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Syracusans/Sicilian Greeks Civilization Profile Overview and Introduction Flavour text for the struture tree Long as Syracuse championed its citizen’s and fellow Greek’s independence, be it against Carthaginians or Romans. As a Doric colony it kept ties to other Doric cities in the Greek mainland. Although brief respites form their conflict with Carthage did occour under some of its rulers, the city's history is dominated by their wars with Carthage and other Greeks and the eventual concession of its autonomy to Rome. For my first faction I designed so it has a less orthodox playstyle to what I became accustomed during Alpha 24, my aim was to make an amphibious and mercenary civ where a rush or semi-rush pays off. So, I tried to bring new ideas to table and these will be further discussed during the champion and hero rosters sections. I also tried my best to make a civilization that doesn’t require too many new assets because people’s time is short. As for the values present, these can and will probably change with each revision of this document. Disclaimer: I do not know nor studied attic, doric and koine greek so the few names of the units that I present can and will most likely have speling errors, not be in the right order syntax wise and probably not be all from the same dialect but I tried to post this by standards of similar posts. I had images for this but they did not show up when i copied this from Word and adding them is a pain so... #NR means not researched...,yet. Faction Bonuses Jewel of the Mediterranean Grain gather rate increased by 10% gather rate Mercenary Loyalty A lot of mercenaries were employed for life under some of the tyrants and not just in time of conflict like the Sileraioi who were given land and accomodations, so in a way this a precursor the cleruchy system of the sucessors. The metal cost of italian and iberian mercenaries ( italian swordsman, iberian swordsman, tarantine cavalry) is decreased by 45% Team bonus: Trade Empire +10% international trade goods for self and allies Unique techs Archemides' Screw More water = better sanitation, better crops, more hydration = healthier and more citizens. Also in the abssence of conveyer belts water canals can and would be used to carry crude mineral chunks. Replaces the "Gather training" upgrade at the farmstead. Phase II, farmstead +10% grain gather rate for all units +10% faster metal collection for all units Cost: 300 wood 300 metal Ballistics Phase III, artilery foundry Adds/Increases area damage on siege engines by (x) aumount and increases their projectile speed. 300 stone 300 metal Archimedes Odometer Phase II Available at the CC Structures are built 20% faster. Cost: 100 stone 200 metal Secret Police Phase I, sentry tower +10 meters of LOS ( line of sight) to all structures. Cost: 400 food Solar Tower A complementary upgrade for the sentry tower, now the player has the choice to upgrade it to the stone tower or to the Solar Tower which does reduced damage to units but excels in damaging ships and siege machines. Phase I, sentry tower Upgrades the sentry tower into the solar tower Cost: 150 wood 150 stone Mamertines A one time, instantaneous shipment of 20 mamertines (italian swordsmen, same stats as the roman champ swordsmen) to the Tyrant's Palace. Available at CC, p3 Cost: 2000 food 3000 metal Doric camaraderie A one time, instantaneous shipment of 20 spartiates (spartan champ hoplite) to the Tyrant's Palace. Available at CC, p3 Cost: 2000 food 3000 metal Technology Tree Structures As Syracuse was a colony of Corinth, it should heavily feature Doric Architecture, much like Sparta. Although unlike the Spartans, Corinth and Syracuse seemed to have inherited a love for monumental buildings and public works from the Attic region. In short, make it so their buildings have the Sparta template but more embellished (and maybe replace the roof tiles with the roman ones). I don’t expect any new models to be developed ASAP for this and it is acceptable since I haven’t the skills required and am at the mercy of some good souls willing to model these. As for buildings available, these should be standard Greek roster available to Sparta, Athens and Macedon but I do propose 2 unique/special buildings for this faction (whose names in Greek I have yet to research) and I also propose that Syracusans only be able to build/have one Civic Centre, representing Syracuse itself and making for a risk reward type thing when attacking/rushing. Seaside Outpost/fortified port Syracuse itself went on to expand their influence over other territories through colonies of its own although these were more akin to fortified trading posts than full blown colonies, much like the Portuguese Feitoria. Can only be placed along shorelines and functions like a cross between a military colony and a market, where one can send caravans to. Can’t train ships except for the merchant vessel but can heal all ships, otherwise it can train caravans, one champion and some of the mercs available to this civ. This building will also have a technology that improves trade goods received by caravans that visit this building, again building on that risk/reward thing. Its cost should also be between a military colony and a CC. Tyrant’s Fortress/Palace A reference to the fortress of Euryalos. Essentially a better fortress that trains two of these civ’s champions(crossbowman and tyrant's bodyguard) and its heroes in addition to the “will to fight” tech that all civs have. A player can only have one of these per match (if not possible to implement this, then it could have a max count of 1). It won’t be any more expensive than a normal fortress and doesn’t replace it. Serves as an territory anchor like a CC. Wonder: Hieron’s Altar Unit Roster For my first draft of this civ I have 11 units planned, 3 citizen soldiers, 5 mercenaries and 3 champions. For this next section I will specify which buildings train what units using the following template, building, citizen soldiers, mercenaries, champions. Citizen soldiers -Syracusan Hoplite Generic name: Syracusan hoplite Specific name: Hoplites sikeliotes Pierce armament: Dori spear Attire: Unit variants should bear the Montefortino, Italo-Attic and Corinthian helmets . Rank 1 gets a tunic and one of the greaves, rank 2 gets the linothorax and both greaves and finally rank 3 gets the feathers in the helmets mentioned and a tri-disc cuirass over the linothorax. Aspis shield should have marine elements in it (dolphins, tridents, nymphs like the oceanids, pegaeae or the nereids or hell even Arethousa herself). Stats: Health: 100 Hack Damage: 2.5 Pierce Damage: 3 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 1 Range:4 Hack Armor: 5 Pierce Armor: 5 Crush Armor: 10 Walk Speed: 9 Run Speed: 15 Cost: 50 food 50 wood Loot: 5 food 5 wood 100 exp - Sicanian skirmisher Generic name: Sicanian skirmisher Specific name: Peltastes sikeliotes Ranged armament: Javelins Attire: Pelta shield obvs. Rank 1 has a straw hat, simple tunic and no greaves, rank 2 gets a chalcidean helmet and a decorative unic, rank 3 gets padded armor and a chlamys. Note: to make this a more “aggressive” civ and to drive the player to use mercs and champs these should have slightly worse stats than a standard skirmisher, -10% health. (Also, I don’t like how armies right now are like 4/6 ranged and 2/6 melee so that is also a factor in this choice of mine). Stats: Health: 40 Hack Damage:0 Pierce Damage: 16 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 1.25 Range: 30 Hack Armor: 1 Pierce Armor: 1 Crush Armor: 10 Walk Speed: 10.8 Run Speed: 18 Cost: 50 food 50 wood Loot: 5 food 5 wood 80 exp -Greek Lancer Generic name: Greek cavalry Specific name: Hippeus Melee armament: Xyston Attire: Rank 1 has a straw hat, linothorax and no greaves, rank 2 gets a boeotian or a boeotian-variant helmet and a chlamys, rank 3 gets a plume in their helmet. Stats: Health: 160 Hack Damage: 4 Pierce Damage: 3 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 1 Range: 6 Hack Armor: 4 Pierce Armor: 4 Crush Armor: 15 Walk Speed: 18 Run Speed: 25.5 Cost: 100 food 50 wood Loot: 10 food 5 wood 130 exp Mercenaries - Italian Swordsman Generic name: Italian Swordsman Specific name: "something" xiphophoros Melee armament: Xiphos Note: we can use the swordsman merc model of Carthage’s Italian embassy. I named them italian swordsman because making a unit for mamertines, campanian, sileraioi and samnites mercenaries is redundant. Stats: Health: 100 Hack Damage: 5.5 Pierce Damage: 0 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 0.75 Range: 3 Hack Armor: 5 Pierce Armor: 5 Crush Armor: 15 Walk Speed: 9 Run Speed: 14 Cost: 20 food 35 metal Loot: 2 food 6 metal 100 exp -Cretan archer Generic name: Cretan archer Specific name: Toxotes Kretaikos Note: There is already a model for these in game so no point in describing this one further Stats: Health: 60 Hack Damage: 0 Pierce Damage: 6.7 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 1 Range: 60 Hack Armor: 1 Pierce Armor: 2 Crush Armor: 10 Walk Speed: 10.8 Run Speed: 18 Cost: 20 food 60 metal Loot: 2 food 6 metal 100 exp -Tarantine Cavalry Generic name: Tarantine Skirmisher Cavalry Specific name: Hippeus Tarantinos Ranged armament: Javelins and pelte shield Attire: NR Stats: Health: 100 Hack Damage: 0 Pierce Damage: 18 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 1.25 Range: 30 Hack Armor: 3 Pierce Armor: 1 Crush Armor: 15 Walk Speed: 15 Run Speed: 21 Cost: 50 food 50 metal Loot: 6 food 8 metal 120 exp -War Elephant Generic name: African War Elephant Specific name: NR Note: The only mercenary elephant in the game and as such it should have a very steep cost. Stats: Health: 500 Hack Damage: 30 Pierce Damage: 0 Crush Damage: 70 Interval: 1.5 Hack Armor: 10 Pierce Armor: 10 Crush Armor: 20 Walk Speed: 9 Run Speed: 15 Cost: 300 food 160 metal Loot: 30 food 16 metal 250 exp -Iberian Swordsman Generic name: Iberian light swordsman Specific name: Hacker armament: Falcata and buckler Function: These are to be a pseudo glass cannon, less armour but more hack damage and more speed when compared to the standard merc swordsman. We can recycle the Iberian CS model. (Bootleg skiritai) Stats: Health: 80 Hack Damage: 6.5 Pierce Damage: 0 Crush Damage:0 Interval: 0.75 Range: 3 Hack Armor: 4 Pierce Armor: 2 Crush Armor: 10 Walk Speed: 11 Run Speed: 16 Cost: 20 food 30 metal Loot: 2 food 6 metal 70 exp Champions The champion infantry of this faction can only be trained intialy at the regular fortresses and at the special buildings mentioned above but will be available at the barracks after the player researches the "unlock champions" tech. -Syracusia (Ship) Note: historically it was known to have been a gift to the Ptolemies and was more of a show of whealth but you can´t make a champion function as a ferry only. Generic name: Syracusia Specific name: Syracusia Armament: ram and arrow towers Function: A really big ship, should be extremely expensive and slow but can be garrisoned like a tower to increase its firepower. It must also be capable of holding 50 soldiers. -Crossbowman Generic name: Crossbowman Specific name: Gastraphetephoros Armament: gastraphetes Attire: Similar to their Macedonian counterpart Stats: Health: 120 Hack Damage: 0 Pierce Damage: 40 Crush Damage: Interval: 2.5 Range: 60 Hack Armor: 5 Pierce Armor: 5 Crush Armor: 20 Walk Speed: 10.8 Run Speed: 18 Cost: 80 food 60 wood 80 metal Loot: 8 food 6 wood 8 metal -Tyrants’ guard/bodyguard Generic name: Tyrants’ Peltasts Specific name: Somatophylax tou tyrannou Melee armament: javelins, kopis and aspis Attire: As per the nature of their role and their value as a hybrid, high priority unit, they should be easily recognized in game, so I’m going to kill two birds with one stone by making them the flashiest units in game. Certainly, a tyrant would want show his wealth not only by investing in his personal image but also his entourage’s, the more decorated the panoply, the better. Firstly, their body armour, bronze muscle cuirass or an iron linothorax, like the one Phillip II uses in game. Both greaves made of bronze/iron and of course a cape. The helmet could be either a thracian or a late attic plumed . Function: The star of the roster for sure, this is meant to be a hybrid unit, a heavy peltast, cross between a skirmisher and a swordsman that is capable of both ranged and melee damage. The idea came to me after browsing Yekaterina’s post about making such a unit, basically my idea was that the damage type be exclusive to each “mode” of the unit, these “modes” could be toggled manually via formations but if this isn’t possible then have them only get in melee when right in front of another unit (< 4 meters). As they are also swordsmen, they can deal with CS infantry with varying degrees of cost-effectiveness. Naturally their counter would be cavalry. Finally, as to balance them I was thinking they could have an increased prepare time or downright less attack speed on their ranged stance. These should also have just a bit less health (than normal champ swordsmen) so that lose to other sword champs if none of their shots landed or if they hadn’t had a chance to fire but should be able to win if at least two or three shots connect before going into melee. Range Stance's Stats: Health: Hack Damage: Pierce Damage: Crush Damage: Hack Armor: Pierce Armor: Crush Armor: Walk Speed: Run Speed: Cost: Loot: Melee Stance's Stats: Health: Hack Damage: Pierce Damage: Crush Damage: Hack Armor: Pierce Armor: Crush Armor: Walk Speed: Run Speed: Cost: Loot: Heroes For this section I choose not to include any post Pyrrhus heroes and instead opted for the first dynast of each dynasty pre epirote influence . Gelo/Gelon I Elitism: Champions and cavalry train 15% faster while citizen soldier infantry train 10% slower. Cavalry Commander: Citizen and mercenary cavalry within a (Y) radius of Gelon receive a +2 crush, hack and pierce armour in addition to a 30% line of sight increase. To fit his bonuses and history, he would have to belong to the spear cavalry category but it is imperative that he posseces a more classical look than the following heroes, maybe a boeotian helmet with a laurel crown and a simple plume would fit him nicely: #Here is the crowned boeotian helmet in-game, to which I have added 3 plumes( i think they are props), just to give an even better idea of what I am talking about: Stats: Health: 1100 Hack Damage: 16 Pierce Damage: 14 Crush Damage: 0 Range: 6 Interval: 1.25 Hack Armor: 11 Pierce Armor: 10 Crush Armor: 25 Walk Speed: 19 Run Speed: 25 Cost: 300 food 200 wood 250 metal Loot: 10 food 50 metal 400 exp Dionysius I One the most infamous tyrants of Sicily, his contributions go from upgrading the walls of the city to furthering the development of siege machines. Dionysian Walls: Defensive structures get a 10% health boost (palisades, stone walls, fortresses, civic centres and all towers). Court Engineers: Siege units have their attack speed and movement increased by 20% in a (k) radius. As for his physical model I couldn't find much but following picture gave me the idea of giving him a linothorax, maybe scaled, underneath a chlamys, kinda like Themistocles in-game: #i also think he should be a sword cav hero Stats: Health: 1200 Hack Damage: 20 Pierce Damage: 0 Crush Damage:0 Range: 5 Interval: 0.75 Hack Armor: 11 Pierce Armor: 9 Crush Armor: 25 Walk Speed:18 Run Speed: 25.2 Cost: 300 food 100 wood 200 metal Loot: 10 food 10 wood 50 metal 400 exp Agathocles Another famous ruler that, much like Hannibal during the 2nd Punic war, brought the fight his enemy’s doorstep, somewhat shielding(not really tho) his own territory. He also burned his ships after disembarking in Africa, that way his mercs and soldiers were in a do or die situation. Natural Leader: +50% capture points in a (j) radius for both allies and your own troops. Relentless Advance: Mercenaries and citizen soldiers gain experience 10% faster (this, I think can be done by multiplying the experience points given by enemies in (x) radius or by multiplying the experience received by friendlies in (x) range of him). For his appearance and unit class I was thinking that he could be an infantry spearman, something like this: # Maybe a cloak or something to make him more distinguishable. Stats: Health: 1000 Hack Damage: 10 Pierce Damage: 10 Crush Damage:0 Hack Armor: 10 Pierce Armor: 11 Crush Armor: 20 Walk Speed: 10 Run Speed: 18 Cost: 200 food 300 wood 150 metal Loot: 5 food 15 metal 400 exp

My mod is ready for alpha 25.

nub berries location again! So annoying! : (

There used to be some very good mods back in A23 that enriched our 0AD gaming experience, but sadly these mods are no longer compatible with A24 and the upcoming A25, which is why I am starting a project to make these mods compatible with A24, A25 and later releases. Personally I am taking on Judeans mod and working on Aristeia mod, but there are many more A23 mods to be transformed. I need volunteers to help me, because I don't think I can manage the whole list of tasks on my own. List of A23 Mods (not exhaustive): 1. Random civ selection groups (functional) 2. Show available housing (functional) 3. Castle Blood (new game mode) 4. Cartography (functional) 5. No violence (functional) 6. Utility Any IP (functional) 7. City builder (New game mechanics) 8. Tower Defence (New game mode) 9. Special builder (New game mechanics) 10. Community map 11. Technology tree (New game mechanics) 12. Borg expansion pack (most of it is quite similar to A24) 13. Age of 0AD (New game mode and mechanics) 14. Terra Magna (new civ) 15. Millenium AD (new civ) 16. Ponies Ascendant (new civ, new mechanics) 17. Formation fighting mod. (new mechanics) 18. Faction-Specific resources. (new mechanics) 19. Aristeia (new civs, new theme) Here are some A24 mods that have been spotted to be incompatible (directly) with A25: Thebans Pretty much all of my mods Autociv by nani The reason why these mods expire is there is a minor file hierarchy system change, causing the modloader and civloader to be unable to find necessary template xml files. The solution is often to rename certain files and move them across some folders. You may look at the public.zip for the current version as a guidance. Since 0AD is very modular we can easily swap out corrupt files and slot in fixed files and rename them. I will be prioritising the civ mods because I am better at editing civ tree xml files than javascript files. If I find more mods to edit I will list them here.

Github Repo: https://github.com/Mare-Nostrum-0AD/mare_nostrum Hey everyone! I haven't been active on this forum before, but you might know me from the mod I've been maintaining, Random Civ Selection Groups. I've been working on this mod for a while now; I originally built it for A23 last year during quarantine, and I've spent the last month updating it for A25. It's the culmination of a lot of ideas I originally thought of developing as individual mods, but eventually I realized I had enough new concepts to package together as a total overhaul for 0AD. I loved this game when I discovered it last year, but I was a little disappointed that the city building usually involved turtling around your starting civil center instead of spreading out across multiple cities. I got into RTSs through Rise of Nations, so that's the style of gameplay I was expecting. This mod, Mare Nostrum, is at its core a mod that aims to reimagine 0AD as a game where you build your nation from a small, defenseless village to a vast empire spanning multiple cities. The biggest concept introduced in Mare Nostrum is that each civil center gets a "population" representing the number of citizens who theoretically live in it (this is separate from the "Unit Population" that we're used to, which represents the soldiers and laborers you've recruited from your civil centers). Each civil center starts off as a village with only 100 citizens. Unlike civil centers in Empires Ascendant, villages in Mare Nostrum have low health and capture points, and cannot fire arrows. This makes it much more feasible to launch a successful rush in the early game. To grow your civil center's population, you have to build civic buildings like houses and temples and, especially in the mid-to-late game, promote trade between civil centers. As your civil center's population grows, it automatically upgrades to a higher level; first, to a town at population 500, then to a city at population 5,000, then finally to a metropolis at population 25,000. Each subsequent civil center upgrade has more health, capture points, and arrows than the last and, most importantly, unlocks the next phase in the game (i.e. your first town unlocks the Town phase, your first city unlocks the City phase, etc.). As your civil centers grow, it becomes increasingly more difficult to grow their populations with buildings alone, so building new civil centers and promoting trade between them becomes critical for phasing up (a civil center's population grows by about 2-3 citizens per unit of goods that arrive at the nearby market). This makes raiding your enemies' trade routes and capturing their nascent colonies (as well as defending your own) a more pivotal and engaging aspect of gameplay. There's a lot more great features I've added to the mod along the way (Siege Towers can capture buildings, every faction gets to build a temple to a "Patron Deity" that provides certain bonuses), which you can learn about in the README at the github repo: https://github.com/Mare-Nostrum-0AD/mare_nostrum. I'm going to make a tutorial soon, but for now I recommend getting a feel for gameplay by either playing a sandbox game or watching the AI play against itself for a match or two (the new AI, Delphi bot, is actually decent at the city-building part of the game now). Note that, because of the greater emphasis on building multiple civil centers, you should choose maps that are at least Normal sized, if not larger; each player should have enough space to build at least 3 civil centers at a decent distance from each other. To install, just clone the github repo I linked to above. It's currently compatible with the development (SVN) version of 0AD. I'm hoping to release an official A25 version on mod.io within a week of Empires Ascendant. Also, I'd really love for some of you to join in and contribute. I'm very much not an artist, so having some help on that front in particular would be great. Here are some screenshots of how the new civil centers look: An Athenian Village An Athenian City All four Carthaginian civil centers: Village, Town, City, and Metropolis I hope you all enjoy playing this as much as I enjoyed making it!

Well done my friend, I start putting together the templates tomorrow.

I saw the 1,2,3 tiers of upgrades are available in the blacksmith. I think I like this change so far. Would it be good to correlate the tier 1,2,3 techs with phase 1,2,3 and make blacksmith available in p1? I feel this would be an interesting option to allow players to somewhat counter that booming=turtling situation that we have discussed a lot. If I remember correctly @ValihrAnt you came up with the third tier? what do you think?

As some of you who tested A25 may find, the Mainland map in A25 is still not quite balanced in terms of resource distribution. We would still require the balanced maps mod in order to generate very fair maps. However, this mod is not yet available for A25. Therefore it would be helpful if someone can convert this mod to be available for A25 (or show me the raw files and I will have a go). Also, why don't we implement it as an official feature? 1 Player getting 4 patches of berries while others having no woodline is not ideal. Also, another problem: when I try to download mods in git A25 it is full of A25 mods and no A25 mods present.

It does, provides fair distribution of wood in phase 2 range

You can download them from the mod selector. Main menu -> Options -> Mod Options -> Download Mods. If the mod you want is not in the list then there are some mods dotted around here and there on the forum, as well as github. Here are some examples: https://github.com/Yekaterina999?tab=repositories

Here is the second 'Release Candidate' of Alpha 25 - Yaunā We've entered Commit Freeze, which means we only now fix Release Blocker issues that we might yet find. Downloads - Current bundles are for SVN revision 25808 Linux data and build MacOS Windows Things to note: We've not tested translations yet. I think it's time to do so. If there are errors, report them on transifex. Mind your mods -> they might introduce issues or Out Of Sync. Save your A24 config file somewhere, ideally. Notable changes since the last bundle: Fix the bug where saving while paused would make everything disappear Fix a crash related to patrolling small bug fixes Currently known issues: We've had a few crash reports. Please provide crash dumps or stack traces, when able. What to do if I have an error or notice something weird? Post your commands.txt (replay) and the interestinglog.html file from your folder. You can also reply to this thread. What to do if the game crashes? Update your crashlog.dmp and crashlog.txt see https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths What to do if I have an Out Of Sync? You should go in your logs folder, find the replay (commands.txt at least), the mainlog/interestinglog and find the OOS dump folder. Zip all these files and upload them here. We need the reports from two players to compare them: One OOS and one non-OOS players at least should upload their oos_dump files. Things you may want to test (non-exhaustive) Launch a random game Launch a skirmish. Connect to the lobby Play on the lobby with someone Launch Atlas and try things out there Open Unit tests demo (To see if there any breakage in displaying entity's) (It's in scenarios) Enable feedback and see if it works (Main menu) https://videos.pair2jeux.tube/videos/watch/ca45fa29-c120-487e-af9c-cf52020666ab Connect to and use mod.io Test replaying new games Test Screenshots (F2) Test Big Screenshots (Maj+F2) Test hotkeys Test Saving and loading a game. Test Quickload/Quicksave And of course playing games.

@hyperion: my point was mostly about the "alpha" or "rc" monikers, which don't really appear in our releases anyways. The release name format is `0ad-0.0.X-alpha-`. I do agree that we probably could have used `0.X.y`. I'm not sure it's a great idea to change the scheme while still in the same 'alpha' version. I expect we'll reboot some things after A26 (which I would like to be the last 'alpha' kinda whatever happens, but we'll see).

nub berry generation:

I just wanted to report that units might get stuck. I don't want to call it out as a bug, but it is something to notice. In the image, you see women near the metal that try to get to the wood, but can't find the path. Also graphics look pretty cool, don't they?

The idea comes from the visibility mod by @ffm2. It's a hack and may not work on some scenario maps, but it's great for lobby games that are mostly taking place on skirmish and random maps. Starting at changeset 25634, mods like this no longer require the lobby compatibility hacks of @nani . So the mod should work fine with A25 in lobby games. vividcolors.pyromod

Very nice mod TY. I realized that in the stats you can see in game worker elephants count as siege. I have a little issue with the new version 1.0.3 which I didnt had with previous versions. Despite enabling the mod and saving mod choice the mod wont be active after after next restart of the game. So I have to activate the mod every time starting 0AD. Anyone else with this issue?

For a24, if I have an extra metal (if I don't I give up), I tend to get those p2 available upgrades from blacksmith on the way to p3 so that my allies don't ask for metal XD. I think if aggressive fighting is seen in p2 and earlier in p3, people will want to get those upgrades earlier. Some people have praised and some criticized the more broad categories of units the a24 blacksmith upgrades effect. Perhaps armor should remain how it is, but I am worried about how unimportant the hack armor upgrade is. Attack upgrades could be more specific, with attack increases for long melee (spear/lances/pike), short melee(swords/maces/axes), and bows, skirmishers, and slingers. Maybe also there could be weapon specific upgrades. Generalized armor makes it less frustrating to have some of your units that might not have those upgrades get vaporized by towers/forts which are a passive mechanic, whereas for attack you can strategize more and have the specialized (up-damaged) units be the focus of your micro and healer efforts which is an active/skill based mechanic. I think a good end result of blacksmith changes should be that all upgrades are potentially useful and it becomes necessary to remember which upgrades you have, and that the default strategy is not to simply get all of them (it should be too costly/ not worth it to get all upgrade types) Summary of attack upgrades from blacksmith: P2+20% attack a big increase from p1 might make planned p2 attacks more fruitful, If we combine this with cost reduction for more specific attack upgrades, it will be risky to not get any of these upgrades during p2, especially if there are p2 champs around. skirmishers bows slingers short melee long melee P3 +30% attack skirmishers bows slingers short melee long melee P3-unit perks: designed to give a more specialized bonus to heighten the separate roles those units play (I am less sure about the melee ones- suggest pls) I know some of these could be more OP than others, maybe price could vary or effect values could change or maybe these could be available to different civs. slingers + some crush dmg (appropriate amount) archers + some accuracy skirmishers + some speed pike/lance + 1 range (longer pike) maybe also something else swords +1 speed mace +1 pierce armor + 1 m/s speed spear +1 to cavalry bonus multiplier (maybe also applies to spearcav?) axe (maybe repeat rate? idk) Please tell me what you think. I think these changes, especially the attack distinctions unit-perks could be a nice diversity bonus and strategy bonus to the game

The goal of the mod is to add mythological beings to the chosen factions and to have also gods in it and abilities. There is quite long list on discord. mod was started in a23b and then i did some update to a24 but i stopped at some point. development of the mod kind of stopped somewhere in a24. So there is quite long list of things that need update for a25 given some files are very moded to even resume the work.

This is me trying out if spear-men cavalry can perform as a good counter against skirmishers and can deal with superior numbers of cheaper infantry.

Indeed it must be the other way around, that in real life rarely happened. At least under normal conditions, the cavalry served to end these pests.

That will only work in a dev copy. The correct change is in user.cfg, which you can find via http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths

The above is intended for Win10. For linux users: cd ~/.config/share/0ad/config/ or cd ~/.config/0ad/config gedit local.cfg Type in the code above, then save.

Correct way to scale 0ad: 1. Navigate /user/appdata/Local/0 A.D. alpha/binaries/data/config 2. Then create a file local.cfg (you can use notepad) 3. In the file, write the following: [gui] scale = 1.25; 4. Save and restart game.