There's one more unit to show, which we've recently decided to include in response to Beta Tester feedback and to improve the recruitment transitions that happen with the various Roman reforms: basically a Marian reforms legionary cohort (and the corresponding first cohort) which will be a unit widely recruitable throughout your empire.
 
Here is DVK's explanation:
 

The idea then is something like this:
 
Roman oppidum - campus martius = Polybian units + local irregulars (Cretan archers in southern italy, greece, syracuse, Numidian Cavalry in Africa, etc).
 
REFORMS
Now: oppidum - campus martius = Legionary Cohort + Antesignani + (+siege Weapons in Campus Martius?) + local irregulars (as above)
 
(Campus Martius upgrades to Roman Fortress)
 
Roman Fortress: Hamata-equipped numbered legions + antesignani + siege weapons + local irregulars (as above) + Evocati
 
(Roman Fortress upgrades to Curia Hostilia)
 
Curia Hostilia: Hamata + Segmentata units (as appropriate for the region) + Antesignani + AUXILIA + Evocati + Siege weapons

There are still a few 'glitches' with the new map that are being hunted down as well...a few path finding problems, an occasional road not showing up where it should, a port in the 'wrong' place that looks bad. Stuff like that. So mainly there is nothing big, just tweaks and fine tuning....and trying to dig out the installer from all these blasted RTW files.

Implemented, yes. Testing, in progress.

I apologize that it's taking so long. There are only 3 or 4 of us working on the various issues that need fixing, and our Beta testers are providing good feedback and suggestions we feel need to be listened to. After all the mind-numbing work we've put into this, I do feel, however, we have every right to make it as good we feel it should be. Apple has made a good point...we have never had a published deadline, and won't. When we are happy with it, it will be released.
 
For now, we are fixing some recruitment and economic issues, have added modfolders for ALL factions, and have had to do not a little work on the map to fix some pathing issues and problem areas. All this so that when you guys get this, you won't have to deal with the problems we just glossed over.

Yup
 
We had a few teething problems with making the launcher work correctly but fingers crossed it should be all sorted now.

Sorry, release is being somewhat slower than anticipated. DVK has had a load of real life things that have kept him busy and work for me has been a whole lot busier than usual.
 
The last two weeks, though, have seen:
 
1) Much improved phalangite performance thanks to Chernish's input
2) Improved economies - Seleucids, Ptolemies performing better
3) A rebalancing of unit recruitment and upkeep costs resulting in more balanced armies
4) A load of other things including adding mod folders for every faction's campaign to allow refinement of the difficulty level for each one.

@youdig66 No, you don't need it, and moreover you probably must not install it before RS. This "patch" does not fix CTD, or things like that, most things changed are graphical, like a wrong colour for a shield, some artifacts on textures, a unit having a "wrong" voice, or no voice at all. Since RS use only new units, this is of no use.

The main thing really is just to get the economic balancing right now. The problem is that this takes some time - although it's possible to run AI campaigns, there's no substitute for real testers and obviously playing through a campaign takes a while....then of course if we make economic adjustments the process starts over again.

We are getting close to the release.
I don't think we will add anymore improvements in the battlefield at this time.
It's pretty much Gold!
We are finalizing the last touch ups, balance, and testing, testing and testing.

If it's any consolation, we are at the point where the small changes and improvements being made are being put into the new installer I have been working on. So it's a huge leap to even be 'thinking' about an installer.

dernière ligne droite ; [quote]Progress is coming along...I'm just doing a little tweaking of the Roman rebellion script at the moment. DVK has put together an installer and is testing it. Otherwise it's mainly fine tuning of the economics and starting situations.  

So far, beta testers have got managed to win through OK and retake Rome, but the numbers of people that have got there are low so far.....this is really the last bit of Rome campaign testing that needs work over the next week or two.

Basically the way the economy is set up is that the AI factions tend to expand to certain limits generally and then more or less stay within those confines, although the factions immediately next to the player's faction have been generally given a boost to try and make them somewhat more aggressive. The victory conditions for each mod foldered campaign have been tailored by Apple to try and improve the gameplay too.
 
Also for the AI factions, if you the player or other AI factions try and expand into their territory, on the whole they'll tend to resist more strongly the more territory you take due to the economic set up and some scripting.
 
Here are some shots - Squid has helped me to get forests into the previously unforested climates (swamp and sandy desert), with some hex editing of the descr_geography.db file: