it tell us why. Fun factor of XGM... I didnt restart my campaign every week as I usually do, Challenge factor of XGM about 7 hours of play and as the Greeks I only managed to take 50% of original Macedon lands as they also pushed north with their huge stacks of armies.

[-Squaddie-]

XGM focuses on Europe aswell, this mod will focus ONLY on Greece. The map will be only of Greece, and all the Factions will be Greek, (Athens, Sparta, Naxos, Thessaly etc) I will not involve any other part of Europe apart from a small part of Persia.

[jakobh94]

Sounds really good, nice skins. I think you got it, just gather a team and make this mod and i am sure to be one of the first downloading it.

[-Squaddie-]

thank you, I do believe that this mod could have great potential, and I have made some significant progress already, so hopefully I will have many more previews in the near future

[Lord Dakier]

Maybe you should ask XGM if you can work with some of their files. It would speed up the process a fair bit.

[-Squaddie-]

I have gave that a thought, but there are so many different aspects of the game that I will be changing that there will be no point in really using another mod. I have a very good no how about the RTW engine and know exactly what I want to do with it so for that reason I will be using the 1.5 patch and creating the mod from that

[Lord Dakier]

I dont neccesarily mean use there mod but study... XGM is to be fair the best Greek overhaul mod so to make your mod more popular you need to see why people like XGM so much. I advise you play XGM as Greeks then play Vanilla as Greeks and take note to the little details like how hard it is XGM to push back the Macedon stacks.

Another thing needed is the map. You should try and find a map of where about your explaining the campaign will take place.

[-Squaddie-]

Oh that will definitely help out, I have tried many mods and will try to implement their WOW factors into this mod.

I already have begun work on the Campaign map, and have also made very good progress with new land textures, models and symbols etc. I will post some screenies of the campaign when I feel that it is worthy for show

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Possible Faction List

Thebes
Thessaly
Byzantium
Macedon
Kingdom of Rhodes
Lacedaemon
Argos
Persian Empire
Sikyon
Samos
Thrace
Corinth
Kingdom of Krete
Illyria
Athens
Lokroi
Naxos
Ionian League
Megara

[Lord Dakier]

Taking the game engine into account Central Greeks will fight Greeks and Central Macedonians will fight Macedonians. Factions dont like it on this when you take your amires through sectors and if not a large army they will be attacked. Plus the AI would rather attack someone close rather than someone years away.

[-Squaddie-]

Yes this is true, however I will use a variety of different scripts and events to help create foreign armies attack diffent Factions, IE Persia invading Greece. However, due to most city states in Greece being resonably close to one another, this will make results fairly realistic to how the battles in ancient greece used to be.

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Athenian Faction Symbol


This is just a little look into what the faction symbols for the game will look like

[jakobh94]

Nice!

[-Squaddie-]

Glad you like it

I have also made significant process on the campaign map and will create a preview for that soon. So check back again soon

[jakobh94]

Okay good, just greece right? And what about units, have you made up any Unit Rooster to use?

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I have finished the roosters for several factions, However, I am still in the process of writing up the others up. For the time being i will solely be focusing on Athens and Sparta, so that is where my main effort lies.

And the map will be only of Greece. But there will be added events into the campaign which involves other areas of the Mediterranean and Asia, which will effect Greece in different ways.

[jakobh94]

And what about minor asia? If this mod is around the Persian wars i think its important to have it on the map. And since you are having Byzantium in, its just going to be there anyway, right?

Good news on the rooster

[-Squaddie-]

oh yes, a section of asia minor will also be included. Sardis, Miletus etc will be just two of the regions on there. Also the faction rooster is still subjected to change, I will post a indepth report on the entire mod once I have layed all the 'ground work' for the mod

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