Classical Age Total War - Illyria Preview

**Aradan** · May 23, 2009, 12:21 PM

CATW presents :
The Illyrians

A long time ago (in 2003), when RTW was still in the cradle, CA team considered including the Illyrians. This project never materialized in the final version, but some elements survived, icons, skins, and names. Later, probably the very first famous mod on RTW, RTR, gave them birth. They were generally seen as one of the most difficult faction to play. Now CATW delivers a new, massive, and updated version of this relatively "exotic" faction. Set in 300 BC, the Illyrians left a strong image for both Greeks and italic neighbours, of pirates, somewhat anachronistic warbands falling into banditry, partly hellenized, partly celticized and living like their fellow thracian brothers in the Homeric age, split into rival kingdoms. They left names like Bradyllis, and Teuta, queen of the pirates, which inherited from her deceased husband, Agron, the first true unified illyrian kingdom. This was 230 bc, and Illyrian pirates threatened and infested the entire Adriatic sea, and forced the romans, for the first time, to leave their homeland peninsula, launching a massive and fast blitzkrieg style conquest on the rugged balkan coastline. What follows is a well-known history...

Read the full preview here.

The catw thread can be found here.

**paradamed** · May 23, 2009, 04:57 PM

Very nice preview. A lot of content.

**Mong** · May 24, 2009, 12:22 AM

You have made them look like a race of blockheads. Well done

**cocobongoclub-DJ** · May 25, 2009, 10:57 AM

Haem..., i'm sure that if there are some albanians around they will appreciate...

**Sephynos** · May 25, 2009, 10:02 PM

Nice job man! The Illyrians are interesting.

**cocobongoclub-DJ** · May 26, 2009, 11:53 AM

Thx a lot for your support. The next faction will be less original : The Bosporan kingdom. A mix of greek, thracian and scythian influences. After that, the Syracusans, and then, the beta3 release (or catw0.9), in july. So that you could try classical-age this summer.

**Nikron** · May 27, 2009, 05:09 PM

illyrians with tattoo's in their face? booh...ive made better units that i use for myself in Hegemonia City States.

**cocobongoclub-DJ** · May 28, 2009, 01:36 AM

Not exactly illyrians but scordisci, they are more celtic than illyrians, and these are not tattoes but more war paintings. Illyrians were tattoed for Strabo, but not any authors spoke of that and they are few evidences of this.