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Roman Invasion - a Hellenic horde mod

Europe, 1066. Divided by petty warlords fighting for the scraps of a dead Empire. Many still cling to the past glory, such as the Kaisers of Germany, or the Basileus in Greece. But they are not the true Rome, the Rome that took the continent by storm so many centuries prior, that sailed seas, spread its culture, enforced its rule, and conquered lesser civilizations from Britanniae to Asiana.

But the true Rome is returning. Through mysterious bridges that close gaps not across water, but to different worlds, legions of those who carry the Aquila pour into Europe, to claim what is once theirs. Just as Rome marched over the continent before, it shall do so again.

The question is now will you try and stop them, or will you join them?



This is a horde mod implementing a Hellenic pagan Roman Empire invasion of Europe in 1066, triggerable within the game rules. From their initial landing in Italy and Sicily, the Romans will also get incremental claims on the ‘pretender’ successor empires of Byzantium and the HRE along with other ancestral Mediterranean territory. They will arrive with massive armies and WILL (barring extremely bad RNG) end up conquering most of Europe. You have to plan accordingly if you want to survive such an event, though shifting to Roman culture and religion might be the only way out.

Additionally, this mod Ancient Religions as a base to flesh out Hellenic paganism a bit more. Hats off to Paradox and the Ancient Religions team for the foundation.

Current features include:

-Custom game rule governing invasion

-Four new loading screens

-Conquest related events with new art

-Nine new songs for Roman culture

Works in progress:

-Further events will be implemented as development continues

-More events and decisions for Roman culture

-Events and decisions for those attempting to resist the invasion

-Events and decisions for those attempting to join the Romans

Areas of Concern:

-If you tag switch to the Romans you’ll find the claim event prompts don’t have any text in them yet. The Romans are intended to be AI driven, so those will be implemented later.

-Divine blood incest marriage has been coded into Hellenic paganism. This has absolutely no basis in reality and is purely because we like to play the Eugenics game. If this gets significant criticism then we'll remove that aspect.

-If you start from an earlier start date, the event based expansion will be crippled. The lack of consistent empires and kingdoms means they tend to act like a more traditional hoard (like the Aztecs) and just sort of expand arbitrarily

Manual link

Mod by CanadaMan7, with assistance from The Pink Panzer.