Apotheosis: the Hellenistic Age is a total conversion mod for CK3 that seeks to bring to life that chaotic but fascinating world between the death of Alexander the Great and the formation of the Roman empire. Version 1.1.0 integrates the Ascalon’s Anachronisms mod, introduces a new nicknames system, and adds additional decisions and flavour events.
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Version 1.1.0
Steam Workshop
Our mod is also available on the Steam Workshop: Steamcommunity.com
Manual Installation
After downloading, unpack the zip file directly in your mod directory, which can be found at "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/mod"
Changelog
An in-depth explanation of the new features available in Version 1.1.0 can be found here.
New Features:
- Added additional special buildings, as well as multiple levels for some special buildings.
- Added decisions for Greek characters on the coast of Asia Minor to attempt to regain their independence with other vassals in the region.
- Added decisions for characters of Dorian, Ionian or Aeolian culture to unite the Ionian or Troadic coasts.
- Added decisions for Athenian characters to attempt to reestablish the Athenian naval hegemony in various forms. Upon forming the Athenian empire, characters may reestablish the old Athenian tax districts.
- Added decisions for Greek characters to unite the Peloponnesos.
- Added decisions for Spartans to revive their old faith.
- Integrated Ascalon’s Anachronisms. Characters will now wear period-appropriate helmets based on their culture.
- Added a nickname assignment system.
- Added a flavor event each to the Skulduggery and Theology lifestyle event pools.
- Updated the colors of some territories in the Peloponnese, southern Thrace, and Krete to be more distinguishable to folks with color vision deficiency
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug where Bithynia was formable if it already existed.
- Fixed numerous bugs where characters got corruption modifiers when they should not have.
- Fixed AI marriage willingness calculation to prevent AIs allying with characters they can easily push claims on.
- Fixed duplicate events causing unknown errors.
- Fixed a bug where a character did not correctly switch to the Democratic government upon being landed.
- Fixed missing string ATHA_government.0301.t.
- Fixed a bug where the anger animation would not play in the Entice event chain.
- Fixed a bug where the Diktynnaion special building was appearing in the wrong territory.
- Fixed a bug where characters outside of the city-state mechanics were getting Corruption modifiers.
- Fixed bugs in the Entice scheme that were creating errors
Miscellaneous Changes:
- Bithynia is no longer formable by a child, someone at war or someone who is imprisoned.
- Lakedaimon can only be formed by a character who has the Rhetra government or a character who is part of the two Spartan Royal dynasties and has a Hegemonic League government.
- Lakedaimon is no longer formable by a child, someone at war or someone who is imprisoned.
- Lakedaimon can not be formed if the Peloponnesos is united.
- Alexander the Great now has a scripted appearance.
- Added two de jure empires: Hellas for the European part of the map and Asia for the Asian part of the map.
- AI with the Incorruptible trigger will automatically lower their corruption values.
- Finished adding corruption effects to all events.
- Several dynasties start with modifiers representing their claims to lineage from mythical ancestors.
- Corruption for the AI has been rebalanced so that ethical characters are more likely to have low corruption while vile characters are more likely to have high corruption, most characters will trend towards the middle.
- Hundreds of additional vanilla events have been updated to increase and decrease corruption.
- The tax benefits of the Akropolis of Athênai special building have been greatly reduced.
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- A detailed custom-made map that reflects the subtleties of politics, culture and religion in 275 BC. Playable rulers range from kings to tyrants to philosophers, and we have scoured inscriptions and literary sources to ensure that most of our rulers, all the way down to the county level, are historically attested individuals.
- A number of new governments, belonging to three broad categories: City-State, Coalition and Bureaucratic. Vassal contracts have been expanded with additional privileges and obligations, including the ability for rulers to impose certain governments on their vassals.
- Unique corruption mechanics for City-States - nepotism, bribery and other questionable acts will now impact the city's level of corruption modifier, and corrupt rulers may scheme to entice others.
- Decisions for enterprising rulers to restore Sparta's glory days and form the kingdom of Bithynia.
- Heaps of new art assets - no more medieval crowns or shields, and plenty of period-appropriate emblems for our titles and dynasties!
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We have ambitious plans to continue developing Apotheosis as Crusader Kings 3 matures:
- The mod currently takes place in a rather small part of the world, namely the Aegean and its surroundings. In time, we plan to gradually cover not only the former empire of Alexander the Great, but also western Europe, northern Africa and India.
- As the mod progresses, we want our cultures and faiths to feel more unique in order to better represent the diversity of the Hellenistic world. Part of this will involve adding more flavor events, for example the Olympic Games, as well as decisions, faith tenets and doctrines.
- The mod adds many new governments to represent the political institutions of the Hellenistic world. In due course, we want to create new mechanics for our governments to make each a distinct experience.
The Apotheosis soundtrack uses songs composed and performed by Michael Levy with authentically recreated instruments.
Make sure to check out his Spotify and website!
Lead Developers
Developers
- timewaster
- ANNOnymous
- Grathalas
- Hart
- Idemar
- jasmijn
- Mayhalke
- SlavicElmo
- Samitte
- Viridianus
- wolfski
- WorldWideStalinism
- ALU
The Apotheosis team is looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team and help us deliver our goal of providing an immersive experience of the Hellenistic world. We're especially keen to bring on 2d and 3d artists to make our mod more visually authentic, as well as coders and writers who can craft flavourful events and mechanics.
We also have a Discord, which is the place to go if you have any suggestions or feedback for us! It's also where we post all our latest teasers and development diaries.
Thank you for your support!
