This is to announce the Amazon: Total War for the M2TW game engine.

It took us that long to come to the realization that M2TW development is a lot more straight forward than RTW environment.

But this mod is not a plain porting project.

Here are highlights of RTW Amazon Mod (6.0, link[here]) which are rather unique:

1. Most ancient horses are only 12 hands tall (48 inches or 120 cm), really just gloried ponies. This gives the women an unfair advantage as cavalry soldiers due to the petite frame size and body weight.

2. This mod advances an anthropological thesis envisioned by me, that Amazon is not a corrupted name of some Greek or Iranian phrase. But rather it is a women religious order, a lot like an ancient Goddess version of the Knights Templar in organization. In this case, the name Amazon is stemmed from the river Sinus Amazenus because of a sacred oath to dedicate maidens to the deity for the protection of their community and friends.

3. This is one mod which allows the game play to be quest based, that is, a faction can not advance to higher level unless certain strategical objectives are achieved.

4. Another unique feature is to allow Amazon diplomat to raise her own faction's army behind the enemy line. This is theoretically quite possible because by extrapolating the aforementioned thesis, Amazon communities are really ancient matriarchal societies finding themselves hiding away from the men-society's encroachment. In essence, they are underground political entities who are running a parallel government while leaving the men-society thinking that the guys are in charge. Once a war broke out, the diplomat can travel to communities which are sympathetic to the Amazon cause(s) and an army can be raised in support of the Amazon faction

5. In the Amazons Total War Story-line, the Amazon priestess sisterhood are capable of advanced technology. So special weapons are added since AmazonTW 5.0 (Amazon TW - Reignited) to show how a small but very mobile force with advanced stand-off weapons can defeat a vastly larger field army even in the ancient days.

So why is the Amazons Total War mod for M2TW not just a porting project?

a. because in M2TW, we can finally animate the key units which are using mano-ballista on horseback correctly.

b. with the better M2TW script engine, we can eliminate a great deal of redundant script code and make the mod working even better on the strategical level.

c. Because the Amazons are sometimes wondering wagon people, and the wagon warfare plays such important part in history. We are adding more war wagon based units to the game.

d. the RTW based Amazon: Total War are set on 270BC. This mod would provide time line from 800BC-72BC when Roman Consul Lucullus sacked Themiskyra, the last Amazon stronghold.