The Ancient Project

**shifty157** · 07-13-2006, 21:10

I really dont think that Syrcause was its own independant city-state at that time. If anything it was probably just a small colony of some other greek faction.

Regardless good luck. Id really love a mod for this time period.

**cunobelinus** · 07-13-2006, 22:27

I would like this mod 2 sounds gr8 do u think you will be able to make it so its like an extra campaign instead of replacing all of mtw2 so we could have it as a side game

**Lentonius** · 07-14-2006, 07:35

@cunobelnius- well, we will have to see the limitations, although if it is possible without ruining mtw2 im sure we could do that.

@shifty- yeah, syracuse is quite small at the beginning, although many factions like roma are also small. we are going to make them grow in power as time goes by.

Regards
Lentonius

**Duke John** · 07-14-2006, 09:49

Good luck!

Note that all those signatures are too large in size (one is over 100kB!). Would be better if you save as JPG or as GIF if you don't want loss of quality. Your images will look good enough with just 256 colours.
But this whole page has 2,5 MB worth of images, do you hate 56K users?

**tutankamon** · 07-14-2006, 12:33

I'm definately in if you want some help with this i have some experience in moddeling plus i study archaeologi at moesgård in demark, wich means I have unlimmited acess to infomartion plus if i cant find it I mite be able to ask the proffs.. so let me know if you could use some help.

**Lentonius** · 07-14-2006, 13:52

@DJ, haha, i didnt realise that, sorry. I find image sizes quite hard to make smaller but i will try to make em smaller

@Tutankamon- please register at our forums and we'll make you a developer Your help will be gladly appreciated.

**Patriarch of Constantinople** · 08-05-2006, 23:41

Originally Posted by shifty157

I really dont think that Syrcause was its own independant city-state at that time. If anything it was probably just a small colony of some other greek faction.

Regardless good luck. Id really love a mod for this time period.

from wikipedia,

Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias, who called it Sirako, referring to a nearby swamp. The nucleus of the ancient city was the small island of Ortygia. The settlers found the land to be fertile and the native tribes to be reasonably well-disposed to their presence. The city grew and prospered, and for some time stood as the most powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean

**Lentonius** · 10-06-2006, 07:50

Update 6/10/06

We are still alive, and at present are researching faction and unit lists in the one month-ish left until release. We really need some more members. Any skinners, modelers or historians are all greatly appreciated!

Plus, any people wishing to learn how to skin please contact me, as this would be a good opportunity for both sides. I will personally teach up to 10 people how to skin and use photoshop, all i ask in return is to assist me in making some skins for the mod once its out. If you're interested please contact me.

Regards
Lentonius

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-06-2006, 17:18

Originally Posted by shifty157

I really dont think that Syrcause was its own independant city-state at that time. If anything it was probably just a small colony of some other greek faction.

According to Herodotos, Syracuse was in fact independent (although it had close connections with Sparte, connections the Athenians got to feel during their Sicilian adventure), and the polis was in fact the most powerfull of all of Sicily: she succesfully fought the Carthaginians. Syracuse was, still according to H, so powerfull that she claimed the command of either the land forces or the naval forces: due to reluctance of both Sparte and Athenai to accept this and the fact that the Carthaginians launched their attacks on Sicily Syracuse decided not to get involved in the Persian Wars.

So it's only fair to have Syracuse as an independent faction.