Roman Flavor

An overhaul mod to add flavor to Roman gameplay. This adds eight new men-at-arms regiments, a new cultural tradition, two new traits to the game, several major decisions, and several minor decisions and events to the game. Still adding more stuff; if people have ideas, feel free to share in comments and I might add them. I probably will not add any more men-at-arms regiments; Northern Lords only added Jomsviking Pirates, Huscarls, Varangian Veterans, and Vigmen, so four regiments per culture seems appropriate to stick to in the interests of not unbalancing the game too badly.

I fully expect that at some point, Paradox will release a Byzantine or a Roman flavor pack that will immediately obsolete this entire mod.

This mod is not achievements-compatible.

Please note that to be able to use the WRE features, you will need to start a new game with the mod active. Unfortunately, CK3 only sets up titles at game start, when all the provinces and titles are handed out initially. So, if you attempt to load the mod into an old game, the Western Roman Empire title doesn’t exist and cannot be granted. I’m not sure if there’s a way around this via console commands.

Please see Discussions for a complete explanation of features (Steam has a limit for the number of characters you can put into the description of a mod).

• New Decision: Reclaim the Western Roman Empire
• New Landed Title: Western Roman Empire
• New Succession Law: Imperial Elective (based heavily off of CK2’s version)
• New Artwork
• New Event: Hold a Roman Triumph for successful generals
• New Event: Study classical Roman literature
• New Event: Battlefield Inspiration
• New Artifacts: The Writings of Cicero, Meditations, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum et Divinarum
• New Decision: Adopt Roman Traditions
• New Decision: Adopt the Hellenic Faith
• New Decision: Hellenists may choose patron deities (options are Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Dis, and Juno)
• New Cultural Tradition: Western Roman Legacy
• New Cultural Tradition: Western Roman Succession
• New Men-at-Arms regiments for Western Roman and Eastern Roman cultures
• New Traits: Legatus Romanus and Born in the Red
• New Nickname: Restitutor Orbis (Restorer of the World)

• Dismantle the HRE as the WRE
• Dismantle the Byzantine Empire as the WRE
• Dismantle the WRE as either the HRE or the Byzantine Empire
• New Roman nicknames.
• Possibly more to come.

• Russian translation courtesy of Anti4iteR
• Korean translation courtesy of Belphegoria
• German translation courtesy of Hinkel.

• Art for Cohortes Legionarii and Scholares Palatinae is from Expeditions: Rome, an excellent RPG. Author is unknown.
• Art for generic Roman decisions is from Expeditions: Rome, an excellent RPG. Author is unknown.
• Art for Equites Cataphractarii and Kataphraktoi is from Total War: Attila by Mariusz Kozik (artstation: lacedemon).
• Art for Cohortes Exploratores is from Total War: Attila by Mariusz Kozik (artstation: lacedemon).
• Art for Banda ton Akontistes is from Fireforge Games. Author is unclear, but I believe it is Omar Samy (artstation: omarsamy).
• Art for background of Roman Triumph event is from Crytek.
• Art for Tagma ton Varangon and Banda ton Vallistra is from base game Crusader Kings III.
• Art for Born in the Red and Legatus Romanus traits are from base game Crusader Kings III with colors adjusted.

Thanks to the Succession Expanded team (TheGib770, Celticus, EmrysValdr, Wesh, Uber); their mod gave me the insight I needed to fix something I spent three hours on trying to get working.

I am not making any money or receiving any financial gain of any kind from this mod, nor do I intend to.

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