Suggestion and Feature Request

[Drakarys1402]

450BC? That's, I am just trying to think what was going on back then. So would that be around the time of Darius and the Greek-Persian wars or a little before that? If it was back then then you would have to check that factions like Gaul were repositioned and such since they arrive a bit later I think in their regions. Personally I would use the Parthians to represent the Persians and just put the Greek/Hellenic factions in Greece to represent the city states. I am not even sure if Macedon could be considered a faction back then since I think its before Philip 2. If that's before the Persians conquer Egypt then keeping the Ptolomy would work pretty fine. In fact it might even be before they conquer the greek colonies on Asia Minor so you could put the Seleucids there to explain their general easterness.

According to Wikipedia this was going on in 450BC and it answers some of those questions-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/450BC

Although the bit about Egypt seems at odds with this map

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Expanision.jpg

Bit more context here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...amis-in-Cyprus



I guess I was just suggesting a what if scenario. I think the idea is that in vanilla 8.0 it is canon that the Geothe get all this technology and conquer the world? What I was suggesting as a possible campaign is if, actually, they lost, the Amazons were driven back and history more or less followed the lines it did up until around 363ADish when vanilla barbarian invasion begins with the arrival of the huns. At this point the Geothe are believed to have been exterminated, the Gorgons driven back into the desert and the Thyssa still far to the north of the Sassanids in Persia and the Yuezhi in India. However, just as Rome reels from its stunning defeats against the Sassanids and Goths word reaches the Romans (either united or not) that the Geothe have returned from the far east stronger and more powerful than ever. They have spent hundreds of years in bitterness preparing for the return and now they feel there moment has come to get revenge on the Romans. At the same time, the Gorgons sweep out of the North African deserts in force for the first time in decades and even the Thyssa begin sterring to the North of the Sassanids. For the Thermadon amazons, I am not so sure what role they could play. Technically all their territory lies inside the roman empire. Actually, you could say that like the Sarmatians, the Thermadon were enslaved and partially integrated as auxillia across the Roman Empire. In fact, you would expect them to be deliberately removed from their homeland. However, as the empire weakens, these bands, rebels and traitor auxillia rise up in the Western Roman Empire. So they could be another hoard in Gaul or Spain to represent this rebellion. Taken together these things cause a cascade of barbarian invasions and the Roman Empire is forced to fight for its life on every front as the Geothe deliberately drive these tribes into the empire before moving in for the killing blow.

As well as that I think it would present a very different type of scenario in which two or three large factions control a huge extent of the map and are attacked from all directions. So, if the 450BC thing would be a prequel then a 350AD mod would be a sequel to the main campaign.