Update:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ozb3cq4s8m4282/Ab_Urbe_Condita_v.1.56.zip/file
I forgot to set the options to the default (sound, messages, speed), so, please, do it yourself.
New countries: Utica ('tq) and the Maldives (Dheeva Mahal).
The actual name of the Elis country has been changed to Falis (should it be Walis?), because that is how it was in the Elean dialect of the Northwestern Doric. The name of the Sabines has been changed to endonym Safini. The Bruttii have become Bretti. The name of the Nabataei has been changed from modern Arabic Nabatiyyah to Aramaic endonym Nabatu (Nabato?).
New culture — Nubian.
New religion — Tengrism (for the Xiongnu, Donghu and Turkic cultures).
Nine events for Andhra (about the Satavahana dynasty). One new event for Pontus — "Religion of the Kingdom of Pontus". One event for the Maldives ("Buddhism in the ante Taprobanam insulae"). One new little event for the Nemean Games. New AI events. Many fixes and additions to the old events (for example Cappadocia via the event "Hellenisation of Cappadocia" can go for partial or total Hellenisation or do not go for it at all).
New monarch for Iudaea — Iosephus ha-Kohen filius Gurioni, the leader of the Iudaean Provisional government. New monarchs: for the Lusitani — Dux Tautalus; for the Carpetani: Rex Hilernus, Rex Thurrus. Twenty five new monarchs for Andhra. Eleven for Axum. Seven for Anuradhapura.
Six new leaders for the Lusitani. Leaders for Pontus: Ariobarzanes filius Mithridati, Basileus Megas Mithridates II. Two leaders for the Carpetani: Rex Hilernus and Rex Thurrus. Two leaders for Chalcis sub Libanum: Strategos Philippus filius Iacimi and Hipparkhos Darius. Leaders for Paphus (Basileus Nicocles) and Salamis (Basileus Nicocreon). Leader for the Turdetani — Rex Luxinius. Leader for Asia — Andronicus. Two leaders for Carthago: Boetharchus Hasdrubal and Himilco Phameas. Five leaders for Andhra. Four new leaders for Axum. Three for Anuradhapura. Two leaders for the Dalmatae. One for the Salluvii. One for the rebels. Strategos Pyrrhias for Aetolia.
Extensive work with the map and sprites.
As usual, almost every aspect of the modification has been tweaked to better simulate the era.
A lot of new armynames, navynames, leadernames, and colonynames, pictures, and descriptions.
The Peloponnesian War short scenario ("II. 431 — 404 ACN — Bellum Peloponnesiacum"):
Utica and the Maldives have been included.
Three new events for the Lucani ("Leukanoi conquered Poseidonia", "Arming servants", "Civil war"). Two events for Ashmaka ("Loss of Paudanyapura" and "Ashmaka retook Paudanyapura"). One event for Kalinga ("Kalingas seized Champa"). One new event for Magadha ("Capital of Shishunaga"). Four new Poleis event: "Against Argos", two cultural events for Attica ("Hermippus" and "Plato Comicus") and one for Bottia or Caria ("Timotheus of Miletos"). Athenian event "Mytilenean revolt and the Mytilenean Debate" was split on the two events.
New leaders for Roma: Dictator Quintus Servilius Priscus Fidenas, Gaius Servilius Axilla as Consul, as Tribunus, and as Magister Equitum.
Balancing — Athenai now have a better chance to survive. The Athenaioi now have two more provinces — Aeolis (for the polis of Mytilene) and Nicaea (for Cius), I took them from Persian Phrygia Hellespontica, because Mytilene during this period was much more important than Adramyttion / Pergamon.
One more province for Chedi.
Minor addings.
New grand scenario "I. 734 ACN — Aetas Ferrea" (the Iron Age):
734 BC = 20 AUC.
I wanted to create a scenario of the first year AUC, but I have faced weird behaviour of the game. If I create the scenario with 1 — 19 startyear, then every country for some reason (I do not know why) automatically has every diplomatic relation, except war, alliance and vassalage, with every existing country at the very start. I mean guaranty of independence, trade agreement, military access, warning,.. So, I was forced to create a scenario of the 20th year AUC to avoid this weird behaviour. The earliest I can.
There is one more thing: the game thinks that all claimed (and casusbelli) provinces were captured in the absolute start year (1). So, there is 1% nationalism in all claimed provinces until the 30th year AUC. This is nasty and leads to revolts, maybe I should move the start date to the 30th year AUC to avoid this.
The scenario is under construction. It is playable (I mean, there are no bugs, errors in it), but yet I have included only 76 countries here and there.
Twenty three new countries were created for this scenario: Assyria (Mat Ashur), Babylonia (Mat Babil), Elam (Haltamti), Urartu (Biainili), Phrygia (Muska), Lydia (Sfarda), Tyrus (Sur), Damascus (Aram), Karkamish (Karkamisha), Tabal (Sura?), Kummuh (Kummaha), Kammanu (Malizi), Mannaea (Manna), Israel (Yisra'el), Ammon ('Aman), Moab (Ma'ab), Idumaea ('Edam), the Philistini (Peleset?), Ellipi, Hermopolis (Wenet? — Nome name, Khemenu? — city name), Heracleopolis (N'art Khentet? — Nome name, Henen-Nesut? — city name), Vidarbha, Matsya. Of course, with historical monarchs, leaders, with pictures and other things.
Tons of ancient monarchs and leaders for our old countries.
Four new cultures: Hittite, Luwian, Hurro-Urartian, Canaanite.
New events (for this ancient times): 4 for Ashmaka, 3 for Kalinga, 1 for Assyria, 1 for Kush, 1 for Axum, 1 for Ellipi, 1 for Avanti, 1 Provinciae. And random events, of course.
Finally, there are AI-colonisers in this scenario.
Grand scenario "IV. 89 ACN — Bella Mithridatica":
Under development. Anuradhapura and the Maldives have been included. The Seleucid-Iudeo, Andhra-Magadha and Pandya-Anuradhapura wars from the beginning. Three more provinces for Andhra, two for Nabataea. Balancing. Minor historical addings and changes.
I remind you that the very main scenario is "III. 322 ACN — Diadochi". It is the best tested and contains the largest number of countries.
"II. 431 — 404 ACN — Bellum Peloponnesiacum" is a short but very intensive (hundreds of events for this 26 years) and interesting scenario, the purpose of which is to gain as many victory points as possible by the end date (25 april 350 AUC).
I am seriously ill IRL (I even uploaded this version with an unfinished scenario in a hurry). If I live, there will be new versions. If there are no updates for a long time — I am dead.
I would be happy to hear your opinions. Any of your ideas is very interesting to me and will be thought over by me.
I still need an artist (to draw new shields and flags based on the coins and epigraphical sources), an assistant, who can deeply edit the map (to split and correct the provinces) and an assistant to correct my Engrish texts.
Please, write your ideas or information about my mistakes here or via private messages.
The latest version:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ozb3cq4s8m4282/Ab_Urbe_Condita_v.1.56.zip/file (I duplicated the link for those who do not want to scroll the page).