Update 49

Major Armour Variant Update

- For this update, I rearrange most of the armour variation in a much more systematic way just like what I did on helmet. However, the change is less noticeable than the one on helmet.
- The new variants allow me to create more variations systematically. Originally CA only put five variations in each variant file but I am now making 5x5=25 variations.
- This also eliminate the problem which sometimes some armours only appear on certain tunic/certain colour of tunic.
- I am also going to remove the greenish bronze armour from WoS.
- Unlike the Greek, Carthaginian will not have a unit with feathers on everyone’s helmet (only 50%).

The follow units has been edited (might not be armour only):
- Greek Officer (Thureos and Celtic swords added)
- Carthaginian General Bodyguards
- Carthaginian Sacred Band (and Cavalry)
- Carthaginian White Shield Hoplites
- Carthaginian Noble Cavalry
- (Greek) Hoplites (and Eastern)
- Thureos Spears (and Eastern)
- Greek Marine Corps (and Eastern)
- Greek Shock Troopers
- Greek Veteran Hoplites
- Greek Veteran Cavalry
- Hippeus Lancers
- Royal Thorax Swordsmen(and Spears)
- Shield Bearers
- Royal Peltasts
- Foot Companions
- Hellenic Royal Guards
- Colchian Nobles
- Pontic Royal Guards
- Royal Pontic Cavalry
- Pontic Swordsmen
- Pontic Peltasts
- Bosporan Archers
- Cimmerian Noble Lancers
- Cimmerian Noble Infantry
- Silver Shield Swordsmen
- Silver Shield Pikemen
- Indian Elephant
- Indian Armoured Elephant

For the Spartans, beard is added, and most importantly, helmets are changed.

They now mostly wear Pilos/Corinthian helmets. As you guys may know the Spartans mostly wore Pilos from historical sources in this period. Before that, they wore Corinthian helmet and its variants. The exact helmets the Spartan used in this later period is actually unknown and now I have decided to stick to those two.

And the Spartans now use Iberian swords which are shorter than xiphos.
- Spartan standard bearer
- Spartan Officer(inf and cav)
- Spartan Hoplites
- Spartan Veteran Hoplites
- Royal Spartans
- Heroes of Spartans
- Spartan Pikemen
- Royal Spartan Pikemen
- Spartan Light Cavalry
- Spartan Marines

Armour/Helmet Changes
- WoS bronze armour added to Italian Greek bronze cuirass variation
- Increased crested attic helmets in late_attic variation

Update 48.1

Troops in Greek colonies may use Chalcdian helmets

Unit Variation Changes:
- Greek Marine Corps (and Eastern)
- Greek Hoplites (and Eastern)
- Late Shock Troopers
- Greek Shock Troopers
- Massilian Thorakitai
- Massilian Thureos Spears
- Massilian Heavy Cavalry
- Massilian Cavalry
- Massilian Hoplites
- Massilian Swordsmen

Current direction for future updates:
- Remove splited horse hair crest on vanilla helmet
- Create units with historical colour if possible
- Feathers on helmet will always have different colour from the crest
- Add short sleeves tunic the Greek troops
- Remove Chalcidian helmet from later period(non-citizen) or well-equipped troops(in process) as it is becoming out-dated in this time frame (not used by mainland Greek actually?). Increase the ratio of Thracian helmet for later period troops, improve crest type and ratio


Update 48

As this update involves tons of new variation file, bugs might appear. Please report if you encounter any bug.

Major Helmet Change (crest and type ratio)

- (Once again)Carthaginian Helmet change (crest type change and colour black removal): base on my source black is not likely to be an common colour for Carthaginian, and I take this chance to improve the crest type and helmet ratio

- Hellenic Helmet change: Remove Chalcidian helmet from later period or well equipped troops(in process), increase the ratio of Thracian helmet for later period troops, improve crest type and ratio

New Unit:
- Royal Pergamene Cavalry: Historically they are identical to Companion Cavalry in terms of equipment. I use the cloak from WoS and white and purple feathers crest to distinguish them from the Companion. They are also in bronze armours and with armoured horses.

Unit Change:
- Thessalian Cavalry (Skirmisher): quick reload added, disciplined added
- Armoured Libyan Horse Skirmisher: disciplined added, heat resistance added
- Hippeus Lancers: Helmet and tunic edited
- Light Thureos Cavalry: Helmet and tunic edited
- (Armoured) Pergamene Noble Cavalry: Helmet crest changed (to match the new unit)
- Thorax Swordsmen/Hoplites/Thorakitai/Pikemen: helmet edited
- Picked Peltasts: helmet edited, boots added
- Picked hoplites: helmet and tunic edited
- Hippeus Lancers: helmet edited
- Greek Vetern Hoplites/cavalry: Helmet, greaves and tunic edited
- Greek Officer: skin, helmet and tunic edited
- Agema Spears: helmet edited

Officer’s colour of the following units is now as same as the soldier’s colour (may not be the same as the soldiers still due to variation in officer’s colour):
- Agema Cavalry
- Hellenic Cataphracts
- Hellenic Melee Cataphracts
- Hellenic Foot Cataphracts
- Thessalian Cavalry (both type)

Update 47

Major pikemen and successor cavalry update

New Units
- Late Pikemen: a more historical representation of the common pikemen in the era. There are both linothorax and bronze armour in the unit. Unit stat is similar to thorax pikemen
- Late Pikemen (Seleucid and Bactria): half of the unit wear trousers
- Thessalian Cavalry (Skirmisher): Historically they can also act as skirmisher cavalry with spear and javelins. The reskin might be temporary. Purple cloak used (might be temporary). Armour includes linothorax and bronze cuirass.
- Companion Cavalry (Historical): details below

Unit Change:
- Companion Cavalry (Historical) and Ptolemaic Cavalry - new skin using horse with no armour and with sandy-brown cloak and white tunic based on historical sources (I know they might decorate their cloak with purple but there is no suitable vanilla cloak, and the “Roman” cloak creates least tearing). With boots and new configuration of helmets. A mix with linothorax and bronze armour. e3tunic(short sleeve/roman tunic) added. HP – 10 due to removal of horse armour but the speed of the unit should be increased. No plan on changing the unit weight. Unit price and upkeep reduced for Ptolemaic Cavalry
- Aspis Companion Cavalry – similar change to Companion Cavalry.
- Armoured Companion Cavalry - With boots. Similar change to Companion Cavalry.
- Armoured Ptolemaic Cavalry – With boots. Similar change to Companion Cavalry.
- Agema Cavalry: With boots. Purple cloak. Cataphracts helmets with horse hair. A mix with linothorax and bronze armour.
- Hellenic Cataphracts (and Melee): A mix with linothorax and bronze armour. Purple cloak. Scale leggings.
- Hellenic Foot Cataphracts
- Citizen Thureos Spears/Swordsmen – Thracian tunics added, boots added
- Thureos Spears – e3tunic(short sleeve/roman tunic) added, crested Thracian helmet ratio increased, boots added
- Thureos Spears (Eastern) – Bsc linothorax colour variety improved, crested Thracian helmet ratio increased, boots added
- Thorakitai – boots added
- Thessalian cavalry – same as the skirmisher version, horse armour removed. Price and upkeep increased
- Sarissa cavalry – cap added, tunics added
- Greek Veteran Cavalry – horse armoured removed, HP -5
- Indian Armoured Elephant – mailed soldiers added

Update 46.3

- Added “Briton mail” to all Hellenic units with mail including Carthaginian and Massilian (in a ratio of 3:1 to the original “Celtic mail_2” except Massilian), trying to kind of improve mail varity
- Added bronze armours from WoS to Foot Companian
- Improved tunic colours of shoulderless mail

Update 46.2

- (Should have)Fixed armour problems of certain units
- (Should have)Fixed missing Tarentine Cavalry rider

Unit Change:
Royal Thorax Swordsmen – Melee defence +5
Royal Thorax Spears – Melee defence +7
Silver Shield Swordsmen – Melee attack +4, melee defence +7

Update 46.1

- Fixed repeated values in the unit building table
- Add Samnite Warriors to Carthage

Update 46

Roster Changes:
Added Campanian Hoplites, Samnite warriors, Campanian Spearmen and Campanian Cavalry to Syracuse (campaign + custom)

Unit Change:
Campanian Hoplites – attack -1 (to make it more balanced with Greek Veteran Hoplites)

Variation Changes
- Cimmerian Noble Infantry Shield and helmet edited
- Greek Militia Hoplites edited

- Silver Shield Swordsmen – shield changed to silver aspis, armour +5 due to shield change

- Campanian Hoplites (Carthage) Shield edited
- Samnite Warriors Shield edited, sword added, rapid advance ability added
- Italian Officer edited
- Italian Swordsmen and Spearmen Edited

- Persian Hoplites – shield and armour edited
- Eastern Officer – helmet ratio and shield edited


Future Update:
- Campaign General’s aspis
- Italian units for Epirus(?)
- More new units!

Update 45

If you experience any bug, please report in the comment section. Any model missing maybe caused by no WoS purchased or missing file in the mod.

This update mainly edited the unit variation of Carthaginian and Greek (including Spartan)/Hellenistic units regarding the new aspis, new cuirass and the Phrygian helmets.

Spartan units (except Periokoi units and female units) should now wear red tunic only.

You may not need to really read the list below coz it’s mainly for my own reference.

Main Campaign:
- New cuirasses from WoS campaign are added to all Carthaginian units and officers with cuirass (excluding mercenary)
- Improved helmet variation for Carthaginian Hoplites, Late Carthaginian Hoplites , Late Carthaginian Citizen Infantry, Carthaginian Citizen Militia, Carthaginian Marines , Carthaginian Archers (also daggers added) and Libyan Infantry
- Variant improved for Late Libyan Hoplites and Libyan Hoplites
- New aspis edited to
 Greek Hoplites, Greek Hoplites (Eastern Hellenic), Greek Marine (+ Eastern), Citizen Cavalry (+ Eastern), Tarantine Cavalry, Late Shock Troopers (simple Phrygian helmet removed), Light Tarantine Cavalry (Italian Tunic added), Colchis Nobles, Light Cavalry (attics helmet added), Bactrian light horse
- Greek and Spartan Officers edited
- Helmet, cuirass and aspis edited:
 Picked Hoplites, Veteran Hoplites (non-mercenary), Greek Shock Troopers, Greek Veteran Cavalry, Shield Bearers, Royal Peltasts, Hellenic (and Melee) Cataphract (Thracian fancy helmet added), Bactrian Royal Guards, Spartan Officers, Spartan Marines, Spartan Hoplites, Veteran Spartan Hoplites, Periokoi Spears, Spartan Youths, Agema Cavalry, Massilian Hoplites, Late Massilian Cavalry, Massilian Swordmen, Massilian Thorakitai, Light Hoplites
- Cuiass and aspis edited:
 Royal Spartan, Heroes of Spartan, Periokoi Hoplites, Massilian Cavalry
- New cuirass for
 Hippeus Lancers, (Armoured) Companion Cavalry (simple Phrygian helmet removed), Aspis Companion Cavalry (simple Phrygian helmet removed), (Armoured) Ptolemaic Cavalry (simple Phrygian helmet removed), Pontic Royal Cavalry, Royal Spartan Pikemen, Spartan Pikemen (tunic and helmet), Perioloi Pikemen, Hellenic Royal Guards, Thorax Pikemen, Hellenic Royal Cavalry, Silver Shield Pikemen
- Helmet edited (mainly simple Phrygian helmet removed)
 Agema Spear, Foot Cataphract, Greek Thorakitai

Update 44

Hi Guys, months have passed since the last update, I gotta admit I’m kind of abandoned this mod like CA abandon this game.

Recently I have played Attila and I find that I really don’t like the units from that period. Sometimes I play Napoleon and Shogun but still I find I like Rome II most.

For this mod, there is actually still an “update list” with at least 20 items. Some of them are 100% feasible while some not quite/too fancy.
At the moment, I plan to replace all the old and small aspis in the main campaign by the new and better aspis from the WoS campaign.

Bear in mind this is a “one man” mod.
Here are answers for some frequently asked questions:
1. Spartan swords and mail armoured units – New Spartan units are always in my mind but the point is: information about later Spartan units is too limited. My units are based/loosely based on books (well researched I believe) but I can’t find concrete information about them. And the Spartan special force? Not planned now. If you can give me any good info about them I will be willing to add so.
2. OP unit and AOR system – The reason why I make those “OP” units is that first, they existed, and second, there are also “OP” units for other culture, e.g. Roman and Celts sword units. What I try to do is to limit their number in one army, e.g. 2 max. AOR system – I always think that the system is kind of dumb especially for mercenary. Mercenary can travel and they have to find jobs anyway. So that I put some of the units in the normal building recruitment system is to simplify the matter somehow.

And yes, I make Carthage very strong.

Lastly I just want to thank you guys for supporting this mod. I am really satisfied with 4000+ subscribers.

Changes for this update:
Main Campaign:
New aspis from WoS added to the following Carthaginian units (including officer and standard bearer)
- Carthaginian Hoplites
- Late Carthaginian Hoplites
- Carthaginian White Shield Hoplites
- Sacred Band
- Sacred Band Cavalry
- Carthaginian Cavalry
- Heavy Carthaginian Cavalry
- General Bodyguard
- Carthaginian Marines
- Libyan Armoured Horse Skirmishers
- Carthaginian Citizen Militia

Variants edited:
- Carthaginian General Bodyguard: Cloak added
- Carthaginian units with aspis and linothorax now have a higher proportion of short tunics in the units (if edied above) + archers

WoS Campiagn:
New Unit:
- Armoured Archers

Unit Edited:
- Remove crested helmet from Boeotian light cavalry
- Ionian Cavalry: HP, morale, train level deceased, strength weekness text edited, voice edited, attribute group changed
- Light hoplites variants added
- Javelinmen: some of them wear sandals now