Successors campaign is underway!

[macsen rufus]

I have started work on the Successors campaign for ATW2:EE, though it is till a looong way from being anything yet.....

So far the factions have been created, and territories assigned. The scenario starts in 301BC - just in time for Seleucus to have his own kingdom established, and well before the Gallic invasions.... of which more later.

As a quick taster, here are a couple of screenies:

Starting positions:




Faction selection screen:





The colours will change, and historical kings still need to be done, so pay no heed to old Dionysius here

Playable factions are:

• Macedonia (Cassander)
• Hellenic League
• Seleucids
• Mauryan Empire
• Lysimachids
• Gauls
• Sparta
• Illyria
• Ptolemies
• Nabatea
• Antigonids
• Armenia
• Epirus
• Scythia

Plenty of choice if you fancy some hot hoplite-on-hoplite grinding action, or something a little more exotic from the fringes of the known world.

Major reworking of the build_prod and unit_prod files needed (not least because I had culled all the Celtic units from the previous EE unit_prods), and some wicked ideas to be implemented for some provinces (and I don't mean 'wicked' in a nice way )

[YanBG]

All sounds very interesting! Good luck with the new campaigns.

[dimitrios the samian]

Great news Macsen .....
Will be another great addition to our Ancient Sector ........
Nice backdrop too !! ...

[Leith]

Good news! This is perhaps the mod that interests me the most in ancient warfare. Hopefully there will be lots of hoplites/units, Militia hoplites, armoured hoplites, various selections of pike units. I'm curious to know if this is going to be a standalone release.

[macsen rufus]

Hi Leith,

It will be an extra scenario within Eastern Empires, and with a single start date.

To do it full justice would require a whole new mod, with three eras (because I can already hear someone out there typing out 'but there's no Parthian Empire in there....' that's because it didn't exist at my chosen start date... and editor's decision is final etc etc.) And that would be a two or three-year project.

And, yes, I think there may be one or two hoplites knocking around in there somewhere

But it's very early days yet. Though I'm glad to say my wicked idea seems to work....

And to DtS, thanks re the backdrop - that's a sneak preview of the new front-end I've done (the BETA still has the one from the original Ancient, and it is a bit anachronistic for this).

[dimitrios the samian]

maestro , an extra scenario is fine for now

Later on ( in a few years ) , you may re-consider as there will be a whole lotta redrawn & re-animated troops ....... including a few exotic elephant types & a deadly Succesor Chariot !!

OK Question , the map is really really heavy ( busy as western mentioned )

I'm hoping I it may be possible to open it in Photoshop & airbrush out as much as we need to make it easier on the eye ? .... ( I don't want you spending weeks making another as this one works )

... Have a think & let me know at a later date .

I'm fine with spending some time on it & I have an idea that I just need to leave the borders & positions were castles & ports are .