Medieval's Rome: Total War mod input thread

[Caius]

Welcome to the org

Not a bad idea sir, but remember, there are troops which cant be trained after the Reforms.

I will help you historically talking

[Roman_Man#3]

I think someone already made this point, but use the Eras feature to simulate reforms. First Era troops would be:

Camillan Troops:
Leves
Hastati
Principes
Triarii
Accensi
Rorarii
Eqvites Romanvm

Second Era would represent Polybian Reforms:
Velites
Hastati
Principes
Triarii
Funditores
Eqvites Romanvm
Eqvites Consvlares

Third Era could Represent the introduction into republican Legions:

Look into these/ Use unit names from Roma Surrectum

Fourth Era would be Imperial Legions:

Look into these/ Use unit names from Roma Surrectum

[dimitrios the samian]

Fantastic !!! It certainly looks like this mod will create a lot of interest and to have such great support in so little time is very encouraging ,, Ok I must sign out now but I'll be emailing you tonite with very good news ,, cheers to all that are offering help ,, DTS

[Leith]

Caius Flaminius, oh, your knowledge of Roman history would be most appreciated! What I meant by my previous post is that we, those who are interested in creating this mod, could actually start doing something practical. I appreciate all the nice and constructive thoughts that have been put into this thread. In my view, things would progress better if we were discussing the different aspects of the mod while playing the Alpha build, for example. To this end, I have been fiddling with some unit graphics in an attempt to come up with some plausible Roman infantry units but it is very time-consuming.

The greatest challenge for this mod, in my humble opinion, is the graphical aspect, i.e creating Roman legions a la Rome: Total War (and even better ), Macedonian Phalangites who look and FIGHT like they should! Hellenic: Total War had awesome looking Hoplite infantry but their fighting animations were most disappointing. The same goes for most of the units in this mod (apart from Tower Shield pikemen--a unit found in the Bronze Age Expansion for HTW.

What gives me hope that this could be achieved is the superb animations made by Duke John, and others, in the Middle Earth: Total War Mod.

Back to Roman units' suggestions, I am no history expert but I remember that the early Roman units, mainly the Hastati, Principes and Triarii, had different equipment later on. For example, the Hastati and Principes' bronze helmets were replaced by iron ones, since the bronze helmets were vulnerbale to the "barbarians" longswords. If this is true, then we could have a first-generation Hastati, wearing a bronze helmet and a second generation Hastati, wearing an iron one. That could be represented graphically and statistically too.

I'd appreciate any information on what type of weapons/armour Roman units had. Recommeded websites/books would be great!

Cheers for now!

[axel]

Hi Leith
I cant mod, but i cane seek for information for you and ill will come with info site s asap

[axel]

Hi
http://www.aeroartinc.com/milmin.asp
http://www.trajan20.freeserve.co.uk/
this one is in dutch but you cane click the pics:
http://www.klascement.net/kt/beelden/legertypmenu.html
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arm...ner/page00.htm
Barbarians: http://www.wizardrealm.com/barbarians/history.html
http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/Roman.html
this is a kid info but the links a great: http://www.kidinfo.com/World_History/AncientRome.html
http://library.advanced.org/26602/war.htm
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientRome.html
http://www.romanhideout.com/documents.asp
http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Pictures/Romana.htm
more will comme soon mate s

[Caius]

If you want rebels, Rome have a big list.

But Iberian rebels can be the real people who lived there.I mean, the real Iberian Tribes.

Faction List (WIP)
1. Republic of Rome
2. Carthage
3. Epirus
4. Greek Cities
5. Macedonia
6. Kingdom of Pergamum
7. Pontus
8. Seleucid Empire
9. Ptolemaic Empire
10. Armenia
11. Parthia
12. Germania
13. Britannia
14. Gaul
15. Iberia
16. Sarmatia
17. Rebels

Glad to see Epirus!They werent on Rome.

Back to Roman units' suggestions, I am no history expert but I remember that the early Roman units, mainly the Hastati, Principes and Triarii, had different equipment later on. For example, the Hastati and Principes' bronze helmets were replaced by iron ones, since the bronze helmets were vulnerbale to the "barbarians" longswords. If this is true, then we could have a first-generation Hastati, wearing a bronze helmet and a second generation Hastati, wearing an iron one. That could be represented graphically and statistically too.

There are a special formation for the three units mentionated above.

Can post a l pic soon

my two cents