Hegemonia-City States (BI 1.6 mod focusing on classical Greece)

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The "Hegemonia Team" proudly presents you :

HEGEMONIA - CITY STATES

Hegemonia - City States focuses on Hellenic history before the hegemony of Thebes and Macedon.
We hope to create a realistic mod that will transfer you to the Golden Age of Hellenic Culture and Warfare.

The Hegemonia team welcomes the people who share the same enthusiasm to our development forum where you can also add your help to our effort, given that you possess the skills and the time needed. You can also visit the new Hegemonia site.

The team thanks all the people who have assisted so far in various ways and also TWC, SCC, RTR Forums for offering us sub-forums. (and hopefully the ORG, if we are granted a sub-forum here in the near future... )

The concept of the project we are developing is as thrilling and as simple it can get for fans of Hellenic warfare !

Hegemonia Cities States is a mod on BI 1.6. The start date is 514 BC just before the armies of the Persian Empire cross the Hellespont Straits to march against Europe and the Thracians. There will be a big invasion force gathered available for the Persian faction from the very beginning. If we use any scripts (which is under discussion) then there will be 2 more such armies generating at 490 BC and 480 BC to simulate both of the Persian attempts to conquer the Greeks.

However the Persians are not the only threat. The Greek cities and colonies which are spread all around the campaign map (and beyond that of course) are locked in a constant struggle against each other, against civilized and uncivilized barbarians (barbarians originally meant non Greeks), against native populations who are often hostile towards Greek colonists and of course against their main competitors in navy and trade: the Phoenicians and their own flourishing colonies, most notably, the Carthaginians !
The Phoenicians may have played a role in the decision for a Persian invasion against Hellas, while the Greeks were preparing to face the superior Persian naval forces (in which Phoenician ships were the most important) in Salamis, the Carthaginians launched a huge attack against Sicily to destroy Hellenism in all its strongholds !

In the game we will most likely include some units from the Peloponnesian wars as well (like Greek peltasts, special marines and more use of cavalry) but we will mostly focus in warfare between heavily armed hoplites fighting in shield wall (maybe combined with an animation we will develop and an altered formation if it can be done) supported by missile auxilia troops. That means you will see many new models, some models that few people have seen before and generally many accurate and fascinating looking hoplites. Of course there will also be eastern types of troops, mounted units where they existed, savage warriors in areas inhabited by wild and uncultured people as well as Carthaginian and Etruscan troops in the western Mediterranean.

For the units you can forget about using vanilla models! We are using our own models for most units we create and the result is realistic and impressive.The victory conditions will include for most Greek cities and Greek-related kingdoms of Hellenic origin to capture one or more special provinces like Olympia, Delphi and Dodona (amongst with other conditions too of course). Non-hellenic factions will have other objectives.

The Factions:

Certain factions may need some explanation so that is clear why they were preferred instead of others and also to specify their starting provinces, which will be showed with each factions preview anyway.....

We had to choose from several independent Hellenic and Non-Hellenic factions and we think we had made the best selection possible so that we can play with the most attractive factions, which are:
--Divided as they are matched in the code--

Ionian Greeks
The city of Athens
The Ionian league

Dorian Greeks
The city of Argos
The city of Corinth
The Locrian cities
The Rhodian cities
The Cretan cities
The state of Lacedaimon (Sparta)

Northern Greeks
The Boeotean league (Thebes)
The Kingdom of Macedon
Thessaly

Epirus
The Molossian kingdom (Epirotes)

Greeks of Italy
The city of Syracuse
The city of Croton
The city of Taras

Uncivilised Barbarians
Illyrian tribes
Thracian tribes

Civilised Barbarians
The Persian empire
The Etruscan league
Carthage

*Work on high res icons done by Lupus, Snevets also has done work on faction icons*

The Map

The brand new map is under development.
The plan is to have as much as about 190 provinces if everything proves to work fine.

This is the area which covers our map and the aimed province setup.

The initial intention was to expand the AoH map which Laridus developed to west, east and north towards Carthage, Phoenicia and more Illyrian/Thracian regions.
Due to game limitations Phoenicia cannot be included so in east it includes as far as Cyprus (we naturally preferred the Carthaginian regions of Africa instead of Phoenicia)
Uranos is in charge of the Hegemonia map and Laridus from the very start offered his previous work on the map.
There is not yet a complete playable version of the map just some WIP screenshots.
When we show screenshots do not rush to criticise possible little mistakes, because the map is in an early form...
The map will be very detailed and accurate in its final version - given that the suggested plan is accomplished.

Faction Previews

Faction Preview 01 : The City of Athens

Faction Preview 02 : The Ionian League

Faction Preview 03 : The City of Corinth

Faction Preview 04 : The Kingdom of Macedon

Faction Preview 05 : The Boeotian League (The City of Thebes)

Faction Preview 06 : The City of Croton

Faction Preview 07 : The State of Lacedaemon (The City of Sparta)

Faction Preview 08 : The Etruscan League (Etruria)

Faction Preview 09 : The Thracian Tribes (Thrace)

Faction Preview 10 : The Locrian Cities

Faction Preview 11 : The City of Taras

Faction Preview 12 : The City of Argos

Faction Preview 13 : The City of Syracuse

Faction Preview 14 : Carthage (Part 1) (Carthaginians & African troops)

Faction Preview 15 : Carthage (Part 2) (Western Mediterranean troops)

Faction Preview 16 : The Illyrian Tribes (Illyria)

Faction Preview 17 : Independant City Units - Part 1

Faction Preview 18 : NEW Independant City Units - Part 2

Next Preview: ? (coming very soon)

Screenshots and Renders samples



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Hegemonia Wallpapers



















Hegemonia Banners


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Faction Signatures

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Some new banners you can use freely as signatures, as a word of warning, some forums will not allow them due to their size, you may have to re-size them yourself.

Athens


Lacedaemon (Sparta)


Persia


Boeotian League (Thebes)


Thesally


Macedon


Cretan Cities


Corinth


Locris


Argos


Taras


Ionian Cities


Rhodian Cities


Epirus


Illyria


Thrace


Etruscan League


Syracuse


Croton


Carthage



Alternative Carthage

The Hegemonia Team :

Thanks and cheers from the whole Hegemonia Team, this thread will be updated regularly...