Sacrificing armor for quickness, the younglings wear simple tunics offering little protection against enemy swords and arrows. Though they wield their swords and shields with gusto, their lack of armor makes them extremely vulnerable to enemy melee units. Most effective against unarmored foes, our trainees can still effectively suppress their enemy’s heavy troops when deployed properly. ![]() ![]() Armed with a sling, shield, and short sword, they harry the enemy with sling stones, whittling their numbers down for the heavier units. ![]() The younglings are warriors in training, relegated to skirmish roles until they prove themselves. I’ve got kind of a mediocre graphics card, so I apologize in advance for the graphics quality in some of the screen captures.Įvery Amazon has to start somewhere. Since I don’t have time or space to show every awesome unit type from Shannon’s mod, I’ll try to cover some of the more interesting ones. The uniform blue-and-aqua coloration gives these Amazons a disciplined, highly militarized feel, offering a refreshing contrast to the doll-faced, boob-plated portrayals we often see in popular media. I like that instead of trying too hard to be historically accurate, Shannon went with a stylized, Greco/Roman feel for her lady warriors. The unit selection is impressive, with diverse light, medium, heavy, and skirmisher infantry as well as some decent heavy, medium, and ranged cavalry units. While Amazonian mods for the Total War games are hardly a new idea, I feel like Shannon’s design shows more integrity than any attempt I’ve seen in the past.Īs I mentioned, the Amazon faction takes the place of Pontus in the campaign. Apparently Shannon, the mod developer, went nuts with the DoM chipsets and designed a full-fledged Amazon faction that replaces the Pontic faction on the main campaign map. It’s called the Empire of Amazonia, a Faction Units mod from the Daughters of Mars DLC. I stumbled across an interesting mod for Total War: Rome 2 from their Steam Workshops. ![]() Included in the Black Sea Colonies Culture Pack.Amazon Hoplites versus Spartan Hoplites, from the Empire of Amazonia, by Shannon With a military composed chiefly of Scythian and Greek unit-types, Cimmeria can offer a swift and unwelcome surprise on the battlefield. Despite this strength, Cimmeria remains under threat from the surrounding nomadic tribes, and from the avaricious gaze of nearby Pontus, whose military strength may yet prove its undoing.Ī truly multicultural society, Cimmeria welcomes foreign peoples into its borders with greater enthusiasm than other states, and its fertile farmlands offer the seed of great profit, in spite of a notoriously corrupt government. The current ruler, Satyrus, conquered nearby Greek cities, heralding the birth of the Cimmerian Kingdom, and a dynasty of rulers that endures to this day. The adventurous Greeks of Miletus, in Asia Minor, formed several colonies around the Black Sea coast during the 6th and 7th centuries BCE in order to exploit its resources for trade with the wider Greek world.īy the beginning of the 5th century BCE their government had gravitated from classical Greek democracy to control by a single family. The Cimmerian Bosporus has been fought over for its resources and strategic importance for millennia.
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