LANJANE'S BARBARIAN EMPIRES - 1.4
Expanded vanilla game, with richer details and custom content while keeping original color scheme and style. More than 1500 new skins and more than 200 new unit models. 13 provincial campaigns. Hundreds of new and overhauled unit cards and images, custom ancillaries and more!

:: REQUIREMENTS ::
• Rome Total War Gold + RTW-ALX.exe file https://www.mediafire.com/file/4i3zz67yf7arhph/RomeTW-ALX.7z/file
OR
• Rome Total War Alexander

:: INSTALLATION ::
1) FOR CD VERSION OF RTW GOLD AND STEAM RTW GOLD:
- Unpack the archive, copy folder NL to your core Rome: Total War folder
- Download RTW-ALX.exe and put to core Rome: Total War folder
- Start the mod using NL/Start Barbarian Empires.bat

2) FOR STEAM RTW ALEXANDER
- Unpack the archive, copy folder NL to your core Rome: Total War Alexander folder
- Edit the launch properties for Steam Alexander, add "-mod:NL -nm -show_err -noalexander" without quotes
- Start the mod by pressing PLAY button for RTW Alexander

3) FOR CD VERSION OF RTW ALEXANDER
- Unpack the archive, copy folder NL to your core Rome: Total War Alexander folder
- Start the mod using NL/Start Barbarian Empires.bat

:: 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!

:: RECOMMENDED MODS ::
- Rome Total Music to enhance audio experience - https://www.moddb.com/mods/lanjanes-barbarian-empires/addons/rome-total-music

:: TIPS ::
- Most important!!! To avoid engine bug which is known as occupy/enslave/exterminate CTD, use the following trick: always play with "Follow AI movements" ON in the game menu, and when you just won a big battle which should result in conquering a settlement, quickly press Esc just after post-battle loading screen when you return to the campaign map and save the game before occupy/enslave window appears. Usually this trick will prevent the CTD in 99% cases.
- Try playing with NTCore's 4Gb patcher (LAA enable for RTW-ALX.exe), as it is reported to help with big mods though it may not be required.
- Initial building costs and construction times are high, but they can be progressively decreased by building trader buildings first. Use it as an advantage! Also use generals with recruitment cost discount traits as governors because unit recruitment costs are high too (not upkeep costs though).
- There's a game engine bug that will show unit info pictures white if there's more than 40 units available for recruitment in the settlement in campaign. This bug is pure cosmetic but annoying yet you still can view unit info pictures correctly in building tree browser tab, when you click latest stable/barracks/missile building in a tree and then right mouse click on the first unit string in the unit recruitment list.
- ne option from the shortcut is about Borderless window mode. If you don't like it, or your video card/monitor doesn't support that mode or it looks weird for you, remove -ne from the shortcut properties. Example: "C:\Games\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:NL -nm -show_err -noalexander. The game will run fullscreen and will rescale to fit your screen correctly.
- 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.

:: CREDITS ::
Dick & Alxcruel Pax Barbarica & Barbarians Revenge mods
dvk901 & Roma Surrectum II team Roma Surrectum II mod
xcmhx Rome - Total War: Enchanced mod
HK_mars Rise of Empire 1.0G mod
Russian_Alexander Battle for Hellas mod
Darius & Maxmus Wind of East mod
repman BareBonesWars Mod
medusa0 Medusa0's Armoury
Subrosa Florens Amazon - Total War mod
comrade_general The Hellenic States mod
ngr Mundus Magnus mod
Laka Laka's numidians
Nebuchadnezzar Mercenary Xpak
Solon de Athenas RTR: Anabasis mod
Guererro Sabino Guererro Sabuno's mod resources
Europa Barbarorum Team Europa Barbarorum mod
player1 BugFixer for Rome - Total War
jpinard, Luvian, Siblesz completed factions mod

Campaigns and historical battles original designers:
xcmhx awesome RTWE campaign map
Kuban-Kazak British Campaign
Haktar Imperial - Total War map
Alejandro Magno Mundus Magnus 4.0 map
NinjaCool Historical Battles Pack
Tom Sims Historical Battles Pack
rorarii Historical Battles Pack
Seasoned Alcoholic Rome - Total Gameplay campaign map
Myrddraal Sicily mini-campaign map
Webbird Europa - 270BC map

Special thanks to:
crazyroman for setting up most units voices, eastern officers assignments, correcting typos, extensive testing, advices and inspiration
Dmitriy Macedonec for giving a permission to create this submod
as1991 for his awesome Let's Play Parthia on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_8...M5iCHKcdxr-Ev8 in an older version of this mod and inspiration
ahowl11 for his patience with such fragile person as I am, and for help and support in various areas
suppanut for modding advices on stability and balancing and support
Kirila Kristi for translation corrections
comrade_general for inspiration with his works and for great days of Persian Invasion and The Hellenic States
Aradan for modding advices and help
Robbe Aerts for useful tips on climates and vegetation
makanyane for help with my epic vegetation struggle

Original Macedon Expansion Credits:
Äìèòðèé Macedonec Idea, concept, text files, general administration
Olwork Textures, models, graphics, patches
Kamelia English localisation for ME 1.3