Wars of Italy - Work in Progress

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

Wars of Italy...

About:
For some time now, I have been working on a little mod. It's a campaign that includes Italy, Sicily, Carthage, Illyria and Epirus. The inspiration is from Jack's mod, which unfortunately is dead. I liked the idea, and the map, and so I decided to make my own one. It's cut from the Mundus Magnus map.
Details:
Here is a map: (from map_regions, I haven't made a working map yet)

(I know it's bad quality but it was blown up 500%, the original is tiny)

I am making two versions:
v1: just a campaign you can put into the campaign folder.


v2: A modfolder which includes other files that have been modded. This version

• Renames some factions (see below).
• Changes what is recrutable in campaigns for some factions.
• Changes the campaign water to make it look better.
• Changes the factions that you can play as in custom battles.
• Changes the units recruitable in custom battles.
• And maybe more...

The faction list:
Julii - Rome
Senate - Senate
Brutii - Samnites
Gauls - Cisalpine Gauls
Greek Cities - Syracuse
Seleucids - Epirus
Carthage - Carthage
Dacia - Illyria

Story:
Long ago, before Rome became great and powerful, it was just a bunch of states in northern Italy. They had to fight the Cisalpine Gauls in the north and the Samnites in the south. Then the Epirotes invaded, and they had to beat them back too. The Syracusans resisted them in Sicily, and then there was Carthage, the powerhouse of the western Mediterreanean. The Illyrians were to the north-east of Italy, on the other side of the Adriatic, just waiting to invade. Somehow, the Romans deafeated all of these people, and became the empire it was known for. But always remember, there was a time when Rome was small.....

Team:
Calisthenis of Green Day - Mapper, Coder (Scripter too, if I decide to include it.)
ChazB- - Mapper
Spartan262 - 2D Art, Coder
debux - Skinner

We are recruiting! If you feel YOU have something to add to Wars of Italy, PM me with what you can do.

Any comments would be welcome.
Et iterum Italy cadant in bello.

[Altzek]

A mod with the Samnites?It's about time...Seems nice as idea,but you should add way more regions to the map :-)

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

I want to keep it simple, so for the first release, I want the regions to stay as they are.

Thanks for the comment +rep. Love the sig.

[florin80]

Isn`t this pretty close to Paeninsula Italica? Why not start with that instead of redoing everything?

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

Paeninsula Italica is a huge mod with a map of Italy that's huge. This is a mini-mini mod on Italy. I want to keep it simple and small.

[Skull]

Sounds great!I will defenatly try this one out when it is released.

[Halie Satanus]

Looks good, feel free to anything you need from 'Sicilia'... Good luck.

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

Thank you.

[cpdwane]

Good work!

[Skull]

How is it going?

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

It's going good. I've got someone working with me. (Still wouldn't say no to any more though : )

I'm hoping to get it released by early January next year. Sooner if I can. It may be later though.

[Spartan262]

I can do some 2D Editing and some easy text files stuff and I'm in the process of learning how to skin units so I'd love to get involved as I have plenty of free time

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

Brilliant.

Now, what will you do.....?

Can you edit export_descr_unit.txt?

[Spartan262]

Pretty sure I can but if I can't I'll just learn how. I do more modding in NTW but I can do this.\

Just tell me what you want done and I'll do my best.

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

I'll send you a PM tomorrow. I did a huge PM and it got lost due to an auto log out. I'm still seething.
And I had to write this again because of another logging in issue!

Anyway, you'll get the details tomorrow.

[Spartan262]

I'll right

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

I'm so sorry for forgetting to PM you! If you're still in, I'm sending it now!

EDIT: Or did I send the PM? I don't know.....

[Jubal_Barca]

Hum. Would a forum or webspace be helpful? I'm on a bit of a mission to find some new mods for my forum (which currently hosts Persian Invasion and Warhammer Total War, with more mods in the pipeline hopefully).

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

That's..........generous of you...........

Where is the forum/webspace you speak of? Here? Or somewhere else?

(Don't take the ellipsis wrong, I appreciate the offer)

[Jubal_Barca]

http://s9.zetaboards.com/exilian/forum/44362/
^This is our RTW modding area.

If you check the links at the top of the page you'll find the gallery and pages for other mods, we can get you fixed up on the same system (we also try and do other helpful things like post on just about every TW forum we know on when a release happens so you get maximum publicity).