New Historical Battle mod 2.0 - released!

This is a revisit of my previous Historical Battles mod - now much more historical, much more enjoyable, and with many more historical battle. I have worked and research hard to bring you this mod, and I'm proud of it.

It includes 46 HB, 14 battles that were create by the EB team or Hax, and that I included in this pack just in case someone is missing any of them; and 32 new HB that I have created myself.

full list of the battles:
created by EB/Hax - Blue
created by me - Black

062 CE - Battle of Rhandeia
050 CE - Battle of Caer Caradoc
043 CE - Battle of Medway
016 CE - Battle of Idistaviso
038 BC - Battle of Gindarus
047 BC - Battle of Zela
047 BC - Battle of Nile
052 BC - Battle of Gergovia
053 BC - Battle of Carrhae
055 BC - Battle of Taxila
057 BC - Battle of Sabis
058 BC - Battle of Vosges
058 BC - Battle of Bibracte
061 BC - Battle of Singidunum
069 BC - Battle of Tigranocerta
086 BC - Battle of Chaeronea
108 BC -Battle of Chersonesus
129 BC - Battle of Ecbatana
146 BC - Battle of Corinth
147 BC - Battle of Eucratidia
147 BC - Battle of Tribola
153 BC - Battle of Numantia
162 BC - Battle of Beth-Zechariah
168 BC - Battle of Pydna
190 BC - The Battle of Magnesia
191 BC - The Battle of Thermopylae
197 BC - Battle of Kynoskephalai
200 BC - The Battle of Panion
202 BC - Battle of Zama
206 BC - Battle of Ilipa
207 BC - Battle of Metaurus
208 BC - Battle of Baecula
209 BC - Battle on the river Areios
216 BC - Battle of Cannae
217 BC - The Battle of Lake Trasimene
217 BC - The Battle of Raphia
218 BC - Battle of Trebia
219 BC - Battle of Pharos
222 BC - Battle of Sellasia
225 BC - Battle of Telamon
255 BC - Battle of Tunis
261 BC - Battle of Agrigentum
279 BC - Battle of Ausculum
279 BC - The Battle of Thermopylae
292 BC - Battle of Istros
301 BC-The Battle of Ipsos

Download: http://www.multiupload.com/SAFS9TB165

Installation: Just unpack into your RTW folder and oversave

Please enjoy!

Thank you very much, and great job!

Just a little question: is it compatible with the previous version?

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Originally Posted by Arjos

Thank you very much, and great job!

Just a little question: is it compatible with the previous version?

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I had redone all the battles I released in the first version for historical accuracy, so this version will oversave them.
don't worry they are much better now.:balloon2:

Great job... Downloading now

Woohoo!!! thank you LDC! Gotta beat some Roman!

Good work! :yes: downloading.

In the battle of Bibracte the cohorts just rout as soon as they realized they were going to be encircled without even fighting XD
Awesome work!
Can anybody tell me why the game freezes in the battle of Carrhae when Publius Crassus dies? (The little detachment's general outside the square)

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Originally Posted by Arjos

Can anybody tell me why the game freezes in the battle of Carrhae when Publius Crassus dies? (The little detachment's general outside the square)

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Because the victory screen pops up the moment you kill the guy. This causes the superfluous little cinematic to collide with the victory screen. You can end this by "alt+tab"ing out (to desktop), then again selecting the runing game. Now the victory notification should appear in the foreground, and you can choose between continuing the battle or quitting.
This can also happen in some rare cases during campaign (if you kill the enemy general the same moment as his entire army starts to rout).

I'll try that, but everything freezes when the rest of the other roman army is still in square formation unharmed...

It worked, thank you very much athanaric (:

Many thanks, LDC. Downloading now.

Nice job mate. Knew you were going to come around sooner or later with this beauty. Also a great job at overwriting older HBs (oversave, overwrite, whatever).

The only thing I regret is that I couldn't figure out how to script.

What is this? Am I dreaming? It's beautiful!

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Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

What is this? Am I dreaming? It's beautiful!

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it wasn't beutiful! It was excellent job! very2 beautiful!

Wow! Very impressive work, must have taken months! Well done!

Thank you very much for making this mod, it's rekindled my love for EB. I especially appreciate the work you've done on the Saka vs. Indo-Greek wars.

I do have one question though. Now that the Battle of the Nile has been redone, why do the Ptolemies have no cavalry? According to The Alexandrine Wars they had two thousand horse.

"Some of them were Roman soldiers...and had been left in Egypt, in Ptolemy's service, when Antony returned to Rome. Some were native Egyptians. There was also in the army of Achillas a large number of fugitive slaves...Achillas had also in his command a force of two thousand horse. Such a body of cavalry made him, of course, perfect master of all the open country outside the city walls."

Source - http://www.readeasily.com/jacob-abbo.../001580054.php

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Originally Posted by MButcher

Thank you very much for making this mod, it's rekindled my love for EB. I especially appreciate the work you've done on the Saka vs. Indo-Greek wars.

I do have one question though. Now that the Battle of the Nile has been redone, why do the Ptolemies have no cavalry? According to The Alexandrine Wars they had two thousand horse.

"Some of them were Roman soldiers...and had been left in Egypt, in Ptolemy's service, when Antony returned to Rome. Some were native Egyptians. There was also in the army of Achillas a large number of fugitive slaves...Achillas had also in his command a force of two thousand horse. Such a body of cavalry made him, of course, perfect master of all the open country outside the city walls."

Source - http://www.readeasily.com/jacob-abbo.../001580054.php

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If you'll keep on reading, you'll see that before Caesar stormed Ptolemy camp, there were an incident in which the roman tried to cross a small river 7 roman miles away from the camp. Ptolemy send all his cavalry and a group of light infantry to stop the roman from crossing. Eventually the Romans menage to cross and kill almost all the cavalry, so very few of them returned to Ptolemy's camp.

That incident happened a day before the main battle, so I couldn't represent it in the Historical Battle.

I can't seem to find that passage, but I'll keep looking. :book: Thank you.

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Gratia! :ave:
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Originally Posted by LDC

The only thing I regret is that I couldn't figure out how to script.

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Do you mean Battle Scripting in the RTW engine? Is that what you would use to script the beginning cutscenes such as can be found in original HBs of vanilla? That would also let you play WAV files IIRC, paving a way for narration, again, such as can be found in original HBs of vanilla. A great item for a To-Do list, innit?

This seems to be fucking awsome, but i cant download the link, the link does not appear. Any reason why?

It seems to be a problem with the hosting site: I got a 404 error when I tried to access the main site. When I tried a second time, the browser was rerouted to an ad website. I guess you'll just have to try again in a day or two.

New download link?

Available now in TWC downloads:

https://www.twcenter.net/forums/down...o=file&id=4631