Marius reform triggers back to vanilla: take city of Rome, build Imperial palace. If you went to Danube river, you will find Dacia there, even after many turns, and not for example Greece expanded to Macedonia and beyond. So you will fight campaigns against fractions with historically accurate geographical boarders. Sometimes Carthage will take few cities or Gaul will be active in Spain, and etc But you won't see Germans expanding all over Gaul and Spain, or Egypt taking half Asia. So they will eventually fight each other too.īorders of other fractions will stay relatively the same as historical boarders. And certain campaign map changes will trigger proactive enemy actions against Rome or against other fractions. However they are not randomly coming to attack you. No trade diplomacy and every fraction is in war with Rome.

This also means that battles are very often and on larger scale. Unit recruitment time is 0 turns, so you will be able to recruit full army in 1-2 turns if you have enough population and money in the cities. Also there will 4 turn per calendar game year. Remember to activate garrison scripts and when you approach enemy city it will recruit an army to defend. Full stack Carthage or Gaul army will be also around 4,000+ soldiers. Full stack army will represent a legion by number of soldiers 3,000-4,000. Number of soldiers in the unit is approximately equal real historical cohort. Carthage under Hannibal is already in Italy with two full stack armies.Ĭampaign map is big enough, but it's not huge, so it is perfectly playable in terms of logistics and army maneuvering, with interesting terrain for tactical play. You are low on money, week army, Gaul will attack from the north, and Greece will attack in Sicily.

It is especially difficult at the beginning, under first 10-20 turns. Its somewhat difficult, and the mod is balanced on medium/medium settings. So here is few important things in the mod for me: I think he is still active on forums and etc. Mod come long way as well, I discovered it first years ago on v6.2, now it's v9.0, it's refined perfectly, for specific style of play.

I am coming back to play it again and again, even after all those years. Sure, there is a few things what makes this mod my favorite.

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