ANNOUNCEMENT: Divide et Impera Official Partnership

[ABH2]

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Divide et Impera and Ancient Empires Partnership




The Ancient Empires team is proud to announce a newly formed partnership with the Divide et Impera mod team that will extend into both the Rome 2 and Attila side of our project. The Ancient Empires mod considers itself open source and encourages cooperation in the modding community. As such, we are truly happy to work with another mod that is committed to the same ends. Partnerships like this benefit the players as well as the modders themselves. Our goal is to release the highest quality mod possible, and we are confident that this new relationship will make that possible. So, we would like to thank the DeI team for their commitment to the wider community and the superb work they've done and will continue to do going forward.

What this means for Rome 2

Divide et Impera could fairly be called the defining overhaul for Rome 2. Going forward, the Rome 2 side of our mod will be developed as a submod of DeI that will serve as testbed for for the main mod while also offering new features and options. The Ancient Empires mod team will be bringing in core features we had planned for Rome 2 such as the Imperator Augustus map for the Grand Campaign, 187 emergent factions (1 for each region), new combat mechanics, our overhauled religion system, and a complete building overhaul. This will give our mod a great platform for our new features and allow more people to enjoy them with the community's favorite Rome 2 overhaul.

What this means for Attilla

For Attila, our project will go forward incorporating DeI's fantastically made units into a new campaign that features Attila's features. The mod project will remain geared around historical authenticity and help bring their great work to the newest Total War platform. For our part, we thank the DeI team for giving us permission to make use of their work which we could not have done better ourselves. This should speed up the development process for the Attila project as a whole and allow us to release a high quality mod to the public sooner than anticipated.

[Thee Dugster]

I am super excited about this. Thank you Divide et Impera team!

[ABH2]

Yup. I'm glad to be able to make this official. I'm always loath to set dates, but I'm hoping for a Rome 2 release sometime soon for DeI. It will help us greatly with Attila.

[Dresden]

Great to be working with you guys

[UMCenturion]

Absolutely. Feelings are mutual!

[Petellius]

I look forward to the pleasure

[Litharion]

great news, always been a fan of your ideas

[ABH2]

Nice to hear. Hopefully we can finally release some of those ideas fully fleshed. I'm very happy to be able to gear those around DeI. It's what I played when I still had time to play and what I first started modding. Will be cool to implement this stuff into that tremendous overhaul you guys have made.

[Denco]

This is great news indeed

[Ritter-Floh]

a nice partnership, everybody will win

[Kibukanai]

My favorite mod creators for Rome 2 working with (in my opinion) the most promising modders for Attila. Ahhhh, life is good.

[Caddius]

My favorite mod creators for Rome 2 working with (in my opinion) the most promising modders for Attila. Ahhhh, life is good.

I'd say what Kibukanai said but I feel a swoon coming on.

[Petellius]

Well here's hoping we can get a release date out soon ish now that we've got all these resources. Attila is still going to be a fair few more months. Also any releases are going not going to be the final versions.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

this is fantastic news guys. So glad to hear you're pooling resources on the two games. the worst thing is having great modded features spread across separate mods, so you can never got the best possible game. this will be all but avoided now.

[Petellius]

Thanks for all the support guys. I had no idea AE had this much interest

[Ivan_Moscavich]

Man I just really hope I'll have at least a little bit of time to play this once it's released. I've been hyped for it since you guys announced Ancient Empires, but I've just about got my CDL and am going to be on the road so much.

Maybe I can break out a decent laptop and play some each night before I bed down!

[Melvasul]

Waoh
Really beautiful news to read!!!

[IamOdysseus]

Good news!

[Sotaklas]

Whoa i just saw this, i am so happy you guys are awesome.

[UMCenturion]

Good news indeed. This will certainly help bring quality work quicker to the Attila engine. Thank you all for the support!