Our archers wear plumeless Corinthian helmets to keep their faces pretty and their skulls intact. No, these are veteran archers who’ve proven themselves in battle and have confirmed kills against Scythian horse-tribes or invaders from the Seleucid Empire. These aren’t peasant girls who’ve picked up their mothers’ hunting bows and marched off to combat. I loved that the Amazons in this mod deploy heavy archer units over some wimpy, unarmored Greek toxotai. I like as well that they keep their hair tied back and out of the way during the thick of combat. Their running sandals allow our girls to dash in and out of skirmish range quickly and safely or escape a legionary charge in the nick of time. Sacrificing armor for quickness, the younglings wear simple tunics offering little protection against enemy swords and arrows. Though they wield their swords and shields with gusto, their lack of armor makes them extremely vulnerable to enemy melee units. Most effective against unarmored foes, our trainees can still effectively suppress their enemy’s heavy troops when deployed properly. Armed with a sling, shield, and short sword, they harry the enemy with sling stones, whittling their numbers down for the heavier units. The younglings are warriors in training, relegated to skirmish roles until they prove themselves. I’ve got kind of a mediocre graphics card, so I apologize in advance for the graphics quality in some of the screen captures.Įvery Amazon has to start somewhere.

Since I don’t have time or space to show every awesome unit type from Shannon’s mod, I’ll try to cover some of the more interesting ones. The uniform blue-and-aqua coloration gives these Amazons a disciplined, highly militarized feel, offering a refreshing contrast to the doll-faced, boob-plated portrayals we often see in popular media. I like that instead of trying too hard to be historically accurate, Shannon went with a stylized, Greco/Roman feel for her lady warriors. The unit selection is impressive, with diverse light, medium, heavy, and skirmisher infantry as well as some decent heavy, medium, and ranged cavalry units. While Amazonian mods for the Total War games are hardly a new idea, I feel like Shannon’s design shows more integrity than any attempt I’ve seen in the past.Īs I mentioned, the Amazon faction takes the place of Pontus in the campaign. Apparently Shannon, the mod developer, went nuts with the DoM chipsets and designed a full-fledged Amazon faction that replaces the Pontic faction on the main campaign map. It’s called the Empire of Amazonia, a Faction Units mod from the Daughters of Mars DLC. I stumbled across an interesting mod for Total War: Rome 2 from their Steam Workshops. Amazon Hoplites versus Spartan Hoplites, from the Empire of Amazonia, by Shannon

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