Introducing the Official community mod for 0 A.D. Empires Ascendant

[Fabius]

Afternoon folks, I had an interesting idea to share, its a unique tech for Rome called Spoils of the Punic Wars and would allow training of a limited number of elephants from the fortress. These could be regular war elephants or perhaps champion/citizen elephant archers but with javelins instead of bows. Cost wise it could be a reasonable chunk of food and some metal or just food like the regular champion unlocking tech, or something else like wood and stone, to represent the addition of elephant stables in the fortress.

While Rome did not make extensive use of war elephants they did capture them and did use them on several occasions, in the Macedonian wars for instance. Seeing as we have options to create limited troop types, the Centurion for instance, this seems a reasonable way to add some limited nuance and interesting tactical options, and certainly could be applied to other civs as well in the future if a suitable option comes up for them.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

For Rome, I feel like the civ is already pretty full of content (compared to the other civs). However, if someone ends up making a "rome expanded" mod or something for the SP community, this would be great.

Or maybe it could be campaign only (whenever we are able to make campaigns, they take a ton of work).

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

On 07/09/2025 at 9:20 AM, Fabius said:

Is there scope for having the javelin thrower as a technology for increasing infantry skirmisher range?

There's the idea of having unit-specific techs, but I think they should wait for:

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7666

[real_tabasco_sauce]

Yeah that scheme would be super nice. If it can be doable via mod I can certainly put specific techs together in com mod.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I've asked @Vantha to look at that ticket. 

[BreakfastBurrito_007]

Unit specific techs are an untapped treasure trove of gameplay value. I don't think we should get rid of the blacksmith techs of course, but I think unit specific techs could have more creativity in addition to rewarding focus on unit compositions.

[Classic-Burger]

A complete technology design must be done.

Always in the technology trees, there must be economic, military, civic and religious technologies (support units).

Economics must improve resource efficiency and health.

Improve units and structures as well as mechanics (components).

Speed and capacity and also for each in general bonus of gathering for each resource.

The only missing thing in this one is the speed of the villagers.

Military is divided into many, defense and attack both structures and units.

Increase LoS (Line of Sight).Here you can divide by structures into military, civil and support units.

Defensive structures include CC. Here you can play with armor, HP, attack range, number of arrows, (there are several things are implemented).

In the blacksmith it is quite complex, it would need to have a post.

Special technologies. Those that go in the Fortress or the Wonder. For late game.

Naval technologies, similar to economic and military ones.

Unique technologies of civilization.

Technologies of the civilization group, all those shared by related/parent civilizations.

Religious, which are like civic, can improve the temple, the priests and even the soldiers, it is more like the spiritual psychological part of civilization.

Civic tech on how civicization is organized and It speaks volumes about the identity of a civilization, whether they live in a kingdom, a republic, a nomad, or an oligarchy.

This goes for government centers, libraries, etc.

Technologies for components, such as capturing and handling frontier the civics area of influence.

Technologies to develop the hero.