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)

 * Iberians
 * Gauls
 * Brittons
 * Germanic tribes
 * Republican/Pre-Imperial/ Imperial Rome
 * Carthage (Numidia might also be independent)
 * Illyrians
 * Kingdom of Epirus
 * Achaean league (Greek city states in battles and possibly campaigns)
 * Macedon
 * Thracians
 * Dacians
 * Scythians
 * Pontus
 * Seleucid kingdom
 * Ptolemaic Kingdom
 * Parthia (Persia in Alexander campaign and Greco-Persian war Battles)

Campaigns
The Campaign mode covers the period from Philip's ascension (359BC) till Marcus Aurelius' death in Vindobonna (180AD). It also includes the campaigns from Imperium I and II.
 * Philip's ambition (First and second campaign in Thrace and Hellas 359 - 338BC)
 * Alexander campaign (Alexander's battles from the Theban rebellion, till Gaugamela 334 - 323BC)
 * Pyrhic wars (In Italy, Sicily and Hellas 280 - 272BC)
 * Punic wars (First, Second and Third from both Roman and Carthaginian perspective 264 - 146BC) (campaign from Imperium II)
 * Macedonian wars (214-148BC)
 * The Cimbri and Teutoni invasion (113-101BC)
 * Civil war (from both Marius and Sula's perspective)
 * Mithridatic wars (88-63BC)
 * The third Servile war (Spartacus' rebellion 73 - 71BC)
 * Gallic wars (58 - 51BC; Larax's campaign is included, but separate from the main campaign)
 * Civil war from both Caesar and Pompey's perspective (49 - 45BC)
 * Claudius' invasion of Britannia (+ Boadicea's rebellion 43 - 61AD)
 * Vespasian's ascension after Nero's death in the year of the 4 emperors 68AD (+ Jerusalem's rebellion with his son Titus)
 * Traianus' expeditions in Dacia and Mesopotamia (101 - 117AD)
 * Marcus Aurelius - the beginning of the end (the first Roman to realize that the empire will crumble) (161 - 180AD)

Great Battles (most of them from both perspectives)

 * Marathon (Athens/Persia 490BC)
 * Thermopylae (Greek city states/Persia 480BC)
 * Plateia (Greek city states/Persia 479BC)
 * Leuktra (Thebes/Sparta 371BC)
 * Mantineia (Thebes/Sparta 362BC)


 * Chaeroneia (Macedon/Greek city states 338BC)
 * Granicus (Macedon/Persia 334BC)
 * Issos (Macedon/Persia 333BC)
 * Gaugamella (Macedon/Persia 331BC)
 * Heraclea (Kingdom of Epirus/SPQR 280BC)
 * Asculum (Kingdom of Epirus/SPQR 279BC)
 * Beneventum (Kingdom of Epirus/SPQR 275BC)
 * Saguntum (Carthage/Iberians;SPQR 219BC)
 * Trebia (Carthage/SPQR 218BC)
 * Trasimene (Carthage/SPQR 217BC)
 * Cannae (Carthage/SPQR 216BC)
 * New Carthage (Carthage/SPQR 209BC)
 * Metaurus (Carthage/SPQR 207BC)
 * Zama (SPQR/Carthage 202BC)
 * Cynoscephale (SPQR/Macedon 197BC)
 * Pydna (Macedon/SPQR 168BC)
 * Carthage (Carthage/SPQR 149-146BC)
 * Aquae Sextiae (Pre-Empire/Germanic tribes (Teutones) 102BC)
 * Vercellae (Pre-Empire/Germanic tribes (Cimbri) 101BC)
 * Carrhae (Pre-Empire/Parthia 53BC)
 * Avaricum (Pre-Empire/Gauls 52BC)
 * Gergovia (Pre-Empire/Gauls 52BC)
 * Alesia (Pre-Empire/Gauls 52BC)
 * Pharsalus (Civil 48BC)
 * Thapsus (only from Caesar's point of view 46BC)
 * Munda (only from Caesar's point of view 45BC)
 * Actium (Civil 31BC)
 * Teutoburg forest (Imperium Romanum/Germanic tribes 9AD)
 * Boadicea's uprising (Imperium Romanum/Brittons 61AD)
 * The year of the four emperors 68AD (Vespasian's point of view)
 * The siege of Sarmizegetusa (Imperium Romanum/Dacians 106AD)
 * The Danube offensive (Imperium Romanum/Germanic tribes 162-180AD)