Playable WHAT for the First Time?!

**jmilan77** · August 15, 2011, 07:48 AM

Hi all im pleased to announce that i have recieved the last of the last of the files for our sea battles. It has came much sooner than we expected, so if all goes well, we are cancelling the release of 0.88.5 and bringing forward 0.89. As the former was being released as a delaying tactic for the sea battles but now we have them may as well release everything in one major release. This will unfortunatly put back the release time by a month or 2 as i now to work on the things that were to be released originaly in 0.89.

A few other things for everyone to know, this means our mod now will only be able to run on the alex expansion pack. Also, with the added files, the mod now is rather large unfortunaly, its now over 2gb now, but its all for a good cause.

Watch this space

Also this will not be only exclusive for our mod. Hannibal, the person that made the discovery, shall be releasing a tutorial with certain files i believe, so that all mods will be able to have this creation. So this is a gift from him to all the community

**Milner** · August 15, 2011, 11:44 AM

Are you saying like the Roma Surrectum II gift environment?

**jmilan77** · August 15, 2011, 12:59 PM

I suppose yes

Sorry mate, it is a lot of work to port from alex to bi as Bi uses different internal names for factions unlike alexander that uses the same as in rtw. But i am looking into porting lots of things from BI such as looking into porting the religion then turning it into goverments instead, so you have democracy, republic, oligarchy and so on.

**debux** · August 15, 2011, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by jmilan77

But i am looking into porting lots of things from BI such as looking into porting the religion then turning it into goverments instead, so you have democracy, republic, oligarchy and so on.

Interesting! Never thought of the Religions feature like that

**james1976** · August 16, 2011, 03:47 PM

Good to hear jmilan77. Still looking forward to the release of 0.89.

**jmilan77** · August 16, 2011, 04:07 PM

Thankyou, in the next few days i shall be posting pics of the shield wall running on alex for our new hoplite units

**Primo** · August 17, 2011, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by jmilan77

I suppose yes

Sorry mate, it is a lot of work to port from alex to bi as Bi uses different internal names for factions unlike alexander that uses the same as in rtw. But i am looking into porting lots of things from BI such as looking into porting the religion then turning it into goverments instead, so you have democracy, republic, oligarchy and so on.

Logic concludes porting it to RTW is no problem at all.

**jmilan77** · August 17, 2011, 06:29 PM

Sorry porting what, religion or alex to bi?

**~~Royal_McKeogh~~** · August 17, 2011, 11:00 PM

Hey jmil, when will the release be, and can we have some pictures of those naval units ingame?

**jmilan77** · August 18, 2011, 03:01 AM

Not sure yet as we still have a few factions to finish and our buildings and trait and acnillary system is still under work. When i finally get the time to finish of the port to alex, i shall post some pics.

all the best mate and thanks for the idea

You were the one that inspired us to do this

**~~Royal_McKeogh~~** · August 18, 2011, 04:32 PM

I may have inspired you, but I couldn't have done it. Best of luck! I hope you work out all the bugs!

**jmilan77** · August 18, 2011, 04:35 PM

Thanks mate, when you work it out, there are no more bugs than the a normal battle, its just getting to that fine line is the problem

**Ganonman** · August 18, 2011, 11:37 PM

I'm sure they're trying but like they said Alexander is the only one of the three game engines that can handle see battles without being buggy. I suppose that means it would be possible to put in sea battles on BI but it would probably lead to frequent crashes and some actions not being able to be performed.

**jmilan77** · August 19, 2011, 12:38 AM

Well I think it could be implemented on bi, not as bad as rtw, that was the worst

but with bi I think you can only make historical battles with it, you can't implement on campaign I think

**yuezhi** · November 11, 2011, 02:35 PM

will naval battles be possible for custom/multiplayer?

**jmilan77** · November 12, 2011, 03:17 AM

Hm I am not sure to be honest as we have not tried to get our mod working on multiplayer yet. Although we shall give it a try as in theory there shouldn't be any reason why we can't