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@buggy123 I honestly dont even know what that means haha, I'm doing some research on the topic right now.

I was wondering when somebody who could model would show up! Your models look pretty great, espcially the guns. I was wondering if maybe you wouldn't mind trying to make a falx model for a Thracian mod I am planning/making? Basically a falx is a very curved sword. Here are some images: Falx To give an idea of size Anyways, it's really cool that we now have a modeler. Hopefully you will be able to help create some great mods for this game.

Awesome, looking forward to trying it. Im disapointed there are there are still no Persians or Carthaginians, etc . Oh well, makes sure I have something to look forward too!

Glad to see this topic has generated so much interest. I'll post a detailed response when I have more time to read through all the comments. One thing I'd like to say though is that I'd like to stay away from more obscure civilizations. So while the Etruscans and the Indus Valley are fascinating to study, we don't know enough about them to make a faction out of them for an RTS game.

will the persians be included in the next release?

There was a two handed version, the rhomphaia, which was much longer and straighter. The falcata that I'm using is the closest thing in game right now, so I'm using that (falx and falcata both come from Latin "sickle", I believe, so it makes sense)

Yeah, I was actually planning on adding a Thracian civ eventually. They fit perfectly into the timeline of 0 AD and there is already some art in game that I can use .

Thanks! Alright I figured it out, here is a better screen: Thacian Cavalry and Swordsman

I think the reason that I can't take the high resolution screenshots is because my keyboard is broken. In the meantime, here are some low res screenshots of the units I made. No texture editing involved, just me messing around with the Actor Editor. They are Thracian Cavalry and Falxman.

Another problem I'm having has to do with screenshots. I used Crtl+Alt+F2 and looked in the Application Data folder, but it wasn't there.

Nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks anyway

Ok. I'm making a swordsman, so I chose infantry_melee_swordsman or something like that. When I try to place the unit in Atlas, I get this error message: ERROR: CXeromyces: Parse error: units/thracian_warrior:1: Did not expect element Actor there ERROR: CXeromyces: Parse error: units/thracian_warrior:1: Element Entity has extra content: Actor ERROR: RelaxNGValidator: Validation failed I know next to nothing about code/programming, so I probably made some really basic error.

I'm having a small problem with creating an entity from an actor I made. What is a "parent entity"?

I agree. The improvement from the pre-Alpha is amazing, I can't wait to see future versions of this game (hopefully soon and hopefully with some more civilizations )

Hmm, Etruscans might work. They are interesting because the language they spoke was a language isolate, not related to the Indo-European languages around them. I'm not sure how much we actually know about their language, but I know they wrote in the Greek script. Same thing applies to the Minoans (although some researchers believe that Minoan, Etruscan, Rhaetian and Lemnian were part of a pre-Indo-European language family called Aegean or Tyrsenian). I think I might just stick with the six I have now... Btw, I'm sort of waiting until a later edition of 0 AD comes out to actually start modelling, because I think that some of the Persian units look like they would make good bases for these ancient units.

How do you mean? The Khazar's conversion to Judaism is pretty well documented. What is dubious is to what extent the general population converted and if the Khazars were the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews. Most scholars seem to agree that the conversion to Judaism was mainly among the upper class. And the claim that the Ashkenazi are descended from the Khazars and not the Israelites is also not widely accepted. As for pre-Islamic Arabia, many tribes did practice Judaism, as well as Christianity and traditional paganism.

During the Middle Ages, the only Jewish state was the Khazars, a Turkic tribe on the Pontic Steppes of southern Russia/Ukraine. Maybe that can help...

This is an idea for a mod that I've been thinking about and working on for a while now. It covers the time period from about 2000 BC (the Middle Kingdom of Egypt) to about 550 BC (the founding of the Achaemenid Empire). Think of it sort of as the prologue to 0 AD. This time range is very rough and I'm taking a 0 AD approach: each civilization will be represented at the height of it's power. The civilizations I have chosen so far are: -The Assyrians -The Babylonians -The Egyptians -The Hebrews -The Hittites (the Anatolian Hittites, not the Biblical ones) -The Medes (redone Persian civilization from 0 AD) Some more possibilities are: -The Hellenes (probably not, since they weren't all that important for most of this period) -The Phoenicians (redone Carthaginians) As for gameplay and such, I'm waiting until 0 AD comes out, but I have some vague ideas in my head. This thread is sort of for planning and such so I want to know if you think the factions I have chosen are interesting/appropriate or if there are any others you can think of. BTW, this mod needs a catchy name! PS: I have a completed Assyrian outline but I did it all in Akkadian. By the time of Assyria's height, the language was Aramaic, I believe, so I will redo all the unit names.

Nice. Are you planning on adding a Scythian civ? And what are the other two units? BTW, has anybody tried editing/creating any models yet? I want to try, but I have no clue where to start...

SMST, are those units in your sig units you have modded? Because they look awesome! Especially the cavalry archer, he looks very Persian (or Scythian maybe)

Yeah the shield and helmet are retextured. The helmet looks too blue in that picture, so I made it more silver.

For some reason they're not going there, so I just did Print Screen and pasted it into paint. Here is my fisrt modest attempt at modding the game: a Viking Huskarl. BTW, I love the Actor Editor! Can't wait for the full game to come out so I have more material to mod with.

I'm trying to get a screenshot of the unit I just modded, but I can't find it in the place Ykkrosh suggested. Anywhere else it might be?

Ephestion, why do you seem to have such an irrational hatred of Carthage?

Umm, Macedonia was never independant in the medieval period, but Serbia was. Just read about Stefan Dusan and the Serbian Empire.