After many months of work we are proud to present our latest update! For those interested in trying it out, we are releasing a public beta before the changes are incorporated into the main mod. Divide et Impera 1.3.2 features an all new campaign (Mithridatic Wars), overhauls to the Nomads, many visual updates to a ton of units and a lot of bug fixes. Please see the links below to give it a try!

Downloads

Standalone Download: 1.3.2 Public Beta (Mirror)

Steam Version: 1.3.2 Public Beta on Steam

Please make sure to load the beta before the main mod. It is save compatible. However, it will not be compatible with most submods until those submods are updated.

Installation

• For the Standalone version, download the file and unzip it into your Rome 2 data directory. Load Mod Manager, activate the mod and make sure it is loaded above the main mod.
• For Steam, subscribe and then activate the mod in mod manager. Make sure it is loaded above the main mod.

Patch Notes

New Campaign – Mithridatic Wars
– New campaign set in 83 BC after the First Mithridatic War. This campaign takes place during Sulla’s Civil War.
– 3 New playable factions: Sullani, Mariani and Pontus.
– For now this is single player only, we will be working on a multiplayer version.

Roxolani
– Overhauled faction with new units for the entire roster.
– More nomad updates to come as the beta goes along!

Sparta
– New unit cards, some updated unit appearances
– Removed Spartan Thorax Hoplites, added Thorax Pikes
– Spartan Guest Hoplites changed to population class 4

Character Skills, Ancillaries & Traditions
– New custom army traditions for Maurya
– Updated many army tradition effects to make them more unique for various factions
– Updated various ancillaries to apply bonuses to chariots that should have been originally (charioteer, etc)
– Improved army master ancillary effect
– Improved cooldown rate, aura size and scope for Daring Admiral
– Changed the movement rage effects for various army traditions and skills
– Changed various army traditions to focus more on chariots/elephants where it matches the tradition
– Changed many effects from political power to gravitas
– Tier 3 spy skill now provides Zeal instead of Cunning
– Changed champion background skills that applied to Single Combat to apply to Slaughter instead

Unit Visual & Stat Changes
– New, better arrow models added for more visibility during flight – thanks Summary!
– Updated look of shared Hellenic thorax spear and sword units
– Updated Ptolemaic swordsmen graphics
– Syrian elephants now have updated armor graphics
– Seleucid Hypaspistai, early Hetairoi and Thessalian Thorax cav have updated looks
– Various units with updated unit cards thanks to Summary!
– Stat & visual changes for Carthaginian mercenary units
– Many stat and visual changes for Iberian and Celtic units.
– Various adjustments to Iberian and Celtiberian rosters and recruitment.
– Garrison unit visual changes for many barbarian factions to make them more unique based on culture.
– Gallic factions now have tier 5 garrison cavalry, celtic factions have sword units.

Major Changes
– Fixed a bug in the autoresolve script that would cause minor factions to gain bonuses when attacking other AI. Thanks to k4mil for reporting this!
– Added new AI Seleucid army spawns periodically to help bolster the faction.
– Fixed ancillaries (household) and plagues not working in Alexander campaign.
– Changed the campaign appearance for some higher tier nomadic buildings to look more settled/civilized.
– Added new Iberian name pool for certain Iberian factions (Edetani, etc.) from CEMMEN
– Lowered AI Seleucid naval budget
– Barbarian temples have been rebalanced with new effects for various lines to make them more desirable.
– Increased chance for Brawler trait to go up and removed age restrictions
– Increased cost to reform government

Battle Changes
– Expert charge defence removed from all units to fix a Rome 2 bug where charging cavalry would lose more men on a rear charge compared to frontal charge
– Cavalry and infantry mass adjusted for better holding effect of spearmen vs cavalry charge
– Bonus vs cavalry heavily increased for spear units
– New Repel cavalry formation that improves unit bracing and anti-cav bonus but unit will be worse vs. infantry
– Small increase to minimum knockdown time
– Small increase to phalanx attack intervals
– Small decrease to weapon reach of hoplites/pikes
– Minor fatigue value tweaks

Minor Fixes
– Fixed short description for Cernunnos temples.
– Fixed mispelled Taranis temple name
– Fixed various incorrect unit descriptions.
– Fixed IA Antony Chapter mission titles and descriptions.
– Fixed Parthia faction select text political tradition
– Fixed Zranka having the wrong roster assigned.
– Fixed small tier 3 military Roman ports missing Quinquireme recruitment
– Fixed HatG Carthage having access to thorax units.
– Fixed some buildings not being properly assigned to building sets.
– Fixed Caucasian levies missing spears
– Changed Carthage chapter mission to require Sicily rather than Magna Graecia.
– Removed Rhodian Thureophoroi unit from Levy unit set list
– Changed North Iberian AOR unit voice lines
– Removed some AOR unit recruitment from Macedon and Scordisci rosters that matched their core unit roster units.
– Updated Iberian garrison unit cards
– Changed region effect for Mazaca due to iron presence
– Updated Credits screen.
– Changed Athens Military victory regions required to 60 (new campaign only)
– Updated Mauryan bodyguard elephant appearance
– Updated Alexander’s look in game.
– Fixed Ebdani starting skirmisher unit size
– Roman tier 1-3 farms now reduce Hastati cost. Tier 4 farms increase Pre-Marian infantry costs
– Romans slave buildings increase Pre-Marian infantry costs
– Updated Cimbri flag
– Lowered Mauryan chariot weight
– Changed Breuci faction to Lapodes to better fit the region/culture
– Fixed wrong armor entry and price for Seleucid melee thureos cav unit
– Adjusted stats of Thureos cavalry (cheaper but lower stats)
– Adjusted Defensive formation armor bonus to be better from front but worse from the rear.
– Adjusted Veteran Legionaries stats so that they are a bit more unique between reforms
– Adjusted AOR and Mercenary Persian cav armor/price
– New lesser falx weapon entry for ind axemen and bactrian axemen
– Added eastern supply unit recruitment to spice main city buildings
– Added last tier of Buddhist temple as a Mauryan cultural victory requirement
– Added Reform the Line to several Alexander units missing it
– Fixed Illyrian tier 4 port missing garrisons
– Fixed 2 Parthian cav units having same dismounted charge as mounted
– Fixed victory objective province for Carthage being incorrect
– Added Macedon to Thracian pirates spawn event
– Fixed Carthage thorax reform text tooltip on upgrade tech
– Fixed tier 4 copper hellenic towns missing some effects
– Many, many other smaller fixes!

Credits
– Summary for all the great UI work and character models in the new campaign
– Benjin for help with Mithridates campaign Caesar model
– Q & CEMMEN as always for all the hard work on the myriad of unit changes
– Q for the great work on the skill and temple balancing
– KAM for all the hard work on the nomad rosters and the battle updates
– TheCzarsHussar for the great work on the nomad update

Divide et Impera 1.3.1 Overview

After many months of work and testing, we are proud to announce the new mod update has finally arrived! DeI 1.3.1 features an updated supply system, the Alexander campaign, new reforms changes and updates for many factions. These factions include Maurya, Baktria, Parthia, the Iberians and Athens. We have also worked on some neglected parts of the mod including AOR/Merc units and Naval units. Thanks to everyone who helped to test and give feedback over these months, we all appreciate it!

You can head over to our Download Page to get the latest update. Steam will update automatically. It is save compatible. We will be working on updating submods as we can. Please note: submods that haven’t been updated may not be compatible.

Patch Notes

Supply System Update
– Army and Navy UI addition with detailed information about their supply status. Icon found on top right of Army commander UI.
– Supply storage increased and will be replenished before regional supplies.
– Supply storage now used before regional supplies
– Improved movement bonus for transport fleets first turn after embarking
– Navy to Transport supply effect bundle added
– Various fixes for barbarian supply functions and navies in ports.
– Lots of “under the hood” changes to make the supply system more moddable and modular.
– Many smaller fixes.

Alexander Campaign Added
– Incorporated the Alexander submod into the main mod.

Reforms Changes
– Thracians, Illyrians, Armenians, Galatians and other factions relying on Greek Global Reforms now have their own reforms that trigger 4 turns after the AI global reforms.
– These changes were done to fix various technical issues with reforms, especially in multiplayer.
– Special reforms now have their units hidden instead of just grayed out in the recruitment panel
– Moved Global Marian reforms to Turn 120, Imperial to 220
– Moved Global Thorax to 130
– Added reform requirements text to upgrade technology descriptions for ease of information access.

Mauryan Overhaul
– Overhauled Mauryan unit roster with new units, including naval roster.
– New Garrison, Mercenary and AOR units for the Mauryan regions.
– New reform based on cultural conversion of nomadic lands.
– Six new temples to better represent the culture as well as a new Buddhist temple line. New government types.
– New combined stables/exotic stables and siege workshop/chariot recruitment buildings
– New Buddhist culture spread by one chain and also present as a small regional bonus.
– New UI appearance when playing as Maurya.

Baktrian Overhaul
– Various new and overhauled units for Baktria.
– New Buddhist enclave building line with new unit recruitment

Parthian Overhaul
– New and overhauled units added for Parthia.
– New Parthian reforms at Imperium 3, Turn 60 and Imperium 5, Turn 130

Athens Overhaul
– Various new and updated units for Athens.

Iberian Overhaul
– Adjusted appearance for all Iberian units, generals and officers to bring them up to standard of other units
– Various changes to units within each Iberian faction’s roster to make them have more unique styles.

Naval Overhaul
– Made all tetreres slightly faster to conform to their historical usage. Hellenic and Carthaginian tetreres are now the fastest ramming ships in the game.
– Rhodes has earlier access to tetreres, a new bodyguard option and new Hoplite Slinger marines.
– Added a new marine unit with a spear to all barbarian and steppe factions
– Standardized recruitment cost for all ships
– Adjusted ramming damage and ship HP for all ship classes
– Adjusted population class for many ships to incentivize recruiting faction-appropriate ship types
– Moved all barbarian assault ships into the largest hulls – they now have 120 men.
– Barbarian marines now come in three classes. Third Class are basic melee marines, Second Class are spear marines, First Class are best quality marines.
– Adjusted ships available to Getae, Ardiaei, and Odrysia to remove redundancy

AOR/Mercenary Overhaul
– Overhauled Britannic, Iberian, Gallic, Alpine, Celtic, Germanic, and Galatian AOR and mercenary units to bring them into line with faction counterparts
– Added new officers for Ligurian, Scandinavian, and Alpine units
– Adjusted recruitment level for numerous AOR units
– Balanced Celtic and Germanic garrison units to better conform with previous changes to their recruitable units
– Adjusted Galatian Swordsmen to be more competitive vis-a-vis AOR and mercenary options
– Cimbri Assault Infantry and Helisi Assault Infantry now have precursor javelins

Major Changes
– New cothon port model added to Carthage on the campaign map (thanks Benjin!)
– Added various missing playable factions from pirate spawns and reduced further away early Rome spawns
– Changed Seleucid personality entries to make them more defensive.
– Changed population class for all Third Class cavalry to Second Class cavalry. Made appropriate stat and appearance changes.
– New unit cards for Armenia.
– Slightly lowered AI naval budget allocations for non naval personalities
– Added Dart Slingers as regular unit of Antigonids (thorax reform)
– Fixed Sparta having the wrong pop classes for AOR/Merc greek units

Other Changes/Fixes
– Added new attic helmets
– Fixed Iberian reformed unit missing from their reform entires.
– Disabled new reform the line ability while embarked.
– Changed Magna Graecia secured event text to better match possible situations where Rome is at peace with that region.
– Fixed some special temples missing sanitation bonus.
– Added new shoeless Celtic trouser models.
– Added retextured wolf/sheep mantles (Thanks Summary!)
– Added longsword scabbard models (thanks SMS!)
– Fixed British slinger spearmen missing concentrated fire ability.
– Fixed British slingers having the wrong shield entry.
– Changed Rome starting building from industry to sanitation.
– Fixed mispelled Rhodes faction effect bundle title.
– Removed largest ship types from pirate rosters.
– Changed Scordisci archers to 3rd class
– Increased trade bonus from silk/amber road region effects.
– Changed Belgic regions to be the proper auxilia settings (rather than alpine/celtic) – new campaign only
– Changed Iweriu and Caledone faction traits
– Fixed various barbarian model shoulder/chest clipping
– Fixed many standard bearer models
– Changed starting culture in Latium to be slightly Latin dominant.
– Changed starting Ligurian building to barracks.
– Reviewed all shields for consistent appearance and statistics.
– Changed Gallic army traditions to Formidable Spearmen and Cavalry Masters
– Adjusted non playable British unit weapon stats to be more in line with playable versions
– New shock spear unit strength/weakness text entry
– Adjustments to some Armenian unit appearances.
– Adjustments to Thessalian cav stat and unit appearances.
– Changed arabian pirates to the right culture (new campaign only)
– Updated look and animation entry/stats of Nakharar Cavalry
– Updated look and stats of Syracusean Lancers
– Updated look of Numidian Legionaires and Peltasts
– Further tweaks to Armenian Catas and Royal Catas to include some Greek skins
– Tons of other smaller fixes and updates to many unit appearances.

Credits
– Summary for many UI elements, new textures, shields and much more.
– Litharion for all the supply overhaul changes, as always huge thanks!
– Swaraj for the Mauryan overhaul and reform script changes!
– Sheep cloaks from GAC
– Q/CEMMEN for Iberians, AOR/Merc, Naval and a ton of other stuff. Always awesome work.
– Benjin for various models!
– KAM for the Baktrian/Parthian overhauls and battle updates.
– Skillfultree for many UI and model updates
– Demosthenes for the wonderful Athens rework.
– Morfeasnikos for his great shield textures from his Thucydides History mod
– Dominus for shield textures from his Athens Emblem mobd
– Aguirre for various assets from the great TABU mod
– Noniac, Celticus, Benjin and Hloeric for helmet and sword models from Roman Models Extravaganza
– Kraut and Tea for use of many assets from the Hellenic Resource pack!