Terrae Expugnandae 5.0 - Preview 1

[Lusted]

This is the first preview of the upcoming 5.0 version of my mod Terrae Expugnandae. This preview wil focus on one of the main areas 5.0 will improve over previous versions of the mod:

The Barbarians.

One of the main area in which the Barbarian factions will be improved will be buildings. Now the Barbarians wil be able to build all city levels, as well as a host of other new buildings transfered over from BI into RTW.

Great Hall - one of the two new city levels


Hundred Men Hall - a new level of barracks


Guildhall - the trading hub of any barb city


Foundry - to produce the best upgrades


Dockyard - giving you that extra bit of trade income


Stone Walls - now you will have more than wooden walls to defend your settlements


Cesspit, Cesspool and Open Sewers - new public health buildings


Paved Roads - giving you a boost in trade income


All of these new buildings means that this is now what Barb cities look like on the battle map:


Of course the improvement of the Barbarian factions is not just limited to buildings, each barb faction gets new units, some of which are shown below, including new spear units fighting in the formation used by Barb spearmen in BI, which looks like a phalanx but isn't.



Hope that you enjoyed this preview, and expect another one soon!

[The White Knight]

Good job!

[Cyrus the Virus]

Excellent, my request has come true :sign_omg:
Surely will rock

[Holger Danske]

Wow.. that makes the barbarians more tempting to play..

[ahmed5]

Will schiltrom be added? I know formations are hardcoded but i am 100% there is some way to do it. Some mods do here do include them.

[Lusted]

Only if i make the mod run RTw through the Bi.exe which i do not want to do as i want people without Bi to be able to play it.

[John Wayne]

Woot! I can not wait for 5.0 to be done with! Thank you Lusted!!

[.Socrates]

Good job there.

[therussian]

Just a little hint for the Roman campaign (for all you Roman enthusiasts). Epirus will be MUCH harder in battle, and in campaign. IN my 4.0 campaign, they were barely a problem, but in 5.0, they drained my coffers down to zero, killed thousands of Roman soldiers, took Cannae, and caused a war of attrition which lasted more than 10 years. (Years, not turns)

SO heads up

[John I Tzimisces]

Just a little hint for the Roman campaign (for all you Roman enthusiasts). Epirus will be MUCH harder in battle, and in campaign. IN my 4.0 campaign, they were barely a problem, but in 5.0, they drained my coffers down to zero, killed thousands of Roman soldiers, took Cannae, and caused a war of attrition which lasted more than 10 years. (Years, not turns)

SO heads up

He's beta-ing, before any of you flip out. Much still needs to be done.

[Titus]

Wow! lusted great man

[Lusted]

Yeah there is still a lot to do but things are progressing very nicely, as you can probably tell from this preview and the comments of the beta testers.

[Sétanta]

WOW! AWESOME!

Yeah, I am totally waiting for 5.0 before installing RTW again.

[Final Frontier]

TE 4.0 is really fun in the short amount of time that I get to play it, and I believe that your efforts are going to make 5.0 an even greater game. Great job, Lusted. :happy_cry

[Lusted]

Thank you all for your comments guys, i am trying to make 5.0 the best it can possibly be.

[Chicano]

i see u fixed the 3d city view , kewl ; funny lookin barbarian town with stone walls , like bi , keep it going , cant wait for it

[Legionary Jezza]

Glad for your views we are trying our best.

It's the best your gonna play you have my word.

[Gaius Baltar]

As a beta tester, I would just like to say the new buildings and units makes the game far more interesting as the barbarians. Certainly worth a campaign or two, or three, or ten.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Lovely preview ^^ , I like that you added the new buildings , Altought I think that the CA walls are not much Realistic for ancient Barbarian walls .... anyway I didn't know was possible to add shield walls formations in 1.5 , is it ?

[Lusted]

Thank you Prom

It is possible to add shield wall, but you need to run RTw through the Bi.exe using the -my_mod command, which isn't good if someone doesn't have 1.6, so i haven't used it.

I know CA's walls are not realistic, but they are better than nothing, i do not really have the time to model fully accurate ones.