CATW 01

[cocobongoclub-DJ]

Yes, you read well. This is catw 0.1, the very, very first catw. A bit of history. The first catw officialized on TWC and RTW-related forums was catw 03 back in 2010. A "beta 2" was already available, but confidential in 2007. However there was a "beta 1" already in 2007. This was the very, very first mod. It was unnamed then, just a small modification intended to just a group of guys from a forum. A "private demo" of some sorts. The initial team separated in 2007 so the mod was forgotten and never made public. In 2008 part of it was recycled but the original was lost... Until October 2018, 11 years after ! During the last weeks the mod has been completely overhauled and a fully playable campaign added.

In short, catw 01 is the mod nobody knows about but by a very small bunch, modding RTW for the first time with limited objectives (improving units graphics) for custom battles back in 2007. The name "classical age" did not existed either. Long lost and recovered, the mod has been completely reworked, mod-foldered and completed using as much elements of catw 05 as possible, including a playable campaign, and more !

It is starting in 264 BC, at the start of the first Punic War. Rosters are completely new to all players of CATW mods and totally fresh. There are in addition new factions playable such as the Galatians and Pergamon. The current version is 01.4, meaning it's no longer a beta, and is totally playable on Alex, BI and regular RTW. Further updates are coming.

The initial core team born on a graphist forum was committed to this for about several weeks only. One provided photos of realistic leathers, metal textures, armor and fabrics, another made a bit of historical research, and you servant, Arminius (cocobongoclub-DJ at TWC), photoshopped the vast majority of the new skins, adding lots of new units in the process. It looked good as it was, and we tested it by just pasting the new files to our current data folder, and playing vanilla with these units. That worked fine for us. However to modern RTW modding standards, unmodded stuff is not cool. So apart the few guys who played it for a short while after it was completed, interest soon run out. I dragged on adding more units just for the fun to see them fighting, but the team ultimately separated at the end of their cursus. My next move was catw02 in 2008, a never-published basis (like catw01 by the way), and catw03 which saw overhaul at all steps, using vanilla Alex and BI 3d models plus many from other mods. This was the first mod-foldered too, although the campaign did not worked. It had been recently overhauled and published this summer.

Meanwhile, catw01 slept forgotten in a corner of an USB key i found laying on the ground under dust, when removing furnitures, moving to my new home. True story ! So the old, prehistoric and forgotten mod recovered intact in October 2018. Almost 12 years after since it was first drafted in 2006 and the definitive version was completed in 2007. We had no code proofreading by then and the campaign crashed. It was even before BI 1.6 or Alex were out. And the texts were all in French.

I played it, rediscovering all these forgotten units, with a few skins and ideas that were recycled into modern mods like catw03, catw05, or catw1.0 and 2.0 for that matter. Strict historical accuracy was not the order of the day back then. All the 3d models were based on vanilla TW, reskinned and reused in many different ways. But overall it's colorful, fun, and still more historical accurate that Vanilla. And very light. There were however three point missing, and that's what i worked on, with the knowledge i accumulated over the years on RTW modding:

-Mod-foldered. The old mod called "beta2a" was designed to be pasted over a clean "data". Now it its called retrospectively "catw01" and is properly modfoldered.
-Texts in English. The old French texts were scrapped, however it's still a work in progress. The rosters's decriptions are based on those from CATW 05 and may not correspond.
-Working campaigns. This reboot is playable on RTW, BI and Alex.
In addition to standard factions, catw01 is replacing the three non-Julii Romans by the Illyrians, Galatians and Pergamon and the starting date is 264 BC.
-Many new additions over the four updates that has been made. The latest ones are about improving the strat map by introducing the concept of additional settlements, garrison towns and colonies, based on the former watchtower and forts.



A campaign screenshot showing the starting position of the Romans and the new custom settlements. Work in progress, but so far, the British isles, Numidia, Macedon, Greece and Italy has been covered. About 250-300 new settlements will be added on the whole map at the end of the process, to conquer and subdue, adding to the campaign length and better reflecting the diversity of ancient cultures, along with new MM resources.

-------------------LOGS 15/01/2019-------------------------------
-New strat campaign settlements, garrison towns and colonies
-New strat campaign map textures
-Added 2x more mercenaries
-Modified units prices, morale and stamina
-Modified campaign morale/squalor/piracy/rebellion/alliances and more
-Corrected many names/rosters/skin/models issues
-Fully working campaign for all factions playable (including Pergamum, the Illyrians and Galatians and slave)
-Tons of changes to the campaign
-New strat models, culture mods
-New icons, banners
-New strat characters
-New Names (illyrians)
-RS2 Vegetation
-Better water
-Prometheus/Suppanut strat cities

How to install

1-Unzip the catw03 folder, by using 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html or winRAR
2-Move you catw03 folder in your current destination: Alexander or RTW-BI
Ex: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rome Total War Alexander
Or: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rome Total War Gold
3-Then just use directly the shortcuts inside catw03, make a copies to the desktop, drop them on the desktop.
They are all tailored for Vista/Seven/Win 10 types of installations and works with steam.
4-Enjoy. They are all tailored for Vista/Seven/Win 10 types of installations and works with steam.


Download

Latest: catw 0.1.4 (464 mo) -15 January 2019

See also:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/catw-013

http://www.ancient-battles.com/catw01.php
New Factions

Illyria

Replacing the Brutii. You are roleplayng King Pleuratus II which is holding a sizeable kingdom (largest in Illyria) for the Ardiaei. Pleuratus was the founder of the Ardiaean Kingdom and the Ardiaean dynasty which controlled much of the Adriatic for the next one hundred years. Many historians believe that there was no interruption between the dynasty founded by Bardyllis and that of Pleuratus. Pleuratus's name is strikingly similar to that of Pleuratus I who in 344 BC clashed with Philip II. For this reason he may belong to the dynastic line of Glaucias. However Pleuratus was an Illyrian dynastic name borne by a number of Illyrian monarchs and nobles and nothing is known for sure. The most accepted theory is that Pleuratus did indeed create his own dynasty. Pleuratus was succeeded by his son Agron of Illyria in 250 BC. By the coming of Pleuratus to the throne and particularly Agron, the most spectacular of Illyrian history begins.

Galatoi

17 years had passed since a group of Gauls from various tribes invaded the Balkans, and eventually split up forced. Some settled in Thrace and will rule the Kingdom of Tylis for another 80 years. Others arrived near byzantium, a tempting prize, rich Greek city-state controlling the access of the Black sea. The city was assieged in 278-277 BC. However the city was "saved" at the last moment by the intervention of King Nicomedes I of Bithynia in Asia minor (now NW Turkey), which granted his kingdom independance. He promised them wages if they helped him warring his neighbours, in particular the Seleucid Empire. He concluded a pact with Celtic chiefs Leonnorius and Lutarius, bringing them boats to cross the Hellespont with families and herds. Soon, the freshly installed Gauls were used to beat his own brother Zipoetes II, which threated his authority, and he managed to reunite the kingdom under his banner. Afterwards, the Gauls assisted Nicomedes against Antiochus. The Gauls then moved on and eventually settled in the center of Asia minor, in Anatolia, a rather barren, rough, dry place. From there, they nevertheless started creating oppida, villages, cultivating and tending herds and built their own political entity. The Tectosages settled in the centre (Ancyra, which became the capital), the Tolistobogii west, at Pessinus dedicated to Cybele and the Trocmi east, at Tavium. Known later as the "galatoi", Greek for Gauls and the Kelto-Hellenoi they started rampaging the countries around, until being recruited en masse as mercenaries.

Pergamum

The famous city-state, one of the jewels of the ancient Hellenistic civilization, was funded by King Philetaerus in 281 BC. In 260 BC, Eumenes I ruled (263-241). On paper the city was under Seleucid control, but like Armenia or the ancient satraps, Pergamon (now Bergama in Western Turkey), Pergamon benefited from a considerable autonomy. The city-state enriched by its position ideally suited for trade between the black sea and the mediterranean, plus the hinterland, domonated other local kingdoms head and shoulders. A year before, Eumenes proved his worth by beating the Seleucid king Antiochus I near Sardis (Lydia). Now, Pergamon is not only totally independant, but also hold large territories formerly under Seleucid control. From then on, Eumenes would fight, and probably pay tributes to the Galatians that regularly raided his eastern borders. With an Hellenistic warfare tradition related to the Diadochi, and many eastern auxiliaries, plus trade routes and good alliances, the kingdom has everything nedeed to create an Empire in Asia minor and beyond.