Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition

Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition

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HCP's Ardiaei: Reskins, New Units and Fixes!
   
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4 Oct, 2016 @ 7:28pm
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HCP's Ardiaei: Reskins, New Units and Fixes!

Description
Pirates! Raiders! Shock Infantry! Oh my!

The Illyrians, specifically the Ardiaei, were total badasses. When they weren't fighting each other they were raiding the Adriatic for plunder and conquering neighboring kingdoms (I'm looking at you Macedon). Renowned warriors that they were, its a shame that they are represented so poorly by CA.

What's this mod do?

Improves the gameplay of the Ardiaei faction by adding some much needed units to their roster, implementing some quality of life (QoL) fixes for them and as a bonus, reskinning all of their units!

New units:

Illyrian Brigands
Archer/melee stealth unit. Wielding Sica (thanks to Sebidee!) and small shields, these troops can engage enemies from a distance and can handle themselve's in melee against light troops. Recruitable at woodworker II.

Manhunters
Mace melee cavarly, with "Use the Whip," recruitable at slave market III.

Illyrian Raid Veterans
Heavy Shock Infantry. Raid leaders, distinguished veterans and minor nobles clad head to toe in armor and weilding terrifying 2h maces. Recruitable from Tier IV Artisan.

Reskins:
All units, generals, and politicians have been reskinned with unique Illyrian textures by legend Kraut and Tea!

QoL fixes: Illyrian Levies and Marines can now be recruited from the Military Port building chain (Tier 2 and 3+4 respectively). This is lore-friendly (seafarers, duh), unique to the Ardiaei, and a huge help for their difficult early game by freeing up a precious building slot for economic/public order buildings.

Feedback is always welcome!

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Special Thanks (awesome people!):
Sebidee for his tutorials
Medieval Kingdoms team for their mace models
Celticus for being a living encyclopedia
Achilles for teaching me invaluable stuffs
Kraut and Tea for his incredible Illyrian textures
19 Comments
skilur 26 Dec, 2020 @ 9:59pm 
for Pizza Time
Didn't find warriors with big axes in the game, like in the picture. Are they no longer there?
Der Griecher 12 Mar, 2019 @ 2:03pm 
Achilles do you still make mods for rome 2 ?
revengerfighter 27 Aug, 2018 @ 10:15am 
UPDATE!!!!!
Jon 12 Jul, 2018 @ 6:00pm 
update pls
pieanear 19 Dec, 2017 @ 4:49pm 
Nice mod put some kick in that mellow unit !! thanks
juroanetkazoja 1 Dec, 2017 @ 11:57am 
please update
blueshark 24 Jul, 2017 @ 7:40am 
Maces have been used since some time in the early stone age, but I doubt it was in use by every single tribe in the world back then.
Lotor13 15 Mar, 2017 @ 8:22am 
Don't take offensive, it looks ugly, and maces are late medieval weapons
Arminius 9 Oct, 2016 @ 4:06am 
Finally! Another decent Illyrian mod :D
Working Joe  [author] 8 Oct, 2016 @ 2:43pm 
@Ukipopo

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