Originally Posted by
crazyroman
I came into TW Center back in 2013 because of my love for R:TW, which i started playing in 2009, when i was just a child . My first experience with mods was before my registration into TW Center when i discovered various mods here in this forum . I remember a certain mod about the Gallic Wars that when i first managed to install it ( i didn't know a lot about pc stuff back then ) and actually run it i was very happy.
My actual first experience with modding the game, was in the summer of 2014, when i learned how to add officers to units and i was very happy about it because i wanted to do that for many years, but i didn't know how . I started getting more serious with modding in the winter of 2014-2015, adding various units from other mods to the base game, trying to recollor some officers and stuff, renaming factions etc. I never released anything that i have worked on until the summer of 2017, where i released a very basic mod that added officers for all units for R:TW. I released another small mod for BI in spring of 2018, with very bad recollored equites cataphractii and equites clibinarii for WRE . I released a very basic mod that used the captain (lesser general ) skin for the campaing map also captain, for R:TW . Oh, also i want to add that i have done a lot of research for the lost units of R:TW and BI . Unused skins and models, units that appeared in very early screenshots of R:TW etc.
Also i tried working with Robbe Aerts (20ninescene) in various mods and ideas he had . I first had a contact with Lanjane through his workshop, where i asked him if he could make some various skins and unit cards for me and we had a discussion for about the lost units of R:TW. I wanted to do a project about these units but, thank God, it didn't came as i planned . Anyways, even though i enjoyed many of them, i was never actually happy with R:TW mods because i never found the things i was looking for.
And one time i saw a mod called Macedon Expansion. It had everything that i wanted pretty much. And i enjoyed it, but still there was something missing . In the autumn of 2018 i saw a thread posted from Lanjane here, about a mod called Barbarian Empires and he was asking for help with the translation. I've saw again his mod in the ITW forum, a russian forum. His mod has started as a simple submod for Macedon Expansion, so i knew i had to contact Lanjane. I sended him a PM and he told me he had finished the translation and he invited me in the RTR Project Slack forum where i came to contact with other people and their mods, Ahowl11 Vanilla Enhancement, Suppanut's XC 5 and other things.
I helped mostly with Lanjane's Barbarian Empires but i helped also in other mods with various things. In Barbarian Empires i added voices for the units that didn't had a voice through editing a certain file . I did a lot of beta-testing with Barbarian Empires with lots of campaigns and reporting bugs and other things to Lanjane. I inspired him many times for various things for the mod.
After some months (February 2019), i started having an nice obsesion with the Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Naturally i wanted to add it in my favorite mod, Barbarian Empires but it wasn't an easy thing. I had never done such thing again in my modding life. After many hours and with the help of Suppanut we achieved adding Baktria. Then Bosporus and Epirus came into the game. I did the main coding and had most of the ideas. Lanjane did all of the skinning and modelling, some coding and had some ideas. Suppanut helped a lot with bug fixing and mapping. Barbarian Empires: Hellenistic Legacy was a very ambitious project, that without these 2 people, it wouldn't had existed, so i thank them.
Right now im taking a small break playing with my mod, but i have 2 projects on my mind. The first one is a third addon for Barbarian Empires with 2 new factions, Kingdom of Saba and the Kingdom of Nabatea and many other small things. Of course im working on it with my friend Lanjane. The other one is a BI Vanilla mod, with new, more nice units from an old russian mod called Pax Barbarica and many other fixes.
I want to thank everyone. Lanjane for his understanding me, his patience and awesome modding skills, Suppanut for his help and his patience, Ahowl11, Robbe and many other people i've contacted with in Discord and Slack, TW Center people for helping me with their guides on modding and other stuff, Total War Org for more guides and pretty much everyone . Hope im not forgetting anyone or something .