"Long have we worked, and hard. to bring you the best we have.
We the Dev's have tested it, but the last days we had some major errors on our hands, I (Folcwar) have redone some stuff since they were just crashed, On the other hand has (DumbMan) worked really hard on the troops: Equipping then, giving them the right stats. so last weeks we haven't really kept you guys posted on what was going on.
Now the only thing we can hope as Dev's is that you like our work. we tried to listen to the community, but as you all know. This community can be hard on us.
We also make this mod in the way we like it, and that's why we will not add anything we do not like our self.
But since a big part of the community was asking for lorica segmenta, we added this just for the multiplayer.
In the single Player the Lorica Segmenta won't be used.
Alright, On the balance have we worked the most, since how can you make a fun mod, with strong factions, that also stays fun? well, By testing and changing. we tried to balance it up A lot. But this doesn't mean we took all strong weapons out, nor did we make them way weaker. You balance it by nerving it a bit, and giving it a good counter.
So has the Germanic great long axe, The falx as a counter. A Celtic Long Sword, has a Dolabra or a British Long Sword.
And almost all factions have a spear.
The Shields and armour on the other hand, are for everything faction A lot diffrent, even the barbarians can be kept from eachother from the other side of the map.
How did we balance the armour? Well, heavy armour, think of Romans and Greeks, Are way slower then a German in Light armour, But of course The Roman Takes more Hits.
For the shields, every faction has pretty much somesort of shield that has 400 hit points, and every faction has some sort of skirmisher shield, that has 200 or less.
Well, this is a wall of text..... But I'm not done yet.
Now let's talk about the Factions.
Our first priority when we started on this new version, were the Scythian.
There was A lot of complaining about them.
And that is why we took away all their currunt equipment. and changed it to new stuff.
And I am happy on how they look now. They look like a mix of Sarmatians and Scythians!
Our second worry was, Don't the Barbarians look basically the same?
Well, we fixed this, The only ones that didn't really get to much new armours are the Britons and Gauls. they look still kind a the same.
But the germans and Dacians look A lot diffrent now.
Of Course the Brittons weren't left aside. They Have A lot of new Weapons and Shields.
The Gauls have a few new shields as well.
And after we were done with this this, What do we have left?
Carthage, Rome and Greece.
Well, Rome and Greece have in the Single Player(Troops and Equipment, almost no changes)
Carthage on the other hand got some new stuffs, what did they get?
Camels! New Shields! Elephant Riders!
In the Multiplayer, Carthage also got to Camel, New shields and Helmets.
Rome and Greece again didn't change to much.
Greeks not at all if I remember right.
Romans on the other hand got a new class, called. Legionnaire.
Of Course they have the Lorica Segmenta, Praetorian helmets.... and Enough Shields to Choose from, what they don't have are spears.
For that we still have the Triarii.
And that Brings me to the last subject, Classes.
Every faction (almost) has new classes.
For example, every faction with in the Singleplayer Skirmishers has now a Skirmisher class.
So the Archer class got spliited up.
In Skirmisher and Archer.
Also For Example The Germanic Warrior. Got splitted up in to, Spearman and Axeman.
Each class has its Benefits.
Spearman, Bigger shield, and longer weapon, while the Axeman is faster and stronger.
This is the end of my long text, and I am sorry for making you read this. but this basically has all information about the new release."