Rome 1 was great, but was wildly innacurate and a little unbalanced, so here's my solution to that, filled with some little and not so little changes.

Post feature Report RSS What is The Madness of Rome:TW?

The Madness of Rome:TW is a mod which hopes to correct some of the more bizarre attributes of the original game, such as massive historical inaccuracies.

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Large(r) Changes to:

Spain, Egypt, Thrace, Numidia, Parthia


Small Changes to:

Everyone else except Rome


NEW UNITS + OTHER CHANGES

Hellenic Factions

  • (Greek Cavalry is now Hippeis, and buffed a little)
  • (Peltasts now look like peltasts and are stronger)

Macedon

  • Hypaspists (jav spearmen)

Greek Cities

  • (Heavy Peltast buff)

Selucids

  • Hellenic Cataphracts

Thrace

  • Thracian Peltasts (jav infantry)
  • Thracian Cavalry (jav cav)
  • Thracian Light Horse (medium spear cav)
  • Thracian Nobles (heavy cav)
  • Daco-Thracian Warband (light spear infantry)
  • Thracian Warriors (falx infantry)
  • (Removed phalanx pikemen, militia hoplites, militia cavalry, greek cav)
  • (Changed bodyguards)

Egypt

  • Ptolemaic Cavalry (heavy cav)
  • Egyptian Pikemen
  • Phalanx Pikemen
  • Ptolemaic Guard Cav (late cav general)
  • Ptolemaic General's Bodyguard (early cav general)
  • Elephants
  • War Elephants
  • Egyptian Cavalry (medium spear cav)
  • Pharaoh's Guards (now pike infantry)
  • (Removed Chariot general, chariot archers, nile spearmen, regular Pharao's Guards)
  • (Get Desert Axemen and Camel Archers sooner)

Eastern Factions

  • (Archer buff)

Pontus

  • (Peltast buff)
  • (Removed chariot archers)
  • (Fiddled Pontic Light + Heavy Cav)

Armenia

  • Armenian Cataphracts
  • Armenian General's Bodyguard (early melee general)

Parthia

  • Sparabara (archer spears)
  • Parthian Cataphracts
  • Parthian Horse Archers
  • (Buffed Persian Cav)
  • Parthian General's Bodyguard (horse archer general)

Barbarian Factions

Gaul

  • Gallic Light Cavalry (light cav)
  • Gallic Noble Cavalry (heavy cav)
  • Oathsworn (heavy infantry)
  • (Removed barbarian cav, barbarian noble cav, chosen swordsmen)

Britannia

  • British Chariots (more sensible jav chariots)
  • Heroic Nobles (heavy infantry)
  • Barbarian Noble Cavalry
  • (Removed chosen swordsmen, british light and heavy chariots)

Germania

  • (Removed Gothic cav)

Scythia

  • Scythian Foot Archers
  • Chosen Scythian Foot Archers
  • Scythian Light Horse (light cav)
  • (Removed barbarian cav)
  • (Buffed Scythian Nobles)

Dacia

  • Getic Cavalry (heavy cav)
  • Daco-Thracian warband (light spear infantry)
  • Getic Swordmasters (heavy infantry)
  • (Removed barbarian noble cav, chosen swordsmen)

Spain

  • Cantabrian Cavalry (jav cav)
  • Celtiberian Cavalry (heavy cav)
  • Iberian Warriors (sword infantry)
  • Iberian skirmishers (jav infantry)
  • Iberian Warband (light spear infantry)
  • (Removed Iberian Infantry, Round + Long shield Cav, regular skirmishers, town militia)
  • (Buffed Scutarii)

African Factions

Carthage

  • (Changed Iberian Infantry to Carthaginian Infantry)

Numidia

  • Numidian Tribesmen (jav infantry)
  • Numidian Noble Cavalry (heavy jav cav)
  • Camel Lancers (Heavy shock cav)
  • (Removed regular skirmishers)
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