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Imperator Et Barbarii - An Overhaul for Senator and Barbarian

Are you ready to experience a war of apocalyptic proportions? Do you want to bring honor and glory to the Empire? Or perhaps you'd like to bring civilization to its knees? Whatever your desires, I have just the thing to bring them to life!

I wasn't actually expecting to make such significant changes to either the Senator or the Barbarian when I started on this, but one thing led to another and features just started piling on. You will probably not notice a huge amount of change for each class in the early stages of the game, but the deviation from vanilla rapidly piles on starting in about the mid-game.

Unlike my other mods so far, it is intended for both Barbarian and Senator to be active at the same time. The two classes complement each other as opponents.

Barbarian

• The class starts with a Spirit Guide in order to jumpstart your efforts to bring about an end to civilization.
  
• Half a dozen new units, including two new commanders - all of which are cavalry - to sow terror and destruction in the later stages of the game.
  
• Amazons don't suck anymore and each flavor has a more distinct gimmick.
  
• A slew of terraforming rituals for bringing that nomad feel to the map, as well as several to drive your enemies before you and hear the lamentations of their women. This includes a fourth level of spirit rituals.
  
• A (simple) era-based troop roster that will change based on where you are in terms of game progression.

Senator

• Like the Barbarian, this class has an era-based troop roster that changes as you progress into the game. Only this time, it's about a dozen units straight outta Rome.
  
• As is standard at this point, Senator gets a slew of rituals for civilizing the world and some thematically appropriate non-terraforming rituals. Also contains a fourth level of rituals.
  
• Various improvements for units include: Second javelin for pre-Marian-style troops, God Emperor/Empress and Empress gaining/retaining access to the senatorial rituals.
  
• The starting army was tweak to more closely resemble a half-strength legion. This was in part due to the difficulty Senator has with walls and partly to make senator more able to compete with Barbarian early game even though the starting barbarian army will still mop the floor with the starting senator army.

There should not be any compatibility issues at this time. Just be sure to test any other mods that edit the classes before using them in tandem with this.


For some strange reason, Senator can get standard troops as mercenaries still. I suspect that either nostdtroops doesn't work or towns have a chance to add standard troops as mercenaries.

Thanks to larzm for the Dominions 5 sprite dump. It's saved me the effort of having to have new sprites made (for now).
(Begrudging) thanks to CA for a few lines of bone chilling writing.


I'm currently in the process of making overhauls for every single faction in CoE 5 and I plan to eventually port over the Warhammer Fantasy Battles mods for Dominions 4-5 over to CoE as new classes (a sizeable undertaking, only barely in the planning stages).

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