Maiden Axes have been added to Britannia and Gaul.

There are many new units, including Onagers for all Barbarians. This reflects the effects of their having become partially sedentary at the time the game begins.Įvery Barbarian faction now has a 4th tier of development. It has also undergone a large change in its unit roster, now having many more infantry units of better quality than before. Scythia has been moved to its more historically accurate starting position in the Crimea and lower Ukraine. Most of them are located in North Africa, the Steppe, and the mountains of Armenia. The original game map has been modified by the inclusion of 29 new territories. Due to the constraints of the game's hard coding, they will all have female names however.īut Amazons and are not all that is different in ATW. The reason being that in the world outside of Amazonia men can move far more easily through society than women can. These men would be specially recruited from the Amazons courtesan class of men, or from men in foreign lands. While all Generals are female, the spies, assassins, and diplomats remain male by design. I have also made Sarmatian mercenaries recruitable in Amazonia, as well as Amazon mercs recruitable across the steppes. While New Amazonia and the Sarmatians begin as allies as well. I have tried to emulate their close ties by making Amazonia and Scythia begin the game as Allies. As the Amazons were not known to be sailors of any repute, I have limited them to recruiting biremes and triremes.Īs the Amazons were reputed to be the progenitors of the Sarmatian people, I have also created a new Sarmatian faction, occupying their ancestral homelands between the Don and Volga rivers. They also fight in the standard greek hoplite style, as well as having some troops using the sagaris, an axe that was a signature weapon of the Amazons (and where calling a woman an 'old battle-axe' comes from).

So just as legend has it, the Amazons are outstanding archers and horsewomen. My inspiration for this was the Amazons of legend, and I have tried to keep everything in the mod in the spirit of those legends. These belong to a new culture, that of the Amazons, with new units, generals, retinue members, and traits just for them. Be sure you apply it to a clean install of RTW, as you may experience ctd's when entering battles if not.ĪTW adds three new Amazon factions to the game: Amazonia, New Amazonia, and the Gorgons. It uses the mod:switch option, so it will not interfere with any of your original game files. There are separate versions of the game for each executable. RTW v1.5 1 file - 78.94 MB and RTW v1.6 (BI) 1 file - 82.15 MBĪmazon Total War is a partial conversion for Rome Total war version 1.5 or Barbarian Invasion version 1.6. Rome Total War, versions 1.5 and 1.6 (one for vanilla and one for Barbarian Invasion)Īmazon: Total War forum at Total War Heaven

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