Amazon: Total War 8.0 Release

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A new Amazons Total War is being uploaded right now.

The changes are

1. added Roman Fustibalus Plumbatarii Cohort unit

These are the legionnaires uses pole sling to launch leadened dart to such distance that they don't really need archer or slinger support.
Fustibalus = staff or pole sling
Plumbatarii = leadened dart throwing legionnaires

2. Make Bosporan Infantry the same as Fustibalus Plumbatarii except their range is not as far as the Romans.

3. Doubled the halberdier recruiting time for all factions, because as Celeste pointed out, it takes a lot longer to train halberdier than spear wielding soldiers

4. Celeste also corrected numerous text descriptions for the new units.


The upload is completed

Another change is the wagon and chariot units now have greater handicap in wooded areas.

[-Nietzsche-]

Rome2? Hmmm... well, wanted to buy it, anyway. Moving to R2 will surely be an awful huge amount of work :-O
But on the other Hand, you're right... Rome1 is nearly as old as the Roman Empire itself, meanwhile ;-)

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Rome2? Hmmm... well, wanted to buy it, anyway. Moving to R2 will surely be an awful huge amount of work :-O
But on the other Hand, you're right... Rome1 is nearly as old as the Roman Empire itself, meanwhile ;-)


Well! It is not that simple. We have it in three phases, each phase is highly dependent of the CA releasing the modding tool (or not). It could ended up like the Shotgun II where they stop the utility all together. So there will be no mod if the utility is not forthcoming.

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Another upload is underway to resolve some newly found issues with Thyssa Amazons.

1. the upkeep cost of the militia hoplite is currently the same as a mercenary hoplite, this has been corrected to reflect it is a militia unit and therefore cheaper to maintain.
2. the Thyssa had not been able to recruit carriage ballista when a quest is completed, this has been corrected.
3. missing units info have been added.

will post when the upload is compeleted.

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A new Amazons Total War release is being uploaded, changes include

1. new Amazon War Dog unit
2. reduced unit size for Amazon Scout Horse Archer
3. adjusted training duration for many units
4. New Geothe Virgin Cavalry animation
5. Corrected a bug about Amazon Axe units not in the unit_building file, so the Axe units can be deployed in the custom battle but never was able to be part of campaign, now the amazon factions can recruit Amazon axe unit.

Will post again when the upload is complete.

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The above upload is completed, and the access is available at the OP

[naftykid]

Rome II has been released, will there be any future release of this mod?

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Rome II has been released, will there be any future release of this mod?

Absolutely!

Bibi is also working on the Rome II version and if you visit the previous posts, we are planning three phases for Rome II, but it is "highly" dependent on the utility available,

She won't be back working on the mod until next, so we will have to wait, meanwhile our animation team has been converting/re-creating Amazon units to Warscape, so it is releasable to Rome II, we just want to be thoroughly tested when BB returns.

On the Rome I side, we have been changing quite a few facets of the mod, so it would be interesting to see what you think of it.

[naftykid]

What about the RTW version, is the 8.0 the last version and will be no future version?

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What about the RTW version, is the 8.0 the last version and will be no future version?

8.0B is our latest release. The thing is, it is always the "last" release until someone came up with something new.

The Rome II release is only a side show, because BB likes naval battle. So our main focal point is actually Rome I.

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A new update with imrpoved Roman title award system is being uploaded, will post again when upload complete.

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Another batch of Amazons Total War changes have been tested and is being uploaded right now.

Changes are:

- revamped Amazons Dispatch Rider models and animations.
- new Amazons Virgin Cavalry models.
- Almost all quest factions are now allowed to recruit Amazon Virgin Cavalry units when quests are completed.
- Amazon Foot Archer unit size re-adjusted to cope with RTW game engine hit calculation bug.
- completely eliminated male standard bearer in Amazon units
- new Amazon Lesser General animation
- new Amazon General animation
- corrected Amazon Spearwoman animation bug with no weapon when in close quarter combat.

Will post when upload is done.

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The 8.0B release has met its objective and it is now completed, we now initiated the next phase of the development of the new 8.0C release with the aim to add modular biometric animation to the mod, pioneered by our own animation lead Pea.

The animation uses interlinked body components as building block to achieve better animation at a lower rendering cost.

In addition, the script capability is being expanded and more integrated.

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The new release 8.0C 3 is finally uploaded onto the server, you can access the download at the OP.

Pea has updated the Amazon Priestess Guard and Libyan Heavy Cavalry animation using the Modular Biometric Animation technique.

Comments and feedback are more than welcome.

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Pea has finished the Amazon Demi-Lancer using the Modular Biometric technique, the changes just finished tests through auto-matrix and will be uploaded.

Our primary download surce is being re-directed, please uses the secondary or tertiary link for the moment, if you are accessing the download from the remote uplink, please refrain from using the source embedded in the stream, but do a refresh and it will get you the new link to access the download.

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We finally got the third download server working, all high bandwidth links are now being redirected to the site at...

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/r...mod/51205.html (http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/rometotalwar/mod/51205.html)

Please help us by monitoring and notifying if the download is not working.

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A new update has been uploading since early morning, the changes are

- new Amazon Demi-Lancer texture
- Changed faction Amazonia to Themiskyra with restructured strat configuration.

Will post when the upload is complete.

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I would like to welcome our newest member of the development team, Becky Lani. She prefers to go by the name of Lani.

Lani is a graduate student helping with compilation and translation of my Amazon theses to foreign language(s).

And thanks to her, I finally have a position paper which is more or less in one place instead of scattering all over the place.

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The changes to resolve the animation problems have been completed and uploaded.

Changes are
- new Level Of Detail (LOD) files to resolve Amazon foot units
- newly revised Priestess Guard animation for both foot and mounted units
- new Amazon Elite Scout skins
- new Amazon Standard Bearer skins
- new Amazon Warband, serf militia skins

You can download through access at the OP.

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New Amazons Total War mod file (release 8 of 8.0C) has been uploaded.


Changes are


- new Amazon Heavy Cavalry Animation using Pea's MBA concept
- corrected German Units with incorrect standards
- new Armenian skins for Amazon Elite Scouts, Amazon Heavy Cavalry
- new Carthaginian Amazon Heavy Cavalry Skin
- new Thyssa Amazon Heavy Cavalry Skin
- new Themiskyra Amazon Heavy Cavalry Skin
- new Libyan Amazon Heavy Cavalry Skin
- New Renegade Amazon Elite Scout animation

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New Amazons Total War upload has been completed, the new changes are

- Pea's complete revamp of Barbarian Javelin Cavalry
- new reconfiguration of rebel to including Javelin Cavalry
- new mercenary table to include the latest units.

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Now that we have a baseline 3D models for Pea's Modular Biometric Animation, the textures have been enhanced at the cost of needing more CPU memory. Again, this is the necessary step to move towards a migratable animation library for whatever game engine we are moving towards to.The following changes are now uploaded
1. Newly enhanced texture skin.
2. first built-in foreign language (Chinese) compiled by Lani with the help of Sapped, this might have to be branched into separate release as its effect on the mod script is not known.
3. Map error correction by Celeste to address problem reported by Dragour
4. New Amazon Companion Cavalry Skin
5. New Sarmatian and Scythian Maiden Lancer animation
6. New Amazon Companion Archer skins

[-Nietzsche-]

Great. Better Graphics will surely be a huge Leap forwards. For us old Blokes the Status Quo might be alright, but to the younger Audience Rome1 certainly looks very much like Pacman to us :inquisitive:
Meanwhile, there are People around, who think that Atari is just a Game Company, and Amiga is a spanish Girlfriend ;-)

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A new update by Celeste and yours truly is addressing the issues with script and game campaign configuration.
Most of these changes are related to problems reported by Dragour which can cause a possible strat map crash, not remotely frequent, but possible, while playing the Greek Cities. This has been corrected. And the Greek Cities are also getting beefed up at the campaign start, since it is now the underdogs of the Greek Factions.

In addition, the Suebii (Germans) are also being updated with cavalry recruitment bugs corrected, this makes the Suebii cavalry even more difficult to come byhttps://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/emoticons/rolleye0012.gif.

Will post when the upload is complete.

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A new 8.0C release has been uploaded.
Changes include
1. Lani's Chinese text folder
2. new Amazon unit size reconfiguration, this dramatically reduces "large unit" such as the Amazon Heavy Peltast to smaller size. This also reduces the hit calculation overhead.

You can access the download from OP.

[BroskiDerpman]

Now that we have a baseline 3D models for Pea's Modular Biometric Animation, the textures have been enhanced at the cost of needing more CPU memory. Again, this is the necessary step to move towards a migratable animation library for whatever game engine we are moving towards to.The following changes are now uploaded
1. Newly enhanced texture skin.
2. first built-in foreign language (Chinese) compiled by Lani with the help of Sapped, this might have to be branched into separate release as its effect on the mod script is not known.
3. Map error correction by Celeste to address problem reported by Dragour
4. New Amazon Companion Cavalry Skin
5. New Sarmatian and Scythian Maiden Lancer animation
6. New Amazon Companion Archer skins

My body is ready.

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Uploading Lani's changes with her foreign language folder. Will post when upload is complete.

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An emergency upload is being created to address missing texture file issue. will post again when the upload is completed.

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The new upload is completed.

- new long bow archer skins are now added
- new custom battlefield configurations are also added.

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New upload has been completed which resolves a battlemap settlement view CTD.

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Release 8.0D is being uploaded, changes include language folder and full societal development modifications for

- Greek Cities
- Macedon
- Arvernii, Gauls
- Suebii, Germans
- Iberian

Many more units are made available when cultural development reaching circus maximus stage and royal barrack stage for these factions.

Will post when upload is complete.

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A new upload has been added to ModDB to resolve faulty animation memory access issue, and the Amazon Frontier Cavalry is getting new UVW mapping and new skin.

New models also have been created for Amazon Heavy Standard Bearer , Amazon Generals.

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Based on Lani's suggestion, the Mod Team has launched a chinese version of support page at


http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=ÑÇÂíÑ·È«ÃæÕ½Õù


This is to help our Chinese fans on any technical support or process any feedback. Lani will be the volunteer manage the translation and relaying messages back and forth.


The reception of Amazons Total War in Asia has truly awed us.


On behalf of the mod tea, I would like to thank all the fans no matter where you are.

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A new upload is being started. This update adds more memory correction to the UV mapping of the animation. In addition, problems reported on the previous models have been corrected.

Scythian faction now has its heavy units when reaching the highest cultural development.

Will post when upload is complete.

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A new upload is being started. This update adds more memory correction to the UV mapping of the animation. In addition, problems reported on the previous models have been corrected.

Scythian faction now has its heavy units when reaching the highest cultural development.

Will post when upload is complete.

The upload has been completed, you can access the download link though the OP.

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All Greek hoplite units that had it in vanilla preferably, I've never really found shield wall to be all that useful unless defending roads in a settlement, even then a phalanx outperforms it.

A new upload is in process, this changes the greek hoplites back to phalanx formation instead of shield wall.

In addition, new Thracian units are being added.

Will post when upload is complete.

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A new upload is in process, this changes the greek hoplites back to phalanx formation instead of shield wall.

In addition, new Thracian units are being added.

Will post when upload is complete.

The above upload is finally complete, had to re-try packing order three times to keep the download file footprint to a minimum.

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This is to announce that another upload is on its way.

Changes are

1. New phalanx pike infantry for Themiskyra, Thrace, Spain, Seleucid, and Carthage
2. New drugged induced berserker infantry units for Thrace and Germany, but only geographically available in Dacia and Thrace.
3. major revamping of unit built-time
4. Newly added fertility cult in Thrace and nearby mountain regions.
5. 2nd publishing of Lani's Chinese and oriental texts, I was told these are greatly enhanced and many translations are now more culturally based instead of based on literal translation.

For our Chinese players, I just want to say that Lani is not an RTW user, nor was she familiar with any ancient warfare, so it took sometime for her to learn the actual meanings of certain technical terms in English first. Since I have been to Central Asia and Northwestern China on quite a few anthropology trips and archaeological digs with her, I can tell you that she has done some truly remarkable work.

Will update when the upload is complete.

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A new upload is in progress to resolve a newly discovered CTD with Thyssa Amazon faction's game script.

Will post when the upload is completed.

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A new upload is in progress to resolve a newly discovered CTD with Thyssa Amazon faction's game script.

Will post when the upload is completed.

The upload is finally complete. You can access the latest file through OP.

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A new upload has started to corrected the Amazon Character animation, also the animation for the Female "Gunner" as well as Amazon Noble Cavalry have been changed to be more consistent with the 8.0 scheme.

Will post when the upload is completed.

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A new upload has started to corrected the Amazon Character animation, also the animation for the Female "Gunner" as well as Amazon Noble Cavalry have been changed to be more consistent with the 8.0 scheme.

Will post when the upload is completed.

Upload is completed.

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A new mod release file is being uploaded, the file contains changes for pikewomen and Amazon caro ballista gunners.

Will post when upload is complete.

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Erika ran the new release through the auto test matrix as well as manual test, and the following bugs have been discovered, and some have already been fixed.

1 - Libyan archer has wrong hair color
2 - Amazon Rebel peasant also has wrong texture
3 - Libyan Amazon Scout has been missing from the recruitment table
4 - Geothe Amazon foot archer has wrong size waist band
5 - Libyan Amazon's finnic archer has arrows in the quiver, but they shoot iron encased lead bolt
6 - Carthaginian Vestal Virgin archers had wrong face
7 - Libyan took the first quest objective, and the general would be getting the titles for all the quest objectives
8 - Carthage "horse shrine has warning, do not display..." this text message
9 - Amazon militia cavalry is show animation with javelin, but launches throwing axe as a missile instead.


The following changes have been uploaded by Erika, you can access the download through the OP...

1. resolved by Pea
2. resolved by Pea
3. resolved by Erika
4. under investigation by Pea
5. under investigation by Pea
6. under investigation by Pea
7. resolved by Cel
8. resolved by Cel
9. under investigation by Cel

Lani also added her latest language translations.

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A new upload has been complete, Cel has corrected the missile issue with Libyan militia cavalry, also the Libyan Amazon foot archer units has been added to the start of campaign.

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Revision #17 has been uploaded to ModDB, the new release

1.corrects CTD errors mostly associated with the Scythian.
2.make new female units (Maenedian Fanatics, for example) widely available in the rebellion.
3.implemented optimized animation from Pea, Amazon militia units are now much more streamlined.

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New 8.0D rev 19 has been uploaded, which includes many bug fixes as well as text update to facilitate language translation.
You can access the download at the OP

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A new 8.0D download file is now available on ModDB, the link can be accessed from OP.

The revision 20 has corrections on Level Of Detail for many units.

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A new upload is in progress to correct a CTD problem reported by Celeste

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New Release 8.0F is being uploaded. You can access the download link through the OP.


This release follows the Amazon Goddess Theocracy story line and theory and adds Amazon Goddess units to all assimilated Amazon Cultures. Prior to this release, some factions are supposedly assimilated to become Amazon Priestess Culture but the key units derived from the Amazon Leadership Caste were missing.


This release also resolved a major bug in the Scandinavian Quest, where re-start of the game after saving a current campaign would cause the game to re-tell the quest and accumulated new Amazon Advanced Technology units and this could cause bankruptcy of the Amazon faction.

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New 8.0G has been uploaded and you can access it from the OP.

Changes are major Libyan Amazon Unit re-configuration as well as new animations for amazon units.

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Series 8 is continuing strong, partially because we don't have a decision yet on which platform we are heading to.

So Pea and Celeste are both busy enhancing and complete the the mod to a platform independent format.

8.1Z has rolled out, and with many new models, units, as well as features.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Glad to see the excellent work continue:2thumbsup: