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Socy
06-02-2008, 21:18
Just thought I'd share this with you all, just recently found it (If it's been brought up before, please delete this post and BUMP the other one!).

http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/

A game that, to me, looks like a hybrid between the RTS-nature of Age of Empires but with skins and models that looks like they're taken from EB (Positively meant). Haven't read too much about gameplay etc. but it definately looks cool in my eyes!

Discuss! :yes:
GodEmperorLeto
06-02-2008, 21:43
Actually, the skins look like they were totally ripped-off from EB!!! Or they were just that well-darn-researched. Either way, it looks pretty!
eggthief
06-02-2008, 22:36
People still play this game!? God they need to look outside of their little box.
Tyrfingr
06-03-2008, 01:44
0AD have been around for a looong time, heck, I was even involved with it in the beginning...lost interest though.
satalexton
06-03-2008, 03:43
~_~ ever since i got my hands on RTW, then RTR, then EB....I'll never be able to play those 'balanced' RTS games nemore >_>
chenkai11
06-03-2008, 09:11
The archers looks good, you can see the arrow loaded to the bow before firing.
Gaivs
06-03-2008, 09:13
haha this looks wicked
http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_image.php?pic_id=10374
Moros
06-03-2008, 13:20
I for one don't find it too be that historical at all. I lost interest after reading only a few lines about thier factions. Especially the Celts who are getting a bit of a RTW vanilla treatment.
Spartan198
06-03-2008, 14:49
I've been watching this one since early last year. I somehow doubt it'll ever see a publically playable form.
bovi
06-04-2008, 06:18
I for one don't find it too be that historical at all. I lost interest after reading only a few lines about thier factions. Especially the Celts who are getting a bit of a RTW vanilla treatment.
Really? Anthony became a member there in october, so I wouldn't think that would be happening. But then again he hasn't had much time for EB so probably not for 0AD either.
Moros
06-04-2008, 13:48
Really? Anthony became a member there in october, so I wouldn't think that would be happening. But then again he hasn't had much time for EB so probably not for 0AD either.
Well they might be doing great work on things. But the guy who wrote the faction description on the website sure can't have been Anthony. Not only would it have been much longer.
I guess this might be a lot of remains from before Anthony. But If Anthony is going to help, I'm sure the Celts will indeed get the needed attention.
Too bad I don't like their faction system. Celts for example is a bit vague for a faction. And also a faction based on Greece+Makedonia is a bit wierd too.

The unit graphics looked good tough. Tough I noticed wardogs.
Hax
06-04-2008, 13:54
As long as they don't ride burning pigs while wearing Lorica Segmentata, it's all fine.
eggthief
06-04-2008, 14:56
Of course not Hax, the pigs are wearing LS and are riding burning Arcani in this one. Heh burning pigs, silly u.
king hannibal
06-04-2008, 15:38
I say good for them

would be good to see the EB team and RTR team join up and do a game basicly like you've done now but no hard coding and proper sized armys :2thumbsup:
Elmetiacos
06-04-2008, 15:51
The Britons and Gauls are the antithesis of the rigid organisation of Rome. A fierce horde of woad-painted Celtic warriors charging across the plains was a fearsome sight. They considered the bow and other ranged arms to be a weapon of cowards, and excel in hand-to-hand combat.

Bah.
Moros
06-05-2008, 15:07
The Britons and Gauls are the antithesis of the rigid organisation of Rome. A fierce horde of woad-painted Celtic warriors charging across the plains was a fearsome sight. They considered the bow and other ranged arms to be a weapon of cowards, and excel in hand-to-hand combat.

Bah.

That's one of the lines that made me wonder.
Jolt
06-05-2008, 15:30
The Britons and Gauls are the antithesis of the rigid organisation of Rome. A fierce horde of woad-painted Celtic warriors charging across the plains was a fearsome sight. They considered the bow and other ranged arms to be a weapon of cowards, and excel in hand-to-hand combat.

Is this not true? Oh, the shock!
Flying Pig
06-05-2008, 15:46
Ahem? Didn't they use javelins?
Ibrahim
06-05-2008, 20:27
heaven forbid if the Gaesatae were the best javelin throwers in EB1 (with unbelievable force, lethality, and range)..
Moros
06-05-2008, 23:55
Ahem? Didn't they use javelins?
Slingers anyone?

There is reason enough for the Iosotae in EB. Really. They also seem to suggest that the Celts only lived in small wooden villages and only used wild charges without any organisation whatsoever.
Rilder
06-06-2008, 00:14
Hasn't 0a.d been in development since the time of ancient Rome?
Elmetiacos
06-07-2008, 00:43
Javelins were used extensively and Caesar wrote about river crossings in Gaul while coming under fire from slingers and archers, but the lure of the woad-daubed berserker with his Hallstatt longsword seems to have been to strong to resist.
Olaf The Great
06-07-2008, 02:28
Older than the internet.
Spartan198
06-07-2008, 10:57
Hasn't 0a.d been in development since the time of ancient Rome?
I'm pretty sure the Hittites originally started development of it. :laugh4:
Rilder
06-08-2008, 03:01
I'm pretty sure the Hittites originally started development of it. :laugh4:

The early code was being carved into cave walls during the time of the cavemen also. :book:
Ibrahim
06-08-2008, 04:56
The early code was being carved into cave walls during the time of the cavemen also. :book:

actually, the latest evidence places the origions at 3 million BC, from a trbe of Australopithicines. here is one of those poeple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis
russia almighty
06-08-2008, 08:01
I heard forces in the first nano seconds of universe started researching for it.
Megas Methuselah
06-08-2008, 08:04
This is madness...
:dizzy2:
russia almighty
06-08-2008, 08:13
madness?


THIS IS.....THE EUROPA BARBARORUM FORUMS!
Moros
06-08-2008, 11:00
Can we please cut the spam? Making a joke is okay, but making the same joke 10 times in a row isn't.
Let's stay on topic.


Javelins were used extensively and Caesar wrote about river crossings in Gaul while coming under fire from slingers and archers, but the lure of the woad-daubed berserker with his Hallstatt longsword seems to have been to strong to resist.
indeed. Caesar tells us, and many more sources tell us about it. For god sake the Gaesatae were even named after their spear throwing abilities. And those are supposed to be the cream, when it comes to bravery.