RIS 0.6.0

What's changed (v. 0.6.0)

• 100+ newly remastered units for Greek, Hellenistic and Tracian factions with 7 soldier variants each and LOD models for optimal performance.
• The largest map in TW history with 1808 cities and regions total, virtually all as heavily researched as possible, and beautifully painted with Kirsi's map textures.
• A total of 54 playable and 50 unplayable factions with unique UI and banners.
• Complete rework of the Traits & Ancillaries with +1500 unique Archon traits, +400 city and +50 tribal traits. Olympic traits, spoils of victory, supplies/attrition mechanics and much more.
• Expanded BI-religion-based system to act as a second culture mechanic with a total of 48 religions, including 29 sub-religions for Greeks, Anatolians, and Thracians, representing the major peoples and material cultures in the mod.
• 4 Turns per year with increased recruitment and building time + season traits.
• More than a hundred new academically researched and referenced unit descriptions, as well as some new historically accurate in-game named characters.
• Improvements for battle map environments, trees and skies.
• An intuitive and immersive AoR and recruitment system across all campaign map.
• 64 reforms along with an Egyptian revolt, as well as 15 other emerging factions.
• New extreme mode for the players who love a truly insane challenge.
• Many fixes for issues from 0.5.0, such as unpathable areas in settlements, freezing when assaulting a gate with a siege ram in some settlements, etc.

The Team (as of this version)!

• ahowl11: leader, founder and face of the mod, coding, unit cards
• tone: lead artist (3D + 2D art), units, unit cards, modelling, unit stats, vegetation, scripting, ai balancing
• jorellaf: mapping, minor 2D art, text editing, coding, testing, debugging, mod file management, historian, description writer
• Apple: workshop / discord administration and public relations, music
• Swagger: 3D + 2D Art, battle & campaign graphics, settlement plans, vegetation, menu video, tool scripting, unit cards, miscellaneous stuff
• Lvcke: coding, scripting, testing
• moscaflaca: unit cards, testing, battle balancing, coding, and public relations
• Mausolos: lead historian, research, texts, dev diaries
• Maurits: historian, description writer, minor coding, workshop/discord administration and public relations
• Rex_Basiliscus: historian, description writer, and Seleucid specialist
• jottel: historian, description writer, testing, research
• Genava55: historian, description writer, and Celtic specialist
• Galvanized Iron Raptor: historian, description writer, and Germanic specialist
• NakedSpur: 2D art, Faction symbols and banners, shields, loading screens, agent unit cards, etc.
• Grimbold: 3D art, helmet specialist
• AceSnake047: 3D art, clothing specialist
• Red Zed: public relations
• Refract: 3D + 2D art, unit texture and models assembly, miscellaneous coding
• exi: 3D art, unit models and LODs, scripting, testing
• Balbor: 3D + 2D art, texture and model worker, artist workflow admin
• Lusitanio: traits, ancillaries, scripts and characters
• Rex: city and region trait descriptions
• Dementive: scripting
• zuzaman: scripting
• Eduardo Sousa: scripting
• Landerote: tool development
• Zeus Nikephoros: tool development, scripting, coding
• hereandnowlive: tool development, scripting, coding
• ortiga: unit and texture assembly, LOD creation
• Barney: campaign characters
• DVK901: splash screen
• Burninator: 3D art, unit assembly
• Biggus Dickus: EDB’s recruitment building section and names data managing and .txt generation
• messenger: 2D art, testing
• Iambicindeedv2: testing and public relations
• The. Shark: testing, quality assurance
• Lollygagging: testing, quality assurance
• El Santo Padre: 3D art, linothorax components and greaves
• Vicboss: testing, coding, and gameplay balancing
• Ray245: historian, some descriptions
• Caligula Caesar: advisor, some descriptions
• Andy's Take: testing, public relations
• Leveller: historian and Latin specialist
• Lord Drake: GitLab repository owner and maintainer
• AmyClaraRose: GitLab maintainer
• starkgate: upscaling of RS and RTR textures
• Tyler Cunningham: provided his soundtracks
• Remlap: 2D Art for 0.1.0
• CaiusAntonius: some unit cards for 0.1.0

We also wish to thank all of our open beta testers for their insights and feedback!