Hax's Great Faction Swaps

[Hax]

Greetings, young padawans!

Today, Strategos Hax will inform you of his newest project. He calls it:

The Great Faction swap

This is how it will go. Some factions will be swapped around with others. The current ideas are:

Koinon Hellenon - Basileion tes Bosphorou (the Kingdom of the Bosphorus)

Epeiros/Baktria - Pergamon

Saba'en - Meroë / Numidia

Arverni/Aedui - Thraikia

Arverni/Aedui - Galatia

Casse - Belgae

Koinon Hellenon - Massalia

Koinon Hellenon - Syrakousai

Of course, Strategos Hax would be most pleased if anyone of you would give their ideas. At the moment, I'm getting tired of using the third person, so I'm busy with the Kingdom of Bosphoros. However, I'm not sure whether to give them mounted bodyguards (and even then, classic Hellenic bodyguards or steppe noble cavalry) or dismounted bodyguards (taking the classical Somatophylakes Strategou).

Till we meet again, friends

-Hax


Basileion Bosphorou (v0.7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/136991767/Bosphorou.rar OUTDATED
Belgae: (v0.7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/188668433/Belgae.rar
Pergamon: (v.071)
http://rapidshare.com/files/203752321/Pergamon_0.71.rar


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Pergamon - v0.71

Features:

New faction Pergamon
Somatophylakes Strategou for Pergamon
Unique victory conditions for Pergamon
New family tree for Pergamon

Download link found above.

Next release:

Diplomacy altered, alliance with Arche Seleukeia, Baktria, Pontos and Pahlava, war with Ptolemaioi.

[Hax]

Update #1:

Basileion tes Bosphorou.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Finally I've managed to get everything to work properly. Now it's just about changing the names of the faction guys (which gives CTD's, strangely) and changing the skins (I guess I'll take the Baktrian ones, as they have about the same colour.

[Cozur]

I like the idea, but I don't really see the need for Thrake, Galatia nor a Chersonian Kingdom.

What I do in my EB is rename Arverni to Galli, Aedui to Belgae and Qarthadastim to Numidia once i've captured Kart-Hadast, it works like a charm.

[Hax]

Nah, it's not really a need, but it's more like if people want to play with Pergamon, f.ex, or the Bosphoran kingdom, they can easily download the files from here instead of swapping everything around.

[Havok.]

Great idea !

hope to see more of this soon

[QuintusSertorius]

I may be biased, but I think Epeiros is a perfect fit for Pergamon. Loss of them doesn't really upset much anywhere else in the game either. Let's face it, had our game started in 270BC, Epeiros wouldn't even be a faction. Unlike the removal of Baktria, which would destabilise the far east.

Galatia really isn't rich enough to support a faction with one province.

On the other hand Thrakia (starting out with Tylis and/or Naissos) definitely is.

[Havok.]

Will this mod be compatible with alex.exe?
and if so, are you considering to add some unique units to those factions?

edit: grammar >.>

[chenkai11]

Will this mod be compatible with alex.exe?
and if so, are you considering to add some unique units to those factions?

edit: grammar >.>

Yes, Hax please do add some unique units for those factions. Or else pergamon or bosphoran will end up playing like KH, or eastern greeks faction.

[Havok.]

Yes, Hax please do add some unique units for those factions. Or else pergamon or bosphoran will end up playing like KH, or eastern greeks faction.

Seconded

[||Lz3||]

that would be a little difficult , mostly cause unless he knows how to model units with 3dmax , he would have to ask permission to other mods to use their units , which sometimes is a little difficult...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

that's why he's going to steal em'!! .

EDIT: or he could change the skins of existing units :P

[Hax]

I'm really horrible at skinning and modelling, and I do not own a copy of ALX.exe. I guess it would be compatible, but unless someone is willing to help me with skinning and modelling, I don't think I would manage, heh.

Or else pergamon or bosphoran will end up playing like KH, or eastern greeks faction.

Actually, both of those factions will (IMHO) not be like playing the KH or the Eastern Greek factions.

Pergamon has a mix of phalangites, classical hoplites and Galatians (and Thracians later on)

Bosphoros has a mix of classical hoplites, foot archers and horse archers.

Anyway, I will certainly keep this in mind.

[delablake]

Sounds like something I'd give a try...

[Hax]

First post updated!

Pergamon 0.71 for EB1.2!

[Cyrus]

What does 0.71 mean?

[Hax]

That it's version 0.71. I'm not really done yet, there'll be more updates in the future.

[Shadowwalker]

Hello Hax,

thanks a lot for your effort.
Tested Pergamon 0.71 for 2 turns, seems to work without problems.
There are only 2 minor things to mention:
(1) In the faction selection screen I still get the Epeiros symbol.
(2) The Faction leader isn't mentioned as 'FL' in campaign screen - it's unit card says 'Somato... Strategou'. The family tree is correct. :)

Anyway, I appreciate this faction swap very much.
Maybe I'm finally starting a greek faction (although I'm not a big fan of greeks ).

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

Greetings, young padawans!

Today, Strategos Hax will inform you of his newest project. He calls it:

The Great Faction swap

This is how it will go. Some factions will be swapped around with others. The current ideas are:

Koinon Hellenon - Basileion tes Bosphorou (the Kingdom of the Bosphorus)

Epeiros/Baktria - Pergamon

Saba'en - Meroë / Numidia

Arverni/Aedui - Thraikia

Arverni/Aedui - Galatia

Casse - Belgae

Koinon Hellenon - Massalia

Koinon Hellenon - Syrakousai

Of course, Strategos Hax would be most pleased if anyone of you would give their ideas. At the moment, I'm getting tired of using the third person, so I'm busy with the Kingdom of Bosphoros. However, I'm not sure whether to give them mounted bodyguards (and even then, classic Hellenic bodyguards or steppe noble cavalry) or dismounted bodyguards (taking the classical Somatophylakes Strategou).

Till we meet again, friends

-Hax


Basileion Bosphorou (v0.7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/136991767/Bosphorou.rar OUTDATED
Belgae: (v0.7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/188668433/Belgae.rar
Pergamon: (v.071)
http://rapidshare.com/files/203752321/Pergamon_0.71.rar


===========================================================================

Pergamon - v0.71

Features:

New faction Pergamon
Somatophylakes Strategou for Pergamon
Unique victory conditions for Pergamon
New family tree for Pergamon

Download link found above.

Next release:

Diplomacy altered, alliance with Arche Seleukeia, Baktria, Pontos and Pahlava, war with Ptolemaioi.

Hi, I know this is well old, but these files aren't available anymore. Does anyone know where I might find them. I'm interested to know what files are changed etc., what I wish to do is transform the Casse into Pergamon. Sacrilege, I know, but I just find the Casse play no part in any campaign, they just seem like a waste of a slot, and ...though I have no problem per sé with the Belgae I think they are better represented by Eleutheroi, and Pergamon played a pretty vital role in the Greek/Anatolian sphere.

Cheers.

[QuintusSertorius]

Casse make a good Galatia.