The Third Samnite War [HATG DLC needed] [v. alpha.003][Patch 17 Only]

[VINC.XXIII]

Playable Factions:

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*AOR and Dynamic Unit Caps for most of italic units, which means you can "conquer" the units.

*Ethno-regional Military Buildings for entire Italy(Capuan, Samnite, Roman, Iapyge, Syracusan, Krotonite, Thurioi, Nuragic, Corsican, Umbrian, Etruscan, Ligurian, Venetik, Tarentine, Lucanian, Bruttian)+ Massalia, Iberia, Gauls, Numidia. Now AOR Garrisons fits AOR Recruitment!

Open the spoiler to see the next Unic Military Buildings guide(aka AoR/Area of Garrisonning):

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*Time-span of 4 years(12 turns/year)
*New subcultures:
-Etruscan, Messapian, Nuragic, Venetkens, Ligurian, Sikeles

*Unique Ports added for main maritime cities(Carthage, Syracuse, Massalia, Kroton, Tarentum)
*Iberian Unit Pack added(courtesy from Miri82)





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Credits:

-Anicius: Pre-Roman Italy Ethno-cultural map
-Avetis: roman scutum models
-Biggus Splenus: RT2R Nomina Authentica
-Bullgod Unit Icons Project 0.48
-Cesco: Realistic battles 9
-Dontfearme22: Gallic levies wicker shield
-Europa Barbarorum: unit concepts and descriptions
-Luntic: Reduction of Decal Dirt Map mods
-Mausolos of Caria: Syracusan Roster reshearch and Syracusan faction summary text
-Miri82: Iberian Unit Pack
-Genava: Celtic unit roster research
-Paeninsula Italica II: unit concepts, descriptions, and some textures
-Phalangitis: scripted end script
-Rome II Total Realism: many game concepts and inspiration
-Real Ships Colors(without DEI/Roma Surrectum shields)
-Solitudo ( etruscan scutum 3D model )
-The Germans are Coming's: Greek Modder Resource
-Willhelm123's Etruscan Unit Expension Pack


Advice and used tutorials:
-Fluke for Victory Conditions
-kugkings for Dynamic Unit Caps system
-Lestat for unlocking of minor factions



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Download :
-First download GAC Hellenic Texture Pack


http://www.mediafire.com/download/3xitk33bzklvooc/Greek_resource.pack
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=691511200


-Secondly download the main pack

http://www.mediafire.com/file/321eht...ttsw299BC.pack
On Steam
(Steam doesn't anymore let me update mods...sorry)

Make sure to stay on Patch 17 if you want to play the mod, I won't port it on Power and Politics DLC.

• Open Steam and select Total War: Rome II in your library
• Right click Rome II and select properties
• Open the ‘Betas’ tab
• In the drop down menu, select the ‘patch_17’ option
• Steam will download your update and the name of Total War: ROME II on your Steam library will end with [patch_17]

[VINC.XXIII]

*Osco-Umbrian/Roman/Etruscan chapter

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(Credits to Paeninsula Italica II for unit description, new etruscan helmets generously given by Willhem123)

[VINC.XXIII]

*Celt/Venetik/Ligue chapter


-Celts



(Credit to Europa Barbarorum and Genava for unit description)

-Ligues

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[VINC.XXIII]

*Greek/factionless AOR Units chapter

-Greeks

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(Credit to Europa Barbarorum for unit description)

[Solitudo]

Congratulations for the release!

[M@x1mus]

Well done VINC!

[Linke]

Suberb, I just came back from Tuscany were I got into an "etruscan" feeling after visiting Florence Archeological Museum, so this mods deliverence now is perfect!

[VINC.XXIII]

@all, thanks guys
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I will present units by drops daily or weekly as many things on them are WIP(descriptions, some graphics would be added, etc)


post#2 will concern osco-umbrian/roman/etruscan units
post#3 will concern celt/venetic/ligurian and eventually later insubre units
post#4 will concern mostly western greek colonialists and AOR warriors which were threats to the existence of their outposts in the barbaric world. We will see that somes were at contrary auxilaries in their armies.


The approach is essentially due to geographic convenience.

[Dontfearme22]

This stuff is looking real good, keep it up

[Vlixes]

It is great to focus on this time period. Livius text is great too. I was going to congratulate you for your writing! Which type of font do you used?

[Assassiyan]

Looks great, let's give it a try then...

[VINC.XXIII]

Update(open the spoiler)

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-Fixed Boii military grouping
-Fixed Senones Unit Caps(based on political importance of your generals, the more they grown as individuals, the more they can recruit Ambactes and Solduries)
-Added some graphics on etruscans and senones.
-Etruscans should be now a little more harder to play


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-New Etruscan political parties(cities):
*Velch
*Tarchna
*Clevsin
*Rusellae
*Velzna
*Arretim


you as player are the Zilath Mech Rasnal, the supreme magistrate of etruscan federation, these political parties are etruscan cities.


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-New Roman political parties(gens)
*Cornelii
*Manlii
*Fabii
*Aemilii
*Claudii


These are importants roman Houses of that era, your one is Gens Valeria.


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-New Samnites political parties(tribes)
*Pentri
*Caraceni
*Caudini
*Hirpini
*Frentani(they were into samnite tribal federation without being really into...)


Your own party is "Meddiss Tovtiks", that is the supreme magistrate of samnites, incidently generalissimo in war-time.

[Ampraciotis]

put the mod on steam

[leonardusius]

Thank you for this good good job !

[Willhelm123]

Hey i don't know if you have seen my Etruscan mod.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=475972262
But if you want to use any parts of it, or even just copy it directly, feel free, just put me in the credits.

[Cesco]

Thank you Vinc, I'm really enjoying your mod and i'm very happy that my battle overhaul is now part of such an interesting work

[VINC.XXIII]

@Wilhem123, thanks, there is some very very interesting things into your unit mod pack. Right now the issue with Etruscans its they are quite so powerfull, same with toning down their garrisons and unit caps, they succeed to blitzkrieg the whole paduan valley and Liguria. I will pm you Wilhelm.

@Cesco, salve!

[Tenerife_Boy]

I will keep an eye on this.
Great job man!

[Jupiter93]

Nice mod VINC! I've been testing your mod (playing as Rome) and have a few suggestions and notes:

- Unit cards can be taken from DeI mod with permission.
- Camillan units can also be used from DeI with permission (I liked those better).
- Armies tend to rout easily. That only makes battles unpredictable and hard to keep the battle-formation.
- Too huge garrison in cities. Cut it down in order to make the player expand their domain, without spending time to gather huge armies before assault.
- If you decide not to cut the size of garrions armies, at least the cut down the support area for the garrison army to aid in battles.
- Everyone seems to hate Rome at the begining. Please make diplomacy a bit easier so that Rome also can make a counter allianse against its foes.
- Make Carthage playable just for fun and variety's sake.

These are all constructive critics and I hope you take the into consideraton
Again, great overhaul! Your team have done a good job and we're looking forward to more updates.

[VINC.XXIII]

@Jupiter, thanks for the feedback, I will see later about diplomatic things, its not like I would to reflect the situation in the 300's, I'm trying to make confederation/vassalization more realizable because its the way its was at this point.

btw, did you looked at Victory Conditions of Romans? Now you have to get as much of territories( either by direct rule or by suzerainty) that there is on this map at 272 BC: Latium and Campania, Etruria, Umbria et Picenum, Samnium, Magna Graecia.