Hannibal ad Portas (meaning 'Hannibal at the gates') is a total conversion of Rome: Total War - Alexander made by Milner and his team in 2011-2012, focused on the Second Punic War, opposing Hannibal Barca and Carthage to the Roman Republic. With a new campaign map, thirteen new factions, dozens new units, new scripts & many more, it is a mod not to miss for any RTW or Antiquity fan.
Factions:
- S.P.Q.R.
- Republic of Carthage
- The Barcid clan
- Syracuse
- Emporion of Massilia
- Megae Hellas
- Illyria kingdom
- Samnites
- Allobroges
- Boii
- Insubres
- Veneti
- Ligurians
Some features:
- Campaign map from Paeninsula Italica mod
- Complete new faction's rooster to every factions
- 12 turns per year script
- New interfaces
- New loading screens, menu and visual elements
- Delete more than 30% of vanilla traits and ancillaires
- New traits and ancillaires (include new images for them)
- New buildings, economic and political system
- Rome Surrectum II enviroment pack added
- Battle formations by Darth Vader
- Signifer One animations pack added
- Res Gestae animations added
- Force diplomatic and ai's faction help money scripts
- New icons, symbols and battle standards
- New resources
- New arrow textures
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Hello there!
After 8 years of the first release of this mod, i would like to speak about it for the first time.
This mod was started by Algaman and myself as a little modification (we had only on mind change some factions units), without aspiration of any kind, only for fun. Every change we did made drives us to another one and another...until we had not another option to management it as a big modification.
It was a lot of work, of free time working on this, of errors and problems on modding...but glory days to us at last.
Last month i did uploaded a new version of the mod, i did made this version 2 years ago (working alone this time) but i had not desirees of publish it...until i did find some opinions of players in some Poland and Rusian forums...i feel impressed for the players' opinions, very impressed, and that's the reason for what i'd uploaded the new version.
I read a lot of opinions since that time, sometimes incomprehensible to my by the differences on lenguague (russian is very difficult to me) and other times i did find some interesting critics and opinions.
This help me a lot to go on with this mod again, trying to improve it the best version to the players.
I was concerned by the worst things of the mod, or at last by the things the players' don't like...and that's the reason for improve a new and last patch to the old version of the mod, that some people still plays...
I'm working on it, and it will be a last update for game playing, it don't include any update of graphics, only some changes on units' stats, a high reduction of economy bonuses, reduction of cities' growth...it's a try to solve things that players didn't like.
At once i'm working in the next patch of the Gold version of the mod, that will be available very soon. A new one with a new provincial campaign and some new units (essentially more mercenary units).
The last patch until a new stand alone version.
As i said will be a new stand alone version in the near future (version 1.5), with 3 new factions, new provincial campaigns, another reduction of economy's bonuses, new units for some factions (that i forgot to made) and a second main campaign...courtesy of RTR VII.
This will be for players who want to play a complete Second Punic War.
The 3 new factions are in development actually, i can't show you so much by now...
This is one of them:
Edetanian tribes
The other 2 will be the Kingdom of Makedon and...i would like leave on the players the choice of the last faction, so you can write in this message your choice!
Cheers!
Hannibal ad portas Gold
NewsHannibal ad portas Gold content, specifications, install instructions, list of factions and modifications included in this version.
Hannibal ad Portas is now at ModDB
NewsHannibal ad Portas is now uploaded at ModDB. We hope you will enjoy it!
Files
Hannibal ad portas 2.5 + fix
Full Version 2 commentsThe full version of Hannibal ad portas (old version)
HAP Fix
Patch 4 commentsHannibal ad portas fix to yellow borders. It works on old version, new version and future's versions of the mod.
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Hi is there a discord for this Mod or someone answer here?
Hi which version is better gold or old one?
Zama campaign is no joke, today i lost Scipio in battle elephant killed him, i win battles against levies so many times but they keep coming full stacks again and again, then Numidians they were harder to overcome and then Hannibal i defeat and killed him (I'm sorry champion) but his army decimated my own fresh army under Silanus, i think i lost him too but some other homos novus replace him, all in all I'm on -300k, and now Carthage start training new better quality armies which can easily hold the line against roman infantry even when they are hit hard from the rear, so my campaign was doomed i guess, but I can't complain at all cause i really like the campaign...
Well, war is not joke...
All the provincial campaings in HAP can be finished in two ways, the first way is attacking and killing all the leaders (and there are many...), this is the hard way, because you had a lot of casualties of your best troops.
The second way is the easiest, but it take a long time. Take control of the surrounding area of the map (under slave control), upgrade these cities for a better troops recruiment and make a great army...
Avoid battles against great armies (as Hannibal's veteran troops) to secure your best troops and use them to protect your new conquered cities...
That's my advise to play a campaing in a funny way, mate.
About the other things:
-Numidians, they must be harder to overcome, they are the elite cavalry of this timeframe.
-Carthaginian levies are easy to win, but you are in their territory, they can recruit more and more everytime.
-Carthage city, try to besiege the city everytime, with fresh troops (cannon fodder), to avoid the upgrade of its buildings...also besiege the city by sea.
-Hannibal, avoid to fight against him, he has a very experience army. Leave him lost his better troops fighting against rebel troops and later you'll may win him more easily.
-Scipio and the other roman generals at the start campaing, use them to conquer rebel's cities and patrol your new lands fighting against rebels...to upgrade the troops.
Anyway, the true challege is play with Hannibal's faction...
Thanks for the tips, amazing campaign...
Any chance to see stuff that you promised Milner our beautiful Elf precious my love, so new maps and stuff it's 2023 duuude, and you know how much i like HaP(old) and new version even more, so waiting for imperial campaign for new ver but you seemed kind lost somewhere, jokes on side i really hope you doing well... and i can't complain we already have so much to play just we don't know status of the mod
You know what happens...
Status of the mod (final version):
-Added 2 new factions, Makedon and Edetanian tribes.
-The third new faction will be Carthage (senatorial party), is not finished but it will be a mixture of african troops. This faction was a petition of some player of HAP's old version.
-Imperial campaign was added (Mediterranean map) but still unfinished, resources, characters and armies...many things to put on.
-More provincial campaings were done...
I'll hope this help you, actually i can't upload images.
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Really amazing mod about the Hannibal theme.