The Roman Empire Restoration Project
(updated to 1.1.3)
This is a alternative history mod that aims for the restoration of the true Roman Empire with the roman religion and culture added to the byzantine empire faction (now named Eastern Roman Empire as it should be).
This mod adds the Pantheon Maioris Romanus religion to the game, which is a reformed organized version of the true old roman cults and religion called Mos Maiorum. It has the actual roman names for everything including Gods (like Jupiter, Mars, Neptune etc..) and religion head titles (Pontifex Maximus). With custom initial characters from the Julio-Claudia dynasty.
The goal of the mod is to provide a roleplaying alternative where you will start at the year of 867 as a man who claims being a descendent of Augustus himself!
Coming from the city of Rome (that now lays on the hands of christians) this young and ambitious man named Romullus, climbed the political ranks of the Eastern Roman Empire and usurped the orthodox emperor with the help of disgruntled vassals. He refounded the Collegium Pontificum under a restored and organized roman religion called Pantheon Maioris Romanus. He spent the next years converting, with the help of his newly converted vassals who were part of the coup, cities to a renewed roman tradition, which means some of the places on your empire already have the roman culture and religion now.
That doesnt mean you will not have a challenge ahead: You have a lot of vassals the old orthodox vassals who consider you a godless heathen, and that could risk yet another civil war. Also a major part of your empire to the east still follows christianity, with small pockets also on your west, not to mention Bulgaria on your north trying to resist this "pagan religion" that they consider evil and hostile.
Is up to you to unite the empire under the true roman domination by restoring control under the territories you already have , by friendship or by the sword, and then conquering back the city of Rome itself and all the territories the true roman empire had. Roma Invicta!
You can see all the explanations about the flavor of the religion on this link: Roman culture and religion restored
(ps: you dont need to subscribe to it since this already has the religion and culture, just refer to the link for explanations about the religion)
New innovation: Exercitum Romanus: By abandoning a big part of the traditional "levies" system that uses peasants as troops, and focusing on professional and salaried soldiers with the studie of the ancient ways of war from the first legions, improved early medieval armament and armory, we can create even better legions that will conquer the world once more. This gives your empire a huge nerf to levies size, but at the same time gives you a increased number of men at arms and new professional units based on the ancient roman ones including Legionaries, Velites, Equites and a decision that adds the incredible strong Praetorian Guard.
(plan ahead before finishing this innovation, you should first get a good amount of money and income going in order to keep a big amount of the men at arms units since you will lose all of your levies, so as soon as you finish the innovation buy a lot of the men at arms right away, specially the Legionaries since they have 480 men for each unit)
New Special Buildings:
-Regia de Collegium Pontificum (Hagia Sophia) – Constantinople
-The Colosseum Restored (The Colosseum) – Rome
-Castra Maxima – Ostia (south of Rome)
-Aedes Pantheum Optimi Maximi – Farfa (north of Rome)
-Magna Commercia Aegypti – Alexandria
-Grand Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (Temple in Jerusalem) – Jerusalem
-Castra Legionaria – any main county capital castle
-Cohortes Urbanae et Cohortes Vigilum – anywhere
Your Empire now start with absolute crown authority since this makes sense to the Roman Empire.
Why does my Imperator have a christian crown?
The "Roman" culture in the game is part of the latin group (same as italians, cisalpine etc) so they have a particular "family" of clothes and acessories. All you have to do is acess the barbershop, by right clicking your guy, and change.
Why not 1066?
It makes more sense to start from the oldest period since the goal is to restore the roman empire slowly through the ages. Also since you start as the byzantine empire you dont have to worry about viking.
I recommend having this mod loading last so nothing from the mod goes missing due to conflicts with other mods
I am always open to suggestions and criticism. Also please if you find any wrong words or general odd stuff on this mod while using it let me know on the comments.
Credits to other great modders:
This mod has Graeco Roman Temples incorporated. Courtesy of the author.
This mod uses a coats of arms icon from the coat of arms fix mod. Courtesy of the author.
This mod uses a custom dna for the main character, from this mod
Angelo. Courtesy of the author.
This mod uses a custom dna for the wife of your character, from this mod Character DNA Model. Courtesy of the author.
Barbershop for everyone
Rename Characters
Addition of custom random flavor events and dilemmas based on roman culture and religion traditions.
