A little Idea...

[Filibustería]

Sorry for my english...
I was thinking in the possibilities than M2TW offers and I had an idea for a mod:

It takes place in the 1400's, featuring as main faction a still surviving and decadent Roman Empire, which didn`t fell before the barbarian invasions.
The Gauls, Germans and Britons would be independent, but they wouldn't have adopted the roman culture as they did in reality. Gunpowder and new tactics would be combined with the Ancient warfare.
here I made a Roman Soldier :


Eastern factions would have evolved too, Parthia would be a huge and powerful Empire, and a new Carthage would have been founded by intellectuals and aristocrats that hated Rome, transforming it soon in a significant power again...
The Roman Empire would have been largely reduced due to the invasions, but not completely lost.
I havent created other factions cause its useless unles someone is interested by my mod...
Here is the current map idea:

Perhaps some new carthage pikemen?


Im not a modeller, nor a skinner or scripter, but i want to inspire people into this idea, that can be used or even chaged a little to create a great mod.
Thanks

[caius britannicus]

Hrm, interesting. Oddly enough I have been developing a concept (over the last couple months) for a medieval 2 mod that sorta has the same idea. However it goes a little farther back in setting up the factions. I've actually written alot of the new history already and developed alot of the equipement. For instance here is a drawing from about 3 weeks ago:



I was alittle worried that my unique idea was now out in the open and I would have to work with someone else with a competing vision. Now I am wrestling with announcing an actual mod or still staying quite.

[Filibustería]

But do you think it could work?
What equipmenthave you developed?
Are those drawings yours?

[caius britannicus]

But do you think it could work?
What equipmenthave you developed?
Are those drawings yours?

Why couldn't it work. It just requires someone with experience. In the end my idea differs greatly from yours as I have rewritten the history alot including the factions that are in places like England, france, germany, eastern europe, africa and spain. I have reshaped religions and cities omitted historical characters or re-written what they did. Where as yours basically take rome before the barbarian invasions and just move it towards the medieval period.

Equipement wise I have basically been working through developing the evolution of alexandrian era greek equipment to the medieval era (thats what you see in the drawing, those are concepts for various greek inspired helmets). Currently I have started developing the roman medieval equipment based off early imperial and late republic arms.

And yes, the drawings are mine.... whose else would they be?

[Filibustería]

Wow it seems that you made a lot of work there, and those drawings are amazing! It would be much more fair if we respected your original idea and work.
But you said germany, england, france.
Do you think that if the roman empire hadnt fell, they would have been created anyway?
I mean, if the empire hadnt fell, the imperial system would remain, so the feudalism wouldnt have been created, cause the payment system wouldnt have mixed with the german one. I think,that the gauls, britons and germans would have confederated in three important semi-barbaric tribes, adopting new warfare methods but still remaining celtic and magical, threatening the roman empire constantly.
But i am no researcher, perhaps you have good reasons for putting those 3 countries, so tell me what you think.
In my original idea, i had planned the confederated germas as this:

Not that warhammer-ish, but somethimg like that.

[caius britannicus]

when I said germany, england and france I was referring to the locations not the kingdoms. The history I am developing is rather elobarote. For instance Britannia in my history is conquered by the roman empire in 115BC (which is an empire already, long story part of the histories) and held as a province until 750ish AD after a 10 year struggle with Northmen Invaders. Roman presence on the mainland however allowed the Northmens kingdom to flourish and by the start date of the mod would have under its control the entire island. The faction itself would draw its influence from viking culture however it would be modernized a bit with a bit of roman influence in it. This is the sort of thing I am developing for those regions. Its not so muched based in historical fact but more on imaginative what ifs.