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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Announcement/Discussion: Faction List

« on: January 22, 2014, 09:51:12 PM »

Ahh yes that's a good idea. Just make sure there's a random (while logical) element in it. In RS II Commagene would always rebel from the Seleucids to join Armenia on turn 2 or 3, which made war inevitable, and when I played Parthia Palmyra joined my on turn 4  The first became a bit annoying, the second didn't make sense.

But probably what I'm saying here in two sentences needs extensive programming 

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Discussion: Gutting the Vanilla Unit Roster

« on: January 22, 2014, 09:48:44 PM »

Awrite, I had another look over it, I might add these things:

Macedonian phalanx should rather be named Pezhetairoi instead of Kleruchoi? At least not Kleruchoi since cleruchs are Greek colonists in the East.

Add Hippeis as a Medium/Heavy Cavalry to Greek City states.

Rename all units with the prefix ''Barbarian'', but I guess you already thought that, so we can put ''Celtic'', ''Scythian'' etc. instead.

And yes Germanic berserkers existed but if I remember correctly they are a bit overpowered in vanilla.

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Discussion: Gutting the Vanilla Unit Roster

« on: January 22, 2014, 09:28:05 PM »

Another thing, I think we should use the british light chariots, with a javalineer instead of an archer, instead of the british heavy chariots. These chariots where not used to swung around knocking men to the ground, but to enable a bigger and faster mobility of the infantry. The best way to be represented in the mod would be as a skirmisher unit.

Yep exactly what I said above about Celtic chariots (having the British one in mind, too)!  And @ahowl  yep I think that's how they were used in the battle where Claudius was present as well as at Mons Graupius.

Armoured elephants: I think they were used at Raphia, weren't they? Definitely only give them to the Seleucids, and make them very expensive (on RSII they seemed unstoppable!). And while they should be extremely strong, armour doesn't make them immune against fear of fire! Sorry RS II but when I shoot on them with 4 units of archers, fire arrows on, they should at least get a bit nervous, but nothing happened at all 

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Announcement/Discussion: Faction List

« on: January 22, 2014, 09:23:58 PM »

First of all that's an interesting concept. Taking the superfactions from RTR VII and the Swap factions from RS II sounds like a neat solution. If we have Hellenic kingdoms I agree that Pergamon should belong to them instead of Syracuse- the latter can be considered both a Hellenic kingdom and a Greek city-state, while Pergamon would be more clearly a Hellenistic kingdom. But I also have to agree that Bactria would be a big problem (Epiros, Kyrene and Pergamon together might work but Bactria is really too far away).

Mayve I'm just stupid or this is modding speech, but what do you mean with loyalty enabled?

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Discussion: Gutting the Vanilla Unit Roster

« on: January 22, 2014, 08:56:41 PM »

Ah thanks for the questions  Not sure about the axes but I sent a message to a friend who knows everything about the Germanic tribes and will reply here once he's informed me.

Pontic chariot archers- I think they used a few chariots but I've never heard of anything other than the hellenistic Scythed chariots like the Seleucid ones, who were simply used to break up or demoralize enemy lines. Apart from the Celtic chariots, who might have been used by the Galatians in Asia Minor, too, but they rarely used archers and even if there was a missile unit (more likely javelin throwers or slingers) on the chariot, it would not have been their primary equipment.

The Onagers have the same problem as stuff like the Harii- we know it for sure for the time of the Principate, but less so for the Republic. There is evidence that they were used, but not too often. Maybe they should only be recruitable at a very late building?

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« on: January 22, 2014, 08:08:46 PM »

Salvete commillitones,

I was just hired by awhol as well  I'm a historical advisor on R2TR and have been on TWC since late 2011 (?). Actually I signed up just after RTR VII came out and have been quite active on the RTR forum since then. I'm studying in my Master at a small university in Germany next to the mythic Teutoburg Forest (actually there was fog hanging over the forest today when we had a seminary and I remarked to a mate that it's like what Varus would have seen  ).
For now I'll need to look around a bit here and see which progress has been made thus far