Another RTW Expansion!

[shifty157]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/rometotalwaralexander/index.html

ROME: Total War - Alexander

This has just been announced by sega. Its set for a release next month.

[paullus]

There are videos and some screenshots at the .com. They've figured out an overhand spear formation finally, but no two-handed phalangites. The Makedonian phalangites shown in a few screens have transformer shoulder pads or something...oh, and there's some crazy looking unit with a giant hook/sword and a hoplon.

[alpaca]

Indian naked female archers heh, guess that's their main selling argument ;)
Still, I don't expect anything much from this. It probably won't even get us a new patch for RTW (and we all know the vanilla campaign quality).
If you want to know what I think, it's highly probable that this is some old content one or two of CA's guys made in the beginning and didn't finish which SEGA took and wants to make a bit of money with now.

[Lentonius]

well, IMO really unless they plan to overwrite vanilla RTW with 4 factions, the expansion pack may well introduce new ways of developing a mod, so that will be fairly promising....

[alpaca]

Why should they have to overwrite anything?
They're gonna use a mod folder just as they did with BI.

[Lentonius]

exactly, which should mean that because of this it will probably give us modders something to look into.

[Lord Adherbal]

well the "historical battle campaign" that has unlockable battles will need some new code. Unless that already existed in RTW but we didn't know about it ?

[Myrddraal]

well the "historical battle campaign" that has unlockable battles will need some new code. Unless that already existed in RTW but we didn't know about it ?

Definately doesn't exist at the moment. So yes they must include some new code, but this looks like a skin pack really. I don't think we can expect any modding revolutions.