Without further ado, probably the LAST official Full release of Diadochi - TW is finally here; - much thanks to Spartan 666 and his great dedication to this mod. I doubt it'll ever be perfect, but it's good enough for now and at least it comes as a stand-alone full release. You can always visit the Screenshots thread for some visuals.
Appropriate Suggestions & Ideas or Bugs & Issues can be reported in their respective threads. And of course, you can discuss the current release in this Thread.
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Playing Diadochi - TW
-) The Menu
At the start of a campaign, you will have to opportunity to toggle fatigue on/off and also change unit sizes to 25/50/100/200
Under Options -> Game Settings, you can find additional tweaks to adjust for best game experience.
It is also recommended to leave the advisor level at low.
-) Starting a new Campaign
With this release I included 4 independent campaigns. You have the option of selecting from a range of well balanced and fun to play factions. At the start of each game, an advisor will pop up to trigger the Diadochi TW Background script.
The available Campaigns in this release:
Imperial Campaign: 279 - 146 BC
Focus on the Mediterranean and Hellenistic world of warfare. Superbly balanced campaign that provides more fun than it should.
Wars of the Diadochi: 305 - 255 BC
Pyrrhic Wars: 279 - 146 BC
Sons of Mars: 328 - 282 BC
Focusing on the Latin Wars and the Rise of Rome, this campaign is solely focused on Rome and its rise for power. Unfortunately, this campaign is incomplete, but can be played nevertheless.
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Here is a short description of some interesting factions to play with:
The Kingdom of Epirus:
The Republic of Rome:
The People of Aedui:
The Achaean League:
The Kingdom of Pergamum:
League of Greek Cities:
Independent Greek City States:
-) Campaign, Custom And Multiplayer Battles
When starting a new Custom Battle, you have the option to toggle fatigue on/off and under advanced settings, unit size can be changed to 25/50/100/200.
Most units have been cost balanced resulting in well polished unit rosters, perfect for competitive Multiplayer play.
Every faction except Romans has a cheap levy unit that can be recruited in 0 turns (meaning you can stack 10 of them together in the recruitment pool and get them in 1 turn). This unit, though, is rather useless and poorly armoured. It is good to hold weak points of your line, where you need to keep the enemy busy. If they are faced against regular Heavy Infantry, they will get slaughtered.
Hoplite style units have very high defense in this mod, making them excellent troops to hold the battleline. Their attack though, is relatively weak, this means you will need to deploy excellent cavalry to accompany your Phalanx units, or you will not succeed. Flanking is very important.
Fatigue has been tweaked to reasonable limits, so having fatigue On, is no longer a hindrance, but provides decent realism.
The Greek unit roster has been completely remade, featuring many new excellent units. Kudos to Maraxus for his hard work on this!
-) Features
A number of new features have been added to Diadochi. Here's a description of how to use these new features.
New Wooden Walls: New unique wooden walls are walkable and half the height of Stone Walls. These walls are still fragile and can be knocked down by rams, but provide extra tactics and new possibilities. It will also make defending settlements much more fun.
Colonies and Culture: Each region has its own cultural settings. Initially all cultures are divided to three groups: Western Civilized, Eastern Civilized and Barbarian Customs.
The easiest way to boost the spread of you own culture in any region is to either build Law Temples or bring in Generals with the proper culture trait.
The other way is to establish your own Colonies in the region - this is ultimately essential in any conquered regions. There are four basic groups of colonies: Small Colonies, Large Colonies, Independent Colonies and Native Colonies.
In order to build new faction specific buildings, you need the proper cultural colonies. A Native Settlement can build any factional buildings it has, but Small Colonies can only build basic structures.
Egypt and Thrace are special factions, because they have the ability to choose from 2 cultural paths. Egypt between the native Eastern and the Ptolemaic Western culture, Thrace between the native Barbarian and a Macedonian-like Hellenism. Depending on which culture is chosen and which kind of colonies are built, different units will be available.
Cultural Barracks: With the new implementation of cultural buildings, barracks have been adapted with the new system. There are essentially four groups of cultural barracks and a shared barracks for auxiliary troops:
- Auxiliary Barracks: Train region specific mercenaries and native units.
- Roman Barracks: For Roman factions
- Greek Barracks: For Greek, Bactrian and Egyptian factions
- Eastern Barracks: For Eastern, Carthaginian and Egyptian factions
- Barbarian Barracks: For all Barbarian factions and Thrace
Each Barracks will require the presence of a certain Colony, so if you are playing as Greeks and conquer a barbarian territory, you will need to build Greek Colonies there, or you will not be able to advance the settlement. Building Colonies is easy, but takes time.
Auxiliary Barracks do not require any colonies, but are sometimes useless for there are no native units to train (yet).
There are 5 levels of barracks:
- Militia Barracks: Only Levy units can be trained
- City Barracks: Only City(+Levy) level units can be trained
- Army Barracks: Only Army(+City) level units can be trained
- Royal Barracks: Only Royal(+Army) level units can be trained
- Reform Barracks: Only Royal and Reform units can be trained
Each Barrack system will provide a different array of troops to recruit. Essentially you can have a properly functioning Levy army from the ground up, but its quality will not be as good.
With each level that is added, a different unit roster will be available, with only a small selection of previous level troops. In non-native areas, units will appear 1 level later. For example, a Militia Barracks unit will make its first appearance in City Barracks.
Once you have conquered a region, unless its of the same culture you are in (eg: Greek vs Greek), you will have to build new colonies and new barracks, specific to your culture only.
-) Additional Features
Diadochi - TW features 46 unique music tracks. A complete set of new skies. Beautiful new campaign map textures and completely new battlemap textures.
This alone revives the old RTW engine to a whole new level, not yet seen.
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-) Faction Unit Previews
Some miscellaneous units:
Installing Diadochi - TW v1.20 Full
-) Options: There are four options included in the 1.2 Full version of DTW:
-) Increased population growth - You should use this if you like to play on 200 unit size. This is to prevent settlements running out of manpower.
-) Reduced AI Experience bonus - AI by default is quite useless, so I've given slight experience bonuses, so they will fare better in battles. Disable those if you want slightly less challenging AI. The experience bonus is not too severe and makes the game more challenging to play.
-) Increase AI Experience bonus - If you're a hardcore veteran who exploits every known AI weakness and wants to give the AI a chance, then this option will give all AI units +5 exp by default. Be prepared for utterly unfair battles for the whole game.
-) 4 Turn per Year - Changes the game from 2 seasons per year to 4 seasons per year. This provides no real difference to gameplay other than less frequent winters.
If you don't like an option you have previously selected, you should reinstall the latest patch or full release, selecting the optional features you want.
-) Installation Directory
By default, the installer will check the registry for an appropriate installation directory, which should be the /Rome - Total War/ folder. If it doesn't, just manually point the installer to the directory where RomeTW.exe is found.
The installer will check whether the directory is correct or not and will prompt for abort if it cannot find RomeTW.exe (incorrect directory).
The installer checks which is the most recent engine (RTW.exe, BI.exe or ALX.exe) you have in your RTW folder, and makes some changes according to the engine. If you have ALX installed but want to play with the BI engine, move the ALX.exe to another folder or rename it, install the mod, and then restore things as they were before.
The mod will be installed in a mod-folder 'DTW'.
Major changes in Diadochi - TW: v1.20 Full
Unit Changes
-) New aor units: Eastern Spearmen Archers, Iberian Infantry, Iberian Cavalry, Indian Cavalry, Italian Velites, Tarantine Cavalry, Nubian Spearmen, Nubian Cavalry, Ethiopian Axemen, Barbarian Archers, Eastern Archers
-) All units now have sprites
-) Bactria can now recruit Archers, Slingers and Thureophoroi
-) Basilikon Agema use Hypaspist model instead of Thureophoroi
-) Greek Cataphracts now use Hetairoi horsemen and armoured horse
-) Parthian Immortals replaced by Companion Cavalry (elite cataphracts)
-) Changed skin of Spartan Royal Guard, less anachronistic and similar to normal Spartiates
Map Changes
-) Campaign map expanded a little north.
-) Added Red Sea channel.
-) Fixed ground types in North Italy.
-) Four more regions: Dura Europos, Pelusium, Malaca*, Saldae*, Sabratha* (*=removed regions from germania).
-) New eastern and barbarian settlement strat models (thanks to Suppanaut).
-) Patavium now has a port in Pyrrhic Wars campaign.
Building Changes
-) Drilling Fields converted to Local Garrisons.
-) Ports no longer give experience bonus (cause of an evil CTD).
-) New hinterland building, Town Square. It should guarantee recruitment. of basic levy units, to prevent the revolt CTD.
Misc. Changes
-) Fixed barbarian music.
-) Pyrrhus and Decius Mus engage automatically at the start of Pyrrhic Wars campaign.
-) Population growth option during installation works properly and now gives a much more reasonable bonus.
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This is pretty much all there is to Diadochi - Total War v1.2 Full. All that is left to do, is to try this mod out and enjoy to its fullest!
Diadochi - TW: Release v1.23 Full
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anyway, about the homepage announcement. I will contact one of the members that can do that.
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