01-10-2008, 08:07 PM
Salve gents, been a while!
I know there are many late-roman army scholars as well as interested parties here at RAT and many have RTW and Barbarian Invasion expansion.
Ramon Gonzales y Garcia, a modder at the twcenter, has released IBFD some time ago. The amount of research in this mod is astounding. While I won't claim it is 100% accurate, it comes VERY close, and also exhibits great playability. I've never seen this sort of historical yet fun balance so well done.
There are some of us getting together groups to play it online in a 'clan' type format. If any here are online MP veterans, you'll know that 'clans' generally make up groups of young, foul mouthed kids who are little more than mobsters in the ol gaming lobbies. This is different, based on my experience with Napoleonic 2: TW clans who are generally historically curious and somewhat knowledgeable people gathered to 'fight' under a common banner. In N2 we have about 6 active clans representing different nations during the Nappy era, and are striving to duplicate that with the Late Roman Era.
While the quality is by no means up to snuff with reenacting, it's still a fun and free way to live out some virtual lives as Roman (or Hun, or Vandal, or Saxon, and so on so forth) soldiers. Single-player campaigns are fun, but apart from you there is no gratification for playing well, and beating an AI Army is only so fun... playing with a group against another adds depth and fun to the game never before experienced. And as was stated as well on the EB thread below, reenacting and gaming fulfill different purposes. This will allow you to play 3v3 or even 4v4 online battles with a team in whatever format you choose (right now I am getting one going for the Western Roman Empire, and we are going with historical army setups). It can be a loose collection of friends or a more army style organization, but no matter what, it will be fun.
Right now I am playing IBFD 7.0 patched (upgraded) to 7.03.
The IBFD site is
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=113
and the 'clan' we have started I just set up a forum for,
http://z15.invisionfree.com/Domesticus_Tutor/index.php
It's not much but it's a start. If anyone is interested I hope to see you in the gamespy lobby sometime with us playing. We are going to get a timezone chart soon to know when each other can play.
If you want to represent a Frank army, or other faction other than Roman, set up a 'clan' and recruit others to join you so we can get some large, epic ca. 400 AD battles going!
I know there are many late-roman army scholars as well as interested parties here at RAT and many have RTW and Barbarian Invasion expansion.
Ramon Gonzales y Garcia, a modder at the twcenter, has released IBFD some time ago. The amount of research in this mod is astounding. While I won't claim it is 100% accurate, it comes VERY close, and also exhibits great playability. I've never seen this sort of historical yet fun balance so well done.
There are some of us getting together groups to play it online in a 'clan' type format. If any here are online MP veterans, you'll know that 'clans' generally make up groups of young, foul mouthed kids who are little more than mobsters in the ol gaming lobbies. This is different, based on my experience with Napoleonic 2: TW clans who are generally historically curious and somewhat knowledgeable people gathered to 'fight' under a common banner. In N2 we have about 6 active clans representing different nations during the Nappy era, and are striving to duplicate that with the Late Roman Era.
While the quality is by no means up to snuff with reenacting, it's still a fun and free way to live out some virtual lives as Roman (or Hun, or Vandal, or Saxon, and so on so forth) soldiers. Single-player campaigns are fun, but apart from you there is no gratification for playing well, and beating an AI Army is only so fun... playing with a group against another adds depth and fun to the game never before experienced. And as was stated as well on the EB thread below, reenacting and gaming fulfill different purposes. This will allow you to play 3v3 or even 4v4 online battles with a team in whatever format you choose (right now I am getting one going for the Western Roman Empire, and we are going with historical army setups). It can be a loose collection of friends or a more army style organization, but no matter what, it will be fun.
Right now I am playing IBFD 7.0 patched (upgraded) to 7.03.
The IBFD site is
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=113
and the 'clan' we have started I just set up a forum for,
http://z15.invisionfree.com/Domesticus_Tutor/index.php
It's not much but it's a start. If anyone is interested I hope to see you in the gamespy lobby sometime with us playing. We are going to get a timezone chart soon to know when each other can play.
If you want to represent a Frank army, or other faction other than Roman, set up a 'clan' and recruit others to join you so we can get some large, epic ca. 400 AD battles going!
"Marcus Hortensius Castus"
or, to those interested,
"Kyle Horton"
formerly Horton III
or, to those interested,
"Kyle Horton"
formerly Horton III
