Age of Bronze 2.0.2 has been released! In our second post-campaign update we have fixed a large number of remaining bugs and crashes, as well as fully implementing our custom ancillaries and character skills.

• Sanitation effects for buildings will now affect all friendly regions in a province
  
• Updated human models for a large number of units

• Enable all unique ancillaries and character skills
  
• Fix most remaining campaign mode crashes
  
• Fix missing names for campaign characters and other broken text instances
  
• Sanitation and Banditry effects should now work as intended
  
• Many other minor bug fixes and visual tweaks

The first campaign release for Age of Bronze is finally here!

Please enjoy the campaign release, it has been a mammoth effort from everybody on the Age of Bronze team, and we really hope it was worth the wait. This is hardly the end of the road for Age of Bronze however, and we are looking forward to bringing in new features in the future, as well as fixing any bugs you may run into!

• Campaign playable for Egypt and The Hittites.
  
• New tech trees, building trees, and political actions for both factions.
  
• Unique regional recruitment mechanics
  
• Bespoke campaign map visuals.
  
• Stunning new period-appropriate event images.
  
• An original soundtrack composed by Jayson
  
• Extensive battle rebalancing.

• A vast number of small bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements since our last update, too many to reasonably count!

The campaign has been a long time coming, but there will likely still be many bugs and issues ahead. We have created a Google Forms[forms.gle] page for you to submit any issues you may find. Your feedback is invaluable to us continuing to improve Age of Bronze in the future!

This hotfix fixes an issue with new chariot assets not displaying correctly.

In this update you'll find what is probably the largest number of new assets we've introduced in a single update, including chariots for the Egyptians and Hittites, a host of new armour models, and many more! We have also take the opportunity to fix a large number of outstanding bugs and visual glitches.

• Custom chariot models for the Hittite Provincial Chariots, Anatolian Chariots, Egyptian Light Chariots, and Pharaoh's Chariots units
  
• Redesigned Dendra Panoply for the Greeks
  
• Bronze Scale armours for the Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, and many more factions of the near-east
  
• A new set of plumed helmets for the Sea Peoples
  
• Helmets for the Syrians, Canaanites, Assyrians, and Mitanni
  
• Double-handed axes for the Hittites
  
• New full-body skin models for a number of units
  
• Many more new and tweaked/reworked assets!

• Clarified the availability of units in custom battle, when those units were available as general's units
  
• Fixed various reported bugs, including units becoming invisible when far from the camera, certain weapon attach points not being properly set, and pike units not actually being pike units.
  
• Updated Mycenae's faction colours and banner

Age of Bronze 1.7 has been released!

This update brings a whole host of new assets for the Aegeans, Hittites, and a number of other factions and cultures. We've also fixed a number of outstanding bugs from 1.6, remade many of the existing unit cards, and made some general quality-of-life improvements.

Unit Visuals
- A large number of new models and textures have been introduced, with the Aegean, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian factions receiving the most work.
- Most unit cards for existing playable factions have been reworked, improving both quality and accuracy.

Bug Fixes and Quality of Life
- The number of factions available in Custom Battle has been slimmed down to remove blank entries or factions we felt were uninteresting or redundant.
- A number of outstanding bugs from 1.6 have been fixed, including issues with certain units not holding their weapons properly.
- Several typos and grammatically dubious text entries have been fixed.

Age of Bronze 1.6 has been released!

With this update we bring our very own interface skin, built from the ground-up for Age of Bronze, and featuring some beautiful artwork by the talented Balage Balogh (archaeologyillustrated.com).

We've also finally condensed the Steam version into a single download, and otherwise substantially reduced the overall size of the mod. As of now all other parts of the mod on Steam can be safely deleted.

New UI Skin
- Almost every item in the base Rome II UI for custom battle and the front-end has been replaced.
- The loading and title screens feature background art by Balage Balogh of ArchaeologyIllustrated.com

Unit Visuals
- A large number of new models and textures have been introduced, affecting most factions.
- Several older assets have been edited to use Rome II's decal system, which should result in more visual variety across men in certain units.

Bug Fixes and Quality of Life
- Age of Bronze is now available as a single file on Steam Workshop - all other parts can safely be deleted.
- Almost every unit variant has been edited to ensure quality and use the full variety of visual elements available.
- Broken/inverted normal maps have been fixed.
- All units should now be using their full range of faction colours across their uniforms
- The overall file size of the mod has been reduced.

FIxed missing factions in custom battles

New Egyptian shield models

New Syrian shield models

New Troy Faction icon

New Syrian Helm

Bug Fixes

Varied shield diversity amongst units

Age of Bronze v1.5

At long last the final update for the Age of Bronze custom battles. While we will continue to address bugs and make graphical improvements, we have officially shifted our focus to the development of the campaign.


- Added Proto-Germanics and Steppe Factions
- Removed redundant factions (one faction per culture)
- Custom icons for all major factions
- New unit for Trojan roster
- New textures and assets
- Bug fixes
- Further unit balancing
- AoB Chariot overhaul v0.6
- Fixed incorrect unit selection dialogues