The Iazyges, Marcomanni and Quadi Mod - a mod for Rome: Total War Barbarian Inv

[warcrafthero]

Warcrafthero presents,

The Iazyges, Marcomanni and Quadi Mod - a mod for Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion

Hello, some of you may know that in Barbarian Invasion there are some "cut factions". Two of these are well known, The White Huns and Moors, but among the files I found references of another three: The Iazyges, The Marcomanni and The Quadi. Only a few files about these factions can be found in Barbarian Invasion, such as battle banners, captain banners and symbols in the interface. Unfortunately no unit skins or unit cards were left so I do not know what units they had and what was their role in the game; it is possible that they were cut during the early stages of development.

So, in this mod I have replaced the Burgundii, Langobards and Roxolani with these factions, assigned them some units and placed them in the campaign map.

Features:

- The mod is mod-foldered. This means that the files of the original games are not modified as the mod has its own folder.
- Replaced the Burgundii, Langobards and Roxolani with Iazyges, Marcommanni and Quadi. Fully playable in campaign and custom battles mode.
- Alemanni, Celts and Saxons can become an horde.
- Reworked some barbarian horde units.
- Changed/fixed some unit icons.
- New model for the Kerns. (actually an unused model found in the vanilla game)
- Added an "all factions" provincial campaign where the player can also play as the Romano-British, Slavs and Ostrogoths.
- Fixed various bugs thanks to player1 and Borsook BUG-FIXER.

DOWNLOAD FROM MODDB

Version 1.0

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod/downloads/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod-version-10

Patch 1

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod/downloads/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod-patch-1

Some screenshots (large images!):

Iazyges (roster, campaign map, in battle)

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Marcomanni (roster, campaign, in battle)

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Quadi (roster, campaign map, in battle)

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Bonus: Celtic Kerns

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More screenshots can be found in the mod's page on Moddb

Credits:

The Creative Assembly, for developing Rome: Total War and its expansions Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion and Rome: Total War Alexander
player1 and Borsook for the BUG-FIXER v3.36
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?39911-BUG-FIXER-for-patch-1-5-1-6
Lanjane for the Celtic Kerns and Mercenary Kerns unit cards
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?687107-Lanjane-s-Mini-Workshop-Unit-cards-for-Rome-Total-War

Installation Instructions:

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CD version:

1) Extract the archive and place the "imq" folder inside the "bi" folder.
2) Right-click the RomeTW-BI.exe and create a shortcut on the desktop; then right click on the new shortcut and select "properties", in the "target" field add this at the end: " -mod:bi/imq -show_err" (without the quotes).

Here's a path for example: "C:\Games\Activision\Rome Total War\RomeTW-BI.exe" -mod:bi/imq -show_err

To start the mod, double click on the new shortcut

Steam Version:

1) Extract the archive and place the "imq" folder inside the "bi" folder.
2) In your Steam Library righ-click on Rome Total War Gold, click on properties then on "Set Launch Options" and paste this string: "-mod:bi/imq -show_err" (without the quotes)
3) Then start the game and select "Launch Barbarian Invasion". Remember that if you want to run the vanilla game, you will have to delete the string you pasted in the Launch Options.

I hope you will enjoy the mod 

Greetings,

Warcrafthero

[Jubal]

Neat work, well done!

[korsakoff]

Awesome! i was originally looking into modding and adding the Iazyges myself some months ago but forgot to back it all up when doing a regular windows wipe and lost everything. The roster for them is pretty spot on good work! 

[Jubal]

It's always been a pity that the engine didn't just let you add more factions, having the whole of Europe being a complete patchwork of these sorts of guys would've been great.

[warcrafthero]

Patch 1 is available for download!

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod/downloads/the-iazyges-marcomanni-and-quadi-mod-patch-1

Changelog:

- Fixed Western Roman Empire Limitanei texture
- Fixed a few typos in export_descr_ancillaries.txt and export_ancillaries.txt

Installation:

Extract the "IMQ_MOD_PATCH_1.RAR" archive then place the content of the "imq" folder where you have installed the mod (bi/imq folder). When asked, overwrite the existing files.

Thank you korsakoff and Jubal!

[BagaturKhan]

This is mod is one of my favourites, because of vanilla style and interesting gameplay of new 3 factions.