A slew of new changes is underfoot:
- icon replacements done, since Illyrian Hoplites did not have any icons.
- Greek Barracks infantry is being assigned.

Changes are reflected at https://newworldempires.fandom.com/wiki/Stratonis - any units which are finalised have their links and icons added here.

Successful experiments with Hoplitai illyrioi:
- Set Illyrian Hoplites to "upgrade" from Continental Marines, which were marked with <GRAFT>Phalanx.
- The game seems to read Illyrian Hoplites as an "upgrade" for Warriors, because Warriors have <GRAFT>Phalanx too. However, stability of the game is still very much unknown.

[23.1.1]
- Priests and Shamans revamped.
- Priests have been given upgradeable LOS, and the abilities to bribe and heal other units.
- Shamans now can boost attack, but comes with more extensive LOS, and the ability to boost attack, and detect hidden units (as well as stay hidden). Also, the Shaman's armour boost is weaker than that of the Priest's.

Changes to articles in Kings & Conquerors Wiki pending.

PLEASE READ IF YOU ARE GETTING CRASHES OF ANY KIND:
CURRENT ISSUES (NWELX0.0.5)
- Odd crashes have been noted especially late in the game. We advise players to take note of all the following data whenever they start a new game:
- Factions chosen
- Map size
- Presence of snow/water
- (if a crash occurs) what you were doing and what age you were in when it happened.

These are issues that are being looked at and which should be corrected in future.

In the meantime we advise strongly against the use of random players. For best results, you should take down notes on which games had snow or navigable ocean, and what factions were used. Why not use a virtual dice thrower to select the factions for you instead?

AFTER watching the goings-on in Ukraine I realised I could not sit still, and have decided to begin work on this mod, posthaste. Especially since I am receiving help on developing it.
Sorry to all my fans who are Early Modern history buffs. Rise of the Moderns will be put on the backburner unless someone wants a new faction.

NOTES:

This mod is intended to follow the same old format of New World Empires of expensive cities but cheap armies (because you can spam build Barracks and Corrals everywhere). In truth, it is actually an amalgamation of different mods - it uses Warbirth's system of units, but combines them with units from Kings & Conquerors: The Hellenistic Era.

Work on Warbirth is taking place, concentrating mainly on nomadic factions until Greek, Achaemenid and Indian buildings are ready.


TO-DO:

BUILDINGS
Warbirth 2 is being worked on to produce assets for Alexander. Otherwise, not much is going on.

SPARTA: All land unit skins have been sorted out but no units have been coded in.
PERSIA: Needs harma drepanephore but this has not been tested to see if we can replace the old Hellenistic driver with Persian ones. Achaemenid buildings of WBI2 not coded in full.
EGYPT: A list of official units has been compiled on Warbirth Wiki.
AETHIOPES: See above.
INDIA, THRACIANS: Medium, heavy chariots still remain untested to this very day. This is especially damning since Thracian and Indian factions need chariotry.

[28.12.22]
More icons added - Neodamodeis has its own icon (thanks, Craiyon.com).

Working factions:
- Corinth
- Persia (PRIORITY)
- Athens
- Boioi
- Carthage
- Magadha
- Egypt (PRIORITY)
- Lacedaemon (PRIORITY)
- Gandhara?
- Odrysians
- Illyrians

Bugged:
- Sabaea
- Macedon?
- Larissa?

Tinkering with Spartans - got Neodamodeis to train from the Barracks, but I am far from satisfied.
- Deeply worried about Punic Hoplites, Greek Hoplites, Hoplites Sabelli: they need to be able to entrench when idle.
- These units are upgrades from other units, how will we be able to cope?

o Greek Hoplite - upgrade of Promakhoi / Warrior.
o Punic Hoplite - upgrade of Punic Sab Shari / Etruscan Promakhoi.
o 3 dummy units required? Greek Warrior? Italomakhoi? Sab Shari (Poeni) and Medium Spearman (Persia)?

[27.12.22]

- Finalised archers, with the exception of Kushite units (I think)
- Fixed Lacedaemon - the issue was overlapping archers.

Noble Residence and Syssiton online.
Fixed a bug with Bowmen that caused GPIECE errors (excess crew)

Syssiton has been given to Corinth and Sparta.
- Corinth is confirmed to be working but NOT Sabaea.