Amazons: Total War 7.0E Released

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7.0E release is out,

Download 7.0E release [here],  [here], or [here]

Changes in 7.0E

1. New Linked Armor-Clad Cavalry animations
2. New optimized Suebii (German) Quest
3. New Roman Elephant troop
4. New hi-res animations to replace vanilla low res units.
5. game re-configuration make recruitment and combat more balanced
6. corrections of animation problems of previous releases.
7. adjusted strategy setup
8. More challenging renegade and rebels.

changes in 7.0D

• - add Suebii (Germans) to the quest factions, similar to the Far East Celt.
  
• - add hidden resources to control the availability of the Amazon Advanced Units
  
• - Experimenting making both AI and Player factions to be able to have advanced units at the same time.
  currently, only one faction can have the advanced weaponry at one time.
  
• - re-balance stat on units just switched from sword to ax or halberd
  
• - add new hi-res animation units to replace vanilla units
  
• - eliminate the parasole cover for the western Celt battle wagon.
  
• - new Amazon Sword Maiden models to replace the old Amazon Sword units
  
• - correct foot wear B.U.M (Balanced Unit Modeling) issues.
  
• - re-evaluate cultural "barbarian" buildings per naftykid's recommendation
  
• - re-animate Noble Maiden
  
• - re-animate Amazon Hoplite
  

changes in 7.0C

• Massive optimization on animation speed, and space saving
  
• New Amazon Peltast units animation
  
• New Amazon Heavy Peltast units animation
  
• New Amazon arbalest cavalry and Infantry animations and new weapons
  
• New Amazon attires to match Amazons to the same "primitive" level of other "barbarian" cultures
  
• changing "skirt"s to be more of a waist-wrap
  
• changing loin-cloth from front only to front and back, same as Thracian peltasts and woad warriors.
  
• removed redundant animation for secondary weapons that is never used.
  
• corrected 3D model and texture inconsistency for Amazon Hoplite units and Dismounted Pathfinder units.
  
• re-animated Amazon Longbow Chariot Archer
  
• re-animated Scythian Head Hunting Maiden
  

As of February 25th, 2013 - 7.0C beta, the 3rd release is out.

7.0C enhances the realism even farther, with major new animation revamp. New specification states that swords are much more costly to manufacture than many close quarter combat weapons. For light and low-cost units, therefore, if swords are their secondary weapons, they must be replaced with something more representative of their cost-performance relationship (according the Balance Unit Modeling , aka the B.U.M. principles)

• New animations for 2handed ax units
  
• New animations for halberd units
  
• New animations for Amazon Dispatcher Corp, now using short halberd instead of sword
  
• New animations for Amazon Brigandine Archers, now using short halberd instead of sword
  
• New animations for Macedon Geothe Mercenaries
  
• New animations for rebel Amazon archer units.
  
• New EDU stat for new units to reflect the changes.
  
• New Amazonia, Libya, and Thyssa general's units
  
• New Amazonia strat map captain animation.
  
• New Geothe strat map captain animation, to correct a weird problem with default texture file, uncovered by Katsoro.
  
• New heavy standard bearer animation, with female soldiers instead of male.
  
• New light standard bearer, now with druidress or Camilla priestess.
  
• New Amazon priestess and colour guard animation
  
• New Amazon Militia Hoplite animation, instead of spear and sword , now with lengthened pike (18ft).
  
• New Amazon Round Shield foot units, now with shield slightly enlarged, and armed with short ranseur style pike, instead of spear and sword.
  
• New Amazon Round Shield cavalry units, same as the Round Shield foot units.
  
• Complete re-work on Amazon Pathfinder animation.
  
• Minor change on Amazon Xiphos Cohorts animation
  
• After three years, finally added mano-ballista animation for advanced units. This includes
  -Amazon Path Finder
  -Amazon Noble Maiden
  -Amazon Grenadier Cavalry
  
• 
  Amazon Ballista Elephant "Gunner"s, with new model ballista
  

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[Jubal]

If only I had the kind of animating & modelling skills you guys have on some of the mods I do. 

Looks great, the optimisation sounds particularly good as even my fairly fast laptop was chewing through the memory a lot.

[comrade_general]

Looks sweet, I'll give it a go tomorrow!

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The OP has been updated with the actual download links.