Preview: Mamla'ha biMassylim

[Teleklos Archelaou]

NB: A couple of fan signature banners have been added to the end of the preview.

[Salvor Hardin]

Great looking preview, EB team.

Just one question: don't the shields of the slingers look too big?

[Zim]

Looks great! Can't wait to give the Numidians a try, or have someone in Africa to fight if I give Carthage a spin.

[Darth Revan]

A solid beginning to a solid faction.......really missed them in original EB......one more request to the EB II team.......can you think about including Thrace as a kelto-hellenikoi faction.......I really missed them in EB.......

[Ludens]

Thrace as Celto-Hellenes? You mean Thraco-Hellenic or are you referring to the Celtic (not Thracian) kingdom of Tylis?

[JMRC]

Just one question: don't the shields of the slingers look too big?

The sources that we have consulted point to numidian skirmishers using large but lightweight shields, without much distinction of roles in the battlefield, so the javelinmen and slingers would have no distinction in clothing or defensive equipment. If they dropped the large shields to better use the slings is something that I can't say and the engine doesn't allow anyway.

[GoidilicWarrior]

Wow, looking very nice. I can't wait to see a preview of the Celtic factions!

[Salvor Hardin]

The sources that we have consulted point to numidian skirmishers using large but lightweight shields, without much distinction of roles in the battlefield, so the javelinmen and slingers would have no distinction in clothing or defensive equipment. If they dropped the large shields to better use the slings is something that I can't say and the engine doesn't allow anyway.

OK, thanks for the answer.

[Wodeson]

Looks awesome!

Numidians are one of my favorite classical armies. I do hope you get the Spanish/Celtic Bodyguard, Elephants and Roman trained infantry in there.

[Davor]

It really pleases this senior EB-er to see that the community is as living as it always was.

[Wasntmenl]

Great previeuw of the nation and a lot of info. Reeding the histoy of Mamla'ha biMassylim I clearly understand why you guys wanted this nation in. Great update and keep up the good work

[HunGeneral]

Great preview as always!
This new faction should add soem action into North-Africa....

The news of a new nomadic building system sounds great - it got me all energied up + there might be another Nomad faction out there to come.....simply AMAZING

Wondefull Work EB Team! God bless you all!!

[Eastern Foot-Rocker]

Veeeeery awesome!!! Great work! I cant wait!

[artaxerxes]

wonderfull. I'm already in love

[Cute Wolf]

Waitin for Bosophorans

[Tux]

Waitin for Bosophorans

What are those?!

[Hax]

What are those?!

The people of the Boso Peninsula in Japan. They were part of an esoteric mix of Shingon/Onmyoudo/Shinto/Taoist/??? sects who had succeeded uniting themselves into one guy: Boso of Merseburg. This Boso fellow is actually immortal. He killed JFK, shot Hitler (after he went back in time), is both Bush and Obama and called upon Nibiru to destroy the world in 2012.

Oh yeah, and you should also memorize this story and shout it out loud at least 200 times to random people on the streets to save the planet from certain death.

..or did you mean Bosphorans?

[Tux]

No no the Boso.
Well then Cute Wolf has a lot of waiting to see that in EB2.

EDIT:
For both I mean...

[MeinPanzer]

...or did you mean Bosphorans?

Or did you mean the Bosporans?

[oudysseos]

Well, although there are two settlements available at the Bosporos, Byzantion and Nikaia, neither is really a good candidate for a full faction, especially with Pergamon already confirmed. Here's a cool little map of the area:



True, Bithnyia had a long history as a (semi) independent Kingdom, and we even have an interesting "faction leader" in the person of Nicomedes I: but that area is pretty crowded and it would be hard to envision a Bithnyian faction being able to compete against Pergmaon, the AS and Pontus. If there were no hard-coded limits, sure, of course they would be in.

Cute Wolf, you did mean The Bosporos, and not The Cimmerian Bosporos, right?

[MeinPanzer]

Well, although there are two settlements available at the Bosporos, Byzantion and Nikaia, neither is really a good candidate for a full faction, especially with Pergamon already confirmed. Here's a cool little map of the area:

True, Bithnyia had a long history as a (semi) independent Kingdom, and we even have an interesting "faction leader" in the person of Nicomedes I: but that area is pretty crowded and it would be hard to envision a Bithnyian faction being able to compete against Pergmaon, the AS and Pontus. If there were no hard-coded limits, sure, of course they would be in.

Cute Wolf, you did mean The Bosporos, and not The Cimmerian Bosporos, right?

There was no such thing as a "Bosporan" state in the Bosporus. The Bosporan kingdom can only refer to the kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus.

[oudysseos]

.....I knew that, dude. I was trying out a little gentle irony/sarcasm to encourage more accuracy in the use of names.

[Hax]

I'm pretty sure the term "Bosphorean Kingdom" can also be used to refer to the gramatically and linguistical correct Bosporan Kingdom (or Kingdom of Cimmerian Bosporos).

[tls5669]

Just someone else for me to roll over as Carthage.

[Elmetiacos]

Can I point something out? If you've got Syphax already on the Masaesylian throne in 272BC, that means he was charging around fighting on horseback at the age of about ninety, which seems a bit unlikely. He was a contemporary of Scipio and Hannibal and fought the Romans in the Second Punic War.

[JMRC]

I thought you were going to say that he wasn't born yet...

[option]

Does anyone know when the next preview is set to come out?

[Tux]

Very soon.

[Cute Wolf]

I mean kingdom that has capital at Chersonesos, damn the name was Bosphorans, bosophorans, or baksophorans..... as they'll have my two fave kind of units as their standard rooster, hoplitai and HA

[BJatNIGHT]

Will the Bosporan Kingdom faction appear on EB2? That'd be awesome.