Where is everyone ?

**jp1747** · 08-21-2012, 01:30

I love playing as Egypt on Ancient: Total War. After all this time there is STILL not a mod for RTW which covers the era of Ancient Egypt, Assyria, the Hittites, etc. and I keep coming back to this one.

**macsen rufus** · 06-02-2016, 00:27

After a hideously long hiatus I have returned to the project. Unfortunately a very severe computer death means I lost all my original research and most of the modding tools I had.

However, the good news is that I am now working on the Eastern Empires (Ancient 2) and will release an updated Ancient 1 (European/Mid East Bronze Age). Nothing new on Ancient 3 (Roman Wars) - I'd love to do a Conquest of Gaul scenario for that, but that will depend on finding the right tools...

Currently in progress: a few tweaks for the Alexander campaign, and I have a Rise of Persia campaign that is coming together much quicker than I expected. I hope to get a beta release of Ancient 2 out in a few weeks (with improved Alexander and the basic Rise of Persia included). Then work begins on the Diadochi.

A quick taster for RoP:

Factions:

Athens
Sparta
Ionian Greeks
Persia (duh!)
The Medes
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Gandhara
Illyria
The Scythians
Egypt (26th Dynasty)
Thracians
Macedonians
Argives

Edit to add: and the Lydians of course!

Ok, so the Greek world is a bit sketchy, but there are two reasons for this: a) the map concentrates on Asia; b) that's what HTW is for...

More later

**dimitrios the samian** · 06-02-2016, 05:13

Howdy Mac my friend ...!!
Im still here
& its good too see you back here again with an anouncment ....... as all the available 2.53 downloads have the wrong textures/men files .
Ive been quietly working in my spare time & in the background on our beloved pre-roman troops , as my journey into importing Civ3 units stalled .
I'll get you upto speed with that email & some news on a working map of Mesoptamia also .
cheers for now

**macsen rufus** · 06-03-2016, 09:57

Hi Dimitrios,

Good to see at least one of the old crowd still hanging in there!

I was about to post a couple of screenies for Rise of Persia, but forgot my photobucket password....

I've managed to get back into a position where I can work with bifs and bufs and lbms again, so I can now do more than just rehash existing material for the scenario. And I've just downloaded install creator again, so I can post up my current version of 2.53... well, no, it will be the stripped down, cleaned out "Age of Chariots" as intended many years ago, everything else will be in the Roman Wars and Eastern Empires packages.

Anyway, gotta dash, work beckons....

EDIT to add... will move this discussion to the Eastern Empires thread

**dimitrios the samian** · 06-04-2016, 03:02

Excellent news Mac ... "Age of Chariots"
I totally agree , stripping it down gives you more room to get the best gameplay one can possibly get .
Do upload soon , as im itching to play this latest improved version ( I last played V2 )
btw ........ did you get my map & other goodies via email ?
cheers

**macsen rufus** · 06-05-2016, 04:30

Hi Dimitros,

I'm making progress on ATW2, managed to get three new units up and running (see the other thread for eye-candy

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And thanks, yes, your email has arrived, which is a bit different to saying I have it.... long story, but my PC won't access Hotmail anymore so I need to go to the library to get into it. I tried to forward your email to my other account, but it failed, so I guess it will be easier to pop back to the library with a datastick and download the stuff there. I'll try that on Monday.

Ummmm, seems I stayed up a bit late - it's getting light outside

I'll see if I can get the new version of ATW1 into an installer this week then. I need to sort out some way to make it available, I'm a bit out of touch on file-sharing options these days...