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    The Magan Cyrenaica Mod

    Ahoy mates! The Magan Cyrenaica Mod is dedicated to adapting the independent Cyrenaicans of 280 to Rome: Total Realism 6, and to that end we have replaced the Numidians with the Kingdom of Cyrenaica. This new faction has a whole new unit list, based on the amalgamation of Greeks and Libyans within their kingdom, as well as a new map representative of the region's leading cities.

    Here's our initial unit list:

    Skirmishers:
    -Libyan Akontistes
    -Libyan Sphendonetes
    -Greek Toxotai

    Infantry:
    -Graco-Libyan Thureophoroi
    -Libyan Phalangites
    -Graco-Libyan Pezoi
    -Greek Agema

    Cavalry:
    -Libyan Hippeis
    -Greek Amaxa
    -Graco-Libyan Hetairoi
    -Elephants
    -Elephants my Pyrgo

    Area of Recruitment Units:
    -Auschisaean Sphendonetes
    -Asbystaean Spearmen
    Here is Atheist Peace's excellent map, made specifically for the mod:

    https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Ino...e/mapcyrene.jpg

    The new faction description:

    The Kingdom of Cyrenaica

    The first city of Greeks in the Northern reaches of Libya was founded by colonists from the volcanic island Thera, slowly moving away from their small, overcrowded cities, in favor of the fertile Libyan coast. In Libya they temporarily occupied Aziris, but were able to quickly conclude a treaty with the local Libyans, allowing them to found their first city: Cyrene.

    Their earlier history was colored by tense relations with the local Libyans, which eventually culminated in a Libyan request for aid from the Egyptian Pharoah Apries. The second Cyrenaican King, Battus II, defeated the Egyptians and temporarily dominated the politics of the neighboring Libyans. During a period of political upheaval in the city, a large opposition party moved off to found the city of Barca, and allied itself with the Auschisaean and Asbystaean Libyans in conflict with Cyrene. A united Barcan-Libyan army defeated the Cyrenaican Greeks, leaving them to attempt a reorganization of their local political structure.

    With the region in a fluidic state of warfare, the Cyrenaicans were repulsed from the region, but returned with an army from Samos and the patronage of the rising Persian Empire. Though they manage to retake their former possessions, their leader Arcesilas was a failure, and was eventually put to death. At this point, Cyrene came under the suzerainty of Persian's Egyptian Satrapy.

    After nearly three centuries of alternating rebellion and subjigation, Cyrene found itself within the Ptolemaic fold. Despite the success of the Ptolemies, the Cyrenaicans rebelled once more, but eventually surrendered to the Ptolemaic General Magas. For his good service, Magas was made governor of Cyrenaica, but asserted the independence of his region shortly after his former commander's death. During his rule, Cyrenaica would eventually gain dominance in Egypt through an alliance with the Seleucids, and their eventual defeat of the Ptolemies (whose total destruction was avoided by a political marriage). So high was Cyrenaica in the ascendant by 272 that when King Ashoka in India sent announcement of his conversion to Buddhism, it was addressed specifically to Magas and his contemporaries.

    We have Spirit_of_Rob to thank for our first new unit:

    Libyan Hippeis
    https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Ino...TWPunicCav1.jpg

    These reliable cavalrymen are drawn from the Auschisaean and Asbystaean Libyans, settled close to the Cyrenaican coast and West of it's main cities. Both tribes were highly open to the Hellenizing influence of the first Greek colonists in Cyrene, and took numerous cultural cues from their new neighbords. After centuries of contact, both adopted Greek style of combat, and adapted these excellent cavalry units before their assimilation into the Ptolemaic empire and subsequent independence under the Ptolemaic General Magas. They are armed with a long Macedonian style spear, and armored with linens and a bronze cuirass, with a Boetian helm.
    "It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive_alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, atc. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment." - Yevgeny Zamyatin

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    Looks great Vandal

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    Looks very good...

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    Liking it alot
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    Thanks guys

    Small updates... spirit_of_rob has joined as our full time modeller and skinner, and Atheist Peace is working on doing all the faction replacements, and culture swaps. In addition, I'm planning a couple surprises regarding special units in Cryene, and a new Carthaginian AoR in Italy.
    "It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive_alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, atc. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment." - Yevgeny Zamyatin

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