(Under Construction) Official Steam Group for the Rome II Mod: Vae Victis

Vae Victis is a total overhaul mod for Rome 2 and its driving principle is historical accuracy and realism above all else. A growing team has been working for over a year to put out the highest quality and most historical mod possible. This mod features the contributions of over 40 modders, researchers and artists.


The road to perfection is long and hard, but luckily we are crazy enough to try and walk it. Our focus at the moment is to create historical unit rosters for every faction in the game (66 of 115 factions completed thus far), though we have also put a lot of work into reworking everything that happens under the hood with a focus on history and realism.

Our artists are hard at work creating new models and high quality textures so that every unit can carry the weapons, armours and clothes that it did in real life. We work off of historical descriptions and archeological representations whenever possible rather than bringing our own modern interpretations into the game.

Not only will all our units look historical, but we have created our own system for unit stats using historical data to model the performance of each unit as close to realism as we can, see our forums for some of the crazy lengths we have gone to achieve this.

When you take those units onto the battlefield you will be greeted by another overhauled experience where everything from morale to terrain and fatigue have been customized to create a realistic battle experience.



For a full list of existing features, future plans and other useful information, check out our Mod Information Index.

We hope that in time Vae Victis not only becomes very, very historically accurate, but that it will be challenging and maybe even fun to play. Your encouragement is appreciated.


Head over to our Downloads and Installation thread for details on where to download Vae Victis.

Our Team and Credits page lists everyone who has contributed to Vae Victis in one way or another. If you love history and have time to kill, you should seriously consider
joining us. We have fun remaking history!

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