===SPQR Realism Project Ver.6=== Download!

Hello,

Here is the last version of my mod that was only available at TWcenter.net.

Here is the Readme and the Links.

Lt_1956

Small download (no eyecandy) 6mb ~:cheers:

http://www.russiananimation.com/mods/lt/SPQR6s.zip

Large Download (with eyecandy) 15mb ~:cheers:

http://www.russiananimation.com/mods/lt/SPQRv6.zip

README:

NOTE: Please make sure you play Prolog first before adding the mod, or game will crash. Mod is designed to be installed on a clean install of RTW.

1. Trivium Mod files added to this mod.
2. Lesser General Now rides with Cavalry instead of Centurion
3. Centurion Added to Cohorts
4. Macoi’s Shield Mod added to this Mod. +2 Small, +3 Medium, +4 Large Shields. This also has the effect of making cavalry less powerful, which is more accurate, Cavalry not changed.
5. Building Times adjusted so certain buildings are built in a realistic amount of time, quicker.
6. End date for the Game is now 180AD instead of 14AD
7. Imperial Campaign still available with this Mod.
8. ALL nations playable have been added to this mod.
9. All units have no wait time, you can now build as many as you can afford in a turn, 9 units per city. This is more realistic since Each turn represents 6 Months. This doesn’t affect the AI except for larger armies. It has no adverse effect on draining AI populations, Populations still climb.
10. All Units have had their Upkeep cost Halved. Ships, special units excluded this was done because it was increasingly hard to maintain decent armies in the field, you may have the money to build them, but couldn’t afford the upkeep. This does not effect the game except to allow you and the AI larger armies, They AI also tends to be more aggressive now with this adjustment.
11. Reduced Pigs, and Dogs to 24 men and 48 Animals on Huge Setting.
12. Siege Engineers have been set to 60 men on Huge Settings for all siege weapons.
13. Pilum range increased to 45, this allows the pilum to be thrown quicker before the enemy engages.
14. Chariots have increased charge adjustment, helps make them a little more effective.
15. Spartans Morale increased to reflect never retreat, never surrender. Lol
16. Head Hurlers have had their heads lowered to 1 hit point, and have Frighten foot, mounted added. Also increased Attack points.
17. Gave all Spearmen Spear attribute to give bonus against cavalry charge, also Triarii have Phalanx now. This makes cavalry charges on Spearmen Suicide. And now Spearmen are useful cavalry counters.
18. Removed Arcani, Druids, and Screaching Women from Campaign game, still available in Custom games.
19. Certain Barbarian Units have had their Armour Lowered or removed because they are not wearing any. But this doesn’t make them easier to kill, other factors in attack may have been adjusted.
20. Increased Number of Arrows for Archers to 40, 50 for slingers. This works since archers aren’t as powerful with the shield mod.
21. Increased Ammunition for Siege Weapons.
22. Made Assassins more effective to start with, this allows them to be more useful than originally.
23. Fixed Egyptian axemen, lowered their stats to make them more balanced.
24. Rams have been given increased Health and Flame resistance, this allows you to make it to the door. Lol
25. AI has been tweaked to correctly use Hardy. Game was bugged and it was reversed. Wrong units tired.
26. Flame Arrows have been adjusted to prevent Lag when used, less effects in the air. Sorry, But no Lag!
27. Shipbuilding Times have been increased to prevent the AI from Building too many fleets.
28. Urban Cohorts are now an upgrade for Town watch, they have been reduced, but are very strong. This is realistic since Urban cohorts were police and were never used in the field. Build a Royal Barracks and the Town watch is replaced by Urban Cohorts. J 160men Huge setting.
29. Praetorian Cavalry and Cohort are now available to Senate only. This is realistic and makes Rome harder to Take Later on.
30. Adjusted the Campaign AI each nation has been changed in how they treat you, improves gameplay. AI nations last longer and allows human player to conquer different cultures.
31. Carthage, Cities_States, Macedon, Briton, and Gaul have been given more provinces that were Rebel.
32. Forts and watchtowers are Cheaper for Romans cost 50D this reflects Legions building camps every night, and their engineering ability to use the local materials.
33. Roman Cohorts 100 men, Archers 120 men , Velite & Javelin 140men, cavalry 80 men per unit. Body Guards 48. Barbarian Units increased in number Peasants Warband 240 men, Swords, Axes, naked fanatics 160 men etc., Barbarian Cavalry 100 men. Greek Units increased in Number Lower units increased to 200, Medium 140 Elite 100 Cav 100 men. Egyptians same thing as well as Eastern units. Lower quality units are higher in number to reflect their cheap sacrifice factor.
34. Elephants added to Egypt, if they now own a province with that resource, they could build them.
35. Elephants and Chariot unit size were reduced to reflect the new unit adjustments.
36. Adjusted Happiness levels for certain buildings, this resolves Squalor problems.
37. Changed Bodyguard to Praetorian for Romans, and Changed bodyguard for other nations to better units!
38. Added Heat changes so units correctly get tired from heat, its was reversed, I finally added that. This is separate from the hardy bug.
39. Added Experience chevrons to Taverns, Royal Barracks, and Academies. Building these gives more experience to troops.
40. Triarii Can now be built when Principes can be built. Triarii before were never used because Marius reforms arriving to soon.
41. Added Centurions to Siege weapons, and added standards or Officers to other nations units. Removed Centurions from Roman light units.
42. Adjusted Ship hit points to allow ships to sink more often. Less armor points, greater attack points. Increased Mental stats.
43. Adjusted Mental stats for all units, increased at different levels for different units, this allows them not to rout as quick, mind though that this is a small adjustment, so do not expect suicide units. Adjusted just enough to get more kills before routs. Routs are necessary since that is how MOST casualties were received in ancient times.
44. Gave siege units more siege weapons, Scorpions 6, Ballista’s 4.
45. Reduce the Number of Large Elephants Max number is now 12, instead of 24
46. Reduced number of Chariots to 3, which means on huge settings 12 chariots.
47. Law Bonus added to Governor, Pro consul and imperial Palaces. 1, 2, 3
48. Urban, great amphitheatre added Unit experience bonus 1 and 2
49. Happiness bonus added to Hippodrome, etc. 1,1,2
50. Removed Missile unit attack bonuses on buildings.
51. Removed Armour Bonuses, this is Unrealistic to get super armor. All bonus now relate to attack, or training.
52. Tavern Experience Bonus Increased by 1.
53. Added Linedog’s Extra Provinces something like 50 more!
54. Reduced Wardog’s attack ratings to 8 instead of 14, also adjust the numbers to 48 animals, 24 handlers.


The Mod is designed to be played on Huge settings, But large will work, but units will be cut in half. This game is also advised to be played in Normal Setting as its already hard and a higher setting may overwhelm a player. Also is you use autocalc this will make the game easier, same with ANY exploits, cheats or Bugs. The modification was based on fighting the battles, for some reason the game tends to allow more units to survive than if the ACTUAL battle was fought.

This mod has been seriously Beta tested and should cause NO problems with the game or crashes. Some bugs already in the game or Triggers have nothing to do with this mod and may occur while playing with this mod, there is nothing to fix this until the patch comes out. Other Mods may conflict with the game, please keep this in mind when adding other mod adjustments. Make sure you backup all files that this mod will replace, so you can play the game as it was originally released if you choose too.

Final advice beware for the Northern Barbarians, The Romans will ALWAYS be outnumbered, in the beginning the Roman units aren’t the best, but later the better units will pay off. Start building your Legion quickly, and using auto-calc can help since the game gives you an advantage over field battles. Barbarian Armies can number more than 4000 men the Biggest Legions you can hope for are 2000. J The game has been tested and designed for the Roman players, I cannot say if its easier for the other nations, I believe it was CA intent to have this be played as ROME, since it is called ROME: Total war and not Nations Total war. I know this may be considered a narrow view, but to balance every nation to be hard would really be next to impossible and still have them be TRULY different. Barbarians have numbers and high attack, Greeks the phalanx, Egypt money, and Rome Even attack defend with good units. Its all a matter of how you play.

Special thanks goes to Uwe, Userfriendly, Spartan, Trivium team, Macroi, meretrix, Linedog, And all the other Modders that have contributed to the forum and each other to make this mod and others possible. J
Lt_1956

I hope this is the right thread for a reply.

Does the ai fully exploit the ability to do things like build up to nine units in a turn?

One of the problems Rome Total Realism appears to have is that some additions are not used by the ai.

Yes it seems to, There are large stacks that form very quick. But it balances itself out real well without losing population.

This mod has been play tested alot, and has been kept with the simple idea of Keep it simple!

Lt

Hi

I was just wondering if this mod will cause desynchronization during multiplayer games... since this mod changes stats on several units will other computers without the mod accept these new changes or will they still follow the original game stats for the changed units?

Hi

I was wondering if this mod will cause desync during multiplayer games...Since this mod changes individual stats for some of the units will the unmodded opponent computes accept the changes or will they still follow the orginal stats of the modded units?

Good question, I dont play MP so I am not sure if its host or client specific. I would give it a try and see what happens. Maybe you will win everytime. lol or maybe it wont allow you to play.. I dont know to be honest.

Lt

You'll probably want to have two versions of Rome installed—one vanilla, and one modded. Just copy your fresh vanilla installation. I strongly suspect that games will indeed desynchronize if the players are playing different versions.

-Simetrical

There is a Version 6 update that I posted that adds some ectra gameplay features for my mod. Its over in a thread at TWCenter.com

Here is the thread and the extra things it adds to the mod.

Lt_1956

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index...ic=17083&st=0&

51. You can build 1st Legion Cohorts, its been in all my versions, just never mentioned. Lol
52. Adjusted Chariots they are effective against infantry and will charge without stop go stop go. Cavalry is used to counter Chariots, Elephants, camels, or other chariots also work.
53. Praetorian Guard and Cavalry are available to Senate at start of game.
54. Upgrade in barracks will replace Early Cohorts with Later cohorts. Makes sense and doesn’t clutter the build queue.
55. Barbarian units have been given regular square formation, but now have wider loose formation to start, this is more controllable for siege walls and also allows the AI to react better than in Horde formation.
56. Phalanx units have been tightened up and now have less side spacing between them, more realistic and accurate.
57. Carthage early units have been adjusted to make them stronger.
58. Carthage has been given a full army in Sicily
59. Civilized Nations have been given better garrisons to match Rome and now allows a little bit more of a challenge to start.
60. Changed AI campaign relationships. Germany, Gaul, Greeks, Macedon, and Carthage are at WAR with Rome. So nations have peace relationships. This makes for a very interesting game and AI on the Roman side.
61. Changed Germans to have Double hand Axemen with Bardic Circle. AI wasn’t utilizing the Temple scheme well.
62. Removed Militia Hoplites from Macedon & Seleucid, reason they already have Levy Pikemen and the stats are almost the same. This allows a different unit look in beginning of game instead of all units using same units. Anyway it seemed redundant to have 2 units almost exactly the same. Greeks seemed to have better units faster due to this.
63. Strengthened Pilum stats making them more effective, especially since they usually only get 1 throw. Now they disrupt units better.
64. Body guards beefed up a little but not too over powered, hopefully the patch will fix the bodyguard bug.

Hello, do I need v1.1? because it doesn't work and I get a CTD, by the way I have done the prologue campaign

The mod works, the crashes have been user related.

Ok, lets take this in step and see if we can get you to have fun. ~:)

1. What I would want you to do is uninstall the game, and then reinstall. This will make sure you have a clean start.
2. Make sure you install the v 1.1 patch from CA, because this could overwrite a file or 2 of mine.
3. Go to the prolog and then Exit it, you dont have to play all the way through the prolog. ~;)
4. Download my mod either the 15mb or 6mb one, then download the update pack.
5. Copy the Contents of the mod folder into your Rome total was directory. it will add to the data folder.
6. The add the Update pack the same way.

Now you should be ready to go! :charge:

I think you may have had another mod or something installed if it crashed, or you crashed in Prolog. You cannot play Prolog or historical battles with this mod.

Lt

Anybody has any opinions or suggestions? ~:)

Bumping up.

Lt

I have installed it and am trying it. It seems to work fine, no CTDs so far (phew), but I haven't played enough turns to comment on the overall mod.

Just post this so that you don't think no-one is playing your mod. :wink:

I loved this mod, however i have a few discrepencies with it. Archers seem a little TOO weakened, it is very difficult to kill 1 phalanx soldier head on with a unit of roman archers. They should be improved a slight amount. Also, as i was playing a brutii campaign, about a year before the marius reforms, the senate outlawed every roman faction. I'm not sure if it was a bug, or just bad luck, although it happened right after i captured athens from the greeks.

Its a bug on the Outlaw thing, it doesnt happen all the time.

Thanks for letting me know that your playing it. ~:)

Archers can get upgrades which make them better and since I removed Armor upgrades that means they would be more effective. Believe it or not, archers shouldn't do too much to Armored hoplites, since they were in tight packs and armored. This period of time was of Heavy Infantry.

But I am always trying to balance, and would be improving the game again soon. There is an update in TWCenter.com it will add some more challenge and fun to the game.

Lt