My Overhaul Mod "MIB's Vanilla 3.0"

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Hello,

today i announce my longterm WIP Overhaul Mod "MIB's Vanilla 3.0".

Its aim is a personal adjustement /finetuning of Rome II Vanilla to my liking.

Changelist (so long):

-all factions playable with own victory conditions
-reworked faction traits and descriptrions
-family tree and political parties for all factions (completed)
-historical characters in family tree
-my unit, building and character mods
-my units as garrison units
-new mercs
-removed onager, ballista ships, slinger ships, Giant Ballista and Giant Onager from campaign
-barbarian artillery restricted and recruitable only from level 4 buildings
-reskin of Ptolemaic Kingdom, Macedon, Epirus, Athens, Sparta; Syracuse, Carthage, Massilia
-new animation for Cretan Archers
-new military group for Syracuse
-new units for Syracuse (replacing never used pikemen with 4 new italic units)
-reskin of carthaginian units + replacement of historical inaccurate libo-phoenician pikemen with libo-phoenician Veteran Spearmen (Elite Spear Unit)
-reskin of Massilia
-changed Massilia's and Athens government type to republic
-added the Maurya Empire instead of Arachosia to the Campaign with new roster + new mauryan generals
-added Ashoka in Family Tree
-added indian religion with 4 indian temple chains
-added baltic religion for Aestii and 4 new temple chains
-changed Etruscan League to etruscan subculture with building chain, 5 new temple chains for etruscan religion, 2 new government types (republic (Mech Rasnal) and kingdom)
-changed Rhodes to republic
-reskin of the roster of Rhodes and Knossos + Addition of some units
-replaced the anachronistic assyrian, babylonian, urartian names with imperial aramaean, persian, hellenizised persian and armenian names.
-added nuragic rebels to GC
- incorporated my mod "MIB's Diplomatic Result Expansion" into the Overhaul + new outcome Imprisonment
to be continued

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Screenshots:

Ptolemaic Kingdom:

Pikemen:

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Basilikon Agema:

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Scythed Chariots:

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War tower Elephants

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Macedonia

Pikemen

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Shieldbearers

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Epirus:

Tarantine Cavalry from Taras:

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Pikemen

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Hoplites

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Athens:

Thureos Hoplites

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Picked Hoplites

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Hoplites

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Sparta

Periokoi Pikemen

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Spartan Pikemen

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Heroes of Sparta

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Changed animation for Cretan Archers:

Now they use their shields in melee, they also get the Rhodian slinger shield bonus:

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Rhodian Slingers

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[Leonardo]

Thread moved from the Overhauls, Compilations and Miscellaneous forum. Also, changing the prefix.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Reskin of Syracuse:

Syracusean Militia Hoplites - with "(H)ieronos" on their shields as pattern

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Syracusean Hoplites with new shield patterns - made of faction emblem mods of Noif de Bodemloze

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Syracusian Thureos Hoplites

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Syracusian Thorax Hoplites

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

New Units for Syracuse (replacing never used pikemen with italic units):

Mamertines

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[Jake Armitage]

Really nice, Carmen!

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Thank you very much.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Lucanian Mercenary Swordsmen for Syracuse

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[Sagat]

good work, will it be on Steam Workshop when done??

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Yeah will be on steam.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Campanian Cavalry, reskinned and recruitable for Syracuse:

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Syracusian Royal Bodyguards, only recruitable as Generals unit

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Bruttian Mercenary Infantry:

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Lucanian Mercenary Cavalry

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Reskin of carthaginian units and 1 new unit:

Libyan Infantry:

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Late carthaginian hoplites

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Sacred Band

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Libo-phoenician Veteran Spearmen:

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Reskin of Massilia:

Greek Hoplites

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Massilian Hoplites

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Massilian Thureos Spears

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Axewarriors

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Thorax Swordsmen

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Little update:

Changed Massalias and Athens government type to republic.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

-added the Maurya Empire instead of Arachosia to the Campaign
-added Ashoka in Family Tree
-added indian religion with 4 indian temple chains

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

-added baltic religion for Aestii and 4 new temple chains:

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[Gyrosmeister]

Changed animation for Cretan Archers:

Now they use their shields in melee, they also get the Rhodian slinger shield bonus:

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Rhodian Slingers

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Seems interesting, though one historical note: The symbol with these 3 legs is Sicilian and doesn't fit well for the Rhodians

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Thanks, but to my knowledge the triskele was very popular in the ancient world and widely used.

Only the special form the trinacria with the meduse head in the center was typical syracusian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinacria

So i'll take a little artistic freedom for Rhodos.

Its a pain in the butt to trace back shield patterns to single cities as many motives were used by more as one city.^^

But thanks to your friendly hints.

[Gyrosmeister]

Thanks, but to my knowledge the triskele was very popular in the ancient world and widely used.

Only the special form the trinacria with the meduse head in the center was typical syracusian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinacria

So i'll take a little artistic freedom for Rhodos.

Its a pain in the butt to trace back shield patterns to single cities as many motives were used by more as one city.^^

But thanks to your friendly hints.

It's also the same in vanilla, the triskelion is in the generic shield patterns for the Greek Hoplites that CA made, so for example even the Kimmerians have that, though I can understand that it is very hard to create a ton of shield patters for each Greek city/kingdom/colony.