The Greek League - submod

[Athenogoras]

THE GREEK LEAGUE


a submod of
Warlords Of Sparta
Classic Edition
by DaVinci and Athenogoras

About

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A greek-only submod which takes the classic version of "Warlords Of Sparta" one step further
It is a small submod which offers no radical gameplay-changes or graphical content and merely
reflects the preferences and the playing style of the modmakers.

Recommended Settings+Unitguide

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This mod is developed and balanced for settings
H/H

Large unit-size
Battletimer off
Manage All Settlements
Unitguide

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Recruitable units

All units(and ships) now requires the greek league-building(Krypteia-building renamed). This building is scripted to appear in conquered settlements. You just have to wait with the military structures until it appears

Infantry
Greek Hoplite: Everywhere once you build citybarracks
Armoured Hoplite: All greece west of the hellespont + crete and Cyclades + Ionia(once you build citybarracks)
City Hoplites: In respective city only(Thespians available in Opous)
Macedonian Argyraspis and Epitagma: Available in region of Macedonia
Arcadian Epitagma: Available in Olympia and Tegea
Athenian Epitagma and Promachos: Athens only
Corith Euzonos: Corinth only
Ionian Epitagma: Ionian regions
Thespian Promachos: Opous only
Thracians: Thracian regions

Missile
Spartan helots: Only in Sparta and Tegea
Skiritai: Only in Sparta and Tegea
Greek Archer: AOR extended* not it Sparta or Tegea
Greek Peltast: AOR extended* not in Sparta or Tegea
Rhodian slinger: Only available in Ionia
Greek elite archer: Available in Athens, Korinth, Thebes and Ionia
Thracian Peltast: Available in region of Thrace


Cavalry
Greek Cavalry: Only available in Olympia and Tegea
Ionian Cavalry: Only available in Ionia
Athenian Cavalry: Athens only
Thespian cavalry: Only available in Opous

*AOR extended - All greece west of the hellespont + crete and Cyclades + Ionia

Installation

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SUGGESTION - BACKUP 300WOS FOLDER BEFORE INSTALL
1, Extract TGL.zip anywhere
2, Extract alexander.zip into "/Rome-total War"-directory

3, Confirm "yes to all"

Releases/Changelogs

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Options Included
- 2-hp EDU and including a
-Trait and ancillary-file which only gives battlerelated traits and ancillarys.
-preference-file included.

Version 1.0
- Only Greeks playable
- Rewamped building tree, not all buildings are now available
- Changed win-conditions, total eradication of Persian now not necessary
- Changed end-date to 320BC
- Changed recruitment, remade EDB
- Remade EDU
- Some new formations
- Increased movementpoints on stratmap with 50%
- Mercenaries: Changed replenishment rates and minor textchanges
- Adjusted model for the scripted reinforcement hoplite, now fight with the right end of the spear

Version 1.01
- Nerfed elite cavalry(persian and greek)
- Reduced size and strenght of ordinary greek cavalry
- Textchanges in the menu

Version 2.0
- All units have 1hp(except berserking-units)
- included descr_mount-file. Cavalry much less disruptive effect on formatiosn
- AI-bonus-trait: command, morale and battlesurgery-bonus for its generals
- Given all starting-members the spartan-trait(no-one else will gain it)
- Changed recruitment: Krypteia-building(renamed to "the greek league") is needed for any military recruitment
- reduced power of cavalry
- added horsebonus for infantry with sword
- EDB: removed experience-upgrade for temple, lowered cost and time for persian range and cavalry-barracks
- reduced spear-bonus(mainly to improve cavalry-behaviour of AI)
- minor textchanges in the description of traits and ancillarys
- reduced chances of gaining traits and ancillarys
- script: removed weapon-upgrades from the plataea-battle

Version 3.0
- New Wall assault and bridge-formations(modified Darth Vader formations)
- New temple:Apollo, only in Delphi
- Korinth and Athens have temples from the start(Aphrodite and Athena)
- Models: Helots now hold javelin in hand
- Reduced cost and upkeep of greek missileunits
- Many small textchanges for traits and ancilliaries
- Spartan bodyguard recruitment removed + upkeep lower for bodyguards
- Ethnic traits implemented
- Mines more profitable
- reduced heat-effect of climate
- added "is_peasant" for greek missileunits to make them worse as garrison
- removed all epitephs except city-epitephs(for example "the great", "the lewd" etc)
- 2 kings for Sparta
- New description for the stratmap(for example instead of "factionleader" now "King Of Kings" for Xerxes)

Version 4.0
- Roma Surrectum 1.6-environment and grass
- Small description-changes
- preferences:disabled arrow-markers
- New battle-map-lighting-file
- Changed initial military infrastructure of Persians
- Changed building-time slightly for military structures
- Greek elite archers available also in Korinth, Thebes and Ionia(except Athens)

Version 4.1
- Changed stratmap-models. Family members now use the same as the Leonidas-model. Captains changed to former family member-model
- Small textchanges
- Changed light-conditions slightly, now a little more bright

Version 4.2
- Small text-changes
- Added proper player formations with descriptions
- Improved siege-formation
- Changed default melee state(in formation-file) for missiles, now start with fire at will and skirmish off
- removed 1 shield-defence for most peltasts
- added wedge-ability for spartan bodyguard(only usable via the player-formation-buttons)

Version 4.21
- Small formation-change in the optional 2-hp-EDU
- Change the optional preference-file to no anti-aliasing.

Version 5.0
- Made greek and Ionian rebel hoplites use overhand hoplite-animation, model-changes accordingly
- Slave-faction now uses greek formations
- Rebel helotes implemented(same look as ordinary helots but with different stats)
- Name-change: spartan peltasts now named Skiritai, lydian hoplite now changed to lydian sparabara
- Increased size of peasant rebellions in descr_rebel_factions
- New sub-rebel-group:Helotes(in Sparta, Tegea and Ithome), increased risk of peasant rebellions here
- Changed Thermopylae-battle, bigger armies and Ephialtes leading Hydarnes around the pass.
- New formations Persia
- Added auto-merge-script for all factions
- small text-changes
- Added Ephialtes-ancillary to Xerxes

Version 5.1
- Ephialtes made into "single"-man unit
- Formation-tweaks
- Model-changes:Changed position slightly of the hoplite spear, adjusted shield of the Antartes Hoplite
,adjusted shields of barbarian and ionian peltasts.
- Changed Fort and Watchtower strat-models
- Changed skeletons for some units, mainly archer-units which now have the dagger animation
instead of the swordsman animation
- Small textchanges

Version 6.0
- Aristeia strat-map sea implemented(with minor modifications)
- Adjusted map RTR-style naval movement(restricted naval movement)
- Adjusted map_height.tga for a smoother coastline. So far only finished Peleponnes and Euobia
- Fixed slinger-sound for Rhodian slinger
- Corrected skeleton-mistake for Rhodian slingers
- Slight adjustment(fog) in descr_battle_map_lighting...
- Made some multi-version units unavailable for custom-battles
- Traits:
- small changes in ethnic traits
- added hidden movement-trait for all admirals
- EDU:
- adjusted stats for ships to make naval battles more decisive(less escaping)
- Increased soldiers for persian archers(Thanvabara and Kushite archers)
- Increased training-time for Sparabara and Takabara infantry(from 1 to 2)

Version 6.1
- New sea,shore and waves
- Changed strat-models for greek and eastern fishing village(removed trees)
- Fixed pink spot on Chios(map_ground)
- changed citylocation for Aigina(now not in sea)
- Edited placement of resources
- Changed faction-colours on stratmap
- Removed borders on minimap and stratmap
- Changed radarmaps to be more dark
- Smoothified coastline

Ethnic Traits

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As I am a beginner on making traits I would be grateful for any feedback.
My main inspiration are Suppanuts traits for XGM(a mod made by DimeBagHo)

These are the ethnic traits available in TGL

Traits Effects
-Spartan +1hp,+2morale,+2influence,-2management
-Athenian +1morale,+1commandwhenattacking,+1influence
-Korinthian 5%bonusontrade,-1squalor
-Delphic +1law,-1unrest +Only one who can have priest of Apollo as ancillary
-Theban -1influence,5%bonusonunit-recruitment
-Thespian +1morale,+1commandwhendefending
-Ionian +1commandagainstpersians,+1publicsecurity
-Hellen no effects


-All traits should come with a city-epiteph(of Sparta, of Athens etc).
Ionian should come with several(of Miletos, of Samos, of Naxos etc).

-Sons are coded to inherit fathers ethnic trait

-All marriageproposals are coded to be spartans

-Adoptions(usually after a turn) are coded to be mixed(all can appear)

-Man of the hour-adoptions(if you fight a battle witout a general) are coded to be mixed.(all can appear except spartans)
So if you want more Athenians or Thespians you have to win more battles without a proper general.

New Player Formations

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Designed for Large settings

Plataea

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Hoplite I

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Hoplite II

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Hoplite III-Marathon

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Normal

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Bridge and City

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Column

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Spartan Boar Snout(unhistorical)

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New Thermopylae

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Designed for Large settings

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Eagle-view

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The 300

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Thebans, Thespians and Helots

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Ephialtes guiding the persians

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Theban left flank

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"Molon labe"

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Persian reinforcements, Ephialtes in the shadow

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Thespians, Spartans and Helots in a hail of arrows

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The last of the Spartan Hippeis

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Leonidas killed

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Outcome

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Revised Map

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New Stratmap Sea, Smooth Coast And Stratmodel

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Before

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After

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Download

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The Greek League (TGL)
version 6.1
TWC downloads

Credits

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Basemod:
*All who contributed in the production of Halie Satanus
"Warlords Of Sparta"

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Halie Satanus: All Graphics, animation tweaks, base coding.
Makanyane: Scripting, 'Thermopylae' custom-battle map, revised sky mod.
Aradan: Coding, unit/campaign balance and being Greek (which helped a lot).
MasterOfNone: Making things work, proof reading/correcting the text and fixing my mistakes.
Uranos: Base map.

*Suppanut and DimeBagHo of XGM(temple-descriptions and trait-inspiration)

*Aradan and DaVinci for help finding nasty buglet
*Roma Surrectum for permission to use their environment
*The Lordz for permission to use their trees
*Norman Invasion(NI) for Ephialtes and Watchtower-texture and unitcards
*LOTR-TW for Ephialtes imaginary friends
*Aristeia for permission to use their stratmap sea-textures and for textures and inspiration
on how to remove borders on the stratmap
Submod:
(version 1.0)DaVinci - campaign changes, tech-tree changes
(since version 1.01)Athenogoras

[Halie Satanus]

Nice one guys.

Does DV make a sub mod of every mod he plays?..

[Athenogoras]

Does DV make a sub mod of every mod he plays?..

Only the ones he deems worthy of his labour

Edit: fixed info on stratmap-movement

[DaVinci]

Cool release post, Atheno, well done

One note still: Basic movement points on strat-map is increased by 50% (original vanilla value 80 is now 120).
Also recommended: Battletimer off, and manage all settlements.

[Athenogoras]

Ok, adding. Although battletimer is off by default I think
Edit:fixed

[DaVinci]

Ok, adding. Although battletimer is off by default I think
Edit:fixed

Yes, it's of course only a "redundant" info, but i find it worth to mention, because of the scripted battles (Thermopylae, Palatae), where the player at least here should not take advantage with a battlertimer. Perfect TGL logo-picture btw.

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Oh, and also in TGL is valid: Loosing Palatae is non-thinkable, start the mod anew if you do not win this battle (just better make a save-game before Palatae occurs).
And again, H battle difficulty is the base for the balance, as is for the campaign difficulty. A super-strategist and tacticist can try VH/VH (not tested as of yet).

[DaVinci]

Nice one guys.

Does DV make a sub mod of every mod he plays?..

300WOS is fantastic on its own, no question.
As realism-lovers we have only changed your work to something that is a bit closer to a realism-modstyle for the concerning timeframe, in the first place for our personal preferences while playing your mod - in the end we decided to offer our submod product to the public, just for the ones who perhaps like an alternative. And for the average player, who likes to try H/H difficulty, it'll be a good challenge, but should be doable.

[Halie Satanus]

Great shots, especially like the pose in "Molon lab,'' Can't recall coming across that one before.

[DaVinci]

Yes, Thermopylae provides a complete new charme

[Athenogoras]

Thanks! BTW is that the Thebans in you avatar. IMO probably the coolest of your hoplites. That mighty herculian club ready to smite all persian evil-doers.

[Halie Satanus]

A'yup, I just love that face mask.

[Halie Satanus]

Could you post a pic of the sea texture.

[Athenogoras]

Sure, updated first post(including the new map)

[Halie Satanus]

Ah right, wow that's different, looks like someone has been dumping sewage.

Love that shore texture.

[Athenogoras]

looks like someone has been dumping sewage

Its expresionism man...expresionism...exploring my inner thoughts.

Next stop:Kubism

[Halie Satanus]

Lol, it's your mod you do what you like with it..Just a bit of a shock, I was expecting something more blue that's all.

[Athenogoras]

To some extent the colour can also be changed in the water_surface.tga in the campaign-folder(which I have done) where I can give it a more blue look.
Overall I like the changes though.

[DaVinci]

Lol, it's your mod you do what you like with it..Just a bit of a shock, I was expecting something more blue that's all.

I thought the same about the missing blue tone, and afaik, Atheno will realise some more blue with his next update.

Its expresionism man...expresionism...exploring my inner thoughts.

Next stop:Kubism

Kubism ... that will be very interesting

[Mediteran]

will a new version of this be out soon or should i start playing the older one now?

[Athenogoras]

Hopefully late tomorrow I have another version up which will contain estetic changes
- smoother coastlines
- different seacolour
- different factioncolours
- some changes in citylocation and harbours(requires a new campaign to take effect)