Deicide4u

Due to janky animations, it is hardly noticeable. Units either die too quickly or are practically immune to attacks. Some balance changes need to be made to make it work as intended. For example, units died to siege very fast. That's why I made organic units almost invulnerable to crush attacks, as they are in recent alphas.

It will be presented later, in a separate thread. Yes. Gameplay will be different. Core part of it will be the lack of phases, as they don't really make sense to me in 0 A.D. The timeline is fixed, and the city development can be balanced differently. One example is with structure costs. Higher tier buildings will require much more resources to build. Most will have build limits, as well. We'll see, I'll post details when most of it is ready.

Update: Roman Army Camps can now train Marian Legionaries. I've restricted them to training only melee infantry and Siege Rams. I've also made a bunch of other "balance" changes. Looking now for a way to limit the population cap to a more manageable number. EDIT: Was an easy fix inside simulation/components/Player.js

Not applicable or appropriate for the Alpha 9 version, that I'm using. I'm doing incremental updates to an earlier Alpha. My first big plan is to backport healing by Priests, and any bug fixes possible. I've already removed the useless and legacy "Stamina" attribute. There was a blue bar next to health, now it's gone. Eventually, I hope to make a total conversion mod for this specific version, complete with custom AI and build orders. If you've ever played Praetorians RTS, that is something I have in mind.

I proudly present my first game modification I've replaced the weird Hellenic infantry spearman portrait (found here) with a more aesthetically pleasing one (just a previous icon, really): Here is how it looks in-game: Now, let's see if I can replace that ugly old Barracks portrait. And maybe fix some bugs by backporting code to this version. EDIT: I've replaced the icons for both Barracks and the Roman Army Camp. Alpha 9 used Fortress portrait as a placeholder for the camp. EDIT2: Persian Barracks and stable portraits also backported. It's already much nicer to look at.

Good enough for me. Add range and speed below them, and it's perfect.

I don't think using Call to Arms is worth it in the context of directly assaulting the enemy bases. When CS drop off their resources, they tend to form a single-file line during the attack-move part. It's better to reserve this feature for quick defense, or to gather soldiers near the enemy's territory. Then, when all troops are gathered on one spot, use the attack move as you generally would.

Just finished one of my most difficult and excruciating battles against the AI, ever. No replay, since the version is old (alpha 10), but here are a couple of screenshots. About 12 of those buildings razed were Fortresses. I was Sparta.

Time for another classic gameplay video. Siege without packing/unpacking. Unit portraits look to be heavily inspired by Age of Mythology.

I will test this in Alpha 9 (where trading was first introduced), to see if this is an regression introduced in recent patches.

If you believe HBO and the mainstream historical accounts, Caesar was killed because of his altruistic stance to civilians from all parts of Roman Republic, including those that he recently conquered. Nobility, aided by political class, killed him out of spite and envy.

Guts, slimmer Guts and Griffith walk into a bar... On a more serious note, all of the figures look amazing. Good luck and I hope you have a lot of fun doing this.

War Elephants (only the Carthage has them here) saving the day from a 2-pronged attack. They ruined my economy and killed a bunch of fodder, oh well...

@guerringuerrin thanks for the suggestion, I might have overstepped a bit. However, I seem to have forgotten my MP password. Also, I don't think any of you guys play Alpha 9 right now It really feels like a different game. So clunky, so chaotic.

You might be right, we'll see I hope not, I'm really liking this one.