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Addition of civilization specified head's by following the current schema. Currently missing only iberian's By the meantime since im updating actor's i took the opportunity of adding the combat variant to each melee infantry to add more immersion to the battle's. Now the actor's will play ready variant animations while approaching an enemy if selected to attack directly or using the attack-move order. I would like to add in the UnitAI component the combat state if the entity has selected the Aggresive stance so it will make a visual difference. Head was generated using blender provided human free assets. Here some screenshots: Hellenic: Achae: Han: Maur: Celt: Kush: Cart/Ptol: Combat variant Showcase:

You can be glad you don't see the amount of spam they're trying to post.

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It’s pretty obvious the guy who designed them was a 300 fanatic, drank way too much coffee mixed with Red Bull and, while screaming “this is Sparta”, made these unit stats in a complete frenzy.

Added a new version to the main post; - Added several types of vassals that produce their own units. - Vassals now build structures, houses provide 1 pop to their owners, the vassal will produce a barracks in order to produce their own military units. - Improved villager ai, they should no longer sometimes move back and forth and will try to get a range of resources nearby. - Villagers can now hunt nearby animals. Right now there is no ai until you capture it, but i plan on making a basic defensive army patrol around the settlement before it is captured by anyone. Dont worry, it will be fairly easy to capture vassals I would also like to add a new civ that specializes in vassals and autonomous units.

Cartimandua would make an excellent non-combat hero, and unique. As Queen of the Brigantes, she was allied to Rome. Her bonuses could actually be tied to being allied to non-Celtic factions. If possible, say, something like being able to recruit a foreign unit/units, depending on the ally/allies (maybe she can have a unique structure that does it? No clue), representing things like when Rome sent a cohort to defend her from her former husband, or just some kind of broader generic bonus, but something the Britons otherwise wouldn't have access to on their own.

We could probably update it for R28

What do you think of this: if I capture someone else's vassal settlement, the units it spawned when it was their's, become mine

Well, Spartans don't have good cavalry. That is one of their main weaknesses, the other being poor siege. Every civilization/faction has its strengths and weaknesses. The fact is, you don't choose a playstyle and go with any faction. You choose a faction because you like its playstyle, units and its quirks.

Normal map's fixed:

connect your territory to ally and delete your cc !

Is it me or something with normals (the face is more gray than I expect)?

@AlexHerbert I assume you are referring to mass garrison of hoplites in barracks early-on so they promote to champions. This shouldn't be a problem in TGs because it's not very good against a standard minute 15 maxxed out attack. Some players might feel this offers them a shortcut but this is only helpful in for example Nomad matches. Normal hoplites esp. Athenian ones still have many possible counters like outplaying them with ranged (even archers) or making a 50/50 melee/ranged army with proper upgrades, champions or just making full melee-only of your own. Technically swordsmen should be stronger in hand-to-hand combat. In my personal opinion pikemen are actually much better when used in team with ranged units than hoplites. Honeslty I would just recommend making a normal army and fighting melee in front. I can see how champ spamming with the garrison might be a bit annoying and you might even compare it to Gaul fanatics. But in my opinion having such a 'secret' strategy is intriguing and that's exactly the kind of depth I like about 0ad. You still can make a big citizien-solider army and you will be fine but can be annoying.

Dumping the latest update because i don't have time or motivation to work further on the mod currently and don't want it to go to waste before next game update. • update to A28 • Germans got the grapejuice balance overhaul • Fixed missing and wrong templates • Some animations were missing, fixed • Obstruction walls were selectable, they shouldn't be • Exclude slingers from the brazier buff • Rewrote the ammo system, should expect performance increase and less bugs • Rewrote the energy system, should expect performance increase and less bugs • rams don't get extra energy from garrisons anymore, they have their own standalone pool. Each garrisoned soldier adds to attack speed, damage and walkspeed as described in the "battering rams" aura tooltip. • new icons for: re-arm aura, brazier flaming projectiles aura • Units swap weapons much smoother now when out of ammo. Before, units would do the whole ranged attack animation until actually shooting to realise it's out of ammo, now they swap instantly after being out of ammo • civic center shoots no arrows by default, only when garrisoned, to motivate players to build actual defense structures like towers and fortresses • new tech at forge, upgrade stone towers and fortresses to shoot flaming arrows that apply burning • added 3x damage bonus to spearman cavalry against cavalry • Big promotion rework. Units get stronger buffs from promotion. Heroes and champions gain increased buffs from rankups. Some units can get to 10 ranks (just heroes for now), each rank gives a buff to certain stats like attack speed, melee attack damage, health increase, and more. Siege (including rams and siege towers) can also gain ranks now. In theory any "unit" can gain ranks now, including wildlife like crocodiles. After max rank a unit can still gain experience, and they will heal some health when the bar is full (and maybe different bonus in the future). • Improved tooltip for the rank icon (middle selection panel). Now reflects in realtime what current rank bonuses are. • Javelineers gain +1 max ammo per rank. Meaning Champions Rank Units will have 6 max ammo (was 3) and max rank Hero Javelineers 12 (e.g. Iber Hero Viriato). This is to give a little more motivation to create Javelineers as the complaint was they didnt have much ammo to roam with. • Iber Hero Variato has become a javelineer (again? pretty sure he already was at some point), and throws burning javs. He has 12 ammo at max rank. @Stan`@Itms can you sign the mod on mod.io when you have the time? Thanks. grapejuice_R13_A28.zipgrapejuice_R13_A28.pyromod

This is my scouting mod, it is not complete yet, but if anybody want's to test it, that would be great! If you find any errors or have suggestions, please post them Version 1.3 -> 5/14/26 Fixed Roman scout cav portrait New tech: +15% pierce damage for scout cav or +15% vision range Command tent now has 4 garrison, with a heal rate; you can build 2 command tents Roman Army can works as a dropsite; they can only build 1 command tent Adds advanced scout cav for Romans: 130 health 12 damage, can build siege wall (now, normal scout cav can't), limit of 4, command tent increases limit by 4, tent increases by 1, normal scout cav promotes to advanced scout cav (Rome) scout cav can build palisade wall Scouting-1.3.zip Version 1.2 -> 5/14/26 Adds a vision range tech -> research from command tent Portraits and actors are updated Scouting-1.2.zip Version 1.1 -> 5/13/26 Adds command tent -> train healers and champions for some civs, population bonus of 7, train roman centurions, works as a dropsite, not Available till town phase Tent now has 5 population bonus Scout cav can build palisade wall, roman scout cav can build siege wall instead Scouting-1.1.zip Version 1.0 -> 5/12/26 Adds a scout cav that can build an outpost and scout tent. Scout cav have 25 resource capacity Tent -> train scout cav and jav infantry, if the civ has it Outpost upgrades -> lvl2 +10 vision range, lvl3 +10 vision range and shoots arrows Scouting-1.0.zip

I don't understand why hoplites are classified as light units. The Geomori aristocrats shouldn't be archers but heavy cavalry. The swordsmen (Xiphophoroi) aren't credible. They should instead be merged with the Thureophoroi, and the Thureophoroi should be given swords. The Adyrmachidae were not known for fighting from chariots. Those were the Asbystae, who used four-horse chariots.

Finally got rid of all their posts.

I delete a hundred spam posts per month probably.

@wowgetoffyourcellphone Just in case this was the first rendering test i did before head's for bodie whitout too much detail: Mod file for testing, still work to do: New_heads (3).7z

If you want the AI to use it as a dropsite, you’ll also want to make sure you add this.

@Stan`Rebaking head shape with 1024x512: @wowgetoffyourcellphone Added eartip shape:

In late 2000 / early 2001 me and Dire_Wolf met up via the AOK forums at heavengames, both of us with an interest in modding Age of Empires 2.. We messed about a little bit, never really did much but eventually decided to form Wildfire Studios as a simple modding group, similar to dozens that were around at the time. After forming Wildfire Studios nothing special happened for a while, nothing much happened at all.. We had a few members join up and leave etc etc then Dire_Wolf recruited Wijitmaker (AKA Jason) who pretty much stepped right up and reformed nearly every aspect of Wildfire for the better. He recruited new and talented members such as Agamemnon, BullsWool, Sud Commander, Topknot and Icewyvern to name a few.. And in march 2001 we began work on Rome at War... there Was even a trailer created for the Rome at War mod at the end of march 2001 (check the bottom of the page) . It was about here that I started sinking backwards into the shadows at WFS, I was more a spectator than anything else but continued to watch from the inside all the progress that was being made.. lending a hand every now in then in terms of ideas and discussion and web design.. Eventually RAW was released, after huge community hype it was and STILL IS (I believe it is fair to say) the most successful mod for AOK ever. With over 16,000 downloads from aok.heavengames.com alone and many more from wesites all around the internet, it was something that was never predicted. It was such a success that RAW was even featured in magazines such as PC Powerplay and Gamestar. For me, now to look back to when WFS was first founded, it was never ever EVER predicted that WFS would ever raise to such heights.. After the unbelievable success of the Rome at War mod, the members of WFS decided to create a new modpack this time under the code name of 0AD, with the aims of brining barbarians etc to the world of Age of Empires 2.. After large amounts of work and time spent on creating this modpack, with a large community following and also the formation of the team dedicated to creating The Last Alliance modpack it was finally decided that the teams were too limited with the mod capabilities of AOK and AOC and that for the mods to be successful they would have to look elsewear.. The exact date is unknown to me but in late 2002 / early 2003 the difficult decision was made by the members of WFS to embark upon the task of creating, not just one game.. But two.. Simultaneously it was decided that TLA and 0AD would be created together, along with this decision was also the decision to change the team name to Wildfire Games and also ( I believe? ) the purchase of domain name www.wildfiregames.com. And thus work on 0AD began, with Wijitmaker keeping the game on track and keeping a completely professional front. By now I had become less and less a regular visitor to this site.. But still remembering to stop by at least once in a while, to check the progress.. I have watched the forums grow and the games progress from the very beginning, but as of late I find myself coming back here more and more often, this game is beginning to become for me, more of a reality than the dream I once thought it would only ever be. Seeing the new screenshots posted for 0AD in the last few days have created a sense of emotion within me that is somewhat hard to explain. It is a sense of achievement as well as a sense of pride that I was at some stage associated with the team which has been able to create what to me seems like a masterpiece of work. I believe that if there is one person to thank for all that has been achieved over the 5 or 6 years since the formation of WFG that, that one person is Jason "Wijitmaker" Bishop. I know for a fact, that without him in the team from the beginning that WFG would never be where it is today, Rome at War may well have been released but our soon to be greatest achievement would certainly not be the impending reality that it is today. Jason has been responsible for keeping WFG going and giving us that kick start that was needed right from the beginning. Although I beleive Jason to be the key to WFG, it definately would not have ever been possible without the outstanding contributions from all the dedicated team members and community that have been a part of this great team over the years. THANK YOU everybody for supporting Wildfire Games over the years and thank you for making my dream (and im sure the dream of many others) a reality. I'm sure one day, i'll be able to look back on 0AD parts 1, part 2 and perhaps part 3 and be overwhelmed with the same emotion that I am today. p.s if anyone wants to view that old 0AD trailer (dating around december 2002) you can view it here. and the Rome at War trailer from 2001 can be viewed here.

The freckles are a great touch I fear they may be picked on at school though... These look great as well. Maybe one suggestion: the lips appear somehow too small.

I'm currently working on vassals, small randomly placed settlements on the map that will auto produce their own workers to gather resources in the area as well as a small patrolling army to gaurd their own territory. The player can capture these vassals in order to have them autonomously work for them. Vassals can provide income for their owners using their workers as well as add a basic level of defense for an area with their patroling army, after they have all their workers and a defending army, they will slowly build up a small army to attack your enemies with. I find it adds some really cool and valuable points on the map to take control of. While they wont be able to defeat your enemies on their own, coordinating your attacks with theirs can add a welcome boost to your own attacks. This also makes the maps feel alot more dynamic. Edit: 02/05/2026 Added latest version of the vassals mod. -Vassal units can be selected if you want to inspect them but they ignore all commands given to them by the player. -vassals once captured project the players influence around themselves. -vassals will produce villagers to gather resources for their owner. -vassals will produce patrol armies that protect their territory. -Once a vassals patrol armies get big enough, they will instead be used by the vassal to attack your enemies. Vassals will spawn randomly, but right now they will spawn in the same specific random place on every map type for testing purposes. Vassal produces units faster than in the final version for testing purposes. Edit: 02/05/2026 Added a new version with random and much better spawning of vassals around random maps. Edit: 02/05/2026 Last edit for today, improved vassal spawning so the game will try to spawn at least one per player. Also the game will try to make sure there is pathing to at least one other player before placing a vassal in an area. Edit: 09/05/2026 - Added several types of vassals that produce their own units. - Vassals now build structures, houses provide 1 pop to their owners, the vassal will produce a barracks in order to produce their own military units. - Improved villager ai, they should no longer sometimes move back and forth and will try to get a range of resources nearby. - Villagers can now hunt nearby animals. Edit: 10/05/2026 -Vassals now produce units much slower. -Fixed a bug where vassals would stop trying to build structures if they could not find a place to place a structure on their first try. Edit: 11/05/2026 -Impoved vassal spawning to make sure they now always spawn. Vassals Mod.7z

Methinks it would be interesting if the AI mixed it up a bit and tried different mixes of units in its attacks more than it currently does. Perhaps we can add more personalities to the mix beyond Aggressive, Defensive, Balanced, which try specific types of units for different strategies or tactics.

Hi, @Satevis. Welcome to 0 A.D.! I'll try to answer some of your questions.: 1. What is the advantage, if any, of raising livestock in a Corral vs building more Fields? Economically, Fields are still generally more efficient than Corrals. However, Corrals have a harder-to-measure advantage: they allow you to replace some Civilians with Cavalry, since cavalry gathers food faster while also giving you defensive units in your base that can help protect against raids. In addition, you can garrison livestock inside Corrals and get a small constant food trickle. At competitive level, the standard is usually around 45 to 60 Civilians distributed across 9 to 12 Fields. A strategy that is becoming increasingly common is replacing around 20–25 of those Civilians with Cavalry. 3. How much better do my units perform given the different formations? The repositioning that @Deicide4u mentioned is key. An army deployed in a proper formation will have a much better chance of winning than a disorganized army attacking in a straight line or with ranged units (which are weaker) exposed on the front line. Units also run while repositioning, which gives you a mobility advantage that can be enormous if used correctly. In addition, units in formation can overlap slightly more. This allows melee units to attack enemies without needing to move around to find an empty spot. 4. How does the Trader unit affect prices on the Market? Traders are only used to establish trade routes between Markets. Every time a Trader reaches or leaves its destination, you receive some amount of the resource you selected. They are especially useful on maps where certain resources are scarce. 5. Are walls important for defensive play as Romans? Walls are not used very often because of their weakness and high cost. If used properly they can still help with defense, although many players consider them too weak at the moment. 6. How do I handle extremely long ranged archers (vs Seleucid?)? Spear cavalry is probably the best option. They are faster and have a damage multiplier against cavalry. Gaul Naked Fanatics are also an excellent option against all kinds of cavalry. As for struggling against the AI, I recommend watching this video. It explains the basics of economy management while also giving many valuable insights that can help you improve your gameplay. ValhirAnt is one of the best — if not the best — 0 A.D. players. I highly recommend watching many of his videos, from beginner guides on beating the AI to highly competitive 1v1 matches against top players.

Like any other RTS, the game keeps evolving as players discover tactics and strategies to exploit the strengths and weaknesses of different units and civilization mechanics. Maintaining good balance throughout each release is a very difficult task, carried out by very few people who dedicate a great deal of time and effort to it. It would be useful to properly identify what the actual problem is and why the unit is considered broken. Perhaps the issue is the capture system itself, which allows a ball of hoplites to steamroll everything and capture your base. Perhaps it is the Hoplite Tradition technology rather than the unit itself. Or perhaps there is also a lack of skill involved in dealing with a ball of hoplites, which are actually easy to micro against due to their slow speed. The frustration is completely understandable. Balance issues happen and will continue to happen. Contributing ideas to solve a potential problem is always welcome, but ranting about the supposed motivations of the person responsible for the unit’s design does not contribute anything at all.

I originally refrained from commenting on this post for several reasons. Most of my post I try to keep related to our project, Classical Warfare AEA. Which this will touch a bit on. I have also been around long enough to see lots of post about different "broken" unit, but then no willing's to do anything about it. And it just becomes a complaining/venting forum without any possible solutions to fix the so called problem. That being said I was out on a hike, and I just couldn't stop thinking about the post and how it represents some of the issues or lack thereof in our ever so small community. Personal I don't think hoplite spamming is an issue, with the possible exception of my Athens. The fact they can promote to Champs without the cost of champs from the comfort of their own barracks seems a little unfair to me. On top of that I have do a little reading up on and have found nothing about Hoplite City Guards for Athens, so I'm not quite sure why they are even a champ unit. The city guards were the enslaved Scythian archers (from what I have read) who overtime earn the role and patrol the city. That being said, I think almost any unit can be exploited and broken if you master how to play it in the context of the game. One of my biggest weaknesses is playing against Cavalry. Partly because I like to play Sparta and their Cavalry is somewhat simple and limited. I'm also just not that good at dealing with the hit and go tactics. Does that mean all cavalry are broken? Not really, i could do better designing my cities, usings walls, palisades, not overreacting, chasing etc. There are many ways to beat hoplites IMO, some have already been discussed. But I think the best defense against any unit, style of play is an offense that prevents it. Lets take Classical Warfare AEA for example. Like @diagonalo mention we have tweaked a lot, in particularly Sparta and their "Spartiates." And while there is no limit on how many you can train, as you tech them up and make them stronger they take longer and longer to train, so they become a little harder to mass. But they are still probably the single strongest melee unit in our version. It makes almost 0 sense to take them head on in a fight in open terrain where you have to face all of them at once. You will LOSE! unless I'm the one playing them, I nub a lot... but that's a different story. The point is they are slow units, just like in real life. You can easily go to their base and reck their eco with most infantry ranged, definitely cavalry. You can attack them from afar with lead slingers, archers etc... Jav may be a little scary since their range is lowsest. So I guess my point is, if you are interested in a more complex indepth version of the game, check out Classical Warfare AEA if you struggle against a certain type of unit, post and ask for advice. There are many players out there that can beat me with any civ, any unit any day or time... I think its less about the mechanics of the unit and more about your overall understanding of the game and what units "might be broken" so how to prepare for them before they are spammed.

You might enjoy looking @Emacz Classical Warfare AEA mod where (Spartan) hoplites work quite a bit differently and some units got specific pop limits.

Bonus track: Set of female heads to end the week since my semester start tomorrow.

Yeah, as I've said 100x already. Capture is a broken mechanic that allows things like these. If those hoplites had to damage your CC, their strategy would fail.

Indeed is noticeable:

I'll add another mesh with narrow nose. Currently iberians:

Three small, advanced examples: Anuradhapura - We need more research into unique units and technologies; Cyrene - We need more research into unique units and technologies; Urewe Culture - We need more research technologies;

Hey, these are all great images, but one little thing: maybe it would be nice to use the same type of bow represented on the Gupta coins. A big difference is the use of large static tips or “siyahs” (the straight endings). A common example is the Manchu bows (little video testing models of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHDkUECiwU8). Given the Gupta representations, and assuming they are indeed not being drawn, it would seem they don’t present “string contact”, so the bow wouldn’t need to have string bridges. I think they would look like what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUmZU51K0-o calls a "Reflex Straight with static tips", traditionally just called recurved, with the culture also mentioned to better specify which one, which that video understandably criticises (but they would be Hungarian, Magyar, Sasanian, Han, Tang, etc). For comparison, here another Gupta representation: A Sasanian representation: And a Sasanian reenactor:

@Outis @Thalatta I made this PDF of all the diffirent cav units/actors in the game... its quite interesting. Take han for example for the cs and champ spearcav the portriats seems to show a shield but none of the actors do.... in some cases actors start without a shield and then add one as they rank up. I am not a huge fan of this, unless it is REALLY historically accurate. If in rare cases some civ had a handful of Jav cav that use shields, but most didnt i would rather just give them all Jav cav that don't have shields. CWA - Cavalry units by civ.pdf

The Britons adorned their bodies with either tattoos or body paint; it is highly likely that they covered their faces. The composition and color of these pigments are a matter of debate. They may have been blue, green, or red. The designs applied to the body are not known from historical accounts. I suggest using simple symbols inspired by those found on certain coins. The colors could match the player’s colors

German ladies look like they pulled an all-nighter at Berghain with those eye bags

Yeah i need to rebake the normal map but before need to smooth the Cheeck, seems like pointy.

That is what I just said many times, that units do have a counter, but those players force you to play monotonous like him or lose... (I have never seen a Spartans player use stables, for example.) But well, I have it already solved for me anyways. I just say it for people still don't know how to deal with this (like the ones in the overlay screenshot.) Finally, you are not obligated to play with those players Thanks everyone for your answers.

As said, none. Don't even bother, unless you have extreme excess food in the late game. In which case, there is no reason to improve the income, anyway. Your units can assume better positioning, especially ranged units. It reduces the empty walk time for archers to get into position. It also allows you to better micro the army. Otherwise, no other benefits and formations don't give bonuses in the base game. Walls can delay the AI, but they are not good against other players. There are some bugs that need to be fixed, mostly around wall snapping. Just practice and try to get familiar with the game. No shame in playing against Sandbox AI in your first matches.

This game does have a learning curve, don't give up! You could reduce the game speed to ease you into this difficulty. All I'm gonna say is AFAIK, personal opinion and not thoroughly calculated. None. The investment slows my progress and it's additional micro. (Sometimes I keep cattle in my corrals to produce a trickle of food, but I don't know if it's actually worth the effort.) The part not build. (Workers didn't start yet = full refund, deleting existing building = all is lost.) I hate formations with a passion so I wouldn't know. Not at all; only bartering from the players affect the prices. I believe the consensus is that walls largely aren't worth the effort. Melee cav?

I didn't even read your answer. Good day.

I am from Vietnam and would be happy to help if I can.

darn AI, I love it as much as I hate it lolIt was supposed to be a Portuguese creature; I got the reference from @Duileoga. And yes, it has the skin of a feline from the Iberian Peninsula.

Hello, the mod is now available on mod.io and through the mod downloader. In the future refrain from using 0ad>=0.28.0 as it causes issues (You cannot guarantee what will happen in the future)

New background images (created using AI):