Suggestion and Feature Request

[Drakarys1402]

Hi, just moved to the new site. Used to be called totalwar1402 on Total war center forums.

Anyway, Parthian mentioned that you were thinking of moving to another system, either med 2 or Rome 2. Has there been any info about the modibility of Rome 2? Shogun took forever from what I remember. Plus, has there been any hint that female units will be in the vanilla game? This, basically made modding Amazons into the game a lot easier. On the one hand they did this on a pretty thin pretext in Shogun 2 with the Onna Bushi but I don't know if we'll see Screeching Women and pseudo Amazons like the Head Hunting Maidens for any Scythian dlc factions. The Themiskyra easter egg would be cool if they did that again.

About the above mentioned thing I suggested. I get the impression you want to try moving the factions you have in Amazon 8.0 around rather than importing the Amzon factions and map into BI?

It would be difficult to directly transfer a lot of the factions over to 280-350ADish.

Broadly speaking I would guess

-Parthia=Sassanids (or make them Massagatae as you say and replace Sas with an Amazon factions regards territory in Persia)
Armenia=Armenia (they still exist)
Egypt=Palmyra (although technically a third century crisis thing you could still use them to represent the border regions)
Greek Cities- Possibly as a protectorate of Rome, maybe on Rhodes for instance
Seleucids= I am not 100% on this. But, I believe that there was a Greek Kingdom in India and possibly still in Bactra. At any rate, I think the Saka armies from Europa had a fair amount of Hellenic influence. So relocating them there to India could work.
Macedon- The Kingdom of the Bospheros in the Crimea
Carthage-Possibly as the "Berbers" or the people in modern day Morrocco who even in Vanilla BI are not part of Rome. Similar enough for it to stand.
Numidia/Yuezhi- These people were chasing the Saka? Forced them into India? Well, put the Numidians roughly in Saka territory possibly down to Bactra.
The Barbarians are tricky ones- But for the sake of argument, they can suffice to represent the very broad number of german tribes that exist in that period. Some of which were better equipped so the Spanish could stand in whilst those further east would be more barbaric still.
Scythia and Sarmatia-The same, although perhaps the scythians could represent the Vandals?
Rome-Controls a united roman empire. Have to check the year when this was last the case. I think it was 362.


As for the Amazons

-Personally I would have the Geothe as a hoard take the place of the Huns historically. Unless you want to have the Sarmatians with a huge hoarde fill in for the Huns.

-The Thermadon (reds) Amazons I would have take the place of the Goths in Dacia. Basically explain that their homelands in Asia Minor were overran but Trajan failed to conquer them.

-The Gorgons can pretty much remain where they are, threatening Rome in North Africa.

The Thyssa (blues), I am unsure about. That depends on what you would like to do with Parthia and the Sassanids. They could remain where they are. Or, they could also start off as a hoard and replace the Vandals who would start roughly in Poland/Belarus.

In fact I quite like that since those are the big three Barbarian tribes which took down Rome. So Thermadon replace the goths, Geothe replace the huns, Thyssa replace the Vandals. Gorgons stay the same. Just a slight twist on the history and you would just have to move the factions around. Just brainstorming here. :D