posted 24 December 2009 16:33 EDT (US)
While playing through RTW one night the idea suddenly hit me that it would be interesting to play RTW in an earlier era, while keeping the fundamentals and feel of the vanilla game. The idea was quite appealing because I was able to mod at about 90% or more in solid text, the rest being necessary graphical work to match faction colors and such. I like the feel that comes with the vanilla units and gameplay, and in this way I can use the existing factions, with some tweaks to unit rosters and banners, and transform them into the factions of this era. The mod takes place in the year 549BC and includes the following factions:
Phoenicians
Carthaginians
Greek City-States
Persian Empire
Chaldean Empire
Egyptians
Lydian Empire
Roman Kingdom
Etruscans
Celts
Illyrians
Scythians
Thracians
Iberians
Numidians
Britons
Germans
This includes complete reskins, text changes, UI's, selection map screens, a reworked campaign map, faction banners/symbols for those that are changed, plus many other minor tweaks and alterations to enhance gameplay.
Version 1.1 now contains fixed religious buildings for certain eastern factions and new unit Immortals for Persia.
Version 1.2 is now available as a seperate download and includes the following fixes/additions:
- fixed religious buildings for the Etruscans
- new faction Gauls that own only Central Gaul
- Britons reduced to 1 settlement
- Germania reduced to 2 settlements
- fixed 'marian' reforms
- Macedonia gets Phalangists and Companion Cavalry when the reforms occur (they get Early Companion Cavalry before the reforms)
- Elephants removed by request for historical accuracy
- Chaldeans get Chariot Archers in place of elephants
- fixed Phoenician agent skins
- altered some province names to remove duplicates
Screens:
Download 1.1
Download 1.2
Extract to your desktop and follow the readme.
This is modfoldered and will not affect your original game files.
You can run both versions at the same time if you change the name of one of the mod folders (i.e. from 'EAT' to 'EAT2') and the corresponding shortcut directory (i.e. 'mod/EAT' to 'mod/EAT2')
I've also uploaded this to the downloads section.
Merry Christmas!
[This message has been edited by comrade_general (edited 01-25-2010 @ 06:32 PM).]
