Historical Sources for Factions

[Hetairos]

Hi guys

I have an issue that probably people of the EB community can help with as well. Here is the original post (quote below). I would be very thankful if you could help me out. Also I have asked RSII's dvk901 if he wants to work on a Rome II project, but had little luck. I am pretty advanced with my mod, but its only a core that needs to be carved out (factions, buildings and traits still missing). I have already UI, combat balance, camera overhauls, naval overhauls, siege overhauls and a 12TPY campaign framework, new stances etc. So IF anyone of you guys is familiar with Rome II modding and are up to to create the new RSII/EB write me a PM. Maybe we can expand the work force and do a better mod than I can do alone.

Cheers

Hi guys,

I am looking to create a mod for Rome II that follows the spirit of RSII (sorry, DeI and others, but those are not nearly close to RSII). One of my problems is that for certain factions I have more than enough historical sources, but for others I have nothing. e.g. for the Roman and Greek (partly Eastern) world I have very detailed sources about units, buildings etc. BUT for carthage, suebi and all other tribes I heavily lack sources. The only unit I could find for carthage is their mercenaries and the sacred band. Now I wonder where all the native names come from. Dork'im etc. Saka Rauka and more. When you google most of the native names the only websites that appear are either total war sites OR there is no result at all. When asking other Rome II overhauls like DeI everybody claims to be historically accurate, but when I investigate further nobody knows about the resources and where those names units buildings come from. Hence I assume they do use EB and RSII material mainly. Hence my question:

Where do you guys take your informations from? Could you share the sources in a open source style so i can dig into them and work on integrating those informations into Rome II? Also, if there are no sources for unit names for example carthaginian (as almost no primary source survived over the course of the history) how did you define them? Was it made by a native speaker. or somebody who knew or studied punic / phoenician / berber? So in that case it would not be names from historical sources, but a linguistic effort.

I would thank you a 1000 times if you could help me and share in the name of open source and make Rome II a better game as well (just like RSII!)

Thanks for the great mod, which i still prefer over Rome II's current state and mods!

Alec

[Boriak]

A good place to start: http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...t=bibliography