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Para Bellum - Combat

If you want peace, prepare for war.

This mod collection is a total conversion for Rome II with a historical approach, keeping a balance with the gameplay, and aiming for a more challenging and epic experience.

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Complete overhaul of the Rome 2 battle mechanics, focused in realism and historical accuracy.

- Push/stepback mechanics that take into account the weight of the units, for example with a heavier unit like the hoplites you can push and move a lighter one like the skirmishers, dragging the unit by pressing Left mouse click + left Ctrl to advance forward the unit.
- Reclassification of the unit types with a more realistic approach (line infantry, assault, etc.) and the addition of new classes like the support and hoplitic infantry.
- Number of soldiers adjusted for more realism and better game balance, for example low tier units or pikemen are more numerous. These changes are also taken into account in the new class system.
- Battlefields resized, enlarged to maneuver large armies and so that reinforcements arrive on time and without fatigue, and not lose much time searching for defensive armies. Also, includes custom deployment areas shape, allowing to deploy units with guerrilla ability in the enemy flanks area.
- Historical unit names for all campaigns/DLCs, including also the unit name in English below in the description.
- Overall phalanx enhancement: improved animations for pikemen and hoplites, and a new abilities for the hoplites to better reflect this tactic and its features.
- New abilities: Tactical retreat for all the infantry to avoid too many losses when disengaging combat. Othismos for hoplites, Push for experienced melee troops, and At the centurion command! for melee roman infantry. These last three very similar.
- New and enhanced animations, including a wide variety of kill animations.

Overall improvement of the AI behaviour in the battlefield:
- Using better formations, and terrain in their favour.
- Changed the spotting distances values to allow the AI to keep the battle line formations, use reserve forces and attack the flanks in a better way.
- Better use of the troops with projectiles, not only the javelins and peltasts, with exchange of projectiles along the battle line before the charge, instead of just rushing.
- Infantry attacks along the battle line, not just focuses on the flanks. Also they hold better the position so the result is more realistic with pikes/hoplites armies.
- Projectiles protect themselves better behind enemy lines.
- Cavalry properly flanks, attacking in the right moment and making charges persistently.
So the result is more realistic and difficult to beat as consequence of the better tactical approach of the AI.

- Matched combat reworked to avoid disrupted formations.
- Improved the pike phalanx combat, lasting longer.
- Loose spacing is available for all units except for hoplites and pikemen, though closed formations like shield wall, phalanx and testudo have increased protection against projectiles.
- Cavalry speed and mass changed: the charges are still powerful but not as much as in vanilla, but as the unit suffers losses the charge strength also decreases.
- Variable recovery timeframe between soldiers of the same unit, after cavalry charges knockdown.
- Reworked morale and fatigue systems for longer and more dynamic battles.
- Complete revision of the units' stats.
- Full revision of the shield, armour and weapons, to better represent the combat of this period. The line infantry can stay in a melee fight for long but lose troops in a slow constant way, however, they are vulnerable to the rear or flank attacks.
- Projectiles physics, ranges and ammunition adjusted.
- Walking and rowing slowly speeds equaled for all units, to maintain the formations of armies and fleets.
- Improved naval combat, for more realistic and tactical battles.
- Adjusted units' experience threshold.
- And many other adjustments and details revised.

- Terrain effects: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2880145170
- Better units stats info panel: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867989067
- Improved Siege battles AI: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892112157

Subscribe and place the different parts of the mod in alphabetical order in the Mod Manager:

1. Para Bellum - Campaign (includes specific instructions and translation files)
2. Para Bellum - Combat
3. Para Bellum - Effects (includes specific instructions)
4. Para Bellum - Factions
5. Para Bellum - Interface
6. Para Bellum - Population (includes specific instructions)
7. Para Bellum - Units (requires the other Para Bellum - Units parts)
8. Para Bellum - Units II (requires the other Para Bellum - Units parts)
9. Para Bellum - Units III (requires the other Para Bellum - Units parts)
10. Para Bellum - Weather (includes specific instructions)

Though I recommend to use all the modules together, they can work separately so you can apply what you want, but keeping the order regardless of the number of subscribed parts.

- As a total overhaul, Para Bellum is only compatible with the mods included in the Para Bellum submods & Compatible mods Collection.

- Multiplayer compatibility only if both players have exactly the same contents (mods and/or GEMFX installed and subscribed). Also the Para Bellum Multiplayer patch is highly recommended (contained in the Para Bellum submods Collection).

- Compatible with all DLC campaigns and contents.

- Ancestral Update (Patch 20) compatible.

This mod would have not been possible without the modders who very kindly gave me permission to use their terrific content in this project. My sincerest thanks and appreciation of incredible hours of hard work and dedication, goes to:

ToonTotalWar - phalangite animations: Wars of the Gods


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