Empire of the Romans Minimod WIP

[Marble Emperor]

Hello all,
I am working on a re-imagining of the Eastern Roman Roster that I think is more accurate and more fitting for the time period of SSHIP. I do love Caudillo's units, but I think that they look too fancy and ornamented for the immediately post dark-age setting. I want to maintain the quality of his units, but distribute lamellar and other types of heavy armor more sparingly. My main inspirations for this project were the units of Broken Crescent and the work of Arthalion with his Byzantium Reskin.

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Okay, so so far I have utilized textures and resources from Caudillo, East of Rome, Broken Crescent, Rusichi, Tsardoms, and Anatolian Principalities. I think that covers everyone, if I forgot to mention anyone, please let me know and I will amend this post. And finally, everything you see here is subject to change as this project is in fact a work in progress, so please feel free to criticize or recommend changes, but please be civil about things, thanks!

[Marble Emperor]

Toxotai ug0
- simple padded armor with helmets. (not many changes)

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- Simple padded armor with chain mail coifs and helms. (not many changes)

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Tzakones (Castrophilakae)
- padded armor with leather lamellar cuirasses.

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[Lifthrasir]

First of all, welcome among SSHIP threads and congratz for your work
My only comment: can you make them more durty? Something like with scratches on shields f.e.?

[Marplatense]

Good job. But I agree with Lifth, the shields would look better with more strokes.

[Marble Emperor]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I will try to remember to go back and add more wear and tear to the shields.
Peltastai ug1 Revised
- Not all soldiers wear the leather lamellar cuirasses now.

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Tzakones ug0 Revised
- Same change, also edited helms and normal maps.

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Tzakones ug1
- Mix of leather and steel lamellar over heavy padded armor.

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[Marble Emperor]

Skutatoi ug1 Revision
- Recolored pteruges.

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Skutatoi ug2
- Recolored pteruges and a new helmet type.

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Spathatoi ug1
- Recolored pteruges.

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Spathatoi ug2
- Recolored pteruges and added new helmet type.

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[Mr_Nygren]

Awesome models - Wrath of the Norsemen Grand campaign and East of Rome: End of Antiquity could really use such units. EoR already has some - but not all of those shown.

The toxotai archers and peltastai are missing or not as good as yours.

[Marble Emperor]

Thank you! I would just like to point out that most of this is the work of other modders, for which they deserve credit and not me. And as I said in my pm, when I release it, everything will be open-source, so anyone who wants to utilize any of this work is free to implement whatever models they choose in their mods, including wrath of the norsemen or East of Rome assuming that none of my sources (listed above) have an issue with it.

[Mr_Nygren]

Thank you! I would just like to point out that most of this is the work of other modders, for which they deserve credit and not me. And as I said in my pm, when I release it, everything will be open-source, so anyone who wants to utilize any of this work is free to implement whatever models they choose in their mods, including wrath of the norsemen or East of Rome assuming that none of my sources (listed above) have an issue with it.

Sure thing, i wrote the above before i read your PM.

[Marble Emperor]

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[isa0005]

Can't wait for this to be released, these look marvelous!

[Dekhatres]

@Marble Emperor still alive ?


can you please release what you have done so far ? (dont care if unit cards or info is not done, can use BC ones anyway)

[Marble Emperor]

Hi Dekhatres, I am still around, I have just been busy recently because I am graduating college and beginning a new job in the next week. That being said, I will release the work I have done so far sometime this week or next and I will do what I can to finish the roster in the near future and release the full version for you guys.

[Dekhatres]

[Marble Emperor]

Anyone who was interested in this mini-mod or was looking forward to it has my apologies, I have had a rough time of things the past month and a half or so and I haven't been able to find the time or energy to put everything together for a release. So I apologize for failing to give you guys what I promised, but the link is here for you now if you still wish to try these units out.. If you do and happen to notice any bugs or any problems with the download, please let me know and I will do my best to rectify them. Best, Marble Emperor.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1...kd0V2tCSVhTYlU

[Dekhatres]

nah it's all cool now that you released them


gona try them right away in SS6.4

[Marble Emperor]

So, a little while ago, Dolen made an ERE unit overhaul for Broken Crescent, I have since been interested in porting over these units for use in SSHIP. I have actually completed v1 of such a project but I need to obtain approval from the creator. I am curious whether there would be any interest in such a mod, because if so, pending Dolen's approval, I will release it for you guys.

Infantry:

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Skirmishers:

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As you can probably see if you have utilized Dolen's mod at all, it is pretty much the same thing, with a few upgrades for units made by me. I also made a few minor edits, but the vast majority is Dolen's work, with the exception of the Dynatoi which is a creation of Jukoman. And as I said up top, I will not release this mini mod until I have approval from Dolen.

[Marble Emperor]

Also, unlike my previous release, some edits had to be made to the export_descr_units.txt file in order to make the roster compatible and preserve the functionality of specific units, so this download will not be save game compatible... assuming I get permission to release it.
List of changes I can think of at the moment (May be updated):

• Hippakontistai (replacing Mounted Acritae) use spears as a secondary rather than swords.
• Hippotoxotai (Replacing Cavallarii) use spears as a secondary rather than swords.
• Latinikoi Pezoi (Replace Alamanoi) use one handed sword and shields.
• Kavallarioi (Replace Archontopoulai) same weaponry, but perform a different function.
• Dynatoi (Replace Pronoiarioi) wield maces as a secondary rather than swords.

[isa0005]

Can't wait!

[crosscheck86]

Me neither :0)

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