Yet another faction that has not received a ton of love in the RTW modding community (aside from realistic overhauls). Dacia is a very interesting and diverse faction. Historically, they were located in modern day Romania, and were known as the Getae to the Greeks. A large debate has existed between scholars on whether the Dacians were actually part of the Thracian culture. Since RTW features both Dacia and Thrace I thought I'd simply expand on that feature instead of merging them into one faction like other mods.
Veteran Swordsmen waiting for the Romans to advance
The Dacians are more barbaric than Thracians so they keep the Barbarian culture, but we did majorly overhaul the look of their units. Here are the features:
- Complete overhaul of Dacian Roster
- New Barbarian City models on the map, made by Lanjane
- New Bastarnae Mercenary unit model and texture
- Macedonian Cavalry units have normal unit sizes instead of unusually large sizes
The thing that bugged me about vanilla Dacia is that they were basically the Gauls in brown with a falxmen unit, and it was pretty boring. Now they have a full fledged roster full of unique units. Even the common units don't look like Gallic copies. See for yourself!
The Dacian Unit Roster
The Dacian Roster in detail:
GOVERNMENT
Tier 1 - Warband
Tier 2 - Levies
BARRACKS
Tier 1 - Spear Warband & Sword Warband
Tier 2 - Spearmen & Axemen
Tier 3 - Veteran Spearmen, Veteran Swordsmen, & Pikemen
Tier 4 - Chosen Spearmen & Chosen Swordsmen
Tier 5 - Chosen Pikemen & Champions
RANGE
Tier 1 - Slingers & Skirmisher Warband
Tier 2 - Archer Warband & Chosen Skirmishers
Tier 3 - Chosen Archers & Ballistas
Tier 4 - Onagers
STABLES
Tier 1 - Light Cavalry
Tier 2 - Heavy Cavalry & Dacian Horse Archers
Tier 3 - Dacian Noble Cavalry
TEMPLES
Tier 2 - Falxmen
GENERAL
Barbarian Warlord
Barbarian Chosen Warlord
The Dacian Roster is one of the most diverse, and the largest roster that we have formulated so far. They have a lot of heavy infantry, as well as good missile units and a diverse cavalry selection. They even have some siege units for the late game. All in all, this should make one of the more boring factions one of the most interesting factions in the game!
New Barbarian City Models by Lanjane
Credits:
- Lanjane for unit work, ui cards and new settlements, as well as fixing some sprites
- Kirilakristi for expert advice and analysis on Dacia
- crazyroman for testing
- Diadochi Total War for the Veteran Swordsmen, and Veteran Spearmen models as well as a texture
- Barbarians Revenge Mod for Dacian Noble Cavalry, and Dacian Horse Archer base models
- Macedon Expansion Mod for Chosen Skirmisher and Chosen Archer Warband base models
- Rise of Empire Mod for Chosen Spearmen, Pikemen, Chosen Pikemen, Champions and Heavy Cavalry base models
- 77 BC mod for Axemen base model
Finally, thank you all for downloading and making this mod happen!
- ahowl11
