Wrath Of Sparta Content

• A scenario set during the Peloponnesian War starting in 432 BC with 12 turns per year.
• 4 playable factions:
  • Athenai
  • Sparta
  • Boiotian League
  • Korinthos
• Brand new campaign map, set in Total War’s earliest time period yet.
• 78 regions covering Greece and the Ionian Coast.
• Massive scale, most zoomed in campaign map we’ve ever done
• 12 wonders, from the Palace of Knossos to the Silver Mines of Lavrio, located around the map.

Panhellenic games

• Choose how to compete in the four games (Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean), each playing an important part in the classical Greek world

Religious Festivals

• Regular festival events highlight the key part they played in people’s lives.

New 'religions'

• Representing the different Greek tribes: Ionian, Dorian, Akaian, Aiolian.
• More for the other Greeks, Makedonians, Barbarians and Persians.
• Main 4 tribes won't suffer any unrest from the presence of other Greek tribes, but big diplomatic penalties with non-true Greeks.
• No cultural conversion.

Faction and Faction Group Traits

• Greek faction group state gives lots of bonuses related to slaves.
• Campaign also starts with high percentages of slaves in most regions.
• Sparta gets even more bonuses to slaves to represent their Helot population.
• Athens has bonuses to its navy and culture but unrest problems due to its attempts to build an empire.

New general skills and army/navy traditions

• Adjusted for the unit roster available in the campaign.
• Also designed to be more differentiated from one another.

All new tech tree:

• Featuring six branches: Army, Navy, Support, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Mathematics.
• Each branch has its own flavouring and differs from the Grand Campaign ones.

Adjusted building tree and unit recruitment

• Single port, religious and military buff chains that branch at level 4.
• Single line military recruitment chain.
• Decent core unit set available from all settlements.
• City centre building line adjusted to have 3 options: entertainment line, muse line for research and a temple line.
• New tier V port for Athenai, tier V city centre building for Korinthos. Boiotian League gets a tier V temple. Sparta has the Monument of Leonidas.

Persian Escalation

• Persians happy to sit on the sidelines as long as no one faction becomes too powerful.
• As you increase your Imperium, you'll get greater and greater diplomatic penalties with the Persians.
• Eventually they'll attack you with lots of armies, or if you attack their cities.

Brand new unit rosters

• Representing the warfare of the time period.
• Heavy emphasis on Hoplites with supporting elements.
• Cavalry throws javelins on the charge, rides in with spears and then fights in close melee with swords.
• Mercenaries now focused on a few specialist types and more widely available across the campaign map.
• Two main ship types: Trieres and Dieres with warfare focused on ramming and boarding.
• Land units on transport ships will no longer be able to ram in battle; navies will be needed to escort these extremely vulnerable ships at sea.

No artillery!

• Prior to the invention of ranged siege weaponry, siege battles all about taking the walls in this time period.

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Changes in Rome II

• Optimisation campaign memory usage by loading less campaign character / general models into campaigns where they are not needed.
• Land units on transport ships will no longer be able to ram in battle; navies will be needed to escort these extremely vulnerable ships at sea.
• Improvements to animations for charging shock cavalry.
• Improved unit bracing in shield wall formation for the units in the rear of the ranks.
• Fixed the white loading screen which appeared when changing graphics settings during a battle.
• Fix for some battle terrain bugs in the Caesar in Gaul Campaign.
• Disabled ramming for barbarian ships.
• Added a fix to the "Continue Campaign" button on the launcher, which in some very rare cases didn't work for a few users with unexpected file path to appdata.
• Added a new Spartan loading screen.
• Improved axe-men animations, to replace "stabbing" animations in synced combat.
• Fixed a flooded area in a Barbarian minor port battle map.