Imperium IV - Imperial Battles

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Imperium IV - Imperial Battles is the fourth title in the Imperium series, sequel to Celtic Kings: Rage of War (known in Italy and Spain as Imperium I - The Gallic War), Celtic Kings: The Punic Wars (know in Italy as Imperium II - The Punic wars or in Spain as Imperium - Conquest of Hispania) and Imperium III: Great Battles of Rome.

The game is suggested to be developed by Haemimont Games and published by FX Interactive. It gives the player playing access to 16 playable facions.

Main menu

 * Tutorial
 * Campaigns (returned from the second chapter)
 * Great Battles
 * Conquest
 * Strategic battle (implementation from GBR Tactics)
 * Etc, etc

Major Improvements

 * New factions: (from west to east) Illyrians, Kingdom of Epirus, Achaean league (late Greek city states), Macedon, Thracians, Dacians, Scythians, Pontus, Seleucid kingdom, Ptolemaic Egypt, Parthia (its units will also be used in The Alexander campaign as Persia).
 * Old factions age going to be slightly modified, but will remain the same in general.
 * All armies will be more historically accurate, with focus on the Roman army which will be Republican and Imperial. In the Civil war campaigns, Rome's units will be Pre-Imperial (from Marius' reforms till Augustus)
 * Soundtrack from (non)historic thematic movies and games (Alexander, Gladiator, Europa Universalis, the Total war series etc.) recreating the specific atmosphere of the period.
 * Major factions will no longer have "generic" heroes. Minor ones are to keep them, but they will also have at least one historical personality.
 * Campaigns will most likely start with Philip's invasion in Thrace and Hellas and will end with Marcus Aurelius' Vindobonna campaign (approximately 350BC - 180AD) for maximum historical accuracy. There will be some additional battles before and after the selected period.
 * New formations and special abilities - pilum throw for most Roman infantry, syntagma (phalanx) for all phalangites, testudo for legionary infantry

Factions (from west to east)

 * Republican Rome
 * Imperial Rome
 * Carthage
 * Gallia
 * Hiberia
 * Classic Egypt
 * Ptholemaic Egypt
 * Seleucidia
 * Greece
 * Persia
 * Macedonia
 * Germany
 * Britain
 * Schythia
 * Thrace
 * Armenia

Campaigns
The Campaign mode is taken back from the second chapter of the series, and includes many scenarios in campaign.


 * The Persian Wars (499 BC - 479 BC), playing as Greece, includes the battles of Marathon, Thermopilis and Platea, the invasion of Schythia and the rebellion of Egypt.
 * The First Punic War (264 BC - 241 BC), playing as Republican Rome, starts with the liberation of Messana and ends with the battle of the Egads Islands battle.
 * The Second Punic War (218 BC - 202 BC), playing as Republican Rome and Carthage, includes the siege of Gades, Saguntum and Cartago Nova and the battles of Trebia, Ticinum, Trasimenus, Cannae and ZAma.
 * The Third Punic War (149 BC - 146 BC), playing as Republican Rome, ends with the siege of Carthage.
 * Alexander the Great ( - 323 BC), playing as Macedonia, includes the battles of Isso and Gaugamela, the liberation of Egypt, the first contact with the Mauryan Indians and the conquerings of Thrace, Persia and Babilonia.
 * The Pirric Wars (280 BC - 275 BC), playing as Republican Rome, ends with the Malaventum battle.

Great Battles

 * Gaugamela's battle (331 BC), playing as Macedon against Persia.
 * Marathon's battle (490 BC), playing as Greece against Persia.
 * Thermophilis's battle (480 BC), playing as Greece against Persia.
 * Scipio in Africa (204 BC), playing as Republican Rome against Carthage.
 * Siege of Alesia (51 BC), playing as Republican Rome against Gallia.
 * Augustus on the Nile (31 BC), playing as Republican Rome against Egypt.
 * Siege of Numantia (143 BC), playing as Republican Rome against Hiberia.
 * Siege of Carthage (146 BC), playing as Republican Rome against Carthage.
 * Marcus Aurelius in Germany (167 AD), playing as Imperial Rome against Germany.
 * Boudica's rebellion (60 AD), playing as Britain against Rome.
 * Britain's conquest (77 AD), playing as Imperial Rome against Britain.
 * Blood Nile (58 BC), playing as Classic Egypt against Rome.
 * Arminium, rebel general (9 AD), playing as Germany against Rome.
 * Viriathus conquers Hispain (146 AD), playing as Hiberia against Rome.
 * Gergovia's battle (52 BC), playing as Gallia against Rome.
 * The gates of Rome (216 BC, uncanonical), playing as Carthage against Rome.
 * Raphia's battle ( BC), playing as Ptholemaic Egypt against Seleucidia.
 * Armenia's demise (144 AD), playing as Rome against Armenia.
 * Lucius' last days (4 AD), playing as Armenia against Rome.
 * Darius' revenge (uncanonical), playing as Persia against Greece, if Darius had won the battle of Gaugamela and reached Greece.
 * Philippi's battle (44 BC), playing as Imperial Rome against Republican Rome.
 * Schythian defence (BC), playing as Schythia against Persia.