README

Welcome to RIS: Wiki

RTR: Imperium Surrectum is a total overhaul mod for Rome: Total War Remastered with a focus on historical accuracy alongside fun and challenging gameplay. RIS 0.7 marks a major new release, reflecting over two years of research and hard work to refine and expand the mod.

With 0.7, RIS greatly expands and revamps the whole base game:

• A completely overhauled map with 1,305 settlements.
• 230 playable factions, many of which remastered for v0.7.
• 1,218 new units, many of which remastered for v0.7.
• 22 unique cultures, nuanced by 51 beliefs, for more diverse governance and recruitment.
• Revamped and expanded building chains, creating more unique and strategic settlements.

On top of this, RIS 0.7 adds major new systems for:

• Recruitment
• Economy
• Traits and retinue
• Reforms and revolts

These changes ensure a far richer campaign, with a scale and diversity that far surpasses the original game.

The main RIS experience has two separate campaigns, one for a unified Roman faction and one with four Roman factions and senate missions closer to the vanilla set-up.

The new release also launches a new RIS Light campaign with similar depth and mechanics but a smaller scale. 600 settlements and a half-sized map make for quicker and more decisive campaigns. The Light campaign also features a 1Roman or 4Roman campaign.

Each of the campaigns has its own mod folders.

This wiki documents the new additions and the main systems found in RIS 0.7, for the main campaign.

I'm new: where do I start?

The game guides document the new systems, and our community guides have everything you need to get started on the most popular campaigns.

Pointers for first time players:

• Optimised for Hard/Hard difficulty
• Re-load every 8 turns
• Settings changed to remastered

Sortable tables

For anything you want to sort or search rather than read:

• Unit roster: all 1,218 units, sortable by any stat
• Regions: all 1,305, sortable and searchable
• Factions: sortable by what each starts with

The world

	Pages	What is on them
Regions and settlements	1,305	Settlements by size, the land tags, and every region in a sortable list. A region page is the land: terrain, climate, fertility, water, port, trade goods. A settlement page is the town: size, manpower, who holds it, what is built, what can be raised
Settlement sizes	5	The settlement size feature is a campaign progression mechanic where crossing specific population thresholds unlocks upgraded government buildings, which in turn allow you to construct higher-tier military and economic structures.
Trade goods	42	What each good is worth, where on the map it is, who holds it, what it unlocks
Region tags	10	What a region's terrain, climate, water source, harbour, recruitment zones, homeland and fertility each decide

Who plays it

	Pages	What is on them
Factions	231	Grouped by culture: what each starts with, its roster, its characters, its territory
Cultures	22	Who is in each, what its settlements are drawn with, and what the mod gates on being it
Beliefs	51	Where each is on the map and at what strength, whose people it is, who follows it
Traits	30	Every visible trait: its levels, effects, how it is gained, and the traits that pull against it
Retinue	27	The followers, keepsakes and offices a character gathers, and the traits that attract them
Reforms	80	What each army reform takes to happen, and the units it unlocks, retires and converts
Revolts	10	Breakaways and civil wars: what sets each off, what happens, and whether you can take over the rebels

What they build and field

	Pages	What is on them
All units	1,218	Stats, cards, who can recruit each one and what they need to build first
Buildings	82	Every chain: what each level does, what it costs, what it upgrades into

From the team

	Pages	What is on them
Developer diaries	65	Every diary the team has posted on the RIS Discord, with its pictures, newest first
Community videos	94	Roster previews, faction guides, deep dives and campaigns by players and YouTubers