As of February 15th, 2013 Amazons:Total War 7.0B has been released

Amazons Total War 7.0 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.
• - Wagon fighting units with battle tactics not unlike German Panzer in WWII.
• - Guerrilla Warfare, allowing agent to infiltrate 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 AKA the thermite munition.

Other Highlight of 7.0 Series

• - New extended campaign map, now from British Isle to Afganistan.
• - New Far Eastern Celt faction, based on latest archaeological finding and anthropological theories.
• - Newly re-balanced Amazon Advanced Units.
• - New longbow 4 horses chariots units.
• - Custom RS II battle environment with lush scenery.
• - Quest based game play
  A player's Amazon faction can not attain higher cultural level without quest completed.
• - Balance Unit Modeling (B.U.M. aka Parthian Shot's Laws
  unit's recruitment location/cost, and unit's appearance/capability must have direct relationship.
• - Four turns per year play.

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WARNING : MATURE PLAYERS ONLY
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Once again, this mod contains some female nudity in the depiction of conflicts in antiquity, so if there is any reason the law of your locality prohibits you from viewing such content (for example, if you are under the age of 18 in most areas), please do not access the download.

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You can download 7.0A/B release [here] or [here].

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].

You can follow the Amazons Total War on twitter @@Amazonstw

demo video [here]
Youtube Video

As of February 15th, 2013 - 7.0A/B, the 2nd release is out

• Rewrite of Libyan Amazon Quest
  What used to be a tutorial Quest faction is now a fully playable quest faction like Amazonia and Thyssa Amazons. Changes as response to Balgeron's report.
• New Longbow Archer Textures with new helmet design.
• New Roundshield Xiphos Plumbatarii Textures with new helmet design and corrected two hair color problem.
• New Companion Archer Textures, correcting lazy eyes problem and new helmet design.
• New Xihphos Cohort Textures, unified helmet appearance and corrected problems with textures mapping.
• New Pathfinder units texture and lighting re-mapping.
• New Leoni's Cultural Specific User Interface with customization by Celestial Shuttle Buddy
• Renamed Gaul to Arverni
• Renamed Germania to Suebi
• Changed marriage messages to consortship for "barbarian" and Amazon factions,
  as in ancient times, the connotation of gender relationship is different from the modern context.

As of February 1st, 2013 - 7.0A, the first post beta release is out

• Now the AI awards title to Amazon Generals when the quest is accomplished, per Uthril's suggestion.
  Now AI confers title to Amazon Generals when the quest is accomplished, per Uthril's suggestion.
  The title will gain the general prestige as well as command ability.
• Barbarian peasant unit is deemed too well attired per B.U.M principles,
  it was basically the vanilla barbarian infantry without the shield and the spear.
  This has been revised to make them more rugged and lower cost in appearance.
• Using more efficient DDS format to allow less file footprint and memory + speed improvement.
• Revised standard bearer for Celt and Gauls for better battlefield identification.
  Since Amazon Total War 7.0 does not use artificial banner for better realism,
  standard bearer is extremely important in Amazon Total War for battlefield C&C.
• Revised Amazon long shield design.
• Revised Amazon Axes shoulder armor linkage.
• Renamed Roman Auxilia units
• Incorporated Leoni's Cultural Specific User Interface.

As of January 30th, 2013

• - re-balancing the Seleucid and Parthia factions
• - make elephant resources available at more locations
• - Western Celts is re-configured, the military strength is reduced in British Isle, and more wagons added to wandering Celtic armies in Austria.
• - The Celtic/Gaul/German "Prison Stripe Pant"s have been swapped out for something more leathery and utilitarian.
• - German unit color has been adjusted to be all dark red. while Amazonia is bright red, and Armenian pinkish red.
• - Heavy Peltast units are re-textured and re-animated to be lighter equipped and faster moving
• - New agent recruit panel card.
• - Corrected one missing general image problem
• - Added Legion cohort unit to the Ptolemaic (Greco-Egyptian) faction
• - Corrected Sarmatian first quest bug.
• - New Greek Rebel standards
• - New Thermodon Amazonia lesser general strat-map animation
• - New Sarmatian script, Sarmatian starting configuration, and cost configuration
• - New generalized "Marian Reform" script to allow a player faction with higher cultural level to recruit advanced units in any major locations, not just the Quest locations.
• - New quad horse team textures for chariots and wagons are now made into faction specific apperances.
• - New cataphract horse textures.
• - New text update

As of January 23rd, 2013

We are onto 8th beta update:

• - switched over to FileSwap as main server, derived from naftykid's suggestion to use mediafire.
• - Corrected Armenia Horde issue as reported by Balgeron
• - Corrected property description in read-me file stating -mod:AmazonsTW- Recalesced -show_err where as it should be -mod:AmazonsTW-Recalesced -show_err, i.e. no space, as reported by Allypup
• - corrected City Map problems as reported by naftykid.
• - re-arranged load screen to removed redundant pictures to save memory.
• - changed recruit time for advanced units to make longer to recruit certain units.
• - corrected missing unit card issues for horde wagons.
• - new Roman Carriage Ballista animation to use faster horses.
• - corrected script issue which was auto-generated but has serious problem with quests for Libyans and Carthage.
• - removed "halo" from many named character pictures.
• - added real-time re-entrant quest completion check, not just at the beginning of the script.
• - added Cataphract Lancer for Seleucid, Armenia, Parthia, and Far Eastern Celt. The lancer carries no sword but has a shield, this simplifies recruitment cost and training.
• - corrected one missing unit card problem for Far Eastern Celt.
• - Beefed up Rebel/Renegade to make some of the renegade provinces not so easy to take over.
• - Revised horse-breeding as a strategic asset, and as such, many units, such as the cataphract, heavy cavalry, and fast horse units can not be recruited unless the region has horse breeding business, or if the faction has achieved very high cultural development.
• - Added horse-breeding resources to more regions, such as Chorasmia, North Africa, Northern Saudi Arabia, and Armenian Plains.
• - New Numidian Cavalry animation, now the unit can be recruited by both Roman and Carthaginian.
• - Re-configured mercenary unit availability per regions. Now the choices of mercenary is 150% more than before.

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