Amazon: Total War 8.0 Release

Amazons: Total War Ranked Among MOD-DB's Top 20 Titles
As of May 27th, 2013, Amazons:Total War 8.0A has been released
As of Feb 2nd, 2015, Amazons:Total War 8.0D has been released
As of Mar 15th, 2015, Amazons:Total War 8.0F has been released
As of Oct 31st, 2016, Amazons:Total War 8.1Z has been released

Amazons Total War 8.0 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. A first on RTW mod.
• Wagon fighting units with battle tactics not unlike German Panzer in WWII.
• Guerrilla Warfare, allowing agent to infiltrate into 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 known as the thermite munition.

Other Highlights of 8.0 Series

• Player programmable mode switch
• Newly extended campaign map, now from British Isle to Afganistan.
• Far Eastern Celt faction:
• based on latest archaeological finding and anthropological theories. first time in any video game.
• New war machines based on historical and anthropological findings.
• New weapons.
• Lush scenery and breathtaking landscape using faster custom RS II battle environment.
• Quest based game play
• Balanced Unit Modeling (or. B.U.M.):
• unit's recruitment location/cost, vs. unit's appearance/capability must have direct relationship.
• Resource driven army building.

===============================
WARNING : MATURE PLAYERS ONLY
===============================

This mod contains some female nudity in the depiction of conflicts in antiquity, therefore if there is any reason the laws affecting your area prohibit 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 prerequisites 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(s) he or she selected to play.

Amazons: Total War 8.0, aka Amazons: Total War, Amazons: Total War Refulgent

Mod Leader: [Parthian Shot ] click the name within the bracket to send PM to Mod Leader.

You can download the latest 8.0F release [here].
Please log in to moddb and rate this file, as we seem to be getting trolls giving the mod zero rating without any reason.

===============================
COPYRIGHT : STATEMENT OF RESOLUTION
===============================
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].

18+ viewers only, Amazon Total War 8.0 series demo video by Naxzul666, please "like" the videos if you find it helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjnUPbg7BHY

18+ viewers only, Amazon Total War 6.0 series and 7.0 series demo videos by Naxzul666, please "like" the videos if you find it helpful.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Amazon 7.0 Demo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzs_sCKB-M
You can post comments about the video [here]

Amazon 6.0 Demo Video
[YOUTUBE]66k-lpHr9lw[/YOUTUBE]
You can post comments about the video [here]

Sorry Wheelie, have to take this OP for announcement.

Thank You! WP

I am just trying to set up my new account.
Cel has logged in but nowhere in sight.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Where ever you go goes WheeliePo

Armenia has great power in this version they even challenge the romans. Horsebreeding and exp.bows seems to be no problem for the AI.

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bibi

Thank You! WP

I am just trying to set up my new account.
Cel has logged in but nowhere in sight.

---

Welcome!

I see Wheelie is ahead of BB and Celeste

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Where ever you go goes WheeliePo

Armenia has great power in this version they even challenge the romans. Horsebreeding and exp.bows seems to be no problem for the AI.

---

Great! Because of the move, I have not published the latest mod files and BB is also busy.

Everything will be slow until I catch up with the data migration from TWC.

How you change the background of this web page?

I love Japanese paintings, but the wallpaper is just so, depressing!

Find the last bar on the bottom of the webpage, on the left it should say "TWS2"?
Just click to select the one you like.

I picked "the guild"

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bibi

Find the last bar on the bottom of the webpage, on the left it should say "TWS2"?
Just click to select the one you like.

I picked "the guild"

---

You did?

Just happened to mine too!

the silver shield pikemen of the seleucids has three man carrying a flag this must be one.

Here is a link to my first WIP Unit Card, measurements are all correct according to Paint, 160 wide and 210 high.
http://s614.photobucket.com/user/Dar...tml?sort=3&o=0

First time making these unit cards so don't expect a miracle from me! All criticism and ideas welcome obviously.
Have the cavalry as loose because personally they seem to look better when you see their individual unit, but infantry look better close I think. If you want more in the picture then just say so =D
Also had them on a more grassy forest terrain as the unit is an Amazon horse archer, felt as if it suited.

Playing as the Libyan Amazons, it's 265 bc and when I end turn it constantly crashes once it reaches the Greeks. Their current enemies are me (by default, never seen each other yet) and the Thyssa Amazons.
I have played a Greek campaign for many years, almost got the eastern mediterranean. No idea what this problem could be but reporting it anyway.

Only crashed twice in a row on the Greeks it seems, maybe they did something different on the third try? Send an agent in another direction, not attack a certain enemy?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Here is a link to my first WIP Unit Card, measurements are all correct according to Paint, 160 wide and 210 high.
http://s614.photobucket.com/user/Dar...tml?sort=3&o=0

First time making these unit cards so don't expect a miracle from me! All criticism and ideas welcome obviously.
Have the cavalry as loose because personally they seem to look better when you see their individual unit, but infantry look better close I think. If you want more in the picture then just say so =D
Also had them on a more grassy forest terrain as the unit is an Amazon horse archer, felt as if it suited.

---

Did you keep the aspect ratio? or change the width and height independently?

The figure looks a bit thin.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

the silver shield pikemen of the seleucids has three man carrying a flag this must be one.

---

Is this a bug sighting, WP?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Playing as the Libyan Amazons, it's 265 bc and when I end turn it constantly crashes once it reaches the Greeks. Their current enemies are me (by default, never seen each other yet) and the Thyssa Amazons.
I have played a Greek campaign for many years, almost got the eastern mediterranean. No idea what this problem could be but reporting it anyway.

Only crashed twice in a row on the Greeks it seems, maybe they did something different on the third try? Send an agent in another direction, not attack a certain enemy?

---

Do you have a prior saved game? if so it might be interesting to find out if the prior saved game can be played on without crashing.

When the system ran short on memory, it would cause auto-save game to become corrupt.

Sorry, I only had the auto save for the Libyan Amazon campaign. You suggest making a full save every 2-3 turns or so?

Here is the edited version of that Test2, I had the 160/210 as percentage sorry, changed it to pixels and removed the background (ask Parthian Shot asked)
http://s614.photobucket.com/user/Dar...tml?sort=3&o=0

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Sorry, I only had the auto save for the Libyan Amazon campaign. You suggest making a full save every 2-3 turns or so?

Here is the edited version of that Test2, I had the 160/210 as percentage sorry, changed it to pixels and removed the background (ask Parthian Shot asked)
http://s614.photobucket.com/user/Dar...tml?sort=3&o=0

---

That looks nice! So is the dog!

I will ask Parthian Shot to take a look at it too.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Sorry, I only had the auto save for the Libyan Amazon campaign. You suggest making a full save every 2-3 turns or so?

Here is the edited version of that Test2, I had the 160/210 as percentage sorry, changed it to pixels and removed the background (ask Parthian Shot asked)
http://s614.photobucket.com/user/Dar...tml?sort=3&o=0

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bibi

That looks nice! So is the dog!

I will ask Parthian Shot to take a look at it too.

---

I think the unit info will do.

Just that we don't need the Auxilia units because there has not been any changes on the model.

But we can really use new unit recruit card and unit info picture for the following units, both 160x210 and 48x63, with background cleared

- Amazon Sword
- Amazon Billwomen
- Amazon Lighthorse Lancer
- Amazon bodyguard
- Amazon Roundshield cavalry
- Amazon Foot Companion
- Meroe Foot Companion
- Amazon Septum units
- Amazon Longbow horse archer
- Amazon light archers
- Amazon militia archers

This is just one column of a matrix, before every faction who has the similar units would need their own unit pictures.

I'm not sure. Had twice a CTD when attacking the Seleucids for the same battle. Unfortunately I overwrite the save game of this battle. When I start a custom battle with the same factions (Far East Celts and Seleucids) this also starts a CTD but after this CTD I couldn't replicated it anymore. Looking in the units of the Seleucids I noticed the amount of pikemen is 123 instead of 121 when you playing with large army. The reason is they have three man carrying a flag.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

I'm not sure. Had twice a CTD when attacking the Seleucids for the same battle. Unfortunately I overwrite the save game of this battle. When I start a custom battle with the same factions (Far East Celts and Seleucids) this also starts a CTD but after this CTD I couldn't replicated it anymore. Looking in the units of the Seleucids I noticed the amount of pikemen is 123 instead of 121 when you playing with large army. The reason is they have three man carrying a flag.

---

OK, now I understand why BB ask that questions in her post.

It is an ancient system, in preparation for the chaos of battle, the combat units often carry multiple banners to intimidate the enemy. And works to great effect. Napoleon, for example, used this ploy along with the trumpeters to victory at Marengo.
In the Amazons Total War, because we deliberately turned off the artificial banners to make the battle real, there are units with double flag plus an officer, or a color-guard. This is as intended.
Even BB got tricked into thinking there were two units instead of one unit.

Thanks

A new 8.0A release file is being uploaded.

Changes involve large number of animation upgrade

- Amazon Horse Archer units for Armenia, Suebii, Corinth (Greek_cities), Parthia, Thermodon Amazonia, Thyssa Amazons, Scythia, Seleucid, rebels, and Thrace,
- Amazon Foot Archer units for Western Celt, Suebii, Avernii, Far East Celt, Libya, Scythia, and rebels
- Scythian Maiden Headhunter
- Amazon Frontier Mano-Ballista Cavalry units, for Thrace and Seleucid
- Libyan Axe Cavalry

Will post when upload is complete.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

A new 8.0A release file is being uploaded.

Changes involve large number of animation upgrade

- Amazon Horse Archer units for Armenia, Suebii, Corinth (Greek_cities), Parthia, Thermodon Amazonia, Thyssa Amazons, Scythia, Seleucid, rebels, and Thrace,
- Amazon Foot Archer units for Western Celt, Suebii, Avernii, Far East Celt, Libya, Scythia, and rebels
- Scythian Maiden Headhunter
- Amazon Frontier Mano-Ballista Cavalry units, for Thrace and Seleucid
- Libyan Axe Cavalry

Will post when upload is complete.

---

Upload is available

So it is! Thanks Wheelie

the amazon foot archers are available in the custom battle but not in the campaign. I only see them with amazonia but in their city Sinope they are available with archery range (level 2) and in Amasia with siege engineer (level 4). Maybe the reason is compositebow available or not?
Almost forgot the new units looks awesome. Great job done here.

I believe Scythia still have the same foot archers as before or a minor change. Which Libyan cavalry unit should be the Libyan Axe Cavalry?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

I believe Scythia still have the same foot archers as before or a minor change. Which Libyan cavalry unit should be the Libyan Axe Cavalry?

---

That should be the horde cavalry, but BB just found out after the mod file was loaded that the unit uses javelin instead of mono-ballista.

Scythian has new head hunting maiden. And Scythian used to have another foot archer unit, and was disabled, this will be enabled.

I have some questions about the unit list I was given;

- Amazon Sword
- Amazon Billwomen
- Amazon Lighthorse Lancer
- Amazon bodyguard
- Amazon Roundshield cavalry
- Amazon Foot Companion
- Meroe Foot Companion
- Amazon Septum units
- Amazon Longbow horse archer
- Amazon light archers
- Amazon militia archers

Would it be possible to give the exact names please? The only "Amazon Billwomen" I found was the Libyan "Amazon Armoured Billwomen", and the "Amazon Light Horse Lancer" is "Amazonian Militia Light Lancer"
I understand that they're probably the same to what you said (or these new names are from the new download?) but I just want to be 100% sure before I go fiddling with stuff =P

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

I have some questions about the unit list I was given;

- Amazon Sword
- Amazon Billwomen
- Amazon Lighthorse Lancer
- Amazon bodyguard
- Amazon Roundshield cavalry
- Amazon Foot Companion
- Meroe Foot Companion
- Amazon Septum units
- Amazon Longbow horse archer
- Amazon light archers
- Amazon militia archers

Would it be possible to give the exact names please? The only "Amazon Billwomen" I found was the Libyan "Amazon Armoured Billwomen", and the "Amazon Light Horse Lancer" is "Amazonian Militia Light Lancer"
I understand that they're probably the same to what you said (or these new names are from the new download?) but I just want to be 100% sure before I go fiddling with stuff =P

---

To be more concise, I have expanded BB's list, also

- the frontal nudity in the UI should be avoided if possible.
- In addition, WheeliePaul expressed an interest to work with you, so perhaps you two gents can divide the work.
- If two UI models looks the same, then it is perfectly OK to re-use you have done before.
- please don't feel like you have to do all of them
- some of the files might be obsolete, if you can not find a matching model, please make a note and skip to the next.
- please feel free to send BB PM if you have any questions or suggesitons

in the UI/unit_info folder

under Armenia folder
jyazii_gladiatus_cohort_info
armenian_guard_immortal_info
armenian_infantry_INFO
amazon_horse_archer_auxilia_info
julii_mounted_Finnic_Archer_info
caro_ballistae_info
jyazii_elite_archers_horse_info
jyazii_grenadier_cavalry_info
jyazii_elite_archers_horse_armenia_info
jyazii_elephants_info
Armenian_fast_armored_CAVALRY_INFO

Britons folder
Amazon_mounted_Finnic_Archer_info
Barb_archer_info
BARB_CAVALRY_INFO
BARB_INFANTRY_INFO
BARB_PELTAST_INFO
caro_ballistae_tocharian_info?

Carthage folder
caro_ballistae_info
carthage_maiden_militia_INFO
julii_mounted_Finnic_Archer_info
jyazii_elephants_cataphract_info
jyazii_elephants_info
jyazii_elite_archers_horse_info
jyazii_fast_Brigantine_archers_info
jyazii_gladiatus_cohort_info
jyazii_halberdier_cavalry_info
jyazii_serf_lanciarii_info

Dacia folder
amazon_general_bodyguard_early_dacia_info
amazon_guard_archer_info
amazon_heavy_peltast_info
amazon_longbow_archer_info
amazon_sword_info
caro_ballistae_info
jyazii_armoured_halberdieress_info
jyazii_dismounted_pathfinder_info
jyazii_elephants_cataphract_info
jyazii_elephants_info
jyazii_elite_archers_horse_info
jyazii_gladiatus_cohort_info
jyazii_pathfinder_info
jyazii_serf_lanciarii_info
jyazii_sword_company_info

Egypt
meroe_foot_companion_info

Gaul
Barb_archer_info


Germans
amazon_horse_archer_auxilia_info
Barb_archer_info
screeching_women_german_info

Greek_Cities folder
amazon_horse_archer_corinth_INFO

merc folder
amazon_horse_archer_info
amazon_peltast_merc_info
merc_amazon_archers_dacia_info
merc_amazon_archers_info
merc_amazon_elite_archers_horse_info
merc_virgin_archers_horse_info

numidia folder
Barb_archer_info
FECelt_female_peasant_info
FECelt_infantry_INFO
mounted_huntsman_FECelt_info
warband_huntsman_FECelt_info
amazon_guard_archer_info
amazon_heavy_cavalry_info
amazon_heavy_peltast_info
amazon_horse_archer_pontus_INFO?
amazon_light_horse_lancer_info
amazon_longbow_archer_info
amazon_militia_cavalry_info
amazon_militia_hoplite_info
amazon_naginata_info
amazon_noble_lancer_info
amazon_peltast_info
amazon_round_shield_cavalry_info
amazon_sword_info

romans_brutii folder
sarmatian_noble_woman_info
sarmatian_virgin_archers_horse_info
sarmatian_virgin_archers_info
sarmatian_virgin_cavalry_info

scythia folder
sarmatian_virgin_archers_horse_info?
scythian_virgin_archers_horse_info

seleucid folder
amazon_horse_archer_auxilia_info
amazon_seleucid_cavalry_info

For recruitment UI (48x63)
use the exact file name but replace the "_info" postfix with a "#" prefix

Thanks Guys!

A new 8.0A release is being sent to the download server right now.

Changes are

- adjusted Armen campaign start finance for the player, but not AI.
- Amazon Barbarian longbow Chariot units can now be recruited by Suebii, Far East Celt, Western Celt, and Armen.
- added capability for Armen to recruit wagon units at high smithing level.
- new splash screen logo
- new load screen logo

Bug discovered, the battle field banner hang at the Armenian city wall are stll the vanilla banner in green.

Currently with this new release the game runs so smoothly, no CTD and the units (campaign map) seem to respond much faster! But no CTD =O don't know what bugs or errors you fixed but now the game is just running perfectly!

Couple things in game though, fighting rebels around western Africa and Iberia all have the Carthage flag (banners) despite being spawned rebels and not Carthaginians turned rebels. And when fighting in central Iberia I couldn't help notice that the Stone Henge was there =P does Iberia and Britannia use the same maps or something?

And something unrelated to the mod, is there a safe way of switching from the game to the desktop/internet? I always use Alt-Tab but for Rome it can make it very hard to return to the game, like it refuses to load sometimes.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Currently with this new release the game runs so smoothly, no CTD and the units (campaign map) seem to respond much faster! But no CTD =O don't know what bugs or errors you fixed but now the game is just running perfectly!

Couple things in game though, fighting rebels around western Africa and Iberia all have the Carthage flag (banners) despite being spawned rebels and not Carthaginians turned rebels. And when fighting in central Iberia I couldn't help notice that the Stone Henge was there =P does Iberia and Britannia use the same maps or something?

And something unrelated to the mod, is there a safe way of switching from the game to the desktop/internet? I always use Alt-Tab but for Rome it can make it very hard to return to the game, like it refuses to load sometimes.

---

It is good to know the fatal errors are less of problems now.

I will send the finding on the Carthage flag sighting to the error queue and BB will assign a developer to look into it.

There is or was a problem with Radeon graphics card. If you use new Geforce instead, it always switches instantaneously. Not to mention it is quieter.

If you experience only the loading, not unloading of the Rome Total War,

- it could be a problem with the Directx driver, make sure your driver and the video card is Directx 11 compatible.
- You might also be low on CPU memory

New 8.0A update is in progress.

- Celeste has changed the UI for Faction Selection Menu for Campaign,
it now provides much better space utilization. As th result the faction description is much easier to read.
- fixed Scythian Campaign UI map misalignment bug
- change Rome's campaign description name from SENATVS POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS to Res Publica Romana
- enable Armen to recruit fire jar carriage ballista per BB's recommendation.
- Celeste has also changed text for unit description to re-write Amazon light units, which were a great deal of typos and copy-paste errors.
- Libyan horde cavalry now uses mano-ballista instead of javelin.

Will post when upload is ready.

like the new faction menu, great job done here

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

like the new faction menu, great job done here

---

Thank you, WP

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

New 8.0A update is in progress.

- Celeste has changed the UI for Faction Selection Menu for Campaign,
it now provides much better space utilization. As th result the faction description is much easier to read.
- fixed Scythian Campaign UI map misalignment bug
- change Rome's campaign description name from SENATVS POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS to Res Publica Romana
- enable Armen to recruit fire jar carriage ballista per BB's recommendation.
- Celeste has also changed text for unit description to re-write Amazon light units, which were a great deal of typos and copy-paste errors.
- Libyan horde cavalry now uses mano-ballista instead of javelin.

Will post when upload is ready.

---

Like Wheelie mentioned earlier, this mod file is up on the ModDB and ready for download.
Please check the OP for the access.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Currently with this new release the game runs so smoothly, no CTD and the units (campaign map) seem to respond much faster! But no CTD =O don't know what bugs or errors you fixed but now the game is just running perfectly!

Couple things in game though, fighting rebels around western Africa and Iberia all have the Carthage flag (banners) despite being spawned rebels and not Carthaginians turned rebels. And when fighting in central Iberia I couldn't help notice that the Stone Henge was there =P does Iberia and Britannia use the same maps or something?

And something unrelated to the mod, is there a safe way of switching from the game to the desktop/internet? I always use Alt-Tab but for Rome it can make it very hard to return to the game, like it refuses to load sometimes.

---

We need to have the units which has the carthaginian standard to fix it.

The Stonehenge in Iberia is normal. Because that is not a landmark, rather, it is the Celt's gathering. The northern Spain has great Celtic heritage, so it has been in the mod since the beginning.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cel SB

We need to have the units which has the carthaginian standard to fix it.

---

Sorry, it was the Peasants, almost all rebel armies were made up of Mercenary [forgot name, scutari?] and 1 Peasant Unit as it's general, was weird

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Sorry, it was the Peasants, almost all rebel armies were made up of Mercenary [forgot name, scutari?] and 1 Peasant Unit as it's general, was weird

---

Great! I will pass the information onto Cel.

New Amazons Total War file with new interface is being uploaded right now.

The new UI completely discards the external utility in favor of internal campaign menu.


https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...6&d=1370637840

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...7&d=1370637908

The upload has been completed.

The changes carries out my new User Interface concept, which is implemented by Celeste (Cel SB).

The ideas being to discard the external user interface entirely and use the internal campaign interface instead.
Now we have multiple choice of campaigns to choose from.

This is to implement Wheelie Paul's idea of allowing options for campaign.
Type 1 will destroy the Summoned Amazon faction, thus makes campaign easier.
Type 2 will leave the Summoned Amazon faction, and make the campaign more difficult.
At the same time, the completion of a Quest will still allow the player to recruit advanced tech units and collect prize as well.

This change will replace the auto-gen script for now.

finally I understand how to create the unitcards. I told Dragour I start with the Scythia/Seleucids and Gaul factions. I believe the barb_charriots need a make over so I will create also a new one for them. Sometimes I can't choose which pic so I will create 2 of them. I will post them when ready.
Here's the first Scythian unit.Attachment 9362Attachment 9363

WP

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

finally I understand how to create the unitcards. I told Dragour I start with the Scythia/Seleucids and Gaul factions. I believe the barb_charriots need a make over so I will create also a new one for them. Sometimes I can't choose which pic so I will create 2 of them. I will post them when ready.
Here's the first Scythian unit.Attachment 9362Attachment 9363

WP

---

It is very detailed yet with so few pixels!

Looks very good.

Just a quick FYI, in the actual unit card for recruiting and battle, the whole of the smaller tile needs to move over to the right by a few pixels.

Because the top left, and top right are reserved for unit status.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

It is very detailed yet with so few pixels!

Looks very good.

Just a quick FYI, in the actual unit card for recruiting and battle, the whole of the smaller tile needs to move over to the right by a few pixels.

Because the top left, and top right are reserved for unit status.

---

Thank you.
I noticed when I test them in my game. Will correct this for this unit no problem at all.

WP

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Thank you.
I noticed when I test them in my game. Will correct this for this unit no problem at all.

WP

---

Wheelie,

Just my personal opinion, I think the unit cards are the best I have seen contributed, and we must have seen a few hundrend contributions so far.

The picture is derived from the actual model, so there is spherical "distortion" when mapped from 3D to 2D. Meaning if you can rotate the tile to make it upright, I think it will look even better.

But as it is right now, it is already amazingly clear and easy to identify.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bibi

Wheelie,

Just my personal opinion, I think the unit cards are the best I have seen contributed, and we must have seen a few hundrend contributions so far.

The picture is derived from the actual model, so there is spherical "distortion" when mapped from 3D to 2D. Meaning if you can rotate the tile to make it upright, I think it will look even better.

But as it is right now, it is already amazingly clear and easy to identify.

---

Here are the cards I made today. Sometimes it's difficult to find them like the new Scythian hunting-maidens. So some of these pictures haven't the proper name.
Attachment 9369Attachment 9370Attachment 9371Attachment 9372Attachment 9373Attachment 9373Attachment 9374Attachment 9375Attachment 9376Attachment 9376Attachment 9377Attachment 9378

I needed sometime to learn the trick but now i found out i can make them a lot faster. All tips are welcome and will try to improve them

Dragour, next factions for me will be egypt/britons/germans

Attachment 9379Attachment 9380Attachment 9381Attachment 9382Attachment 9383Attachment 9384

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Dragour, next factions for me will be egypt/britons/germans

Attachment 9379Attachment 9380Attachment 9381Attachment 9382Attachment 9383Attachment 9384

---

I see what BB is saying about the 3D to 2D projection, your latest unit tiles are right on!

Not sure if this is an error or not, but are Pantheons suppose to take 64 turns to build?
As Libyan Amazons in Carthage (and pretty much all Africa and Iberia) the pantheon to Camilla costs around 23,000 and takes 64 turns. I understand that it's a huge temple but seriously, every other massive structure (including epic walls!) probably doesn't add up to this =P

Just noticed that with the Libyan Amazon, their third tier barracks removes their Desert Infantry until you upgrade again

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Just noticed that with the Libyan Amazon, their third tier barracks removes their Desert Infantry until you upgrade again

---

Great! I will look into it.

Here are the first units cards for amazonia. Some of the swordswomen need to move to the right if you choose that pic.

Attachment 9388

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Here are the first units cards for amazonia. Some of the swordswomen need to move to the right if you choose that pic.

Attachment 9388

---

Attachment 9389Attachment 9390Attachment 9391Attachment 9392Attachment 9393Attachment 9394Attachment 9395Attachment 9396Attachment 9397Attachment 9398Attachment 9399Attachment 9400Attachment 9401Attachment 9402Attachment 9403Attachment 9404Attachment 9405

Oh, I think this looks marvelous!

The militia archer looks so real in so few pixels.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...0&d=1370716010

It would look better if it is rotated more upright.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...6&d=1370721319

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

Oh, I think this looks marvelous!

The militia archer looks so real in so few pixels.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...0&d=1370716010

It would look better if it is rotated more upright.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...6&d=1370721319

---

Thank you PS, and yes looks much better this way
Here are some more Amazonian cards and I for egypt

Attachment 9407Attachment 9408Attachment 9409Attachment 9410Attachment 9411Attachment 9412Attachment 9413Attachment 9414Attachment 9415Attachment 9416Attachment 9417Attachment 9418Attachment 9419Attachment 9420Attachment 9421Attachment 9422

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dragour

Not sure if this is an error or not, but are Pantheons suppose to take 64 turns to build?
As Libyan Amazons in Carthage (and pretty much all Africa and Iberia) the pantheon to Camilla costs around 23,000 and takes 64 turns. I understand that it's a huge temple but seriously, every other massive structure (including epic walls!) probably doesn't add up to this =P

---

It is not an error, the layout is as intended.

A new Amazons Total War mod file is been uploaded to the server sites.

Changes are

1. revised game options
2. corrected Carthage officer leading rebel troop in N. Africa bug as reported by Dragour
3. corrected Libyan Desert Infantry missing mid-tier recruitment building also as reported by Dragour.
4. change text for Quest Campaign to make clear that the Quest is an archaeological discovery.
5. change picture for Quest Campaign
6. removed obsolete load screens

Will post when upload is completed.

The amazon grenadiers and plumbatarii cohorts don't have a visible first (darts) weapon. So it looks if they don't have a weapon until you got them into a close combat then they draw swords. So i haven't make unitcards for these units. Of course when their appearance should be without a vissible first weapon I will make their unitcards.

Attachment 9427Attachment 9428Attachment 9429Attachment 9430

WP,

Your planning is so detailed and thorough. No wonder your work really shined through.

Re-uploading a new mod-file because a campaign bug for second quest has been discovered and corrected.

The new upload is now available, URL is in the OP.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

Re-uploading a new mod-file because a campaign bug for second quest has been discovered and corrected.

---

Maybe you can consider horsebreeding and exp.bow in a campaignmode where you can explain these futures.

Attachment 9433Attachment 9434Attachment 9435Attachment 9436Attachment 9437Attachment 9438Attachment 9439Attachment 9440Attachment 9441Attachment 9442Attachment 9443Attachment 9444Attachment 9445Attachment 9446Attachment 9447Attachment 9448Attachment 9449Attachment 9450Attachment 9451Attachment 9452Attachment 9453Attachment 9454Attachment 9453Attachment 9454Attachment 9455Attachment 9456

wil post bigger pics later today

Attachment 9457Attachment 9458Attachment 9459Attachment 9460Attachment 9461Attachment 9462Attachment 9463Attachment 9464Attachment 9464Attachment 9465Attachment 9466Attachment 9467Attachment 9468Attachment 9469Attachment 9470Attachment 9471Attachment 9472Attachment 9473Attachment 9474Attachment 9475Attachment 9476Attachment 9477Attachment 9478

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Attachment 9457Attachment 9458Attachment 9459Attachment 9460Attachment 9461Attachment 9462Attachment 9463Attachment 9464Attachment 9464Attachment 9465Attachment 9466Attachment 9467Attachment 9468Attachment 9469Attachment 9470Attachment 9471Attachment 9472Attachment 9473Attachment 9474Attachment 9475Attachment 9476Attachment 9477Attachment 9478

---

Sorry WP,

I have been bogged down by TWC admins, really landed more punches for BB why she wants to move out of there.

These pictures looks very clear and discernible. I know this may not be easy, but do you have them in tga file format and in transparent mode?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

Sorry WP,

I have been bogged down by TWC admins, really landed more punches for BB why she wants to move out of there.

These pictures looks very clear and discernible. I know this may not be easy, but do you have them in tga file format and in transparent mode?

---

Do you mean they do this on purpose? I also have problems to reach TWC from time to time so it must be hard and frustrating for people like you and BB.
I have al the pics in tga.file and transparent mode. Tested them in game and were looking good. They only don't have the correct Attachment 9481names yet.
Can post them if you want but without the correct name.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Do you mean they do this on purpose? I also have problems to reach TWC from time to time so it must be hard and frustrating for people like you and BB.
I have al the pics in tga.file and transparent mode. Tested them in game and were looking good. They only don't have the correct Attachment 9481names yet.
Can post them if you want but without the correct name.

---

Absolutely! Really want to see what it looks like in the game!

If you can zip into a single file and upload the file to a known location, like FileSwap.com or other places and PM me the link, I will see what I can do to integrate your work.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Attachment 9457Attachment 9458Attachment 9459Attachment 9460Attachment 9461Attachment 9462Attachment 9463Attachment 9464Attachment 9464Attachment 9465Attachment 9466Attachment 9467Attachment 9468Attachment 9469Attachment 9470Attachment 9471Attachment 9472Attachment 9473Attachment 9474Attachment 9475Attachment 9476Attachment 9477Attachment 9478

---

These pictures are huge improvement over the hotchpotch collection that is in the mod right now! No offense Liz!

Really nice! WP

I do have an input on the direction of the model, Parthian Shot used to want to save time and she had the model facing away with the back towards the player, so
- the shield does not have to be re-done and therefore one model for a faction can then be used by all the factions deploying the same unit.
- the horse saddle can be minimized so one unit picture can be used by different factions to save time.

With the shield facing towards the player, now every faction would need different snapshot for the shield, or adding the shield from the model texture to the picture.

I am not sure if I describes this correctly.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cel SB

These pictures are huge improvement over the hotchpotch collection that is in the mod right now! No offense Liz!

Really nice! WP

I do have an input on the direction of the model, Parthian Shot used to want to save time and she had the model facing away with the back towards the player, so
- the shield does not have to be re-done and therefore one model for a faction can then be used by all the factions deploying the same unit.
- the horse saddle can be minimized so one unit picture can be used by different factions to save time.

With the shield facing towards the player, now every faction would need different snapshot for the shield, or adding the shield from the model texture to the picture.

I am not sure if I describes this correctly.

---

No problem, Cel. I think you are right about the result. The context was different, however, I was trying to do something no one wants to do. And I need to do it in the most time efficient manner. So I chose the back facing method to save the time.

WP, on the other hand, clearly wants to unit cards to be identifiable, be it the battle/recruitment tile or the info tile. And this is better, but you are right about the shield, that would need to be re-imported from the screen snapshot because even though the units model are the same, the shields are different. And I don't know an easy way to port them from the texture file.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by parthian shot

No problem, Cel. I think you are right about the result. The context was different, however, I was trying to do something no one wants to do. And I need to do it in the most time efficient manner. So I chose the back facing method to save the time.

WP, on the other hand, clearly wants to unit cards to be identifiable, be it the battle/recruitment tile or the info tile. And this is better, but you are right about the shield, that would need to be re-imported from the screen snapshot because even though the units model are the same, the shields are different. And I don't know an easy way to port them from the texture file.

---

I can create for each faction another card with the correct shield it's more work but will do so. Will send the first zip.file and PM tomorrow.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

I can create for each faction another card with the correct shield it's more work but will do so. Will send the first zip.file and PM tomorrow.

---

Take your time, Wheelie.
talk to you tomorrow.

Attachment 9489Attachment 9490Attachment 9491Attachment 9492Attachment 9493Attachment 9494Attachment 9494Attachment 9495Attachment 9496Attachment 9497Attachment 9498Attachment 9499Attachment 9500Attachment 9501Attachment 9502Attachment 9503Attachment 9504Attachment 9505Attachment 9506Attachment 9507

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cel SB

These pictures are huge improvement over the hotchpotch collection that is in the mod right now! No offense Liz!

Really nice! WP

I do have an input on the direction of the model, Parthian Shot used to want to save time and she had the model facing away with the back towards the player, so
- the shield does not have to be re-done and therefore one model for a faction can then be used by all the factions deploying the same unit.
- the horse saddle can be minimized so one unit picture can be used by different factions to save time.

With the shield facing towards the player, now every faction would need different snapshot for the shield, or adding the shield from the model texture to the picture.

I am not sure if I describes this correctly.

---

Thank you Cel, as wel for the input as compliment

Wheelie,

I forgot to mention that if you have not thrown away your screen captures for the unit tiles, you might want to post them here
http://www.moddb.com/mods/amazons-to...u-if1#imagebox

Because hopefully these are screens, or partial screens, with no frontal nudity, you might still add an 18+ warning just in case but they do show what the models look like.

Here is the work in progress list for unit tiles, because BB has no automated test against this. I have to do the preliminary comparison.

factionalization

Campanion Cavalry, for Thyssa, Amazonia, Libya
Heavy Peltast
Peltast
Arbalist Light Cavalry
Amazon Archers
amazon general bodyguard
amazon general bodyguard early
amazon sword

Only the amazon militia hoplite unit needs to have the new shield.

Unable to find the following, could be missing from my wishlist
Amazon Cavalry
Sarmatian Virgin Horse Archers, the non-longbow model
Sarmatian Virgin Cavalry

Also need
caro ballistae for all the factions that can recruit such units

here are the latest cards, will start tomorrow with sarmatian and caro baliistae.

Attachment 9518Attachment 9519Attachment 9520Attachment 9521Attachment 9522Attachment 9523Attachment 9524Attachment 9525Attachment 9526Attachment 9527Attachment 9528Attachment 9529Attachment 9530Attachment 9531Attachment 9532Attachment 9533Attachment 9534Attachment 9535Attachment 9536Attachment 9537Attachment 9538Attachment 9539Attachment 9540Attachment 9541

Attachment 9542Attachment 9543

new unit cards 18+ warning


Attachment 9569Attachment 9570Attachment 9571Attachment 9572Attachment 9573Attachment 9574Attachment 9575Attachment 9576Attachment 9577Attachment 9578Attachment 9579Attachment 9580Attachment 9581Attachment 9582Attachment 9583Attachment 9584Attachment 9585Attachment 9586Attachment 9587Attachment 9588Attachment 9589Attachment 9590Attachment 9591Attachment 9592

The new update incorporating the newest unit tiles are now available for download at ModDB.

All hail Wheelie Paul! our newest modding member.

Nice Work, WP!

Congrats! Always knew you have what it takes!

Superb! Wheelie

I was pulled away by Lizzie to work on other things, and when I came back I can hardly believe my eyes.

And knowing that you just started to learn the graphic software makes the feat even more impressive!

Thank you girls

Finished the sarmatian virgin horse archers and virgin cavalry. Next will be the caro ballistae, thyssa footcomp. amanzon and thyssa plubatarii cohort and the thyssa round shield plumbatarii cavalry.

I just checked some INFO cards in the game and some have a black background (amazon peltast and militia hoplite). I put the same cards in my game and they
were transparant

Here are the latest not finished yet with the caro ballistae but post the first 3 of them

new unit cards 18+ warning

Attachment 9600Attachment 9601Attachment 9602Attachment 9603Attachment 9604Attachment 9605Attachment 9606Attachment 9606Attachment 9607Attachment 9608Attachment 9609Attachment 9610Attachment 9611Attachment 9612Attachment 9613Attachment 9614Attachment 9615Attachment 9616Attachment 9617Attachment 9618

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wheeliepaul

Thank you girls

Finished the sarmatian virgin horse archers and virgin cavalry. Next will be the caro ballistae, thyssa footcomp. amanzon and thyssa plubatarii cohort and the thyssa round shield plumbatarii cavalry.

I just checked some INFO cards in the game and some have a black background (amazon peltast and militia hoplite). I put the same cards in my game and they
were transparant

Here are the latest not finished yet with the caro ballistae but post the first 3 of them

new unit cards 18+ warning

Attachment 9600Attachment 9601Attachment 9602Attachment 9603Attachment 9604Attachment 9605Attachment 9606Attachment 9606Attachment 9607Attachment 9608Attachment 9609Attachment 9610Attachment 9611Attachment 9612Attachment 9613Attachment 9614Attachment 9615Attachment 9616Attachment 9617Attachment 9618

---

Thanks Wheelie,
Found the black screen errors, and fixed as much as I can. The new mod file is on ModDB

BB,

Please hold off on file transfer to file server until Wheelie is done. Thanks.