Getting the Marian Reforms in this mod is different than vanilla. You need, I think 3 Huge Cities in Italy, and Rome doesn't count. The settlements in the north of Italy named Patavium and Mediolanum count, too. I bring this up because Patavium has the highest growth on the peninsula outside Rome itself.

May I ask how to trigger the reform of Marius

I noticed that the other Roman factions, or just Roman factions in general are almost passive. They hardly expand beyond one settlement, and the northern factions become allies to Rome. Also, the advisers voice or the narrative voices are completely mess up. I get the Eastern adviser playing as the Barbarians, the Barbarian adviser playing as the Greeks and the Greek Advisers playing as the Eastern factions. Only Rome seems to have the correct adviser. Also, I dislike very much the changes made to Hoplites. Just keep it vanilla, not all factions get Pikemen.

honestly its just boring. managed to take greece easily like 20 turns before hannibal spawns in rome, also once you get the ability to recruit cretan archers at will the game becomes a total joke. 5 unitsof these and the enemy loses 1/3rd or more of their army before you've attacked with any melee troops. they even completely melt principes.

This could be a great mod, the only gameplay issue is that it feels like big factions send endless swarms and have infinite resources. Even when you are destroying stacks of 20 in the sea, maybe to make up for the extra settlements the unit upkeep or cost should slightly raise for the AI it feels like they have extra bonuses. Which isn't needed since their are endless factions on the map.

And that I had a 5 hour play through with about 120 turns and it crashed and won't load my gameplay or on any of its last turn auto saves anymore. Feels like wasted time.

how do i get the marian reforms to fire

theres too many macedonia generals

@❟❛❟BenteBørge I was having the same issue when trying to conquer a city in Iberia, Emporium to be exact, after I won the siege and try to conquer the city my game would freeze and then CTD. I canceled the siege and moved on until about 20 turns later I was able to conquer it with no freezing/CTD, so I think it's the mod's way of telling you that you are conquering too fast lol but I almost restarted my campaign thinking my game broke.

I play as the Claudian Dynasty (Rome) and have the Hannibal Invasion event happening now. Hannibal and his armies took tarentum from the Valerians (Rome). Now everytime I recapture the city it just freezes my game and I have to force shut it down. What's happening? Is it because the game thinks, I just took my roman Ally city too early and shouldn't be able to do that?

Anyone else have this?
I super enjoy this mod, so it is really annoying

It seems fine for me, but I've only played Roman factions so far.

has the mod got issues now? I thought it was ok and nothing updated / patched from the main game means it should stay ok? Obviously not?

I think this mod has been abandoned...?

The Brigantes campaign is legitimately impossible to play. Why give the AI unlimited money?

Having trouble getting elected to the Roman Senate as anything other than an Aedile or Quaestor

Anyone have issues with there being no music or battle sound?

Does anyone know why the Roman generals give_trait cheat doesn't work? Works for all faction but Rome?

No. Actually my AI was very active. Maybe it's the romans only? @PapoeaStrojder

I see this has 200 regions. How many more than the original is that? Also, do all factions have shadow factions for civil wars?

@Azrill - Getting the Marian Reforms in this mod is different than vanilla. You need, I think 3 Huge Cities in Italy, and Rome doesn't count. The settlements in the north of Italy named Patavium and Mediolanum count, too. I bring this up because Patavium has the highest growth on the peninsula outside Rome itself.

Fridericus, you're a star! And I'm an idiot I had completely forgotten that there was a separate mod manager in the launcher. All is good now, many thanks!

Bjorn - the mode may not be activated in the mod manager i your new computer.

Great mod! Yesterday I installed the game on another PC along with this mod, and wanted to continue the game there. However, when I start the game on the 2nd PC, the mod doesn't appear active, and the save games from this PC (via Steam Cloud) does not load there. Starting a new game only give the original factions as options and such.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the mod, and the mod is activated according to the Steam properties for the game.

Any tips, anyone? Any settings file that might need tweaking, or something? Do I need to complete a normal campaign first on the other PC? I don't use other mods.

Many thanks in advance.

just started a round, cimbri. but the capital has a roman building, traditions.. so I have cultural unrest about. is this fine?

Compatible with imperum surrectum?

I have built the imperial palace in Tarentum, but i didnt got the Marian Reforms, is it a bug?

Can you make version of this mod without senate factions? I mean with just one roman faction and carthage as well.

JaceX was not here since December - is someone working on this Mode?

@Hadrien1er I have done the same experience with the Nabataeans. The better spearmens and bowmens are gone with the highest buildings.
@Etruscan I could see the Marian reform information appears at 200 bc.

I'm currently expanding the Celtic Culture further East with the Galantian and i have noted that the stables Lvel III allow to recruit Gallic Champion Cavalery but hte Stable level IV doest not allow the recruitement of this unit.
Same goes for all the Celtic faction

I've built a huge city in italy when do the Marian reforms fire? Has it been changed?

Really enjoy the mod otherwise.

I feel like AI is a bit too traitorish/aggro and the roman factions are a bit overpowered. Playing Brutii and seeing like a spam of Julii and Scipio stacks everywhere while im struggling to fund a proper army and defending myself against everyone.

I don't get it, I subscribed to the mod but when i start up the game it doesn't seem any different

@ JaceX Any chance of trying to implement Vanilla enhanced map for this mod 🙂

@tdizzle The Roman factions are real spiced up. With SPQR and 3 Roman factions with them all in Italy, they blitz real hard because they have each other's backs. It's not like the Carthaginian factions that are spread out and can be overwhelmed as an isolated faction. It is IMO why Carthage never becomes a behemoth like the Romans often do.

The Roman juggernaut makes it also extremely tough to play as any faction that is close to them, especially any starting in Italy itself like the Samnites and Etruscans. The Roman steamroller is no joke. Like playing Piscenum is impossible if you try to stay in Italy because you were going to get overwhelmed no matter how perfectly you fight your battles manually. The only strategy that worked was to literally abandon Italy and go somewhere else and re-establish yourself. Even repositioning to Patavium was pointless because you start seeing non-stop Roman stacks coming for you.

SPQR is still a steam roll no matter what. Ai Valerii in my campaing have already conquered all of Greece, Balkans, Panmonia and Anatolia by 215bc, damn bro.

Good mod, but my game starts crashing after 50-70 turns

"AI does a better job of building up armies and attacking strategically"

Just played campaign as Carthage Magonid. AI is clueless. Barcid lost three provinces in first 20 turns, and was bleeding out trying to retake Palma, while Iol was hardly defended. Hannonids were sending random armies to Rome, only for the to be destroyed by SQPR. They did nothing in africa, Both families.

Not to mention that Valerii and Claudii were attacking only me.

I returned back to RTW Remastered + this mod after some time away. Tried out the Roman Separatists and that city east of the Etruscans, Asculum. Interesting and in the latter case, a very tough start. Actually a pretty strong defensive army roster. Strong spear units with shield wall. Archers with 170 range and some good cavalry later on. Not Companion or Cataphract levels of cav but good enough for a variety of work. No siege engines though.

Roman Separatists lets you get your Sertorious game on while all Roman groups are already hostile to you at the start.

I was also wondering how Hoplites unit fared against cavalry after losing phalanx ability and anti-cav bonus. They still handled cav well.

@Coocoodas: Yeah, Vanilla RTW + Remastered both had that flaw. Once you got a conquering army you were basically steamrolling. Especially in more civilized areas with advanced buildings.

Some mods even back in RTW's younger years tried to slow that down with culture and other mechanics to assimilate a population and allow recruiting of faction units there.

add units instead of basic vanilla ones

Seems my mod has one issue. The Thorakitai units recruitable by romans in helenistic cities show up without a card, with the default peasant unit card. I guess the card is missing from the UI folder?

Would have been perfect with having to convert settlement for faction units in newly conquered provinces which was R1's biggest pitfall but otherwise nearly perfect, thanks!

I'm not a fan of united Rome and Carthage. But I understand making an alternative mode might be good bc it would please part of the community.

best mod for me, it could be perfect with the united rome and carthage.
I saw more comments here asking for it.... so please- make a dream come true !!!

Hello JaceX,
I saw you "softens" the Hannibal invasion; however, is there a reason why he is not attacking the other 2 Roman Factions when they stand right next to him?
The sewers are not associated with health - is this on purpose or an oversight?
The Breuci have no "Trade" button; hence no trade agreements can be made.
The rebellions are now stronger for some, but others have only 3 units which are hard to kill, at least 3 attacks by superior force are necessary to eliminate them.
Your mod improved greatly.

Amazing mod, would be great to have the option to begin the campaign with united rome and carthage

Why was the phalanx formation removed from the Hoplites of Carthage and the Greek factions? This is moronism. Now even the Hoplites of Sparta are nothing before any swordsmen, principi. pls fix it

Any update on the plans for incorporating Danymoks Expanded Roster with additional units? That would really bring it all together! Love the work, JaceX!

Love this mod, would be great to have the option to begin the campaign with united roman and carthaginian factions