Jamie's Rome Mod

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Roman Units

Greek Units

Brython Units

Egyptian Units

Carthaginian Units

Gallic Units

Iberian Units

Pictish Units

Germanic Units


Iberia doesn't have a settler because they can't build them!

The units in their respective positions
WE - SE - WO - SC - EX - JM
AWE - CRM - RM - GM - CEM - WA
CA - AX - SP - ASP - SW - ASW
G - AR - AAR - CHA - CAV - ACAV
TRI - QUIN - DRO - WAR

WE = War Elephant
SE = Settler
WO = Worker
SC = Scout
EX = Explorer
JM = Jewish Missionary
AWE = Advanced War Elephant
CRM = Cristian Missionary
RM = Roman Missionary
GM = Greek Missionary
CEM = Celtic Missionary
WA = Warrior
CA = Catapult
AX = Axeman
SP= Spearman
ASP = Advanced Spearman
SW = Swordsman
ASW = Advanced Swordsman
G = Galley
AR = Archer
AAR = Advanced Archer
CHA = Chariot
CAV = Cavalry
ACAV = Advanced Cavalry
TRI = Trireme
QUIN = Quintrireme
DRO = Dromo
WAR = Great General

Looks interesting. A few historical comments:
1. Praetorian should be re-named to Legions.
2. Woad Warrior should be transfered to the Picts as they were the ones who used Woad extensivly. In return transfer the Druid to the Gauls. (Or to the Bretons and give the Gauls the swordsmen.)
3. Brittania shouldn't be called the Celtic Empire. The Celts was a name given to basicaly all of Northern Europe at this time. Just refer to it as the Brythonic (or Breton) Kingdoms.
3a. You shouldn't refer to all factions as 'Empire', expecialy the tribal states.
3b. The Egyptians could be renamed to Ptolemaic Egypt for greater accuracy.
3c. Perhaps add a copy of the Greek faction based out of Antioch to represent the Seleucids.
4. Don't use horse archers as the basic cavalry. Cavalry in this area of Antiquity was either medium shock cavalry of light javelin cavalry.
5. For Eburacum, it should be north of Londinium. I cant remember the exact location of it, but off of memory it could go just north of the horses. If you want to keep a city in Ireland it should probably be Tara. IIRC Dublin didn't become a major area until after the Vikings.
6. For the greek area, I don't remember any city in that area called Apollo, but Larissa should work. I would reccomend moving it south and just west of the copper and rename it Thebes. Or move it north and rename it Pella.
7. Cyprus should be renamed to Salamis.
8. Rename Uticia to Messina. Or move it down to between the Elephant, the hill, and the coast and rename it Hippo Regitus.
9. In the Egyptian screenshot, rename Memphis to Gaza. Or move it north and inland to be Jerusalem and put Judaism there instead of Thebes. Thebes should be renamed to Alexandria anyway and be on the other side of the Nile.
10. Vienna should either be moved west or south to represent Toulouse (or whatever it was called.) Or you could move it into Northern Italy and located roughly were Milan is and rename it to Mediolanum.
11. Trier is too far north. That location would probably be part of the Burgundii tribe or Gothii. I would however reccomend moving it south and east of wherever the Rhine is and name it Cherusci. Where is the Rhine/Danube here anyhow?
12. For the units, Bakuel has put out alot of nice Germanic, Gallic, and Roman/Greek units. You might want to use those instead of the default BTS ones.

well apollo is apollonia I forgot to rename it and I didn't really go for exact historical acuracy

I wanted the swordsmen to belong to gaul and briton

forgot the rhine

Messina as far as I know is north of syracuse

I wanted 8 civs but Antioch is on there!

I am surprised you didn't comment on massila... it is meant to be in the passage between italy and france...

Thanks for Salamis (I might post the senario again taking in your notes if you want, for the cities)

funly enought Tara is one of the britons cities! I forgot to change the name of Ebaracum

Are you happy with the SHAPE of the map?

And the horse archers only apply to Rome, Greece and Carthage because they look cool, when I put horse archer in brackets it was because thts what they replaced in the original game

forgot the rhine

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Is the Danube there?

Messina as far as I know is north of syracuse

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Perhaps. I'll have to quick fire up RFRE to check.

Are you happy with the SHAPE of the map?

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Its a bit malformed in areas but on the whole pretty good. I thing you went a bit mountain crazy in the Pyrennies and Alps.

And the horse archers only apply to Rome, Greece and Carthage because they look cool, when I put horse archer in brackets it was because thts what they replaced in the original game

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Okay. I just wanted to point out that native Horse Archers were basicaly not used by 'Hellenistic' civs until the Crisis of the Third Century.

Perhaps you could move the Picts into the Middle East and rename them to the Parthians? The Parthians were a major power in the region. The Picts weren't that influential. I don't remember my Brythonic history that well, but I think that they weren't too culturaly different from the Bretons. IIRC the Picts only became a 'cultural' group was after Hadrians Wall isolated them.

well... I could make a parthian civilization but that would require a new leader and I hate the diplo infos lol. But I culd work on that eventuly if you would like. no Danube have you downloaded it?

i would advocate you to make a new map with an atlas () and a little bit better seeded ressources (the water resources with an distant of 3 fields to the next coast cant be used). more realms like macedonia, dacia, iberian tribes, seleucids, numidians, pontos, armenia or others.

8. Rename Uticia to Messina.

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messina was/is on the east coast of sicilia, lilybaeum would be better

Lilybaeum was exactaly what I thought!!!

with the resources I just love there being lots of them even if they are fail fish! I just think having lots makes the sea look more inviting

I was going to add in barbarian style civs which could not be contacted for places like dacia, Greek Colonies etc but I couldn't get it to work (the option to place cities for them would not work) so I gave up...

I might work on a second map with a more accuracy (with an atlas), but I am still proud of my current map :- best work I have ever done map wise! Authough I can never seem to ever fit Sicily in the right place, same happened in my italian mod

Also more civs make it slower hence my 8 civs at a time rule (which applies to all my mods )

I have started work on version 2.0 this will include a reworked map, loss of the picts but the mod will recieve 2 new civs: The Selucid Empire and The Parthian Empire (the Parthians have their own flag, big improvment on 1.0: New Art!). I will soon start work on version 1.1 which will be 1.0 (picts in it) but with new flags (hopefully) and a reworked map!
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Great job Jamie

thanks!!!

So whens 2.0 comeing?

dont know yet

You should implementing the merc mod. I tried and its alot of fun and would be very realistic for the Carthage army.

hmmm well.... I don't know about that because I don't really know how to merge mods and i don't really know what to think of mercinaries I just don't understand how it works...

might be while because I am making the exact same map for 2.0 but because of new civs I have to make it again square by square something like 51 by 84 so over 2500 squares!!! ( tried doing it with xml but it failed on me...)

Why is Russia under what? lol Nevermind, I saw it

you came just in time just about to load 2.0!!

(well after diner!)

Done!!!

Why don't you use new LHs from database? It will be more realistick. Cool Mod.