Rome is about to fall, the Sarmatians are about to lose the steppes to the Huns, the Nubians resist the conquest of Egypt as the last bastion of Egyptian culture, the Thracians defend the hopeless northern borders of the Byzantine empire, and the Vandals dreadfully await the Byzantine reconquista of Africa...
...but you can change the course of history and save one or all of these civilizations from fading, rebuild their glory and have them compete with medieval factions they would have never encountered otherwise.
- exciting new game-play elements, like mobile buildings (Wagon Fort)
- 5 new civilizations (Romans, Thracians, Nubians, Sarmatians, Vandals)
- exciting new technologies and supporting units/buildings (like aqueducts)
Dedicated to my late step grandfather Helmuth Siepmann who always loved to discuss the Great Migration.
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IMPORTANT BUG-FIX: The Vandal unique unit upgrade is restored, also the population cost for the (Elite) Lancer, fixed today (03.04.2020).
I could never quite reach satisfaction with "Borderland Empires" of the same type I experienced with "Age of Vampires" or "Tzars and Salesmen"...
My newest project "Dawn of Rome" is to replace "Borderland Empires" for several reasons:
1. Overlap in concept (Great Migration/Beginning of the Middle Ages/End of the Classic Era)
2. Overlap in civilizations (Vandals)
3. Overlap in game-play (mobile buildings)
My best efforts for "Borderland Empires" will be donated, however, for integration with "Realms" which already overlaps with Borderland Empires in some aspects (like the playable factions Bulgars and Moors).
The new project takes over some of the exciting features of the old one, like mobile buildings and mine-able ruins, but alters the overall setting to introduce civilizations which faded at the beginning of the Middle Ages, but which the player will have the power to save and have compete with other medieval factions.
Several features will help you immerse in the (late) Roman Era... technologies like "Phalanx" which allow spearmen to form double-rows by providing +1 range, or buildings like the "aquaeduct" which will lift up the population limit and increase farm food amount. Support units like the dog can defend your villagers from wolves and help hunting boars.
You can choose from 5 new civilizations which are seldom portrayed in the Age of Empires series (including other mods), but still ring a bell with hardcore history fans, like the Sarmatians, Thracians and Nubians...
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The Foederati
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how do i install it whit border empires?
Forgive the extremely late answer. You cannot. These are totally separate mods. Borderland empires is back, indeed, but it is currently only on the Blacksmith of Heavengames. This one (Dawn of Rome, now: Foederati) was made on the basis of the old "Borderlands" project, but is its own mod and follows its own theme, too.
He, do you work for realms? i have a doubt for a problem when installing and i dont know how to fix. Greetings from Chile
Alas, it's another guy.
Hello, I love your mod. I see that his intention is to deal with the last years of Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
I have come up with some ideas and I would like to share them with you. I hope they don't bother you, I know it's hard work, but my intention is only to improve this good mod.
I thought maybe it would be nice if you would add any of the following civs:
The Saxons: I'm not referring to the Germans, but to the combination of Anglos, Jutes and Saxons who settled in Britain after the withdrawal of the Romans, and whose kingdoms ended with the invasion of William the Conqueror. They would be different from the Britons because the latter are focused more on the Welsh and the English than on the first Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Their architecture could be western. Their unique unit would be the Gedrihts (a primitive huskarl). Their unique technology would be "Danish Axes".
The Lombards: the Germanic people who established an important kingdom in northern Italy which ended with the conquest of Charlemagne.
Their architecture would be Italian (like the Romans and the Thracians). His only unit would be the Gepid Rider (a stronger light rider). Their unique technology would be "Lombard Iron Crown".
The Herules: They were the ones who conquered Rome and deposed the last Roman emperor, but his reign did not last long because they were soon attacked by Goths and Byzantines, until they were finally defeated.
Their architecture would be Italian too. Their only unit would be a mounted ax thrower. Their unique technology would be "Germanic Mercenaries".
The Scythians: The ancient people of many Confederate tribes of the steppes of eastern Europe and central Asia. They had contact with Greeks, Romans, Huns, Germans, Slavs, Bulgarians, Turkic peoples, etc. But they were never a unified kingdom. Their architecture would be Germanic, and they could even share the mobile mining camp with the Sarmatians. Their only unit would be the Charioteer (heavy war chariot) or the Pazyryk (a mounted archer). Their unique technology would be "Ziwiye's Treasure".
That is my comment, I reiterate, I hope it does not bother you, I know that it is difficult to work on a mod. So far you have done a good job and I just want to contribute. I look forward to your comment.
I am sorry for the terribly late answer. These are a lot of potentially great ideas. I appreciate people sharing what they think, because it shows genuine interest in the project, but I cannot promise nor dismiss with certainty any of the input. Sometimes I do adopt foreign ideas after many years, but I cannot tell you what makes an idea break through or stick with me... in the end it just has to feel right, for which I sometimes have to first see it in action. In short: I better not promise you that any of this will happen, but if any of this does happen, you can be certain that it was because of you.
If I may give some critical feedback to some of the ideas, which is not meant as a discouragement, but rather partial explanation for why some of them don't break through to me, yet.
1. I think you are partly right about the Britons not representing the early Anglo-Saxons properly, but the situation is actually more mixed, here. The Britons of the old game do share some features with the early Saxons, including the use of vulgar latin by e.g. the Monk etc. ...it is primarily the unique unit, which is reflecting a later stage of English history.
2. Factions. I was thinking how much to expand on this. I wanted to keep things special by having more or less one faction in each category. What do I mean by "category"? I was considering Scythians, but they are to me in one category with the Sarmatians, I have cosidered Illyrians, but they are to me in one category with the Thracians... If this was a total-conversion I wouldn't mind going wild adding everything from the late classical period, in fact, I would be replacing factions with their classical counter parts and so on... this is not a total conversion (as of now) thus it is likely going to remain a small addition, with a small choice of factions, each a token of one category.
That being said, the Lombards are definitely worth a longer consideration, considering what a good fit they are with the mod's theme. Especially now, that the name has changed to "The Foederati".
Ideas do not bother me, but I am currently isolated from my main modding computer and can do relatively little in general (for the time being). Also some of your propositions fly better with a total conversion which is (for the time being at least) not the intention. In particular I would rather replace the Britons with the Saxons than to have two civilizations simultaneously in the game, of which one is ancestral to the other... Thank you for your thoughts :) When I get back to my modding laptop I can think even deeper about the details of your propositions... doing and thinking go nicely hand in hand in such matters :)
Have you thought about adding Palmira or the Rus as well, I think they fit the sense and time of the mod?
Palmyra actually crossed my mind, but I know very little about that civilization... the Rus did appear in Borderland Empires which preceded this project, however the Rus actually persevered successfully into the Middle Ages, while the current selection of factions, save for the Nubians, mostly died out after a few centuries upon the start of the medieval era, and it is up to the player to make them persist beyond their time :)
o si y no se olviden de las unidades historicas romanas mas importantes.
el cesar los esclavos y los/las dominas.
claro solo si se puede la habilidad crucificar asi mejorar a los centuriones.