Dark Ages AD 457 : The Age of Majorian 2.3
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This historically accurate mod is set during the reign of the Western Roman Emperor Majorian who ruled the Western Roman Empire from AD 457 to 461. Majorian’s reign was significant in that it oversaw the final attempts of the Western Roman Empire to regain control of its lost territories. Major details are as follows:
– Historically accurate starting positions reflecting the world in AD 457.
– Historically accurate family trees.
– Roman Empire begins with advanced research.
– Hun spawn script disabled.
– Added military, agricultural and public order buildings to the new kingdoms.
– Modified starting diplomacy to reflect historical accuracy.
– Many other changes to improve game-play.
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– Added additional starting technologies to the barbarians kingdoms.
– Upgraded the armies of the barbarian kingdoms.
– Added various buildings to the Eastern Roman Empire (resources and military).
– Increased Eastern Roman Empire’s starting wealth.
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– Upgraded Sassanid Empire’s starting military.
– Upgraded Sassanid Empire’s starting technologies.
– Added buildings to Sassanid Empire to improve sanitation and finance.
– Modified Sassanid Empire’s unit colours to yellow shades.
– Removed the White Huns (in accordance with historical accuracy).
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– Repositioned Alans to Gaul and made them at war with the Western Roman Empire
– Improved historical accuracy
The year is AD 457. Since the Roman Empire’s division in AD 395, the Western Roman Empire has been in steep decline due to barbarian invasions, economic decline and incompetent governance.
The story of the barbarian invasion of the Roman Empire is as follows: The Goths were the first to seek refuge in Roman lands, defeating their merciless Roman hosts at the battle of Adrianople in AD 378. The Goths then proceeded to sack the city of Rome in AD 410, with the Gothic horde settling in the provinces of Hispania and southern Gaul. The Goths were followed in their assault on the Roman empire by tribes of Suebi, Vandals and Alans who migrated en-masse across the frozen Rhine River in AD 406. They proceeded to migrate into the Gallic, Hispanic and African provinces of the Western Roman Empire. Then, when it came to the clash between the two great European Empires of the time, Roman and Hunnic, at the Battle of Chalons in AD 451, Rome proved itself the superior power of the two.
Atilla, disheartened at his defeat then made his way for a suicidal assault on Italy that was doomed to fail, due to the sheer centralisation of nearly all Roman Imperial Forces in province of Italy. Atilla had already expended his treasury mustering every last man he could to fight the Roman coalition at the Battle of Chalons and lost. Atilla’s army was nothing more. However, the Western Roman Empire suffered from a lack of respite as the Vandals sacked the city of Rome in AD 455.
The year now is AD 457, and a new emperor has ascended to the throne of the Western Roman Empire, his name is Julius Valerius Majorian. He is an ambitious emperor who seeks to retake the former territories of the Western Roman Empire from the newly formed barbarian kingdoms. Will he succeed in restoring greatness and glory to Rome ?…or will Majorian simply be another footnote in history ?…time shall reveal all.
