Presents

a new preview about

the reconstruction of Rome






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AoD2 is a mod "under construction" based on RTW/BI

It starts in 527AD - the year when Justinian became Roman emperor. Once more a star was shining over the empire.

We will offer a complete new map, dozens of new customized settlement plans, new "high quality" historical units, new 3D buildings, new music tracks, new coding, a new interface.

This preview shows one of our customized settlement plans

The 3D reconstruction of Rome.

It is still not finished (several city districts are still untouched) - however - it's worth to show the result as it is now.



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responsible for this brand new preview


Pompeius Magnus
team-leader, coding of all customized settlement plans

Wundai
responsible for our 3D buildings
for our new Rome he made a phantastic new building of the Basilica of St. Peter
(model as well as the textures)

jermagon
historical research concerning the customized settlements

empio
modelling and texturing of all AoD2 military units

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a complete list of our team is given at the end of this preview!




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Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum.

In the 1st century A.D., the Vatican Hill was outside the city limits and so could feature a circus (the circus of Nero) and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over this cemetery, the traditional site of St. Peter the Apostle's grave. There was another cemetery nearby, which was opened to the public on 10 October 2006, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums.

The Vatican Hill is not one of the famous seven hills of Rome, although it was included within the city limits of Rome during the reign of Pope Leo IV, who, between 848 and 852, expanded the city walls to protect St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican.