Mediterranean Total War Libya Faction Preview
Hello Fans
This is a Mediterranean Total mini-Batch faction preview. You'll be seeing a lot more of these as time goes by.
In Mediterranean Total war, we will hopefully make use of batch files, to increase playable factions, and increase expandability for future versions. For this to work we are sacrificing 3 faction slots. The batch files will then extract the relevant faction information to the game, replacing the empty slot. This will consequently mean that when you are looking for a campaign full of warfare,
the faction, or factions, implemented in the game, will be located around you, and thus, enable lots of battles in the early campaign.
This leads me onto maybe our biggest challenge. In our provincial campaigns we plan to release after 1.0, we can now implement the lives of various generals, and provincial campaigns can be better than ever.
For example, if we included an alexander Campaign, instead of simply having macedon and persia, the 'standard' factions, we can have emergent kingdoms and dependancies, and various tribes, making the provincial camapaigns almost a total modification in their own right
Now, in Mediterranean Total war, the expandability and variety of campaigns and periods of time we can include is ever-growing, and not only are we looking forward to 1.0, we can safely say that as long as tihs mod doesnt die, we can make it one of the most versatile mods around, for the future.
Now, not only could you play from the persian wars to the battle of Cannae, you may play as Alexander or Hannibal!
Hope you like it...
I had an idea with this, what if we make the .batch faction a preview dedicated to them, a “mini” preview, as they are based on AOR besides their general’s guards.
Libyan Mini Preview
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Faction descr.
Since Neolithic times the climate of North Africa has been drying. A reminder of the desertification of the area is provided by megalithic remains, which occur in great variety of form and in vast numbers in presently arid and uninhabitable wastelands: dolmens and circles like Stonehenge, cairns, underground cells excavated in rock, barrows topped with huge slabs, and step-pyramidlike mounds. Most remarkable are the trilithons, some still standing, some thrown down, which occur isolated or in rows, and consist of two squared uprights standing on a common pedestal that support a huge transverse beam. In the Terrgurt valley "there had been originally no less than eighteen or twenty megalithic trilithons, in a line, each with its massive altar placed before it" according to Cowper.
In ancient times, the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the armies of Alexander the Great and his Ptolemaic successors from Egypt, then Romans, Vandals, and local representatives of the Byzantine Empire ruled all or parts of Libya. The territory of modern Libya had separate histories until Roman times, as Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Tripoli, was originally a group of Phoenician colonies dependent on Carthage. Phoenicians founded the three great cities (tri + polis) of Oea, Sabrata and Leptis Magna (site of magnificent Roman ruins). Carthage and its dependencies fell to Rome after the Third Punic War. Tripoli is the ancient sea port at the terminus of three great caravan routes linking the coast with Lake Chad and Timbuktu across the Sahara. Near the port of Tripoli stands a Roman triumphal arch with four richly sculpured fronts of white marble, the blocks being held together with cramps. It was begun in the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius, according to a still-unmutilated dedicatory inscription, and finished under Marcus Aurelius.
Cyrenaica, by contrast, was Greek before it was Roman. It was also known as Pentapolis, the "five cities" being Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Bengazi) and Barca (Merj). From the oldest and most famous of the Greek colonies the fertile coastal plain took the name of Cyrenaica.
Unit list:
Libyan Slingers
Young men from the, poorly trained and equipped with only a sling and dagger.
Libyan Skirmishers
Men carrying an arsenal of javelins, a spear and a small wooden shield
Libyan Charioteers
The Libyan charioteers carried bows, and could be relied on.
Libyan Spearmen
These men were poorly trained, and were given a large wooden shield and a rusty spear.
Libyan Archers
These men carry nothing but a bow and dagger.
Libyan Warriors
These warriors have a cloak, a sword and aren’t well trained.
Libyan Family Member’s guards
These are the guards of the Libyan family member’s ingame
Extra Units:
- General
This is how the general looks like in the game
- Captain
An inexperienced and young captain realises that his troops have fled…
Ingame map: Cyrene
Credits to:
Skins: Lentonius
Models: Lentonius and Dionysios II The Great
Additional Artwork: Lentonius
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