The attributes broken down into command, management and popularity have their own effects starting at level five for the character deepening your play style with certain characters being used for different things in different areas or times in your campaign. The mod also features brand new background skills alongside having two tiers in the skill tree which are more useful than the old skills in the game. The team have done an amazing job creating such a historically accurate game featuring over 27 planned playable factions, and more than 148 factions in the game itself. War is everywhere and this mod takes us back to one of the greatest warring periods on Earth. The Successor Kingdoms of Alexander the Great have been united by Antiochus the Third but not for long, they all want their freedom and Antiochus is no Alexander. Rome also now turns its attention to Gaul and also to the East in Greece and the rest of Europe after subduing what is Spain. just before the height of Second Punic War, Hannibal has retreated back to his beloved Carthage after being defeated by Rome after ravaging it for nearly a decade and causing utmost humiliation. The mod takes the game Total War: Attila back to 202 B.C. The Ancient Empires mod team have been busy at work and have last month released v1.1.1b of their fantastic mod.