Announcing: Dark Ages Total War! (Recruiting)

Hello TW community,

Today I bring you a new mod, Dark Ages Total War. Dark Ages TW will be a mod starting in 500 CE (or AD) and running until sometime in the 7th century or the beginning of the 8th century. The Dark Ages TW will be a modification for Rome - Total War: Barbarian Invasion that will attempt to depict the power struggles and rise of various factions after the fall of the western roman empire. The area covered will be the same as BI but expanded to the north some. This is because the main focus is meant to be on western europe, not discounting that the Byzantines and surrounding factions will also be present and not neglected in this mod.

The factions that I have chosen so far will be listed below. However, this is not nearly the final list for the factions, and I also wish to make good use of the emerging factions feature to represent factions that were not present in 500 CE but came into power later in the timeframe of this mod.

The Factions: this is not the final list, as mentioned above

Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Burgundy
Franks
Visigoth Kingdom
Alemanni
Anglo-Saxons (or a split of these)
Britanni
Vandals
Moors
Longobards/Lombards
Sassanids
Arabs
Sueves
Danes
Picts
Gepids
Slavs
Scotii

The map, as mentioned above, will feature the same area as the RTW: BI map with expansion to the north. I am currently deciding between creating an entirely new map of my own, or heavily editing the BI map, including expanding it to the north. If the BI map is used, then the regions will be entirely customized and the overall map improved.

Here is what i've done so far with the map, it is far from finished but I am working on it.

https://img427.imageshack.us/img427/...vinces65fi.jpg

Several maps I will be basing things on: (i have many more I am looking at though)

http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/chron/europe3.gif

http://www.asmilan.org/teachers/kwhe...n_kingdoms.JPG

http://miroir.mrugala.net/Atlas%200%20a%201300/500b.jpg

I only announced this project a few days ago on TWC, so I only have myself and a couple of historians right now. We really need modellers and skinners. If you're interested, post here, PM me or contact me on msn at atheistpeace@optonline.net

And if anyone is wondering, this project does not mean I am leaving Imperium TW, or downgrading my contribution to that mod drastically.

For the time being, I will be running development here: http://s10.invisionfree.com/Imperium...p?showforum=61

Update on the map and mod:



Added Pergamum, Nicaea and Iconium in turkey.

https://img324.imageshack.us/img324/...inces137rg.jpg

Added Tripolis, Edessa, Neapolis and Palmyra.

https://img324.imageshack.us/img324/...inces144ha.jpg

Lusted (at twc, cemendur at scc) has joined the team as a modeller/skinner. We still need more though.

Also, we've updated the Byzantine unit list, here it is now:

Alae - javelin cavalry skirmishers
Auxilia Palatinae - like BI
Auxiliary Cohors - Legiones without armour
Legiones plumbatarii - legiones but armed with plumbutarii darts.
Auxiliary Pseudocomitaneses - were part of the limitaeni but now part of comitatensis
Balistarii - missile troops crossbow?
Comites - generals bodyguard
Equites Catafractarii - heavy cavalry like persian cataphracts
Equites Clibanarii - like BI
Equites Dromodarii - like BI
Equites Promoti - light cavalry with chainmail and roumnd shield
Equites Sagittarii - like BI
Equites Scutarii - heavy cav with chainmail or scalemail and round shield
Lanciarii - like BI
Legiones - basically comitatensis
Limites - border troops
sagittarii - archers
Spatharii - armed with swords and shields
Mattiarii - second armed with mace and shields

This looks promising, and I can see you are making good progress already. :2thumbsup:

Is This Mod Still in Development , because if it is i would like to join it?

No, this mod is dead... would be good if a motivated start it again - and if it's done, the team can have help from Arthurian: TW.

Here DATW forum:
http://s10.invisionfree.com/Imperium...p?showforum=61