Merry christmas, EB fans !

[Gustave]

https://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4018/asterixeb.jpg

Here is a little christmas gift...hehe :clown:

https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/970/dbmiddlethrowingjavs.jpg
https://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4908/battle1.jpg
https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1633/battle2d.jpg
https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9116/battleargoi2.jpg

[jazstl]

Thanks! And :santa2: to you.


BTW: Nice screenshots

[Phalanx300]

Wow nice some Celtic units!

Getting Kindoms for Christmas so am all set ;).

[Julius Augustus]

Merry Christmas to you too. And by the way, nice screenies. Can't wait for EB II!

[Tux]

Merry christmas from me too.~:)

James Bond is in the game:
https://h.imagehost.org/0279/1_71.jpg

http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450801_swe_spy1.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450801/swe_spy1.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450802_swe_spy2.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450802/swe_spy2.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450803_swe_spy3.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450803/swe_spy3.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450804_swe_spy4.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450804/swe_spy4.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450805_swe_spy5.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450805/swe_spy5.jpg.html)
http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450808_swe_spy6.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450808/swe_spy6.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450809_swe_spy7.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450809/swe_spy7.jpg.html) http://s1d2.turboimagehost.com/t/2450810_swe_spy8.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/2450810/swe_spy8.jpg.html)

[Skullheadhq]

Oh great!

Basileus: Who ARE you?
Assasin: Bond
Basileus: Bond what?
Assasin: James Bond *slices throat of basileus*
and then the escape from Pella : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii1tc493bZM

@ Gustave
Please upload your images to another imagehoster, everytime I go to that site I get nasty camwhore popups, which isn't so appropriate when you watch this with your little brother next to you, what happened to me :smash:

[Gustave]

@ Gustave
Please upload your images to another imagehoster, everytime I go to that site I get nasty camwhore popups, which isn't so appropriate when you watch this with your little brother next to you, what happened to me
Hehe yeah I know, but the one to blame is JMRC, because he uploaded these pictures some time ago, and he always use this image hoster. :smash:
EDIT : fixed !

[HunGeneral]

Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Now these units look great. The celts are coming...

Can't wait for EBII!

[anubis88]

Wow, great christmas presents... Please keep them coming :2thumbsup::laugh4::beam::clown:

[G. Septimus]

Great, though I'm not a Christian, I'll get the Holiday Discounts to :beam:

[bobbin]

Wow what can i say, truely amazing work!

[Ionut Alex]

Merry Christmas to everyone from me also :beam: as for the screens Santa would be proud of them I am bowed away love'em :smash:

[JMRC]

Merry Christmas to all EB team members and fans! I hope next year we can make some fast forward with the mod!

[-42-]

Wow, great. Nice to see the Barbarians get some attention finally.

[Taliferno]

These look amazing!

I love EB

[a completely inoffensive name]

That was some BAMF pics. Merry Christmas everyone!

[The Celtic Viking]

I agree with everyone else - awesome pics! :2thumbsup:

Happy holiday, mates!!

[Macilrille]

Merry Xmas and I join the chorus of praise. However, I also have some constructive criticism.

As most of you know I do a lot of re-enactment, some of it pretty rough and real, and has for close to 17 years now. The last pic those guys bending knee to attack low are very off-balance, a slight push would topple them and their attack would have little power. I can provide links to vids of HEMA fights if you wish to see some good and balanced stances.

Further, is JB's feet not too small compared to the body?

Thanks for the sneak peaks and effort guys, and merry Xmas, Yule or whatever you call the winter solstice to everybody.

[stratigos vasilios]

Outstanding!
Screen shots look brilliant, may I ask who else was amazed at the chorus of different coloured and shaped shields? I'm so excited! :2thumbsup:
SV

[WinsingtonIII]

Celts! And they look beautiful! So many different shields and clothes combinations!


Keep up the great work, and Merry Christmas to you as well!

[Fluvius Camillus]

Looking awesome!

Merry christmas to everybody too!

@GSS
Im not christian too but we still celebrate it and I get presents~D

~Fluvius

[delablake]

All best wishes to the EB II team and fans! (Who might be the very same fans as EB I methinks)
And a Happy New Year!

Let's hope 2010 sees the light of...it.
Thanks and over to you...

[Darius]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a festive Saturnalia to all!

Surprisingly a lot of non-Christians seem to celebrate Christmas. I've even seen pics of Christmas decorations and Santas in Japan of all places.

lol, I love how the spell checker knew what Saturnalia was but argues against the use of the plural form of Santa.

[JMRC]

The last pic those guys bending knee to attack low are very off-balance, a slight push would topple them and their attack would have little power.
Well, those are vanilla animations. We have done and we intend to make even more changes in the animations departament, but it will be impossible to remake all the vanilla anims to make them more realistic.

[JMRC]

Outstanding!
Screen shots look brilliant, may I ask who else was amazed at the chorus of different coloured and shaped shields? I'm so excited! :2thumbsup:
SV

I've counted around 200 different celtic shields, including small variants...

[Macilrille]

Well, those are vanilla animations. We have done and we intend to make even more changes in the animations departament, but it will be impossible to remake all the vanilla anims to make them more realistic.

Just trying to be helpful, I have quite a lot of experience with sword-shield or 2-hand spear ;-)

But oh well... nothing to do about it then. You guys are still doing a fine job.

[Genava]

Here is a little christmas gift...hehe :clown:

https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/970/dbmiddlethrowingjavs.jpg
https://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4908/battle1.jpg
https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1633/battle2d.jpg
https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9116/battleargoi2.jpg

Thanks Gustave :2thumbsup:
It's really better than EB1 for the historical accurancy :beam:
The main difficult is to make the shields with the celtic art of the good period. One example, a shield decorated with the art used during the third century BC:
http://www.archeoart.org/images/B4.jpg
It is inspired by the "style of the swords" like this one:
http://www.archeoart.org/ef-v10.html#
It is so difficult to draw shields with a style as complicated as I think that it is not easily improvable.


The only remark, and it is important, it's on the system of suspension of the scabbard!
During the third century BC:
http://www.archeoart.org/sysp-v4.html#
https://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7011/suspensioniiimesicle.jpg

Edit: the re-enactment, source: http://www.archeoart.org/images/Mathieu_2005.pdf
https://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4224/inclinaisonscabbard.jpg

Thanks EBTeam for your work :2thumbsup:

[Skullheadhq]

Thas some great research you did there, but did you had to quote Gustavs entire post?

[Gustave]

@Genava : Yeah I know this shield, it comes from the french reenactment crew "les ambiani". I used this design for a celtic shield.
https://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4118/shieldsarverni.jpg
The elite units have 3 stages of evolution, which give them more armor, larger shields bosses, etc, but I didn't create different shields patterns for each era because it's just too much work ! So I used a mix of different era's patterns.
About the scabbard suspension system, they are present on later era's units, but the one you can see on the screenshots is the early one.
...and sorry for my bad english ! I'm french and this is well known that french people have a horrible english.:laugh4:
BTW you should wait for the preview to make criticism !:smash:. But you will be happy to know that celtic cavalry doesn't use round shields anymore...

[Skullheadhq]

BTW you should wait for the preview.
Oh, thats some good news :2thumbsup:

[Genava]

Salut Gustave,
Je suis de Genève donc je parle français :yes: Tu peux m'envoyer un MP quand tu veux si tu veux une information. J'ai pas mal de livres et je peux contacter des spécialistes sur le forum de l'Arbre-Celtique.


@Genava : Yeah I know this shield, it comes from the french reenactment crew "les ambiani". I used this design for a celtic shield.
It's not the Ambiani, but Franck Mathieu, director of the group of re-enactment of the third century BC "Les Leuki". Then, the shield is a model of the third century BC :wink:


The elite units have 3 stages of evolution, which give them more armor, larger shields bosses, etc, but I didn't create different shields patterns for each era because it's just too much work ! So I used a mix of different era's patterns.
In French:
Je vais te faire un petit résumé rapide de l'art celtique. Durant le 4ème siècle, les Celtes utilisaient un style nommé "Style végétal continu" qui donne des boucliers (d'après le travail de reconstitution de Franck Mathieu) de ce type:
http://www.archeoart.org/images/B2.jpg

Puis pendant le milieu du troisième siècle avant JC, l'art évolue en devenant le "Style des épées", le griffon devient très fréquent ce qui donne des boucliers comme ceux-ci (tu peux me demander si certains scans sont trop mauvais):
http://www.archeoart.org/images/B4.jpg
https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3740/boucliercelte225.jpg
https://img32.imageshack.us/img32/624/img046t.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leuki/images/03srg07.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leuki/images/04fh01.jpg

Puis pour finir, durant le second siècle av JC, l'influence romaine devient plus persistante (le commerce dans le sud de la Gaule amène énormément de produits italiques en Gaule centrale) et donc de ce mélange nait un style nommé "Sévère" qui est celui qu'on voit fréquemment sur les boucliers gaulois, avec des esses ("S") et des torques, un damier etc.
http://assoc.cladio.isuisse.com/images/bouclier.jpg
http://www.les-ambiani.com/2008/reims/musee_reims_10.jpg

L'évolution des umbos:
http://www.archeoart.org/bou-v4.html#

C'est juste pour que les styles artistiques et les umbos collent entre eux :beam:
In English:
A shorter overview of the Gallic art. During the fourth century BC, the art is called "vegetable continues". It's look like that:
http://www.archeoart.org/images/B2.jpg

During the third century, the art is increases in "the style of the swords":
http://www.archeoart.org/images/B4.jpg
https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3740/boucliercelte225.jpg
https://img32.imageshack.us/img32/624/img046t.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leuki/images/03srg07.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/leuki/images/04fh01.jpg

Then to finish, during the second century BC, the Roman influence becomes more persistent (the trade in the south of Gaule enormously brings Italic products in central Gaul) and thus of this mixture is born a style named “Severe” which is that one frequently sees on the Gallic shields, with esses (“S”) and the torques, a checkerwork etc
http://assoc.cladio.isuisse.com/images/bouclier.jpg
http://www.les-ambiani.com/2008/reims/musee_reims_10.jpg

The evolution of the umbones:
http://www.archeoart.org/bou-v4.html#


...and sorry for my bad english ! I'm french and this is well known that french people have a horrible english.:laugh4:
:laugh4: Right.


But you will be happy to know that celtic cavalry doesn't use round shields anymore...
I'm happy :2thumbsup:

[Subotan]

Merry christmas from me too.~:)

James Bond is in the game:
https://h.imagehost.org/0279/1_71.jpg


Please tell me that we will have quotes from the films/Ian Fleming books in Ancient Greek.

[Skullheadhq]

Please tell me that we will have quotes from the films/Ian Fleming books in Ancient Greek.

ειμι Βονδ, Ιαμης Βονδ

[Subotan]

Niiiiiice

[Reno Melitensis]

Well done EB II team, those Gaul are awesome, but they are better dead, they look menacing.

Cheers

[Fluvius Camillus]

ειμι Βονδ, Ιαμης Βονδ

martini wodka, χτυπημένο, δεν ανακατεμένο

:laugh4::laugh4:

They didnt knew the first two back then, so you guess the rest~D

~Fluvius

[Skullheadhq]

martini wodka, χτυπημένο, δεν ανακατεμένο

:laugh4::laugh4:

They didnt knew the first two back then, so you guess the rest~D

~Fluvius

Shaken, not stirred? :laugh4:

[Subotan]

I humbly beg the EB Team to have the Spy quote James Bond (Along with maybe the Spy from TF2) in Ancient Greek. Please.

[Mister V]

Merry Christmas and a happy (coming) New Year to the EB team, too.

I'd love to see spies quote 007, heh. But the coming preview is even better news. Maybe post it for New Year's, eh?
I wonder - what are the odds of EB2 coming out next year...

[Chirurgeon]

wow this looks great...I cant wait!

[J.R.M]

Whoa!! whoawhoa!!.... great to see celtic warriors at last, can´t wait for EB2. Happy Hollidays

[Brennus]

These look very impressive, well done! If the Gauls look like this then I can't wait for the Britons, although I can imagine skinning different tattoo patterns must be a very difficult task?