Rome: Total War

Originally posted by Temujin aaaaah, it did it again!!  it seems .txt files are alsways automatically displayed in the actual mail...could you send the file(s) as .zip?

damn time-bug again

btw, me and mast have begun talkign about a mod about medieval half a year ago or so for the first time. I wnated to make a mod about MTW and asked for his help but he said we should wait until Romea s it'll be easier to mod.

well, here we are. Romes out and needs a lot of modding and we talked again about changes, especially since so far no mod yet went the way I'd like to have it.

what i'm talking about is what we've called the "AE mod", meanign that we'll make a mod with the help of AE members (me & mast. I'm also thinking of Cat here in specific ). help is welcome and we're especially aimign at as much historical accuracy as possible. the mod would also be a good advertisement for the forums. so if yu're knoledged on the period (military etc) you can already make a good contribution. faction-wise we need most help witht he helenistic states and carthage.
I've also quite concrete plans for 4 of my favourite factions (Numidia, Thracians, Sarmatians which will replace Scythians adn Parthians). faction-wise itself I thougth about replacing Spain (iberia) with celtiberians*, removig the roman factions and only leave one faction (the republic) and thus removign the senate (which isn't that itnerestign at all). this will also include removing some italian provicnes so the romasn wouldn't have an advantage. i also waat to remove the greek faction and isntead maybe create a "real" state, epiros or pergamum comes to mind. for addign new factions i thought about an "arabian" state, like nabataeans (they would get Sinai and Nabataea provicnes for isntance) some we can contain egypt and have anotehr unique faction. mast also said that it's importnat to make the factiosn as unique as possibe, this will especially be difficult with the helensitic natins, thats's why we need help there especially as already mentioned.

*i've done a little reading on them on weekends, and it seems the hispanic people were categorized into three main people, the Iberians, Celtiberians (gallified iberians) and anoterh tribe whose name i've forgotten, they were "purer" celtic than the celtiberians and lived in the northwest, the asturian and cantabrian tries belonged to this group. it seems the iberians were almost entirley udner the control of carthage an the celts were too small and unimortant. thus, spain would look like this: gallaeica = rebel, Lusitania=celtiberian, celtiberia=celtiberian, baetica=carthage, hispania=carthage, taraconenis=not descided yet, maybe rebel)

I'm also thinking about renaming brits to belgicae (belgians) and only giving them one starting province in britain proper (britannia superior) apart from the belgica province. Ill also move the germanics more north, they'll start in tribus saxones, germania inferior and tribus chattii, maybe also giving them locus gothi and regnum marcomannii, have not met any other serious desicions about the other factions.

the problem is I have no idea yet what and how mayn provicnes i should give to carthage, if we leave the provicnes as they're now, it would be too much to give them lybia, numidia and mauretania, but numidians would be too weak probably, on the other hands numidians shouldn't really be a naval power...

about britain: well, if were pedantic they should be gauls as well, but then they would own way too many provinces (france, britain, northern italy, alpes etc). adding an aquitanian faction however seems nice, i hadn't time yet to read up on the gauls, so any help here is welcome as well. regarign the name, I think the gauls in SE britain were of the belgic tribe, but i haven't read about them yet either, so....

mmh, about aesti, I've never heard of them, maybe you could give me mre info? so far i have no itnention to create anotehr faction in the baltic, east europe, though it's quite empty so far, but aesti is so far a better name as domus dolci domus...

about batavians: well, ive not realyl the itnention to make tribe-specific units, like markomanni or gothic this or that, just generic units for generic factions (germanics/gauls etc)

you're right, i'll think about it.

well actually i've thoguth about somethign like this already (mercenary-wise), but no concrete ideas on the whole mercenary thing yet.

is there somehign you want to tell me?

no, i'm not following German communities activity...