Anno Domini: 536 The Gothic War

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Authors: wibblywobblywonder, Big Boss

Last revision: 8 Feb at 04:47 UTC (10)

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Anno Domini 536: The Gothic War is an expansion of Anno Domini 555: Age of Justinian (formerly Age of Justinian AD555). It’s built on the Age of Charlemagne DLC map to zoom in a bit closer to the Italian peninsula as well as Western Europe and Britain. The mod is still under development so some features will be added or reworked in future patches with the community’s help. However, it is completely playable right now with Victory Conditions added for all factions. I’ve also worked hard to ensure stability for long campaigns and multi-player.

In this mod there are 3 major changes to distinguish it from AOJ.

1. Firstly, the starting year has been rolled back to much earlier in Justinian’s reign to 536AD.
2. Primarily focused on the conflict in Italy between the Romans and the Ostrogoths, this mod plays out a setting not covered by AOJ and which doesn’t always occur satisfactorily, if at all, in the Last Roman DLC.
3. There are also 10 other playable factions and unique campaigns scattered across the AOC map, including factions in Ireland, Britain, Gallia, Hispania, and Germania.

1. The next major change from AOJ – and indeed most other mods of Attila – is a radically new (old) recruitment system that harks back to MTW2 and Thrones of Britannia.
2. The vanilla mercenary recruitment system has been reworked and expanded to become the primary means of recruiting units. Rather than recruiting from buildings in settlements, you now hire the majority of your units directly from local unit pools using the ‘Local Units’ button.
3. The entire map has been seeded with over 300 separate units in dozens of locally distinct unit pools.

1. Lastly, battles have also been freshened up with a significant reduction in unit health pools, balanced with reworked damage, armour and shield values.
2. The result is casualty rates reflect the flow and intensity of combat more closely. The reworked damage, armour and shield values alongside reduced missile accuracy, however, ensure that battles still last longer than vanilla’s.
3. Furthermore, in good news for the hippomaniacs, impactful cavalry charges remain unchanged from vanilla.

1. Ribuwerer
2. Regnum Suevorum
3. Jotur
4. Regnum Italiae
5. Myrcna
6. Saxonia
7. Sclaveni
8. Breizh
9. Regnum Visigothorum
10. Powys
11. Expeditio Romani
12. Ulaid

Reskin of the vanilla rosters in The Last Roman DLC. Plus Berbers, Moors and other minor factions unlocked for custom battles.
Note: due to sharing the pack with The Gothic War, there are some minor effects on battle balance. For example, weaker towers and reduced melee hit chance.

In order to properly use the mod follow the installation instructions.

1. Subscribe to this mod
2. Subscribe to Age of Justianian Part II and Part III and Part IV and ensure they are enabled in that order
3. Your Attila game language should be changed to English to ensure functionality, if game language is different it will conflict with the mod.
4. Enable all 4 mods in the mod manager
5. Make sure no other conflicting mods are enabled (can use camera mods)
6. Start the game

• If your mod is not working for any reason try either restarting the game or resubscribing to the mod, this fixes most issues.
• Double check your installation process, lots of times people overlook an enabled mod or didnt subscribe properly.
• If these fixes dont solve your issue please report the bug on our discord.

• Juanplay for model edits, tweaks and rigging as well as creating new skins for several leaders and the Ostrogothic roster. An absolutely fantastic skin creator
• Eudoxia for historical research
• Tim Succetti for unit models
• Avetis for axes, swords and other weapons
• RyanD from the Discord for creating and working on new invasion scripts
• Athos187 for support
• Hexmorr for great support overall and supplying the best quality screenshots for the Steam page. Just an all round top guy
• ZmZ for stepping up and creating scripts for this mod and other AD mods. You’re an absolute champion
• All the awesome people and modding teams listed in the Credits