Amazons: Total War 7.0E Released

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As of May 2nd, 2013 Amazons:Total War 7.0E was released

Amazons Total War 7.0 allows the player to explore many modern military concepts on the battlefields of antiquity.

Such as

• - Mobility and Stand-off Weapon capability using various women cavalry units.
• - Deploying Area Denial "minefield" on the battlefield using field engineers.
• - Wagon fighting units with battle tactics not unlike German Panzer in WWII.
• - Guerrilla Warfare, allowing agent to infiltrate enemy territory to raise army deep behind the enemy line.
• - Long Range Mobile Artillery, allowing artillery barrage, fire-support, and counter-battery
• - Linked Armor-Clad Cavalry, a dominating cavalry formation for centuries in Eurasia, never before depicted by any video game.
• - Terrifying Super-heating Incendiary Weapons, in modern day military parlance AKA the thermite munition.

Other Highlight of 7.0 Series

• - New extended campaign map, now from British Isle to Afganistan.
• - New Far Eastern Celt faction, based on latest archaeological finding and anthropological theories.
• - Newly re-balanced Amazon Advanced Units.
• - New longbow 4 horses chariots units.
• - Custom RS II battle environment with lush scenery.
• - Quest based game play
  A player's Amazon faction can not attain higher cultural level without quest completed.
• - Balance Unit Modeling (B.U.M. aka Parthian Shot's Laws
  unit's recruitment location/cost, and unit's appearance/capability must have direct relationship.
• - Four turns per year play.

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WARNING : MATURE PLAYERS ONLY
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Once again, this mod contains some female nudity in the depiction of conflicts in antiquity, so if there is any reason the law of your locality prohibits you from viewing such content (for example, if you are under the age of 18 in most areas), please do not access the download.

By either downloading or installing this mod's compressed file, the user who performed the download/installation acknowledges that he (or she) is legal to view such content and he or she is solely responsible for the use as well as the consequences of the use of this mod.

Keeping the aforementioned prerequisite in mind, Please do not pass along or forward link to the download file without this warning be shown.
And while playing multi-player online, please be mindful of the opponent's age or sensitivity, as each player is solely responsible for the unit he or she selected to play.

You can download 7.0E release [here]

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COPYRIGHT : STATEMENT OF RESOLUTION
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In addition to great amount of work by the members of the mod team, this mod is an accumulation of work from many sources as mentioned in the credit section of the readme folder in the compressed mod file. The said credit and acknowledge statements are carefully compiled and extra efforts made so as to be as accurate as possible. If, for any reason, there is an unintentional omission of credit or accidental unpermitted inclusion of prior art, the mod team, as represented by its mod leader, would be more than happy and willing to make corrective actions in a timely fashion to address said grievance(s) of copyright issues. Therefore any complaints of this nature should be addressed first to the mod leader (link to private message as shown above) so as to allow the Amazons Total War mod team to make amend of such mistake prior to any means of escalation.

As an attached clause, any copyright claims or complaints to third parties, without substantiation, and without attempts to resolve the issues first with the said mod leader shall be deemed as frivolous harassment.

You need 7zip utility to uncompress the file. Due to increase in complexity, it is recommended the system has a minimum of 4GB RAM to have more trouble free gaming experience. You also need Rome Total War/Barbarian Invasion 1.6 (or Rome Total War Gold Edition) in its vanilla form.

The original Whitepaper is published [here]

For the weapon description, you can read them [here].

For the factional background of the game, you can read more detail [here].

For the Balanced Unit Modeling Concept, or B.U.M., you can read more [here].

You can follow the Amazons Total War on twitter @Amazonstw

video trailer for 7.0 , warning 18+ viewers only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzs_sCKB-M

demo video for 6.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=66k-lpHr9lw

As of March 9th, 2013 - 7.0C release with patch is out

• Corrected an Amazon arbalest elbow animation issue, the elbow bone were set too far over the elbow and resulted in strange appearance during aiming.
• added Amazon edge-less version of Thyssa Arbalest Cavalry and Arbalest Infantry units, now the legs will not show edge.
• Corrected Amazon Peltast animation where in side-looking motion, the head would come off the shoulder, due to older 3DS Max always deform issue with new animation files.
• corrected mano-ballista animation while being used by foot archers.

As of March 3rd, 2013 - 7.0C release is out

• Massive optimization on animation speed, and space saving
• New Amazon Peltast units animation
• New Amazon Heavy Peltast units animation
• New Amazon arbalest cavalry and Infantry animations and new weapons
• New Amazon attires to match Amazons to the same "primitive" level of other "barbarian" cultures
• changing "skirt"s to be more of a waist-wrap
• changing loin-cloth from front only to front and back, same as Thracian peltasts and woad warriors.
• removed redundant animation for secondary weapons that is never used.
• corrected 3D model and texture inconsistency for Amazon Hoplite units and Dismounted Pathfinder units.
• re-animated Amazon Longbow Chariot Archer
• re-animated Scythian Head Hunting Maiden
• New battle wagon animation, now with overhead cover.
• added 4th crew for armored elephant.
• completely new Amazon Pathfinder humanoid 3D modeling, to eliminate sharp edged angle protrusion on limbs. This also increased the demand on 3D graphics process. The new animation also eliminated the rider sitting on the rear edge of the saddle problem. The new animation also componentizes the body parts and minimize a great deal of potential animation bugs.
• Same change as above except for Amazon Heavy Peltast units. In addition, the gaping hole at the under side of the chest is now corrected.
• Same change as above except for Amazon Chariot Archer units.
• Same change as above except for Finnic Mounted Archer units.
• corrected animation for Amazon Militia Horse Archer units, so the archer is no longer seating on the rear edge of the saddle, but in a more natural, near center location.
• Same as above, corrected Amazon Militia Lancer seating position in the saddle.
• Same as above, corrected Amazon Armored Archer's seating position in the saddle.
• Same as above, corrected Amazon Longbow Archer's seating position in the saddle.
• The gaps at the underside of chest of the Amazon Peltast body are corrected.
• New Amazon Heavy Peltast equipment and appearance, as the result, per B.U.M. principles, the unit stats are updated to reflect the change in appearance.
• sword units recruiting cost have been increased to reflect the new 7.0C requirement.

As of February 25th, 2013 - 7.0C beta, the 3rd release is out.

7.0C enhances the realism even farther, with major new animation revamp. New specification states that swords are much more costly to manufacture than many close quarter combat weapons. For light and low-cost units, therefore, if swords are their secondary weapons, they must be replaced with something more representative of their cost-performance relationship (according the Balance Unit Modeling , aka the B.U.M. principles)

• New animations for 2handed ax units
• New animations for halberd units
• New animations for Amazon Dispatcher Corp, now using short halberd instead of sword
• New animations for Amazon Brigandine Archers, now using short halberd instead of sword
• New animations for Macedon Geothe Mercenaries
• New animations for rebel Amazon archer units.
• New EDU stat for new units to reflect the changes.
• New Amazonia, Libya, and Thyssa general's units
• New Amazonia strat map captain animation.
• New Geothe strat map captain animation, to correct a weird problem with default texture file, uncovered by Katsoro.
• New heavy standard bearer animation, with female soldiers instead of male.
• New light standard bearer, now with druidress or Camilla priestess.
• New Amazon priestess and colour guard animation
• New Amazon Militia Hoplite animation, instead of spear and sword , now with lengthened pike (18ft).
• New Amazon Round Shield foot units, now with shield slightly enlarged, and armed with short ranseur style pike, instead of spear and sword.
• New Amazon Round Shield cavalry units, same as the Round Shield foot units.
• Complete re-work on Amazon Pathfinder animation.
• Minor change on Amazon Xiphos Cohorts animation
• After three years, finally added mano-ballista animation for advanced units. This includes
  Amazon Path Finder
  Amazon Noble Maiden
  Amazon Grenadier Cavalry
  Amazon Ballista Elephant "Gunner"s, with new model ballista

As of February 15th, 2013 - 7.0A/B, the 2nd release is out

• Rewrite of Libyan Amazon Quest
  What used to be a tutorial Quest faction is now a fully playable quest faction like Amazonia and Thyssa Amazons. Changes as response to Balgeron's report.
• New Longbow Archer Textures with new helmet design.
• New Roundshield Xiphos Plumbatarii Textures with new helmet design and corrected two hair color problem.
• New Companion Archer Textures, correcting lazy eyes problem and new helmet design.
• New Xihphos Cohort Textures, unified helmet appearance and corrected problems with textures mapping.
• New Pathfinder units texture and lighting re-mapping.
• New Leoni's Cultural Specific User Interface with customization by Celestial Shuttle Buddy
• Renamed Gaul to Arverni
• Renamed Germania to Suebi
• Changed marriage messages to consortship for "barbarian" and Amazon factions,
  as in ancient times, the connotation of gender relationship is different from the modern context.

As of February 1st, 2013 - 7.0A, the first post beta release is out

• Now the AI awards title to Amazon Generals when the quest is accomplished, per Uthril's suggestion.
  Now AI confers title to Amazon Generals when the quest is accomplished, per Uthril's suggestion.
  The title will gain the general prestige as well as command ability.
• Barbarian peasant unit is deemed too well attired per B.U.M principles,
  it was basically the vanilla barbarian infantry without the shield and the spear.
  This has been revised to make them more rugged and lower cost in appearance.
• Using more efficient DDS format to allow less file footprint and memory + speed improvement.
• Revised standard bearer for Celt and Gauls for better battlefield identification.
  Since Amazon Total War 7.0 does not use artificial banner for better realism,
  standard bearer is extremely important in Amazon Total War for battlefield C&C.
• Revised Amazon long shield design.
• Revised Amazon Axes shoulder armor linkage.
• Renamed Roman Auxilia units
• Incorporated Leoni's Cultural Specific User Interface.

As of January 30th, 2013

• - re-balancing the Seleucid and Parthia factions
• - make elephant resources available at more locations
• - Western Celts is re-configured, the military strength is reduced in British Isle, and more wagons added to wandering Celtic armies in Austria.
• - The Celtic/Gaul/German "Prison Stripe Pant"s have been swapped out for something more leathery and utilitarian.
• - German unit color has been adjusted to be all dark red. while Amazonia is bright red, and Armenian pinkish red.
• - Heavy Peltast units are re-textured and re-animated to be lighter equipped and faster moving
• - New agent recruit panel card.
• - Corrected one missing general image problem
• - Added Legion cohort unit to the Ptolemaic (Greco-Egyptian) faction
• - Corrected Sarmatian first quest bug.
• - New Greek Rebel standards
• - New Thermodon Amazonia lesser general strat-map animation
• - New Sarmatian script, Sarmatian starting configuration, and cost configuration
• - New generalized "Marian Reform" script to allow a player faction with higher cultural level to recruit advanced units in any major locations, not just the Quest locations.
• - New quad horse team textures for chariots and wagons are now made into faction specific apperances.
• - New cataphract horse textures.
• - New text update

As of January 23rd, 2013

We are onto 8th beta update:

• - switched over to FileSwap as main server, derived from naftykid's suggestion to use mediafire.
• - Corrected Armenia Horde issue as reported by Balgeron
• - Corrected property description in read-me file stating -mod:AmazonsTW- Recalesced -show_err where as it should be -mod:AmazonsTW-Recalesced -show_err, i.e. no space, as reported by Allypup
• - corrected City Map problems as reported by naftykid.
• - re-arranged load screen to removed redundant pictures to save memory.
• - changed recruit time for advanced units to make longer to recruit certain units.
• - corrected missing unit card issues for horde wagons.
• - new Roman Carriage Ballista animation to use faster horses.
• - corrected script issue which was auto-generated but has serious problem with quests for Libyans and Carthage.
• - removed "halo" from many named character pictures.
• - added real-time re-entrant quest completion check, not just at the beginning of the script.
• - added Cataphract Lancer for Seleucid, Armenia, Parthia, and Far Eastern Celt. The lancer carries no sword but has a shield, this simplifies recruitment cost and training.
• - corrected one missing unit card problem for Far Eastern Celt.
• - Beefed up Rebel/Renegade to make some of the renegade provinces not so easy to take over.
• - Revised horse-breeding as a strategic asset, and as such, many units, such as the cataphract, heavy cavalry, and fast horse units can not be recruited unless the region has horse breeding business, or if the faction has achieved very high cultural development.
• - Added horse-breeding resources to more regions, such as Chorasmia, North Africa, Northern Saudi Arabia, and Armenian Plains.
• - New Numidian Cavalry animation, now the unit can be recruited by both Roman and Carthaginian.
• - Re-configured mercenary unit availability per regions. Now the choices of mercenary is 150% more than before.

Amazon 7.0C has been updated, the OP has the download link.

Changes are

Massive optimization on animation speed, and space saving
New Amazon Peltast units animation
New Amazon Heavy Peltast units animation
New Amazon arbalest cavalry and Infantry animations and new weapons
New Amazon attires to match Amazons to the same "primitive" level of other "barbarian" cultures
changing "skirt"s to be more of a waist-wrap
changing loin-cloth from front only to front and back, same as Thracian peltasts and woad warriors.
removed redundant animation for secondary weapons that is never used.
corrected 3D model and texture inconsistency for Amazon Hoplite units and Dismounted Pathfinder units.
re-animated Amazon Longbow Chariot Archer
re-animated Scythian Head Hunting Maiden

As of March 9th, 2013 - 7.0C release with patch is out

• Corrected an Amazon arbalest elbow animation issue, the elbow bone were set too far over the elbow and resulted in strange appearance during aiming.
• added Amazon edge-less version of Thyssa Arbalest Cavalry and Arbalest Infantry units, now the legs will not show edge.
• Corrected Amazon Peltast animation where in side-looking motion, the head would come off the shoulder, due to older 3DS Max always deform issue with new animation files.
• corrected mano-ballista animation while being used by foot arbalests.

As of March 12th, 2013 - 7.0C release with 2nd patch is out

• The armored chariot archers weren't armored due to a modeling limitation, it is now corrected.We really have some amazing animation specialists.
• The cover for the battlewagon has been re-done with more armor.
• New plumbatarii cohort model and animation.
• New armored plumbatarii model and animation.
• Finnic Archers both mounted and foot archers are re-animated for smoother appearance.
• New Thyssa Arbalest cavalry and infantry animation.
• Arbalest cavalry and infantry units are now recruitable by Libyan Amazons
• Amazon infantry units have re-assessed Balanced Unit Modeling (B.U.M.) evaluation & equipment as appeared in the texture and their 3D models have been adjusted.
• clothing and armors have been re-designed.
• animation optimization continues.

As of March 18th, 2013 - 7.0C release with 3rd patch is out

The new patch is uploaded mainly to correct missing file CTD and animation bugs.