Spizania
06-28-2008, 19:06
Well, basically, Ive always been a massive infantry player, which is why in vanilla I always had three or four "The Infantryman" epiphets, and only once did I ever achieve another epiphet, (one of my infantryman acquired "The Great".............. :shame: traitor).
So naturally im a hellenophile, the masses of cavalry fielded by most nations being of little appeal to me, (which is why my current Seleukid campaign has me loosing ground to the Pahlava, I physically cannot engage Horse Archers)
So where can I get a time period where there are no horse archers and infact no really heavy cavalry to speak of.... the obvious answer was pre Alexandrian Greece, but thats boring and has been done a dozen times, so I shifted the emphasis to the 6th Century BC in Italy, where Etruscans control (indirectly or directly) half of Italy and most of the rest is either controlled by the Greeks or Gauls.
Ive been scouring the web for sources on this sort of thing, but it appears that the information is rather sparse, with Roman history before 390BC being mostly conjecture (as the Library was destroyed in the Sack of Rome, Vae Victis Forever).
So back to the topic itself, I propose a mod starting in approximately 578BC and ending in approximately ~272BC.
The factions (as far as I can determine so far, would probably be thus:-)
1. The Kingdom of Rome
2. The Etruscan Confederation
3. The Latin League
4. The Sabines
5. The Pisceni
6. The Volscii
7. The Samnite Confederation
8. Some Greek Faction representing the Magna Graecia
9. Relevant Gallic Faction #1 (I have no idea as to Gallic History)
10. The Carthaginians
11. an Illyrian Faction of Some Kind
12. The Aurunci
13. Syracuse
14-20: Additional Gallic Factions, Additional Greek Factions and additional Itallic Peoples (there are so many small ones its impossible to count)
I would also suggest a map covering a similar area to this one: http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_BackLrg.jpg
With as many provinces as we can put on, for a properly epic experience.
I would suggest using a script to feed the Carthaginians additional resources to account for there off mmap empire, and perhaps have a script that creates Pyrhhus' army around Taras if the city is threatened, I would also like to use a script to script militia reinforcements if a city is put under seige, as almost every force in this period is a militia anyway.
So naturally im a hellenophile, the masses of cavalry fielded by most nations being of little appeal to me, (which is why my current Seleukid campaign has me loosing ground to the Pahlava, I physically cannot engage Horse Archers)
So where can I get a time period where there are no horse archers and infact no really heavy cavalry to speak of.... the obvious answer was pre Alexandrian Greece, but thats boring and has been done a dozen times, so I shifted the emphasis to the 6th Century BC in Italy, where Etruscans control (indirectly or directly) half of Italy and most of the rest is either controlled by the Greeks or Gauls.
Ive been scouring the web for sources on this sort of thing, but it appears that the information is rather sparse, with Roman history before 390BC being mostly conjecture (as the Library was destroyed in the Sack of Rome, Vae Victis Forever).
So back to the topic itself, I propose a mod starting in approximately 578BC and ending in approximately ~272BC.
The factions (as far as I can determine so far, would probably be thus:-)
1. The Kingdom of Rome
2. The Etruscan Confederation
3. The Latin League
4. The Sabines
5. The Pisceni
6. The Volscii
7. The Samnite Confederation
8. Some Greek Faction representing the Magna Graecia
9. Relevant Gallic Faction #1 (I have no idea as to Gallic History)
10. The Carthaginians
11. an Illyrian Faction of Some Kind
12. The Aurunci
13. Syracuse
14-20: Additional Gallic Factions, Additional Greek Factions and additional Itallic Peoples (there are so many small ones its impossible to count)
I would also suggest a map covering a similar area to this one: http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/rve_BackLrg.jpg
With as many provinces as we can put on, for a properly epic experience.
I would suggest using a script to feed the Carthaginians additional resources to account for there off mmap empire, and perhaps have a script that creates Pyrhhus' army around Taras if the city is threatened, I would also like to use a script to script militia reinforcements if a city is put under seige, as almost every force in this period is a militia anyway.