Expanded Mod - OA 2.12.1 (For Extended Edition) file

Expanded Mod Version 2.8 for Extended Edition refer to /docs/ folder contained in expanded mod core for complete list of changes from prev. versions and 1.3 to 2.0. Not compatible with disk/Titans. Delete any preexisting Expanded Mod folders, then extract the contents of the archive into your /steamapps/common/age of mythology/mods folder.

Changelog since 2.8:

-- EM 2.9 --

GENERAL
- Fixed an issue where no forests generated in Spokes.
- Olympian Shrines now generate 0.2 favor per second (meaning if you theoretically control all, you can generate about 1 per second)
- Replaced Library sound.
- Wheelbarrow now costs 100w, 75f, researched in 25 seconds. Hand Cart now costs 200w, 150f, researched in 35 seconds.
- Various little AI changes (Norse AI will now utilize campfires, all AIs will try to build Libraries/Tingholls, etc)
-- All RM AIs have now been updated; this includes Attacker, Conqueror, etc.
- Fixed issues in Lowland where cliffs could cover resources.
- Villagers gather berries faster.
- Restored the old "U-Shape Barracks-esque" Academy designs (they look hell of a lot nicer, and players will better recognize them as an infantry building)
- Counter-Cavalry (i.e Spearman) and Counter Archer Cavalry (i.e Prodromos) now deal x2 damage versus Horse Archers.
- Fixed Jewel of the Roc having an incorrect description string.
- Norse, Atlantean and Chinese Siege Works now have a unique third stage construction model.
- Swapped Poseidon's Market Buy/Sell values with Tax Collectors Buy/Sell values.
- Lending now decreases/increases Buy/Sell values by 10%, no longer available to Poseidon.
- Alchemy no longer affects Fire Ship/Siphon attack rate or range.
- Resolved an issue where several Javelin-throwing units used the incorrect projectile sound effect.
- Renamed Bloodlines to Solid Framed Saddles.
- Resolved an issue where you couldn't build towers in "Union"

ATLANTEAN
- Atlantean Soldier Heroes can now pickup relics again.
- Bite of the Shark now costs 100f, 10fa.
- Weightless Mace now costs 150f, 15fa.
- Halo of the Sun is now a generic Atlantean tech available in the Mythic Age, now called Chemistry, now costs 350g, 200w, and increases fire ship/siphon fire rate and range instead of damage.
- Poseidon's Secrets moved to Helios.
- Added Hero variant of the Evocatus.
- ALL Atlantean Soldiers now follow the Copper > Bronze > Iron texture progression.
- Soldier Heroes can now carry relics again.
-- Due to (currently) lacking assets, some of the EM units will have the relics appearing at their feet whilst holding them.
- Fanatics now have Bronze and Iron variants.
- Replaced the Retriarius with the Secutor; effectively combining the old cut Secutor concept and Retriarius concept into one unit; a strong, powerful infantry unit with a sword.
-- The original secutore has been removed.
-- The Secutor is mostly unchanged from the Retriarius; instead attacking faster and dealing slightly less damage.
- Test changes
-- Farms now cost 150w.
-- Standard citizens now worth roughly x2 villagers instead of x3 (too many details to specifically list, but they are now cheaper, have less HP, take -1 less pop, slightly faster, and a bit more can be trained)
-- Hero Citizens are now roughly where the old ones were in terms of gather rate, and are now slightly weaker.
- Cranquiniers now have 65% accuracy, deal 10 damage, and have 110 HP but have 10% hack armor and 30% pierce armor.
- Improved Tent UV Map.
- Increased Oranos hero/soldier speed increase to 15%.
- Increased Kronos siege speed increase to 25%.
- Kronos siege is now 15% cheaper.
- Atlanteans now lose access to Draft Horses.
- Resolved an issue where Ocelotls would use hoplite textures under certain circumstances.
- Adjusted Siege Catapult accuracy, it is much more accurate against buildings at range, but is still dogwater against moving units.
- Fixed an issue where the texture for the unupgraded Cuirassier was white and player coloured instead of just player coloured.

CHINESE
- Fixed an issue where Chu Ko Nu didn't change texture when upgraded.
- Fire Lancers moved to Mythic Age, and now function akin to the Hand Cannoneers from AoE2 (Basically really good against infantry, middling vs everything else)
-- Now classified as an Archer again and take bonus damage vs anti archers, and affected by archer upgrades.
- Disabled Pyromancer Fire Lancer technology, Fire Lancers now affected by Archer-upgrades (Medium, Champion, etc).
- Reverted the change that allowed Siege towers to be buildable, they are now reverted back to being simply the Chinese equivalent to Egyptian Siege Towers (Heroic, trained at Siege Camps, etc)
- Shennong can no longer has access to Two Man Saw, and now gets a +15% bonus to wood gather rate.
- Nuwa looses access to Thumb Ring due to her Archer Fire rate bonus.
- Fuxi looses access to Block Projections and Pulley.
- Fixed Lancers not having Medium/etc prefixes
- Added Meteor Hammers, basically the Chinese version of the Greek Hippeis.
- Updated Noble Lancer horse texture, fixed upgraded language strings.
- Removed Longbowman.
- Moved Onyx Dragon to Archery Range. No longer affected by Academy technologies. Now on par with the Egyptian Royal Archer, albeit cheaper, with less LOS and less range.
- Fixed various Chinese units lacking icons or not denoting they were upgraded.
- Chinese Fire Ships now on par with other civs' fire ships.

EGYPTIAN
- Fixed an issue where Migdol Strongholds couldn't research technologies.
- Fixed an issue where Egyptian Villagers gathered gold too slowly.
- Priests of Ra now move faster at a rate of 3.9m/s.
- Hands of the Pharaoh now available in the Archaic Age.
- Obelisks now cost 10g, and are built in 10 seconds. To compensate however, they miss out on 5 LOS in Archaic.
-- Egyptians generally suffer from pretty eh starting position lacking an adequte scout, so It was decided to boost the middling Obelisks by decreasing their costs and build times.
-- Isis Obelisks now cost 5g and are built in 5 seconds.
- Disabled Bone Handles from Supremacy (Again!?)
- Serpent Spear renamed to Serpent Arrow, given back to Anubis, and now increases Pitati attack by 10%. Now costs 100w, 10fa.
- Leather Frame Shield restored back to original role (spearman, under ptah). Now costs 100w, 10fa.
- Resolved an issue where Scalloped Axe couldn't be researched in the Barracks.
- Electrum Bullets now costs 100g, 10fa.
- Loom Female villager's body will no longer turn black when killed.
- Isis gains access to Block Projections.

GREEK
- Sarrisa now costs 100w, 10fa.
- Phobos' Spear of Panic now costs 100g, 10fa.
- Enyos' Bow of Horror now costs 100w, 10fa.
- Deimos' Sword of Dread now costs 100f, 10fa.
- Spirited Charge now costs 200f, 20fa.
- Aegis Shield now costs 200w, 20fa.
- Test: Greek Fortress Models replaced (the old ones now used by the editor Stronghold building) and are now more consistent with other fort-type buildings model layouts.
- Poseidon no longer has access to Tax Collectors.
- Hades looses access to Block Projections, and Architects.
- Battering Rams now deal 75 crush damage, now deal x3 damage vs siege weapon.
- Bumped down Oxybeles Track Rating to 5.0, is now more accurate at range.

NORSE
- Fixed Walking Woods Spruce and Beech Trees being just walking roots.
- Lone Wanderer now costs 100w, 5fa, and now only affects Ulfsark speed again.
- Thundering Hooves now costs 200f, 20fa.
- Mithril Breastplate now costs 100g, 10fa.
- Hall of Thanes now costs 150w, 10fa.
- Arctic Winds now cost 100w, 10fa.
- No longer get Thumb Ring.

EDITOR
- Added Greek-style Arkantos statue (not the same as the Atlantean Arkantos God statue)
- Resolved an issue where Egyptian Siege Works were referred to as a "Siege Camp" in the editor.
- Added Dire Wolf, a variant of the Arctic Wolf using normal wolf art assets.

-- EM 2.9.1 --

GENERAL
- All wall segments now cost 7 gold. Gates now cost 10 gold.
- Aristocracy now available in the Mythic Age.
- Added "Horsemanship" which decreases the gold and food cost of hand cavalry by 8%. Available to Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse in the Mythic Age.
- Cofferdam now costs 200w. Now only increases Dock healing of ships by 10%.
- Dry Docks no longer affects Ship cost. Now costs 400w, 200g. Now increases Dock healing of ships by 15%.
-- Added Shipwright; which decreases ship cost by 20%. Costs 500g, 300g, Available in the Mythic Age to the Chinese, Egyptians and Norse.
-- Resolved an issue where both neither increased the train cap of Egyptian and Norse Fire Ships.

ATLANTEAN
- Added Gift of Citrus to Rheia, it costs 220f, 15fa and enables ships to regenerate hitpoints and decreases their wood cost.

NORSE
- Skyti now costs 55w, 30g, 10%/10%/99% Armour, 7 attack, are slightly more accurate at range.

-- EM 2.9.1b --

GENERAL
- Added Tracking to all civs' stables. Costs 75 Food, increases cavalry and scout LOS.
- Renamed Horsemanship (increases cavalry speed) to Bloodlines.
- Fixed some unit/tech positions in Library.
- Updated Solid Frame Saddle icon.

ATLANTEAN
- Fixed Palace description.

CHINESE
- Gain access to Horsemanship.
- Onxy Dragons, Paper Money and Rocketry now correctly have icons.
- Fixed Castle description.

EGYPTIANS
- Can now research Torsion Engines.
- Gain access to Solid Frame Saddles.
- Lose access to Conditioning

GREEKS
- Lose Access to Horsemanship.

NORSE
- Lose access to Solid Frame Saddles.
- Gain access to Conditioning

-- EM 2.9.1c --

GENERAL
- Fixed Horsemanship description.
- Most Skirmishers and Slingers deal half damage to cavalry now.
- Updated Immortality and Medicine icons.

ATLANTEAN
- Fundibalarus deal a quarter less damage vs cavalry
- Fire Siphons now deal x3 bonus damage vs Siege Weapons (mostly to counter Monobeles/Oxybeles) and x4 vs ships.
- Kataoballista now cost 150w, 100g, however blast damage radius, crush damage and accuracy reduced, but minimum range also reduced; and projectile count increased to 5. Increased projectile speed.

CHINESE
- Resolved an issue where Barracks had no sounds.

EGYPTIAN
- Axe Riders now cost 70f, 30g and have 40% pierce armor and correctly deal bonus damage vs archers and siege weapons. Fixed Description. Now actually good against archers and siege weapons.
- Fixed an issue where Stables played the old Charioteria sound.
- Desert Scouts now cost 70f. Decreased pierce armour to 25% and train time to 13 seconds.
- Horsemanship no longer covered by Nobility.
- Torsion Engines now has an icon.
- Monobeles now identical to Greek Oxybeles' in stats (hp, armour, range, los, etc) but costs 100w, 100g. Deals 15 pierce damage, now has 3.5m area damage.

GREEKS
- Oxybeles now cost 100w, 75g, have 80 HP. No longer deal bonus damage vs archers, infantry, or cavalry archers. Deals x0.7 damage vs melee cavalry now. Decreased bonus vs ships from 10 to 7.5. Decreased Bonus vs Siege Weapons from 12 to 9. Now trained in 18 seconds, and takes up 2 population.
- Battering Ram splash damage decreased to 3.0, and now actually works.

NORSE
- Fixed Stone Thrower Blast Damage, and decreased their minimum range. However they now cost 200w, 200g, have 20 range, 22 LOS, deal 9 pierce damage in a 4m radius and only throw 9 projectiles. Increased projectile speed.

-- EM-2.10.0 --

GENERAL
- Towers now always have 100% accuracy. Cannot upgrade them directly (use the library/tingholl) anymore.
- Relic Overhaul:
-- The Titan's Treasure: Now generates 7f/7w/7g per minute.
-- Pythagoras' Teachings: Now affects Secrets of the Titans.
-- Tower of Sestus: Towers gain +4 range and +6 LOS.
-- Gaia's Book of Knowledge: Technologies cost 30% less favor.
-- Buhen Flagstone: Now also decreases Wall Upgrades cost by 25%.
-- Lost Dialogues of Plato: Now correctly reduces Tingholl technology costs.
-- Aelous' Bag of Winds: Speed increase reduced to 10%.
-- Added Udjat Eye: Increase the pop expansion of houses/manors slightly.
- Increased Tribute Penalty to 30% to counteract potential slinging cheese.
-- Ambassadors now reduces tribute to 10%. Now costs 150f, 100g, but now available in the Classical Age.
-- Readded Fealty (Mythic Age, 300f, 200g, requires Ambassadors) which reduces tribute to 0%. Not available to the Atlanteans.
-- Deductions: It's hell of a lot easier to get a good economy going on in EM with the 4th line of gather techs, defensive buffs, etc - so this is a necessary compromise.
- Apothecaries now available to the Greeks. Reduced regeneration rate to .85.
- Added Caravan Guards for 300w, 150f; Mythic Age for Chinese, Egyptians and Greeks. Trade Caravans gain more hitpoints and armor. Requires Apothocaries.
- Town Watch now costs 75w. City Patrol now costs 150w. Both can now be researched at the Library/Tingholl.
- Updated Academy third stage construction model.
- New Projectile art for the Katoballista and Stone Thrower (halfway between Slinger shot and petrobolos shot)
- Docks can no longer attack nearby units by default.
-- Added Coastal Fortifications (200w, 125g, Heroic Age); which upgrades Docks to Harbours and allow them to attack enemy targets provided they have been garrisoned.
-- Fishing Settlements now require Coastal Fortifications to be researched beforehand.
-- Docks are now 100% accurate, only fire 1 arrow, have a x2 bonus vs ships and are affected by Heated Shot, Crenellations and Hornbow Line.
- Made Fortresses less obnoxious to fight by default; reduced their arrow counts back to 3 from 5.
-- Arrowslits now costs 200f, 300w, but now provides Towers with +1 arrow and Fortresses with +2 Arrows.
- Crenellations now available in the Classical Age again.
- Readded "Divine Law" now provides 50 population and all units train 10% faster, costs 2000 gold, requires Secrets of the Titans.
- Wonders now correctly provide 50 population.
- Secrets of the Titans reduced costs and research time reduced to vanilla values.
- Boreal no longer spawns Herds of Deer/Elk, now has two additional groups of berries however.
- Mercenaries: Powerful, high gold cost, high population units trainable from the Heroic Age based around already present human unit archetypes. Choice of three different units (of a total of 30 unique mercs) between 25 lists throughout random maps.
-- Added Taverns to the Egyptians, Greeks, Norse and Atlanteans as the Mercenary training buildings.
-- The actual mercenaries added, and where they are available is left to players to figure out themselves. The mercenaries exist to help fill in holes with culture unit comps or focuses (i.e train tanky infantry to absorb damage for Norse)
-- Readded Spies (Areani for Atlanteans) which now also do bonus damage vs mercenaries.
--- Spies can now go into stealth; where they are slower, and cannot attack but are invisible to enemies.
--- Spies and Areani now have a charged ranged attack that deals 50 flat pierce damage vs the units they counter.
--- Added Assassains (150f, 250w, Mythic) which increases Spy/Areani attack, speed, range, and LOS.
- Renamed Mercenaries (technology) to Nepotism.
- Added Fisheries. Available to all civs from Classical. Can be built on water. Acts as a dropsite for fishing ships.
-- Transport Ships can now trade again. Task them on Fisheries to trade.
-- Transport Ships now affected by Artisanship for increased gold gain.
- Pirate Ships now have lower hack armor, increased pierce armor and increased bonus vs archer ships.
- Ages on the top panel now denote their number (i.e II. Classical Age)
- The first sequence (Greek) of Fall of the Trident has been updated.
-- EM Buildings have been added throughout (for player and AI) Support for Mercenaries. Some terrain tweaks, so on and so forth.
-- I Hope This Works now gives the player a slightly better starting point (free Tavern, Palaestra, Wheelbarrow and Ballistics)
-- Militia in More Bandits have been replaced with Militia Hoplites (which can be trained instead of hoplites)

ATLANTEAN
- Added Thalassocracy (200f, 200g, Heroic) which decreases the cost of dock technologies by 20%.
- Mysticism moved to Classical Age, now costs 75f, 75w. Now increases vision LOS, max vision radius and initial LOS.
-- The original Mysticism was pretty underwhelming, so this greatly helps Oracles being used as scouts.
- Added Hippodrome (150w, 400g, Heroic) which functions as a faster stable that also increases the speed of caravans, villagers and cavalry, and slightly increases citizen gather rate. Generates gold. Only one can be built.
- Eyes of Atlas correctly moved to Temple.
- Heavenly Light now correctly decreases tech favor costs.
- Resolved an issue where Heka Gigantes textures didn't change when upgraded.
- Aquaducts reduced to 40 seconds research time. Gold cost reduced to 150.
- Herbalism cost reduced to 150f, 150g.
- Oracle Scouts heal rate slowed to 0.35. Heros heal rate reduced to 0.5.
- Resolved an issue where Soldier Heroes couldn't pick up relics.
- Added Atlantean variant of Temple of Gods.

CHINESE
- Chinese can now use Monasteries to train Mercenaries.
- Restored original Chinese Heroic Age roof textures.
- Updated Chinese Academy models.
- Updated Chinese Archaic Barracks model.
- Block Printing now just costs 200 gold, and only affects Monk conversion range/LOS.
- Monks no longer affected by Fanaticism.
- Compass now available in the Classical Age, now takes 20 seconds to research.
-- Added Zodiacs (250g, Mythic) which decreases the Recharge rate of Monks by 33%.
- Added Atonement (450g, Heroic) which allows Monks to convert enemy monks, priests, gothis, seers, oracles, etc (note they do not get access to unique abilities like campfires)
- Farms cost 75 wood again and are now correctly affected by Five Grains.
- Resolved an issue where Compunction didn't affect Outlaw attack.

EGYPTIANS
- Shaduf no longer covered by Sacred Cats.
- Vanilla TC mercenaries disabled.
-- Medjay now decreases EM Mercs population counts by 1, and makes them train twice as fast.
-- Get their TC Militia back.
- Hathor no longer gets a free roc.
- Necropolis now researched at the Temple instead of the Monuments.
- Resolved an issue where Macemen didn't change upgrade names post-Medium.

GREEKS
- Added Anabasis for 275f, 150w, it improves the speed and decreases cost of mercenaries.
- Poseidon's Hippocampus reworked to be Hermes' water myth.
-- Now costs 100f, 10fa, 250 hitpoints, take up 2 population, 15 sec training time. Does 10 damage, x3 damage vs myth units, half vs heroes.
-- Poseidon now reduces train time for fishing and transport ships by 15%.
-- Militia no longer take up population, but only last for 30 seconds.
- Anastrophe moved back to Dionysos.
- Nemean Lions now stun nearby enemies when they roar.
- Greeks now start with a unique Katascopos (in line with the Norse starting ulfsark) based on the vanilla Katascopos (Untrainable, immune to certain GPs, etc)
- Persephone now has a unique GP called Return of Spring. This is just a port of Life Sprout from Age of Wrath.
- Persephone Cornucopia tech gold cost reduced to 250.
- No longer have access to Theocracy.
- Can now train Siege Catapults.
- Toxotes no longer have shields anymore; this is mostly to differentiate them from Cretan Archers more (but is also more historically accurate since Cretan Archers historically used small shields)
- Peltasts now resemble their more historically greek counter parts (the original design is used by the Thracian Peltast mercenary)
- Swapped the names of the Sarissophoros and Prodromos.
-- This was a historical goof of ES; the Sarissophoroi were armed with Sarissas and were light cavalry that used Lances whilst the Prodromoi were the mounted javelineers of Athens.
-- Prodromos (Formerly Sarissophoros) textures updated.

NORSE
- Crenellations and Arrowslits now in the same button pos as Watch Tower (since Norse only have WT and it seems redundant to have them use more than 1 space)
- Virkis now have a unique construction model.
- Odin's Ravens now require the Classical Age again.
- Now start with 3 villagers/3 dwarves.
-- If I wanted to, I could break this down big time - I'm not going to do it here. Let's just say how it was; frankly made Norse starts annoying with few benefits.
-- Now also start with the unique Ulfsark (Scout) which is functionally indentical to Ulfsarks but is immune to some godpowers.
- Frigg now gets Fire Giants and their upgrade Muspell's Sons.
- Baldr now gets Alfar, and their upgrade Svartalfheim.

-- EM 2.10.1 --

GENERAL
- Town Centers now have 100% accuracy.
- Ballista Towers now use the Ballista fire sound effect.
- Added decorative Atlantean Aquaduct objects.

ATLANTEAN
- Argus have increased Hitpoints, recharge faster, train faster, and take up less population.
- Hippodromes now have proper (unique) obelisks.

EGYPTIAN
- Citadel Centers now have 100% accuracy.

-- EM 2.11.0 --

GENERAL
- Added Barding for 300f, 200g; Hand Cavalry have +10% Hack Armor. Available to Atlanteans, Greeks and Egyptians.
- Added Marksmanship for 250w, 250g; Foot Archers have +1 Attack. Available to Norse, and Atlanteans.
- Merged the former effects of Aristocracy into Marching; which now costs 150f, and is researched in 30 seconds.
-- Aristocracy moved to Shrine/Palaestra; now makes heroes cheaper (and no longer cost favor) and is available to the Greeks, Egyptians and Atlanteans for 250g.
- Updated Guilds icon.
- Shock Cavalry charge attacks now affected by Armory weapons line.
- Resolved an issue where various units weren't doing correct damage multipliers vs "economic" units such as villagers.
- Villagers now always have atleast 5% hack armor. Mostly due to how damage bonuses are calculated.
-- Reduced Weaving bonus to +10% hack armor.

ATLANTEAN
- Curiassiers now correctly deal bonus damage to all non-counter cavalry infantry instead of armored units (no idea why this was ever changed)
- Celeres now deal 15 hack damage by default, and have 30% pierce armor instead of 25%.
- Atlantean Court no longer decreases cavalry cost, all hand cavalry gain increased attack, cavalry archers attack faster, also increases Klibanophoroi charge attack, and Celeres trample damage.
- Gain access to Horsemanship.
- Military heroes can now correctly dropoff Relics at Shrines.

CHINESE
- Nu Wa now correctly increases villager and yak caravan speed.

EGYPTIAN
- No longer have access to Horsemanship.
- Isis' Priestesses can now properly convert villagers, ox carts, and trade caravans.

GREEK
- Theatrons now correctly increase villager and donkey caravan hitpoints.

-- EM 2.12.0 --

GENERAL
- Arson is now a generic technology again, now available to Norse, Egyptians and Chinese. Now costs 200f, 150g, and requires the Mythic Age.
- Lightweight Materials and Marching moved to Classical Age.
- Marching now costs 200f.
- Bloodlines now costs 250f. Now takes 40 seconds to research.
- Lightweight Materials now costs 200w. Now takes 30 seconds to research.
- Mechanics now costs 500w.
- Self Bow cost increased to 200f, 100w.
- Supplies now costs 150f, 150g.
- Melee Practice now costs 300f, 200g.
- Thumb Ring now costs 200f, 250w.
- Nobility now costs 350g, 150f.
- Barding, and Marksmanship upgrade effects no longer hidden in detail help.
-- Barding reworked into Wedge Formation (same effect)
-- Marksmanship now also provides +3 LOS.
- Resplit Armory techs again into Infantry/Hero Hack Armor, Cavalry Hack Armor, Archer Hack/Pierce Armor, Infantry/Cavalry/Melee Hero/Hammer Ship attack, and Archer/Archer Ship/Ranged Hero/Building attack.
-- Cupellation changed to Master Forging; now researched in 40 seconds. Moved back to Armory.
-- Copper/Bronze/Iron Weapons changed to Metal Working/Casting/Cupellation. Everybody gets Cupellation. No longer hidden from Detail Help.
-- Atlanteans don't get Bodkin Arrows, or Chain Mail Armor.
-- Egyptians and Chinese don't get Shield Boss.
-- Norse don't get Metal Barding Armor or Linen Archer Armor (Don't worry, Thor gets both)
-- Thor now gets Dragonhide Armor and Osmium Arrows for Archers, and Mithril Barding for Cavalry.
-- The third stage of Armory techs (i.e Cupellation) now provides double the upgrade bonus (20% instead of 10%)
-- Unlike the old versions of EM; these techs have their costs adjusted drastically (i.e Metal Working costs 75f, 75g and is researched in 20 seconds, Scale Mail Armor costs 50f, 50g)
-- Bow-line LOS decreased to +2 from +3.
- Tracking changed to Falconry.
- Coastal Fortifications now researchable in Classical Age. Updated Icon.
-- Docks now have +2 range, and fire three arrows instead of just one now.
- Protoanimextents has been updated again (to prevent desyncs in EM-MP games)
- Added two new maps: Macedonian Fields and Total War.
- Finally converted a bunch of UI assets (mostly menu stuff) from BTX to DDT thereby reducing a lot of redundent file copies and size.

ATLANTEAN
- Fixed Thalassocracy description.
- Added Atlantean Pirate Ship variant.
- Lose Nepotism, and Burning Pitch.
- Now have access to Recurve Bow.
- Fixed Bastion tech placement in Palace train/tech listings.
- Quadriremes now classified as Archer Ships and are affected by Arrow, Ballistics and bowline technologies.

CHINESE
- Lose access to Lead Sheaths.

EGYPTIANS
- No longer have access to Wedge Formation (Camel Cataphracts, Isis' Armored Elephants and War Elephants)
- Now have access to Marksmanship.
- Assyrian Tactics no longer increases Cav Archer damage, but instead gives them a x2.0 bonus vs infantry.
- Lose access to Lead Sheaths.

GREEKS
- Removed Agoge.
-- Added Conditioning.

NORSE
- Removed Conditioning.
- Melee Practice and Bloodbath can now be researched from Virkis.
- Gain Nepotism.

-- EM 2.12.1 --

GENERAL
- Test: Houses (and Manors) no longer have build limits, but have had their population counts and costs dropped by half, and have half hitpoints.
- Theocracy no longer affects Shrines (and etc)
- Shrines no longer usable in Supremacy games, and have been replaced with suitable replacements for remaining civs that didn't already have alternatives.
- Herdables are now trainable without requiring Husbandry.
- All Mounted Archers now have a turn rate of 12 (Chariot Archers and Essedari have 9)
- Pickers Gloves now affects gather rates for all wild crops instead of just Berry Bushes, Orange Trees and Date Palms. Now just costs 75 wood.
- Hunting Dogs now increases villager attack bonuses vs huntables by 50%.
- All Scout Cavalry units get 12 turnrate.
- Added Mercenary Legionairy (partially reuses the old Legionarius textures) to some random maps (Megalopolis, No Rush, Alfheim)

ATLANTEAN
- Wartime Hospitality now increases Manor population by +5 instead of +4.
- Manors now cost 50w, 15g.
- Slight overhaul to Hospital; now the Oracleum which now includes the former shrine technologies and units.
-- Shrine disabled.
- Slight Visual overhaul to Legionarius (make them look less Roman, and more Atlantean)
- Redesigned their Citadel.

EGYPTIAN
- Shrine no longer available. Now have access to the Sahnetjar (again) however it just fulfills the same role as the Shrine and is built starting from the Classical Age.
-- Spirit of Maat no longer available at TC/Citadel, now available in the Sahnetjar.
-- New Kingdom and City of the Dead now available in the Sahnetjar instead of the Temple.
- Set and Ra no longer have Two-Man Saw.
- Decreased War Elephant and Archer Elephant turn rate to 7. Decreased Armored Elephant turn rate to 6.

GREEK
- Decreased Hippikon, and Citizen Cavalry turn rate to 9.

NORSE
- Added the Longhouse (not to be confused with the former name for the Norse Barracks) which is effectively a combination of the Shrine that can train Ox Carts as well as research economic technologies.
-- Boo disabled. Longhouses inherit Husbandry-line, Plow-line, and Herdable units.
- Lose Immortality.
- Norse can train Siege Catapults again.
- Swapped Hersirs out for Gothi at Temple.
- Norse now have access to Two Man Saw.
- Decreased Riddarin turn rate to 9.
- Decreased Raiding Cavalry turn rate to 12.