I just played a battle in the Scottish Highlands (Caledonia). It was winter and totally covered by snow in the campaign map.. but why the battle scenario was sunny and green like a June day??
Is this simply a bug and it will be fixed in the 3.0?
Thank you

"Desperate Measures" notification makes the game crash.

Late 2025. There´s no release date and no eta yet. I´d love to give you guys at least a hint, but I can´t say more than "It´s done when it´s done" :>

When the update AE3???

Can't wait for AE3!

Everyone add me for play

alguien sabe porque los arqueros no hacen daño

Mod is broken in the germanic campaing, everytime you try to build a army; game starts a civil war... Its like a look, you cant do sh3t.

any idea why shadows jitter on newer AMD systems? using 9800X3D and a RX 9070 XT

be sure to check out Terminators new video on the upcoming release of AE3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVx1HyhgEMk

@SackAbreisser69 thanks!

Unfortunately, the game crashes about 10 minutes into the desert battle. I only have the AE mods installed.

@deadbeat Dua'hia its in the game or graphics settings. Something like "use Ally colors" or similar. Right now all enemies will be red, friendlies blue and your units yellow. It's not an AE setting

Also, discord link directs you to nothing.

Hey guys, Loving the mod. Is there any way to change the color of my units? the yellow coloring of my units look off putting and not appealing.

js play rome 2 atp

is there a way to change the capital in this mod?

I have determined my issue. I'm playing as the Steppe factions and the UI "scroll background" is really dark and it makes the text hard to read. I've tried a couple font mods and it's not making much difference. Other factions, I can see it fine. This one? Way too dark.

Please check out latest update on the future of Ancient Empires. https://discord.com/channels/254022325601566722/523953583838724097/1403905334900428852

I'm really enjoying the historical depth and mechanics of Ancient Empires, but I find the campaign map visuals a bit hard to enjoy. The colors feel dull and lifeless, and the buildings have an overly shiny, reflective look that breaks immersion. It would be great to see more natural color grading or a visual overhaul to make the map feel more vibrant and grounded.

@ycrooks Can't you relpace them at all?
Usually it works like any other undeveloped settlement, so you have to unlock the ruined building slots one after the other again with provincial growth. You cannot rebuild them all at once, instead you need to wait for the growth to unlock them just as you would unlock completely new building slots.

If you have enough growth and still cannot even unlock the first slot that is ofc a bug.

Every time a settlement is sacked or raised and has ruined building slots. I cannot replace them. They just stuck there which really frustrates me during my campaign.

Hey, i dont understand why my army whos in the settlement counts as reinforcments in siege battles? i do also have boats in the harbour and only one reinforcment at the time maybe? siege battles is what i love about TW so can anyone help me?

ive played this mod for awhile and for some reason after awhile the generals stop having traits, and you cant upgrade them, anyone else know how to fix it

ai_rom_legatus had no horse

Ive started to play just nu and im hoping theres some Rome 2 looking legionnares later on, also, how is carthaginian citizen levies so OP? lol

truly awsome mod. dei for attila in my mind. one thing ive come across is crash to desktop when loading enemy circular camp maps?

@Hawk It works fine either way. AE works perfectly fine on it's own, although it hasn't been updated in years (maintenance updates are currently in the works, most importantly to fix several crashes. New content will currently only be published alongside Classical Empires updates, if at all)

Classical Empires relies on AE and changes plenty stuff, most importantly 4TPY -> 12 TPY and improved Battle & Campaign AI among many other changes, and is still in somewhat active development.

I recommend trying out both and see what fits you better, in general CE takes a slower approach but as I said above, fixes and rebalances many things from the original AE. AE itself is the same as 3 years ago and still great and very much playable, although it really could really use some maintenance.

Is this mod still supposed to be running with Classical Empires or without it?

Amazing mod, lot of fun. So far stable for me

this mod works make sure you dont have any other mods enabled

@casper yo i would like to say (atleast recently) i haven't encountered those bugs nor crashes so give it a try

I wonder how this mod is so popular and the last comments report major bugs making me not encouraged to even try this mod. Could a big fan of this mod tell us it is not this bad?!

is this mod dead ?

during rome gameplay governors starts civil war in 2 turn from placement in office even if they have high loyality at the start of game...

is there a way to play achaemenid?

No extended building mod?

I am doing a Campaign with the Kingdom of Media and i dunno if i am missing something but the variety of units is inexistent, and this also apply to all the eastern faction, i mean on the beggining of the game i can understand but even after expanding and have reclamed all the persian empire territory as well !? It feels like the eastern factions have been marginalized expecially afrter all the rethoric in the various description about "the ribirth of the persian empire" and then all the units u can deploy are 2 shitty spears and ,1 strong meele inf and 3 decent cavalry units... and all the auxiliary units are useless aswell or needs the highest lv of building to be deployed... this must be a joke unless im doing something wrong but the feeling is that the East was not touched by this mod

@MarZio ✝ agree with u on everything. tried to play as Rome but its not playable with the week economy and public order, doesnt make any sense!

This is my second post...the game crashes during every battle. I've tried everything. I've reinstalled the game and the mod. I'm only using the Ancient Empire mod. I really like what you've done but I can't play it. Nothing happens on the campaign map. Every time I start a battle after a few minutes of fighting the game crashes to the desktop without a message. I have everything up to date. I have a GF 4070 TI and the latest generation i7. Other total wars work fine. I really want this mod. I'm a big fan but unfortunately it doesn't work in my case. I can't play battles. I even tried lowering the settings and downloading a mod to reduce the battle map but it still crashes to the desktop. Does anyone have any ideas?

мод хрень. пРИ ОСАДЕ ,КОННИЦА АТТАКУЕТ ВОРОТА БЕЗ ЕДИНОЙ ПОТЕРИ от башен
на протяжении всего времени

Get over yourself Smugolas.

is there a way to change how rome marches they march like they are hidden

Diadochi is also Greek name which means successor, why u seperated them from Greek city states is unknown, but i suggest u doing some history before making historic mods

Macedonia wasn't Hellenistic, it was purely Greek, refering them as Macedonians and Greeks instead of just Greeks is crazy, also, Hellenistic means Greek in Greek language, 0 history knowledge as usual...

This mod keeps everything wrong with Total War Attila while discarding the few things Vanilla Attila did right. The diplomacy is utterly retarded and the anti player bias is magnifyied, now historically irrelevant AI factions (like the balearic island tribes) will randomly declare war on you and send full stacks all across the mediterrenean just to break your balls), the economy is super weak, public order almost impossible to keep and autoresolve useless (half of your army will die to a bunch of weak slaves, realistic lol), BTW all of this things on NORMAL difficulty (renamed decisive).

I don't recommend it, DEI for Rome 2 since it's a least playable and somewhat enjoyable, not like this mess.

I play for the Iceni. Trying to attack an enemy city, I choose my army, bring it to the city, and nothing happens. I just click the cursor on the settlement.

I tried both Classical Empires and Ancient Empires and can say that AE is better on it's own. Additionally, UMCenturion will come with more in the near future.

imo the better mod compared to Classical Empires. The cavalry in Ancient Empires and combat system atleast makes an impact and cavalry doesn`t feel like a wobbly sack of noodles like over there in CE. I did disable the supply system though and all the Classical Empire stuff since it did not better the campaign, somehow it made it worse. Keep up the good work, don`t overthink or complicate things up! Cheerio

I don't think it should auto download Classical Empires.
You need at least Ancient Empires Part 1 and 2 to play, AE Supply Systems and AE Dust Particles are optional but recommended.
Classical Empires is basically an Overhaul to Ancient Empires, changing the battle system (away from the 1hp system), ovarhauling attack damage and armor systems, changing to 12TPY and improving Battle- & Campaign AI etc.
It requires Ancient Empires to work, however AE works perfectly fine on it's own.