Possible Expansion for HTW- if anyone's interested

**Iustinus** · 05-31-2005, 02:22

There are no new units that I have created-
But I am also working on an expansion on the Macedonian wars and Roman invasion- I am no expert on this time period and any help would be appreciated. However, using graphics already in HTW (with weapons and shields that don't seem to be used by any units in the game) I've made for the Romans Velites and Equites, and made Galatian Warriors.
With summer here I'm not going to have much time on the computer.....
But all this mod does is fix a few things in HTW, and optionally add night and dusk landscapes, and possibly an expansion campaign with some new units. And lots of new sound effects.
Thanks!
Iustinus/Justin

**Radier** · 10-15-2005, 09:35

Hey Iustinus.

How is it going with the mod?

**Iustinus** · 10-20-2005, 19:00

Awesome so far-
I don't have time to do the Alexander expansion map right now, but eventually might. New unit graphics (based off of the old HTW unit graphics) include Persian Heavy cavalry, Thracian peltasts, Galatian warriors, Samnite infantry, and Indian troops.
There are many new units added, and I completely changed the unitprod and projectile file to make it more balanced and realistic- I attempted to make the unit speeds in proportion to real life speeds, so now cavalry is way faster.
There is a huge, all new soundtrack, new sfx, and all new bird sounds- all recordings of birds one would hear in the Balkans and Asia Minor. Also, new epic bifs so it finally is a complete ancient mod of MTW.
The elephants now sound like elephants.
I'm attempting to get or record troop orders in Greek, and would love to get some in Persian.
New Factions, for a custom battle expansion, include the Romans, Galatians, Skythians, and Mauryans (which I need to research more.)

Here is the problem/danger with this mod:
One, I've changed it so much that I don't remember half of what I've changed. So it would pretty hellish trying to make an installer for people.

Two- a lot of stuff (much of the soundtrack, and other stuff) comes from other mods and game demos, and I don't want to make anybody unhappy.

Three- I have two major problems right now- for unknown reasons, the campaigns ctd when you end the first turn, and some units for no apparent reason suddenly don't work- instead of staying in formation they wander all over the map.

It's unfortunate because it was going so well! I'm getting very experienced with the causes of ctd's and other modding problems, but I've finally come upon two big mysteries.

Laus Deo,

Iustinus/Justin

**Iustinus** · 10-20-2005, 19:02

Oh, I forgot to mention:
I also changed some of the Architecture to make it look more Greek.
The rock desert is now back to desert, but sand desert is used for the dusk mod, for night battles.
I've created maps with actual huge trees, by creating various sizes for the tree models, so now you actually feel like you are in a forest.
There are so many things, I don't know how I will be able to balance and finish this!

Justin

**Radier** · 10-20-2005, 19:53

Well it all sounds awesome! I am so eager to play it and I wish you the best of luck removing those bugs. Please try to release this...

**Iustinus** · 10-20-2005, 20:03

Here are some screenshots, i need to change some flags.
The Macedonian Phallanx is the same as the old HTW, as well as the Persian archers. Most units are the same as HTW with minor changes and often new weapons and shields- I added eight new different Hoplite shields for the Proclassical age, based on area. I don't know if I can ever upload this, it probably is too large! However, I can definately eventually make cd's to send to people.

Battle:
https://img136.imageshack.us/full.ph...=battle8ef.png

Apple Bearers:
https://img136.imageshack.us/full.ph...mortals4vh.png

Pezhetairoi
https://img136.imageshack.us/full.ph...etairoi1uh.png

Thracians:
https://img136.imageshack.us/full.ph...eltasts4mp.png

Hastati break into Greek fort:
https://img136.imageshack.us/full.ph...through0uh.png

Iustinus/Justin