Rome unit Pack (10/14/13)

[mcshooterz]

Mission statement: To create new units for Rome regardless of historical accuracy, but within logical reasoning.
Balance: Units are meant to reflect vanilla balance.
Permissions: These units can be freely used by any other mod.
Compatibility: This mod only adds new files or rows to tables, and thus should work with virtually any other mod.
See Steam workshop for future updates
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RomeBonusPack

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Current Pack:

New Buildings for Rome:
Urban Barracks
Tabularium
Theatre
Ludus Magnus
Horse Pasture
Horse Stable
Horse Ranch
Shrine of Bacchus
Shrine of Ceres
Shrine of Vesta
Temple of Bacchus
Temple of Ceres
Temple of Vesta
Basilica of Bacchus
Basilica of Ceres
Basilica of Vesta

Unit Changes:
Praetorians, Praetorian Guard, and Praetorian Cavalry can be used as general units in campaign.

Urban Cohort(From Rome Total War)
Built at lvl 4 legionary barracks(Italia only),requires 2 turns to build, Campaign limit 8, can be used as general unit.

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Archer Auxilia
Replaces Roman Archers with remuneration reforms

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Roman Archers
Built at lvl 2-4 auxiliary barracks
Requires training reforms

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Roman Slingers
Built at government buildings

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Light Auxilia
Light Auxilia replace Velites with remuneration reforms

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Light Cavalry Auxilia
Light Cavalry Auxilia replaces Roman Light Cavalry with remuneration reforms

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Archer Cavalry Auxilia
Built at lvl 4 auxiliary barracks
Requires renumeration reforms

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Arcani
Built at lvl 4 provincial capitals.

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Praetorian Archers
Built at lvl 4 Legionary barracks
Can be used as Generals unit

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Roman Light Cavalry
Built at lvl 3-4 Auxiliary barracks

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Heavy Auxilia:
Built at lvl 2-4 Auxiliary Barracks

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Socii Velites:
Built at lvl 1-4 Auxiliary Barracks(Italia only)

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Socii Principes:
Built at lvl 2-4 Auxiliary Barracks(Italia only)

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Socii Triarii:
Built at lvl 3-4 Auxiliary Barracks(Italia only)

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Gladiator Equipment Change:
Cosmetic change only, Gladiators now use several different weapons and shields.

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Veteran Gladiators:
Built at the Circus, Circus Maximus, and Colosseum

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Radiarius Gladiators:
Built at Colosseum

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Levy Gladiators:
Built at Amphitheatre, Gladiator School, Circus, Circus Maximus, and Colosseum

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Light Chariot Auxilia:
Built at Circus, Circus Maximus.

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Chariot Auxilia:
Built at Circus Maximus

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Pending:

New Centurion Helmet:

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Slinger Auxilia:
Replaces roman slingers with renumeration reforms

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Tracker Auxilia:
Built at lvl 3-4 Auxiliary Barracks

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Cataphract Cavalry:
Built at lvl 4 legionary barracks, campaign limit 4

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Town Watch:
Replace Rorarii after cohort organisation research

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Pike Auxilia:
Built at lvl 3-4 Auxiliary Barracks

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War Dog Auxilia:
Replaces War Dogs with renumeration reforms research

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Pending Naval Units:

Raiding Hemiolia, Light Auxilia
Pursuit Trihemiolia, Light Auxilia
Trireme, Light Auxilia
Scorpion Trireme, Light Auxilia
Quinquereme, Archers
Quinquereme, Light Auxilia
Quinquereme, Archer Auxilia

To do:

[mcshooterz]

I forgot to add, if anyone can think of a unit that Rome is in need of please let me know. If anyone experiences any issues please also let me know. This is a standard mod type pack that can be used with the mod manager.

[Jamescup]

Can you make a historical Centurion it will look cool among this unit pack

[IMZ INFADEL]

not sure if its your mod man but my game keeps crashing ''/

[Chieftain John K.]

The mod causes a crash when I press on recruiting by general. Start with Mod Manager without other mods. Same result...

[WilliVonBill]

Same here...

[nebucodonosor]

Because we all upgraded to beta patch 3 ,this is the only explanation .McShooterz please download patch 3 as well and make it compatible. Thank you

[Chieftain John K.]

I never play with beta patch. I think the problem caused by the mod. Maybe unit icons because I have the crash when recruiting. Then the unit cards would appear. I hope it can be fixed.

[nebucodonosor]

@Chieftain John K : You are right , there's a problem with the unit card , I opened the mod with PFM I deleted the UI section and it works like a charm ... the only issue is that the unit card becomes a legionary Bireme boat card .

[Igor85]

Also would be nice if you can unlock al Auxilia Units for Custom Battle.

[mcshooterz]

Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
I figured something out, I need to do the unit cards differently or something; it works for me because I have the unpacked unit cards in my UI folder, so the game loads those last just fine.
I will work to find a solution to the unit card problem, and unlocking all auxilia units for custom battles should be easy enough.

[mcshooterz]

Alright I think this should now work for everyone, it's the unit pack plus the unit cards in a UI folder to copy over, plus every auxiliary unit for Rome in custom battles.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5k...meUnitPack.zip

[WilliVonBill]

Works perfectly!! Thank you sir!!!

[mcshooterz]

I added all of the mercenary units to Rome for custom battles as well as the garrison only roman units: plebs & Rorarii; which make the custom battle unit lists for Rome enormous. I will make a few more "generic" auxiliary units and then release a new version.

[Igor85]

Hmmm, nothing changed. No additional units in custom battle?!

[Khan84]

Loving the Urban Cohort, something like this should have been in vanilla - Great Job!

Regards
Khan

[Igor85]

Hmmm, I just had to put your mod further up in the mod manager. Why? I don't know. But it is working now.

BUT: Although I like the idea for Romans to have access to Archers everywhere, it's a big balance problem in early game. The - maybe only huge - weakness for Romans is the lack of good Range Units. All other factions are quite helpless against Rome in melee combat, but now Rome has very good range units, too, deleting the last weakness of Roman unit roster. As Roman enemy I concentrated on thinning out Roman troops from distance before engaging them in melee, because there they are unmatched. But now they even have better range units than most of the other factions and this right away from the beginning. The already powerful romans now are unbreakably OP.

Because of that I would suggest to make the Archers only available by a military technology in later game or normal Roman Archers in Barracks lvl 3 (usually you will have Barracks lvl 2 already about turn 10, this is way too early for every archer unit) and the very good Archer Auxilia not before Aux Barracks lvl 4, since they can compete even with high skilled archers from other nations. Aux Barracks lvl 4 would be early enough. Also - besides the balance problem - it's a matter of fact that Rome was lacking Archers, so it should at least take them some time to actually recruit them. It's fair to be able to recruit them everywhere. it's not fair to give them such strong units, which also closes one of the biggest unit gaps of the roman army, from the beginning. Rome is already powerful enough in early game!

[mcshooterz]

Okay changed roman archers to only be built at lvl 2-4 auxiliary barracks and require the "training reforms" research. The upgrade from roman archers to archer auxilia now requires "remuneration reforms" research.

[mcshooterz]

Okay here is a change I have made for next release to help balance the better archer support for rome. The roman archers are built at lvl 2 legion and auxiliary barracks, and when you research mercenary auxiliaries they can be replaced by archer auxilia at the cost of 200. Also I have reduced a few of the stats for the roman and auxilia archers.

[Imhotep_Ra]

New shields are very nice.