Rome - Total War: Alexander mod enchances vanilla experience with lots of new campaigns, historical battles and 450+ units
Don't forget the Music Pack! - Moddb.com
This mod has a long history, starting as a submod for popular russian mod Macedon Expansion.
It's main focus was to expand vanilla game, add richer details and custom content while keeping original design and style, like if CA released a free-LC. All factions unit rosters were spiced up with new late-game units and regional troops, and battlemap balance was tuned to a degree for smooth and enjoyable gameplay.
Main features:
- 13 campaigns with different setups and presets, including regional ones
- 60 historical battles from Battle of Kadesh to battle of Adrianople
- RSII environment for battlefields
- BI buildings for campaign and battlemap and new stratmap buildings
- more than 450 units with lots of regional and auxiliary troops
- more than 1000 new skins and more than 100 new unit models
- hundreds of handicrafted unit cards in polished vanilla style. Support thread
- new stratmap settlement models
- new custom ancillaries
- new reskinned horses based on Pinarius models
- a lot of new officers, almost all units have officers, some of them customized for special units
- working Prologue which can be played using all new features
- and more!
Official English thread for the mod
Installation:
- Mod requires RTW-Alexander file RTW-ALX.exe to run!
Download it from here and put to RTW folder
Rome - Total Music is strongly recommended!
It was originally designed as a supplement for this mod, but released as a separate universal mod
Unpack content of the archive to your Rome - Total War folder. A folder NL will appear inside your game folder, near EXE file.
Make a shortcut for RomeTW-ALX.exe on your desktop, right click for Properties and add the following to the end of the "Object" field:
-nm -ne -show_err -noalexander -mod:NL
OR if you are using Steam:
Right click Rome - Total War: Alexander, Properties->Set launch options and add the same.
If you are using multiple Rome - Total War mods, you can add them all to Steam with different launch options. Just use button "Add a game" at the bottom of your game list, then "Add a non-Steam game", then found in the list and select Rome-Total War Alexander .EXE file from Steam version. This will allow you to launch the same Steam EXE with different mods, having full benefits of Steam overlay, game time count and screenshots.
If you found any bugs or have a suggestions, PM me or send a email to lanjane@yandex.ru.
You can also post your findings in any of the official forum threads.
P. S. campaign_map_reset.bat is used for clearing the campaign map cache. Don't delete this file, it will be useful for later patches if any.
Happy campaigning!
This legend has been a mod. Health in your hands. How did he not go to the front row?
Thank you very much mikisah!
Thanks that worked forts & watchtowers were a big part of warfare in the Ancient world I may ask you some more things if thats Ok but not at the moment
Thanks for that works great
I like this mod Lanjane's Barbarian Empires and new units in it, especially roman units new hastati and principes models, longer swords and better designed helmets. I have one request for BEST mod. Can you do the same with post Marian units legionary and praetorian cohorts to have longer swords ( not vanilla knives)? Textures are great. I think i can count on new optional patch...
I'll update them in next patch. Thank you for your feedback.
Patch 1.04 is coming, along with your desired fixes! See the preview on TWC: Twcenter.net
You are great Lanjane, just saw improvements on Twcenter. All i have to say can't wait till release...
hello why is my screen so huge i cant change it?
Go to NL/preferences folder, open preferences.txt, find these lines and change resolution to your desktop resolution:
STRATEGY_RESOLUTION:1920x1080
BATTLE_RESOLUTION:1920x1080
I also wanted to ask is Caesar in this mod?
Thx btw
I also wanted to know is Caesar in this mod?
And also Hannibal ? Thx
And finally can I use the create unit cheat?
Sorry for the many questions 😀
Thx btw
maman1
There's a Hannibal campaign, but no Caesar, sorry. You might want to play The First Triumvirate series mods for playing as Caesar.
bro it is still too big even after putting in these changes, no other mod does this whats wrong bro?
can i send you my prefrences notepad file?
thx btw
may be its the rome total music thats creating problems?
Try removing "-ne" from shortcut properties.
That's command adding borderless window mode, it's great but not working well on some monitors.
Should fix the issue for you.
Version 1.04 is out! Main download link updated.
The Best mod of total war. Lanjane, it would be in the Imperial campaign to play Rome as one faction united the roman clans, because the Imperial campaign is four turns per year. Thank you!
i cant seem to go full screen? any ideas?
Greetings!
Remove "-ne" from shortcut or from .bat file (depends on what you are using)
OR
change ingame resolution to your desktop resolution
BRAVO! just wow! very good job with the mod! theres soo much detail! im very impressed ! thank you!
Thank you very much Moroc! Happy campaigning!
como faço pra jogar esse mod ?
Hellenistic Twilight/Hellenistic Legacy who will remember that...ty cr i will ask him...
someone help please how can I fix crashes ?
Could you please explain where you get the crash, in detail?
I dont know how to make this work. I dont have Alexander, and cant purchase the dlc alone. What can I do?
Hi Lanjane,
Thank you for ur work ;) and ever present politeness and warmth in assisting everyone!
I found a bug, but i have limited data: Suppressing the population in the plotemaic city north of cyprus, they surrendered without a fight (i was seleucids), causes a ctd.
Sorry for the lack of info.
Just a question: Is it normal that sometimes the hoplites take much time between a thrust and the other? I feel it takes a little fun away from enjoying the fight with a close up.
Keep up with the good work!
Thank you!
Hi Goodmodsfan!
As Marios already mentioned, the occupy/enslave/exterminate CTDs could be very annoying problem with no real ways to completely get rid of them. I described some of the ways to avoid this type of CTDs in Important Tips section of the main mods description - you can quickly save the game right after the battle and right before capturing the city. Another way of avoiding the crash is to not wipe out the whole enemy army and let at least one enemy unit leave the battlefield alive.
I've noticed that some campaign maps are more vulnerable to this tricky CTD type than others. For example, main campaign and Mundus Magnus 4.0 are very stable, while Webbird's campaigns Europe 270BC series can crash sometimes for no visible reason, maybe it is geography issue of a specific map.
As for hoplite animations, in initial versions of the mod hoplites were too OP and we had to make them slower to balance it a bit.
Thanks for boosting our morale with your feedback! Merry Christmas!
Hello. First of all, thank your for your great mods. I play barbarian empires and helenistic legacy and have one problem. The wall towers dont fire against siegeing army. Could your fix this?
good morning guys , I have a problem with hannibal's campaign , the game crashes when I press start.
Got any solution for that ?
Thanks
Hello, I will have a look as soon as I reach my PC (cannot do it in the next few days).
I have a problem xD , i thought it was an element error (sometimes the graphics engine does that) but no, i passed the model to a clean copy and ... well, did not work .
Help(?
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This is engine bug I'm unable to fix. I tolerate it just for the privilege of having a shield which appears in left hand and hides behind the back automatically
been playing the vanilla campaign (RTG one as well) with your mod and its absolutely awesome. probably my faviourite rtw mod. Thanky you
Thank you for playing! Happy campaigning!
I love the fact that you can play the 3 Roman Houses. However It is always the Brutti... Ironically the Strongest of the 3 that gets Stagnant spamming militia Units. As the Julii I had to conquer Tarentum and Gift it to the Brutii. By the time I did that Macedon was already the master of Greece.
Hello good sir. I need some help.
I only have vanilla rome and not alexander too. Since I dont have the money to buy it, I got the exe. file. Here is what I did:
1) donwload the mod(NL) and put it into rome folder
2) download Alex file and again put it in the folder
3) did a desktop shortcut of alex file
4) considering I am on steam, I just got to properties there and pasted what you said
Yet it still doesnt work. Any advice?
Hello! Just run the bat file inside of NL folder, called "Start Barbarian Empires.bat"
Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, it simply doesnt start. Its not called Start Barbarian Empires.bat though, its without the .bat
Join the Discord using the link in the mod description and let's figure out the problem together
There are only 2 threads, no discord. There is however your email. Do you mind if I mail you?
Sorry for the late answer. Here's the Discord link: Discord.com
Hello, I am interested in your mod, it seems like a great mod but the file "Zeus" exe in the NL folder is detected as malw-re by a scanner on V-rustotal. Is this a false positive? Is that your file? Please let me know what it does. (Btw I scan all mods/files I try out of precaution, not just yours). Cheers!
Hello. It's a false positive for sure. Zeus tool is not a malware, it's a famous modding tool made by RedFox, creator of the mod Diadochi Total War. Cheers!
no problem, it's all good. Playing this now. Regards,
Wow. Amazing mod, everything from the map to graphics. playing as seleucids to start. i think this is the best mod i have ever played for the original rome. barbarian empires is what this game should have been. great job lanjane and to all involved. many thanks.
one of the best mods ever!
Hi guys, anytime I tried "Quick Battle", it gave the the error "Generic error: failed to find texture NL/Data/models_unit/textures/..." each time is a different file. How to fix this?
Hi where do you install the mod on Rome total war gold or on Alexander total war I have both on steam
I use RTW Gold, and put RTW-ALX.exe (see link in the description) in that folder. It's easier than creating a virtual copy of the game in Steam library. Though both ways are possible. Check the instructions (PDF manual): Barbarian Empires Documentation.