Expanding Rome: Total War

[ahowl11]

Thanks. I may have found someone who could do them at TWC as well. He seems interested but I don't know if he is sold yet, so keep a look out as I might need you. As far as faction colors are concerned, nothing is going to change . What we can do, if we end up working together is I will find an image to my liking and post it along with it's link, on here. Then all you would have to do is make the symbol/banners and implement them. This would require me sending you the current files of the mod.

Mod Update:
I have finished assigning regions to all necessary factions, these positions are not set in stone however as I have yet to test the tendencies of the AI.
Also, I have changed the cultures of the following factions:
Egypt: Egyptian to Greek
Senate: Roman to Greek
Brutii: Roman to Eastern
Scipii: Roman to Barbarian

I need to give each faction suitable names. For Egypt it will be easy as I will just give them Macedonian names along with adding the name 'Ptolemy'
However for the other factions I forsee some difficulty. Anybody know of ways I can get names for Illyrians, Bosporans, and Nabataeans?

[comrade_general]

http://www.babynamespedia.com/search/m/illyrian
Bosporans could just be a mix of Greek, Scythian, Thracian, etc.
I would give Nabataeans a mix of older Arabic names: http://www.sudairy.com/arabic/masc.html

[ahowl11]

Thanks!
For the Illyrians: In the descr_names file there is a list of Illyrian names. I will use those
For the Bosporans I will use the names used by Roma Surrectum 1.6
And for the Nabataeans, would it hurt to use the names by Saba from Extended Cultures?

[comrade_general]

You seem to be on top of these things.

[ahowl11]

Well there seems to be a problem. I've copy/pasted over the Scipii names with the Illyrian names but I get an errorless KTM. Any thoughts? Maybe those names were not to be used? I had to delete many colons for there names to look like other faction's names.

;     Ion
;     Attila
etc...

[comrade_general]

They are probably not be in the text file then.

[ahowl11]

No, they are, custom battles work with the Illyrian names. Something must be wrong in the descr_strat

[ahowl11]

An error comes up saying:
"Couldn't find Spouse: Bendis"

That's the name of the Faction Leader's wife.

I don't know what the issue is... ??

[comrade_general]

Did you add in the female names as well?

[ahowl11]

Yes, I did

[ahowl11]

@Sotk
Here is a final list of the factions and what symbols they will be using:

1. Rome: Diadochi TW's Roman Symbol
2. Carthage: Stay's the same
3. Macedon: The Hellenic State's Macedon Symbol (Sun needs to be Orange not Yellow)
4. Seleucids: Diadochi TW's Seleucid Symbol
5. Ptolemies: http://media.photobucket.com/image/Ptolemaic%20Empire%20Symbol/Jegwettnorskbaralit/bigptoly.gif -needs to look vanilla
6. Pontus: Stay's the same
7. Armenia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Artaxiad.svg/190px-Artaxiad.svg.png - needs to be in Armenian Colors
8. Parthia: Armenia's Original Symbol but in Parthian Colors
9. Gaul: BI's Celts faction Symbol
10. Britons: Stay's the same
11. Germans: BI's Longobardi faction Symbol
12. Thrace: Stay's the same
13. Dacia: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IKcNN1NWqi0/TWeV_g-vRVI/AAAAAAAAA9s/mFsMvMJD3Vo/s640/lupus1.jpg - something similar to this in dacian colors
14. Greeks: Stay's the Same
15. Numidia: Amazon TW's Numidian Symbol
16. Sarmatians: BI's Sarmatian symbol in Scythian Colors
17. Iberians: Stay's the same
18. Nabataeans: BI's Berber Symbol in Brutii Colors (just a darker green)
19. Illyrians: Stay's the same (Scipii Symbol)
20. Bosporans: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Bosporan+Symbols&view=detail&id=6F1056118C9637A90108A87BE667D52EA154B46A&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR - needs to be in Senate Colors

All in all, there are only a few to create. Most of them are just implementing from other mods, while the rest are recoloring.

If you could please do these for me I would greatly appreciate your help! Your work will be included in the credits when I release.

[ahowl11]

Update:

I'm very frustrated as I now have to restart. Was changing names in the descr_strat and got an errorles CTD and I forgot to create backups! So now I have to restart. It's ok though because I will do a better job this time .

I'm still looking for someone to create those faction symbols

[ahowl11]

I now have a WIP thread at TWC!
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=536962
Check it out

[comrade_general]

Looks good to me, Frank.

[debux]

Funny, never found this thread