Magna Graecia Total War

[Michael333]

Magna Graecia Total War will be (I hope) a modification for RTW 1.6.
The factions will be:
Greek colonies:
Taras
Argos Hippium
Rhegion
Kroton
Locri Epizephyrii
Pitecusa
Neapolis
Poseidonia-Paestum
Heraclea
Messana
Syracusa
Italic Peoples:
Bruzi
Lucani
Peucetii
Messapii
Samnites
Others:
Carthage
Rome (emergent)
Epirus (emergent)

I need a modeler, a mapper, 2d arts (faction symbols), a scripter/text editer and some historians.

Start date: 500 BC

This mod will include an AoR (Area of Recrutiment) system and a reform that allows to recruit phalanx pikemen.

I'm already working on Taras' unit roster (I'm reskinning vanilla units):
Tarentine Guards
Tarentine Heavy Cavalry
Tarentine Cavalry (Skirmisher Cavalry)
Tarentine Phalanx (need reform)
Tarentine Hoplites
Tarentine Militia
Tarentine Archers
Tarentine Peltasts

[Skull]

RTW 1.6??
Do you mean a mod for BI?

[Michael333]

Yes

[Valkar]

Some Kinda map from the Area? That would be great!

[Michael333]

Taras Symbol:

[Michael333]

Here is the first preview: Taras' army (before the phalanx reform)

[Valkar]

Do you need help with units?

[Michael333]

Maybe with italic units, because I need some models (I will make the samnites, I can just modify the samnites from the game).

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Before the phalanx (I assume you mean the Macedonian phalanx, like Alexander's armies used?)? You'll have to get the units shown out of "phalanx formation" and have them use an overhand fighting style; it suits pre-macedonian phalanx units more.

[Valkar]

Overhead with Phalanx, A.K.A. Hoplite Hoplites.

[Michael333]

Valkar is right.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

I'm not sure what he meant (Valkar, clear that up for me. In Dutch, if necessary ); but if he means that the hoplites should use the overhead formation (without the "phalanx formation"-button in RTW), then yes: that's what I meant as well.

[Valkar]

I'm not sure what he meant (Valkar, clear that up for me. In Dutch, if necessary ); but if he means that the hoplites should use the overhead formation (without the "phalanx formation"-button in RTW), then yes: that's what I meant as well.

If you turn it off, they fight like wild barbarians, loose from each other. When you turn phalanx on, their forumation is tight, and they fight as a groop, not individually.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

If you turn it off, they fight like wild barbarians, loose from each other. When you turn phalanx on, their forumation is tight, and they fight as a groop, not individually.

Ever played Rise of Persia? The mod combines the overhead animation with a more static form of fighting in which the hoplites do keep formation. It is one of the 2 different ways to have hoplites keep their formation. The other involves tweaking mass and unit spacing.

[Cinuz]

Ever played Rise of Persia? The mod combines the overhead animation with a more static form of fighting in which the hoplites do keep formation. It is one of the 2 different ways to have hoplites keep their formation. The other involves tweaking mass and unit spacing.

Aye! RoP hoplites' animation combines the overhead animation with the BI's spearmen formation, doesn't it?

[Spike]

Aye! RoP hoplites' animation combines the overhead animation with the BI's spearmen formation, doesn't it?

but when notice that the last line thrusts the spears high in the air....
that's teh engine limit

[Cinuz]

Good luck with your mod!!

Se posso, quasi quasi mi inserisco come consulente!
Per esempio, potresti chiedere il modello degli schermagliatori italici di The Hellenic States a Lanjane! Poi, potresti dare un'occhiata a Empires And Traders, sempre di comrade_general, dove i Seleucidi sono stati trasformati in popoli italici (il che comprende anche i sanniti mi sembra)

Buona fortuna

[Michael333]

Grazie, sei sempre il benvenuto Cinuz.

[Spike]

I'd suggest you start for searching the proper animations for this, especially for the classical hoplites... Good Luck

(either ask Signifier 1 or the EB team maybe)

[Michael333]

I'll ask Signifer 1, his animations are great.