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Historical Battle of Adrianople (overhaul)

NOTE: This is among our ambitious compilation of series of overhauls to come for virtually all vanilla historical battles, aiming to make historical battles as historically-accurate as possible.

NOTE: This is NOT a campaign overhaul. This is specially designed for Battles --> Historical Battles.

NOTE: This mod is rather huge as it contains various high-res textures and models, specifically and only designed for Rome and the Visigoths, like none before.




Vanilla historical battles are fairly good, but they can be less than satisfactory in two major aspects:
1. The unit compositions of either side can be much too general , sometimes historically-inaccrurate or even incorrect due to restrictions of vanilla units. Instead of what you had seen in vanilla battles, in the historical battle of Adrianople the ERE would deploy its brave Palatini, Comitatenses and Auxilii batallions while the forces of the Visigoths were actually composed of several germanic tribes including the Tervingi and Greuthungi, apart from their Alanic, Thracian and Hunnic Mercenaries, which were not so weak as compared to the Romans attacking "tired and dehydrated" as vanilla ones.

2. The winning tactics the player can actually adopt in-game could be way much far away from what was used in real history. For instance in our situation, Fritigern's Visigothic troops managed to buy some precious time for their reinforcement cavalry to rescue them by beginning some sort of negotiations so that the main infantry were not actually taking much casualties when the reinforcement arrived, while in game the player has to hold the line for so long time that the main troops were almost exhausted in high difficulties. But unfortuntely we will leave this vanilla aspect untouched until fully mastering the battle scripts.


What amazing changes this particular mod actually presents to you:

1. Brand new units. New unit models for both ERE and the Visigoths, including helmet styles imported from Total War: Arena, as well as amazing shield patterns for ERE inspired by the famous Notitia Dignitatum together with the ones for the Visigoths coming from what we found of contemporary Gothic art styles. And don't forget the new unit cards that are highly recognizable!



And the unit names of either side are completely changed to be historically-immersive, included are the famous Domestici Peditum, Lanciarii Seniores, Matiarii Iuniores and Batavi Seniores among other Palatinae, Comitatenses and Auxiliae batallions, as well as general names like "Bacurius, Scutarii Sagittarii" and "Alatheus, Comitati Greuthungorum".

2. More units ready for command. The actual troop size for both sides are in a 1 to 5 scale compared to that in history (by most accounts ~15,000 men), as ERE and the Visigoths are deployed of around 3,000 men on either side of the battlefield, in other words, of about 30 units each.



3. Enhanced units skills and attributes. The Visigoths now have more skills at their disposal, as the general(s) can rally, inspire, unite their friendlies and intimidate their enemies, with the Gothic nobles now being able to defend themselves, the Thracian friendlies capable of frenzily charging and the mercenary Alans and Huns are just as badass as how they should be; While ERE, on the other hand, could deploy their highly-disciplined (but tired) infantry which are able to bravely stand and fight like how they did historically as well as the terrifying Clibanarii that can charge, retreat and even fire while moving.

4. Camera for the beginning cutscene is slightly adjusted to better cover the new units as the Emperor Valens is now walking on foot instead of riding on horse and the camera is raised to keep him centered.



And much more to come!


This mod is a collection of both models and database, so this single file deal with what is covered above. Select this mod and jump into the historical battle to see for yourself!

This mod MAY be compatible with other battle enhancement mods that don't alter vanilla unit stats, and MAY NOT be compatible with major unit overhauls like FotE. Compatibility feedbacks are welcomed!


Next in-coming battle overhauls:

Epic 4 v 3 battle of the Catalaunian plains (to be precise, WRE & Visigoths & Alans & Salian Franks versus Hunnic Empire & Amali Goths & Gepids/Rugians/Heruli, with historical attacking patterns for both sides as well)

Battle of ad Decimum (featuring also John the Armenian and Solomon as allies, as well as Vandalic generals Ammatas and Gibamund, with historical attacking patterns for both sides as well)

Newly added battle of Strasbourg / Argentoratum, playable as Julian the Apostate, featuring the Magister Equites Severus as supporting allies, and Alamanni generals like the high king Chnodomar.


Caligula, who constantly helped me in my modding process and for his great work in Commanders Remastered importing Total War: Arena into Attila; And Philip, who patiently guided me through battle scripting;

Augustusng, for his constant help and his elaborate work in Europa Perdita, from which comes one of our shield patterns;

DETrooper, who kindly offers me his magnificent cutscene tools.

Credits for all members in the Fall of the Eagles team, who authorized the use of their amazing base models, including:
Ahiga, Maximus183, Avetis, Don_Diego, Hadrien Ier, CJiaba (Units and Textures)
zkajo (Models), Razor (Fall of Rome developer), Imperator of Rome (Various Swords/Spears), Counterpoint (Deir el Medina helmet), Narf (mail and lamellar patterns), Kuauik (Texturing mentorship), Dejawolf (Spears, helmets), Song of Taleisn (helmets)
'Gunny (Battles)
Dresden, Grizwald714, zombieflanders, FlashHeart07 (Campaign Team/DB Edits)
char, Verzione (UI)
Friar Chris (Testing)

AMELIANVS[amelianvs.deviantart.com] from Deviant Art for his fabulous cover art: Valens at Adrianople.[amelianvs.deviantart.com]