[Official Submod] XIIICaesar's Legions of Rome - Divide et Impera (DeI) Ed. ***6-6-2016 UPDATE***

**XIIICaesar** · September 30, 2014, 06:34 AM

At first, I started updating Frank235's Caesar's Legions to be compatible with Rome II EE. That developed into adding several new features. Then I decided to rework the units themselves which led me to stop using Franky's mod due to the fact I no longer felt comfortable changing so many aspects of someone else's work. This led me to create a new mod from scratch. I have made 15 legions for the Caesar in Gaul (CiG) campaign that are representative of the legions commanded by Gaius Julius Caesar. For the Grand Campaign (GC)/Imperator Augustus (IA) I drew shield designs from Roma Surrectum II, a Rome I mod. I combined the list of legions they made to makeup the original 28 legions used by Octavian. In the Marian era you'll have 28 legions & during the Imperial era you'll have the original 28 legions plus 3 more that RSII used that were created during the Pincipate period. The legions available during the Marian era all upgrade to their Imperial counterparts. Marian units are recruitable upon researching "Cohort Orginization". Imperial units are recruitable upon researching "Professional Soldiery" - this will also enable you to upgrade the Marian units. Also featured is a full AOR system. It works as close as I could get it to the original AOR system used by RSII. I use a mix of amours and such from Kaziel's Romans v4.0 and Vanilla that I have tweaked to my liking. I've also implemented a cheek guard mod too.

***FEATURES***
All the legions from Roma Surrectum II. PLUS Legio XVII, XVIII, and XVIIII from the Battle of Teutoberg Forest. Using armour textures from Kaziel's Romans v4.0 and various vanilla textures, I've tweaked to simulate what I think real legionnaires would've been like. Non of the fresh, crisp, new stuff like you see in Hollywood films but good ole gritty and used armour and textiles for my legions to show that they've seen battle and are battle-hardened. The shield designs I got from RSII have been completely redone from scratch to be high-res and high-def for Rome II. I've added rust and scratchin overlays to them as well to simulate usage as I don't think it practical that the shields every legionnaire used looked brand new with no defects. These legions were always battling and I wanted to mimic that to the effect of my designs. Eagles are no longer only golden but silver and bronze depending on the era your legion is recruited from. Also featuring custom banners unique to each legions with their number and symbol (coming soon). Each standard bearer also has a unique shield pattern ported over from RSII. Even more detailed are the unique naming to each legion that is as true to historic sources as I could find with a unique description about each legions history that dynamically changes each era as the unit is upgraded. I have also created a new set of legions exclusively for use in the Caesar in Gaul campaign. These "Caesarean" legions were the same as the ones commanded by Caesar himself, 'Hail Caesar!' The AOR system is unique as well. It has been ported over from RSII as close as I could get. Even more so, is once you reach the Imperial era, you will se more armour and skin variants that are based on the location of each legion to better simulate the fact that during the Principate period, Rome granted even the provinces citizenship as well as allowed provincial natives to join the legions (coming soon). I've even fixed the cheek guards on Roman helmets to actually close in around the head instead of "floating" beside the cheeks as if untied like in vanilla Rome II.

In the GC and IA

16 Imperial legions
12 Marian legions
15 CiG legions
All GC/IA legions upgradeable
Full AOR system in GC/IA

***This mod alters the startpos. As such, any startpos mod will break it when loaded above it or first and Legions of Rome will break those mods when loaded above them or first. That includes All-Factions Playable (AFP) mods.

Instructions to use XIIICaesar's Legions of Rome

***NO LONGER WORKS AFTER PATCH 15***
I also highly recommend using the Unofficial Mod Manger (OLD & NEW) by .Mitch. It's way simpler and easier to use than the official Rome II launcher; plus it gives you way more control in mod management.

THESE STEPS WORK

I found a simpler work around. It's makes for very easy managment going forward with mod updates.

Step 1
Enable hidden files in windows explorer
Step 2
Navigate here
C:\Users\*YOU*\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Rome2. Right click the scripts folder and send a shortcut to the desktop. The shortcut to the desktop (makes it easier to access in future). Don't close this directory yet though.
Step 3
Open the scripts folder and open user.script. Leave the directory open though after as you'll need to access the file user.script again later.
Step 4
Open up your Rome II data directory
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Total War Rome II\data
Step 5
Look at the mods you wanna use. You don't have to rename any of them. Figure out which ones you're gonna use.
Step 6
Open user.script with that shortcut we created earlier. Mods you'll use need to be entered in this format
mod "*MOD NAME*";
mod "*MOD NAME*";
mod "*MOD NAME*";
so and so forth. Make sure you enter them in the load order you want them to load. Just like in Mitch MM the top priority mods will be listed first with mods being overwritten towards bottom of list. I'll post an example after the instruction are complete.
Step 7
Save your changes and close user.script. Then right click the file and set to READ-ONLY. This is so that the game can't change the mods being used or their load order anytime you load it.
Step 8
Play your game and enjoy.

If you do it like this you don't have to use Mitch's unofficial MM or the official MM by steam to use your mods. In fact, right now I have all mods deselected in the CA Official MM and am playing DeI with my mod XIIICaesar's legions just fine. All mods are loading in the exact order I have them in user.script and no other mods. I had you create the shortcut so that if you want to change what mods you use you don't have to go back into app data and all the other directories. You just click on the scripts shortcut on the desktop and it'll take you straight to your user.script file. To change what mods you use or loading order right click on the user.script and turn off READ-ONLY then do your edits. Save, close, and turn READ-ONLY back on. Load th3e game again and your good to go like before. This takes renaming your mod packs out of the equations. Whereas with that method anytime workshop updated your mod you had to delete the old version and rename the new version again to keep your load order correct and what not, now you don't. Steam workshop will update your mod like normal and because the names stay the same you just load the game up after a mods update and keep playing like normal no more renaming or anything.

mod "aztec-update-september.pack";
mod "A_Younger_Caesar.pack";
mod "pdguru_grass_rel_0-4mod.pack";
mod "md_mod_seem_v1_6_insane.pack";
mod "DeI script reform testing.pack";
mod "@096hellenicromanvariants.pack";
mod "@_____XIIICaesars_Legions_DeI.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_010_part1.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_release_part2.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_release_part3.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_release_part4.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_release_part5.pack";
mod "___divide_et_impera_release_part6.pack";

My example. Everything loads in order. My legions overwrite DeI, univariations overwrite my legions and DeI, my script reform test pack overwrites those mods, and so on. I wanna change something I click the shortcut to the script folder, turn off READ-ONLY on user.script make my changes and save. Then close turn READ-ONLY back on and play the game. BOOM

This will work guaranteed on Rome II. I am doing it now and have another member that plays my mod doing it as well. CONFIRMED. No renaming, or worrying about what is enabled or disabled in Official CA MM anymore or Mitch MM not working.

Thnx go to Caius Bingerus for helping me test this theory out.

Caesarean Units

Marian Units

Imperial Units

*****Load above other mods*****

Download Links

AOR System

ANY BUGS or issues or anything lemme know so I can address it and track it down **HOPEFULLY**

Changelog

Credits

Other versions of the mod

**M@x1mus** · September 30, 2014, 11:32 AM

Nice work mate!

**Krasnaïa Zvezda** · September 30, 2014, 12:45 PM

Thanks for your work

I guess we don't need to use the patch 15 fix that Dresden made ?

**XIIICaesar** · September 30, 2014, 03:01 PM

I don't think you'll need it. I've anyway checked abs it doesn't have the animations EE removed

**Dresden** · September 30, 2014, 05:54 PM

I am going to sticky this as our official Historic legions submod.

**Don_Diego** · September 30, 2014, 06:47 PM

I think I will give this a go some time! Thanks for doing this Caesar!
Love to see other players getting involved with the mod.

**XIIICaesar** · September 30, 2014, 08:55 PM

Thank you all. It's not complete yet though I've gotta figure out some things with upgrading units and the scripts. Once I get that under wraps I'm gonna work on the AOR system. I'm also gonna put a poll too because this submod contains more legions than the previous historical legions Ave thus cane with different bullgod style cards for each of them as well. My poll will be wether or not people want the bullgod style of vanilla style with the mod. If it's bullgod I'll add y them back in

Right now you could say it's a beta. I've got to do the vanilla version of Caesar's Legions and relax it tonight after work then I'll resume getting the dei version done

**Daizus** · October 01, 2014, 03:50 AM

Same problem with double Ui card at some units?

**XIIICaesar** · October 01, 2014, 03:56 AM

Thanks Dresden for the Official Submod Sticky. Folks I've got a poll up for unit card styles. I know the previous historical legions came with Vanilla and a user uploaded a Bullgod option. The Bullgod cards that Franky235 had in the original Caesars Legions are even more expansive. Because Caesars Legions has more legions present in it than the Historical Legions submod, say there 3 Legio III in Caesars Legions recruitable in different places. All 3 have unique to them each Bullgod style cards. I prefer the Bullgod style BUT I've got Vanilla in the submod now and if people decide on Vanilla in the poll I'll post the Bullgod as an alternate download -->just the card and variant table to load on top of Caesars Legions BUT if people decide on Bullgod Ill just add them back into the main mod.

Originally Posted by Daizus

Same problem with double Ui card at some units?

Yeah Ive wedited the unit variants table to pull only Vanilla cards so it should be mostly fixed. The problem is if I put Bullgod in the leftover vanilla card masks in the main DEI overlap them in game. If people decide in the poll for Bullgod I'll ask Dresden to remove the leftover Historical Legion Vanilla mask and uint cards from the main DEI.

**Caius Bingerus** · October 01, 2014, 05:33 AM

voted for bullgod style unit cards

and many thanks for working on that dude

**XIIICaesar** · October 01, 2014, 05:55 AM

Your welcome dude. Still a lot to be done but for right now it works. Ill start really grinding on fixing AOR and running down things that need ironing out this weekend. Dont forget to resubscribe to the steam workshop link I just posted. Renamed the mod with @____ for people that dont use unofficial mod manager and had to upload it as a new mod to steam wouldnt let me update old one.

**Daizus** · October 01, 2014, 08:44 AM

Voted for bullgod style unit cards. And, thx man.

**Krasnaïa Zvezda** · October 01, 2014, 11:08 AM

Loaded the mod in my current GC and I can't recruit Legio V Alaudae in Italy.

I suppose it's because the AOR is still WiP.

**M@x1mus** · October 01, 2014, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Krasnaïa Zvezda

Loaded the mod in my current GC and I can't recruit Legio V Alaudae in Italy.

I suppose it's because the AOR is still WiP.

Alaudae was recruited in Gaul by Caesar and after his death served Marc Antony in the east, later on, in Hispania, Belgium but not in Italy. I think AOR is correct in this case.

**Takarazuka** · October 01, 2014, 12:14 PM

Okay call me stupid, but I have never fully understood the historical legions mod and now this as well. So you can recruit a legion from, say Italia, and it is named/numbered as the same historical legion from that province? If you recruit additional legions from that same province, do they just default to the vanilla name? So, if you want to be as historical as possible, you only recruit a single legion from a province so it has that correct name/number. Would make the game rather challenging no? Not a bad thing but just curious!

**M@x1mus** · October 01, 2014, 12:26 PM

No my friend i don't call you stupid. The only think i say is that i didn't like aluadae being recruited in Italy because was recruited in Gaul by Caesar from native Gauls.. That's all! Cheers!

**XIIICaesar** · October 02, 2014, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by Takarazuka

Okay call me stupid, but I have never fully understood the historical legions mod and now this as well. So you can recruit a legion from, say Italia, and it is named/numbered as the same historical legion from that province? If you recruit additional legions from that same province, do they just default to the vanilla name? So, if you want to be as historical as possible, you only recruit a single legion from a province so it has that correct name/number. Would make the game rather challenging no? Not a bad thing but just curious!

Check this link out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_legions

Right now the AOR system is setup this way: CORE Rome, like Italy and surrounding don't really have legions to recruit. The Late Republican Legionnaires, or Marian, are recruitable from the province where Augustus used them at during the second triumvirate war or where they were stationed or seen a lot of action at during Augustus' early reign. The Imperial legionnaires are recruitable in provinces mostly on the border of what the Roman Empire was before the split and where they were stationed mainly at through to the 4th century in East or West. A few are recruitable where they met their end: XVII-XVIIII were all 3 destroyed in Battle of Teutoburg Forest so theyre recruitable in Germania. Legio VIIII Hispana is recruitable in Britannia during Imperial era because thats last know recorded stationing of them before they disappear from records. Its setup for the recruitment province to change after each reform level. In RADIOUS/VANILLA they unlock with technologies so I had the CiG early republican legionnaires in main campaigns unlock with Renumerations Reforms recruitable in CORE Roman provinces like Hispania Gaul Italy. The after Cohort Organisation you have late republican/early Augustus reign legionnaires recuritable in places like macedonia dacia judead and egypt. Close to Romes reach around Augustrus' time. Then after Legionary tech researched Imperial Legionnaires are unlocked and recruited from outlying provinces likle Syria Armenia Galatia Dacia Britania Germania. It was setup to be as accurate as I felt and provide the simulation of the legionary recruitment zones change as your empire expands in game. So as you get more province and research the tech to unlock next legions you upgrade your old ones and can destroy barracks in previous provinces closer to rome for another building slot and only have to have barracks in newly conquered territories to recruit legions right on edge of your borders as you expand the empire and it also ensured historical expansion while playing the game too because you literally had to conquer those specific territories to r3ecruit legions after each tech got researched. It meant you would have to expand to keep creating the Legions and armies of Rome and guaranteed almost a historical expansion of your borders in the game with real life Roman Empire. I put an extremely lot of time and thought into all of that. BUT with DEI you have scripts for the reforms so I made the early republican legionnaire the models used in CiG and the Imperator Augustus start with Imperial. In grand campiagn you recruit Late Republican/early Augustus reign (MARIAN) and after Imperial reforms upgrade and recruit Imperial Legions. Its not balanced for gameplay as in I recruit LEGIO XXX from Italy during Marian reforms and after Imperial reforms. No I thought that wasnt historical. As Legio VIIII was sent to hispania during Agustus early reign for the Cantabrian wars and gained it Hispania cognomen from being stationed there COOL marian reforms has it recruitable there BUT after imperial reforms its located in Britannia and recruitable there because The Legio VIIII disappeared I think from records after ca. 160~ish AD while in Britannia not Hispania.

Probably could've made that shorter folks --> SORRY. Lol. But there is an explanation on the current AOR system. After the Bullgod/Vanilla style poll ends I will do one more on the AOR system and the voters, you, will decide. AOR thats is uniquly historical and changes with each reform and pretty much ensures you take a sort-of historical expansion to be able to recruit the Legions where they historically were during each reform OR AOR system like the old historical legions where You recruit the legion uin this province it stays in same province after reforms.

Originally Posted by Dresden

Just want to say thanks to XIIICaesar for taking over this submod

Very much appreciated.

You're welcome dude. I updated the old Caesar's Legion for Radious and Vanilla and when it came to DEI I couldnt resist Lol. DEI is, after all, a historical mod. Its just like my old Rome I days with Europa Barborum mod. Loved that mods historical accuracies. Im pretty sure thats why I love this mod so much.

Originally Posted by Anonymous_Jones

Hello and thank you for this submod! It's great! One question though; is there a reason why the Default un numbered legions are still recruitable? Seems kinda unnecessary.

Originally Posted by Dresden

He would have to edit some primary DeI tables to remove those units and it would make keeping this updated a rather large pain in the rear.

Like Dresden said, it would require a lot of work because everytime he updated the main DEI I'd have to extract the relevant DB files and edit them then import them into Caesars Legions and reupload Caesars. Whereas if you just do like I do and ignore the generic legionnaires, Caesars Legions pretty much stays compatible regardless of DEI updates that way. UNTIL I get the AOR poll posted and see the results. It'll be a different story then Lol.

Originally Posted by MagicCuboid

You've done a great amount of work, XIIICaesar! Having the Historical Legions in the Augustus Campaign will tons of fun.

Though I voted for Bullgod style icons, I've noticed that Franky's Bullgod cards are far less detailed than the ones Scaevola and I worked on. Here is a quick comparison picture, with Scaevola's on top and Franky's on the bottom:

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As you can see, Scaevola stayed true to the armor, clothing, and shield color of how the units appear in-game. Furthermore, there is a Legion number attached to the bottom of the unit card. Lastly, Scaevola's shields are in keeping with the perspective of the model, whereas Franky's shields are 2 dimensional.

Perhaps I could help rename Scaevola's cards and assign them in the mod? I'd hate to lose all that work.

Im glad you pointed that out. Your Bullgod cards do look a lot better. They kinda popout, ya know? Heres my thing though, in Caesars Legions its a believe what Historical Legions submod originally was. Dresden trimmed it down and removed some of the units and just assigned alternate textures based on recruitment zone if thats the case. Like in Caesars Legion they're 3 Legio III recruitable in 3 different places, Legio III Augusta, Cyrenaicia and one other. Each has a different unit unit card in Caesars Legions. Also theyre are Marian, Imperial and I call them early republican legions that Ive only got enabled for CiG campaign for DEI version. All 3 sets of Legions every single one has unique unit cards that represent each indivdual unitys textures or what not I guess you could say. My ? is this: I see that yours and Scaevolia's unit cards are better, no ? there. Ive attatched a zip that contains the unit variables database file in tsv format so you can edit it with Excel or any spreadsheet program or just import it into PFM and edit and the UI folder that contains all the Unit cards and masks from Vanilla Caesars Legions (all 3 versions use the same of these). If you would want to do it and could like you said reassign your cards to the Caesars Legions butalso create some new cards to match up with units in Caesars Legions that werent present in Historical Legions so they all still have unique cards? If you could and do I would like permission, provided you agree to do it, to upload them into all 3 versions of Caesars Legions Ive got updated for EE on the Forums. Lemme know if you're interested. Because since I actually see the comparison yours are more visually appealking and stand out more and just look better. Also, did you use a diffrent vunit card version for first cohorts?

**XIIICaesar** · October 01, 2014, 12:53 PM

Both of you are correct. V alaudae, or gallica got the name alaudae from their helmets. They were the first Legion compromised of provincial people instead of Roman citizens. Levied by Julius Caesar. A lot of legions in my current AOR like this. I went very historical with all of them.

**MagicCuboid** · October 01, 2014, 02:43 PM

You've done a great amount of work, XIIICaesar! Having the Historical Legions in the Augustus Campaign will tons of fun.

Though I voted for Bullgod style icons, I've noticed that Franky's Bullgod cards are far less detailed than the ones Scaevola and I worked on. Here is a quick comparison picture, with Scaevola's on top and Franky's on the bottom:

As you can see, Scaevola stayed true to the armor, clothing, and shield color of how the units appear in-game. Furthermore, there is a Legion number attached to the bottom of the unit card. Lastly, Scaevola's shields are in keeping with the perspective of the model, whereas Franky's shields are 2 dimensional.

Perhaps I could help rename Scaevola's cards and assign them in the mod? I'd hate to lose all that work.

**Dresden** · October 01, 2014, 04:09 PM

Just want to say thanks to XIIICaesar for taking over this submod

Very much appreciated.

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