The Greek Wars (TGW) mod for Rome: Total War

Mod name: The Greek Wars
Version: 1.01
Platform: RTW
Era: 360BC – 338BC
Mod foldered - Will not ruin your original game.

Brief description: The Greek Wars recreates the era following the Theban Hegemony and preceding the Macedonian unification of Greece. 19 factions.

Brief description for versions 0.9-0.97 (smaller map and fewer factions than in 1.0; also less historical): The Greek Wars is a mod based on the group story of the same name in the .Com’s Fan Fiction section. The map is restricted to southern Greece and there are 11 factions – Athens, Thebes, Megara, Corinth, Argos, Sparta, Messenia, Elis, Arcadia, Achaea and Sicyon.

I would like to start right off by saying that this is not, strictly speaking, a historical mod. For, although the borders, nations, troop types, dynamics, are meant to represent reality in 360BC, to the extent that our means allowed it, The Greek Wars is still based on the homonymous work of group fiction in the .com Fan Fiction section, of which most of us were co-writers. Therefore you will find a king in Argos and another in Corinth, and Iphicrates will be missing from the Athenian family tree. But apart from that, we have strived to keep things historical. You will find no mythical units or super-Spartans (in fact, Spartans don’t even have the best hoplites in this game…). There are 11 factions on a small map, and their differences in units are, in most cases, slight. That serves two purposes. First, there were few actual differences in unit types within such a small area in such a small period of time, and second, we had hoped to somehow emulate the conditions that made, and still make, Shogun Total War so appealing. Thebans get better cavalry, but not through different units; their cavalry is the same but with experience bonuses. Megarans have better assassins (which is a feature central to the story), and are expected to function more or less like clan Imagawa in STW. There are 40 regions in total, and it is not necessary to conquer all of them to win. The goal is hegemony. There are two classes of settlements: towns and capitals. Capitals are the only places where you can recruit decent troop types, and the best units can only be trained in your own capital. There are no large or huge walls, and therefore the advantage remains with the defender. Assaulting a well-defended capital should be tough, and we won’t be able to call this mod “finished” until that has been accomplished.

Many elements of this game may seem a bit rough. There are various features that we’ve discussed but didn’t have time to implement, because either real life got in the way, or more basic things proved much more time-consuming than we had imagined – or both reasons. Many basic features, like starting armies and unit balancing, are incomplete because of similar time restrictions (due to real life obligations), and we thought it would be better to perfect them after this first (beta) release. Since most Classical Greece mods have a bad history of being stuck in eternal development, we felt that it would be best to release an early, playable version now, and include anything new gradually in the future.

We would like to thank Dimebagho and the XGM team for letting us use their wonderful models and skins, as well as various other features; also SignifierOne for his animation package. Hoplites just wouldn't be hoplites without it; HouseOfHam for his scripting tutorial on how to implement more than 2 turns per year; and finally PROMETHEUS tm for permission to use his strategic map city models.

Links

TW Centre (<--Correct spelling!) The Greek Wars Wiki

TW Centre (<--Correct spelling!) The Greek Wars Forum

The Defenestrated Assembly:
Seleukos of Olympia,
KingLarsofMars,
Ragimund Von Wallat,
Athkara,
Conqistador,
cpdwane,
Sean Cappone,
Alexius 17,
Volksie,
Raja,
Sipahi (oftheporte),
Percy13,
Knight of Cydonia (Kasey),
Kublai,
and all the rest of the DEF who helped out with their encouragements