===[TASK]=== Crowd Sourced - Illyrians (Faction)

[wackyserious]

Update:

Placeholder buildings, somehow in a playable state now for SVN version.

- New actor file tweaks

- New portraits

[wackyserious]

More play testing, added generic names and some new icons.

I will update the first post in this thread

[wackyserious]

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I think if we can get a full Thracian building set modeled, the Illyrians and Thracians can share the same building set. We can just tint the Illyrian struct texture slightly different hues, maybe a different roof texture, etc.

 

Using the Gaul buildings as a placeholder is a good choice.

Edited October 17, 2022 by wowgetoffyourcellphone

[Ultimate Aurelian]

Possibly they could have a pikeman unit

https://europabarbarorum.fandom.com/wiki/Illyrioi_Peltophoroi_(Illyrian_Light_Phalanx)

[Ultimate Aurelian]

 Perhaps they could be able to have scorpions and bolt towers (but no stone throwing catapults).

On 06/12/2019 at 6:37 PM, Genava55 said:

Appian, The Illyrian Wars 4: "[18] The transalpine Iapydes, a strong and savage tribe, drove back the Romans twice within the space of about twenty years, overran Aquileia, and plundered the Roman colony of Tergestus. When Augustus advanced against them by a steep and rugged road, note they made it still harder for him by felling trees. As he advanced farther they took refuge in another forest, where they lay in ambush for the approaching foe. Augustus, who was always suspecting something of this kind, sent forces to occupy certain ridges which flanked both sides of his advance through the flat country and the fallen timber. The Iapydes darted out from their ambush and wounded many of the soldiers, but the greater part of their own forces were killed by the Romans who fell upon them from the heights above. The remainder again took refuge in the thickets, abandoning their town, the name of which was Terponus. Augustus took this town, but did not burn it, hoping that they also would give themselves up, and they did so.

[19] Thence he advanced to another place called Metulus, which is the chief town of the Iapydes. It is situated on a heavily timbered mountain, on two ridges with a narrow valley between them. Here were about 3,000 warlike and well-armed youth, who easily beat off the Romans who surrounded their walls.

The latter raised a mound. The Metulians interrupted the work by assaults by day and by night, and harassed the soldiers from the walls with engines which they had obtained from the war which Decimus Brutus had waged there with [Marc] Antony and Augustus. When their wall began to crumble they built another inside, abandoned the ruined one, and took shelter behind the other.

The Romans captured the abandoned one and burned it. Against the new fortification they raised two mounds and from these threw four bridges to the top of the wall. Then, in order to distract their attention, Augustus sent a part of his force around to the rear of the town and ordered the others to dash across the bridges to the walls. He ascended to the top of a high tower to see the result."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapydes

 

Edited 55 minutes ago by Ultimate Aurelian