A Roman Era Mod For M2TW? - Damn yes, I'd say!

[Kaweh K.]

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Modders, friends, RTW fans - RTW timeframe fans at least.

I have heard a lot of people suggest a Roman Era mod for the upcoming M2TW, and I love the idea. I simply like the RTW timeframe more than the Medieaval timeframe (or the BI timeframe, I may add). Also I like the units more, like Berserkers, Roman Legionaries, Elephants, etc.

Well, knowing there is interest in the community for such a mod is one thing - finding dedicated souls who are willing to put time and skill into such a total conversation mod, is a completely different matter, and finding a skilled team of people who are interested and are able to work together, is harder than one would imagine.

That said, I do think that there will be a greater ammount of people interested in modding M2TW, than people who are willing to start on a RTW mod right now.

I ask any modder who is interested in seeing a RTW mod on an improved engine, whith improved graphics and new features and possiblities, to think about joining our team - our team, I say, but right now there's no team, only me. I would do the 2dArt part, the unit cards, etc. I would also provide reference material for modellers and skinners, etc.

So we'd need: :evil4:

modellers and skinners, of course
map makers (meh, sounds dull, any better expression for that?)
coders
scripters
people who can provide reference material
people for writing campaign descriptions, unit description, etc.
every kind sould who is willing and skilled enough to help us in any other way

It would be great if we could form a team for such a mod - I'm sure it would be appreciated by many people, apart of that, for everyone interested in that period, it will be fun to work on such a mod, I guess.

And which RTR, EB, TE, etc. fan wouldn't love to see a Roman Era mod for M2TW? Wouldn't like to see Cohorts of Legionaries in which the soldiers have various beatiful shield designs, wouldn't like to see bloody Legionaries, dropped weapons on the ground?

Let's make this our task, I say, moving the Roman Era units, buildings, and history to the M2TW engine. All the major mods are either nearing completion, or are completed. Why not unite this experinced and skilled modders to form a team and make this mod, of which I know that a lot of people would like to see it?

Please, if you think you can help us (or me, at this stage), join us (me)! :beerchug:

Update (30.08.06)
The current team:

Skinner: Antiochus Epiphanes (from Fall Of Rome, TE CE, Imperium), wipeout140 (from DarthMod & RTR CE), Kaweh K.
Modeller: Vikrant1986
Modeller/Skinner: Count Flip, Arbaces (from "Age Of Darkness and RTR"), Thomazz, King Louise Assurbanipal (from Ancient Wars)
Historian/Research: Rome AC, Azai Nagamasa, Vanquisher, Pliny the Younger, Coolkid, Antiochus Epiphanes, Kaweh K., Annuak (From RTR)
Coder/Sprites: Werner
Coder: wipeout140, Azai Nagamasa, Vanquisher, Antiochus Epiphanes
Unit/Game Balance: veni_vidi_vici, Storm_Kronos
Descriptions: Flogger, Pnutmaster, VandalCarthage, JP
2dArt/Unit Cards: Kaweh K.
2dArt: Pnutmaster
Mapper: Arbaces
Traits/Ancillaries: VandalCarthage
CTD solving/Beta testing: Vanquisher
Tool Programmer: Vardan

Planning to join once M2TW is out: lt1956 (from SPQR), Xprime (from Ancient Wars)

Website/Forum etc.: takedown47

Kind helping souls: Nadjib, hellheaven1987, Candelarius,

K.K