Picture change [Archive]

Aide de camp

07-30-2003, 19:59

Did anyone noticed how the face of the roman general has changed?

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/dizzy.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

Old face
http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/totalwar_rome/images/masthead.gif

New face
http://www.totalwar.com/community/images/sidepic.jpg

alman9898

07-31-2003, 00:24

Yeah, I did. Strange.

RisingSun

07-31-2003, 01:59

I liked the first one better. The second one looks like a wimp.

Ser Clegane

07-31-2003, 09:26

I think they both look a bit pale - are these undead generals? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Lord of the Isles

07-31-2003, 14:21

Quote[/b] (Ser Clegane @ July 31 2003,08:26)]I think they both look a bit pale - are these undead generals? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

V+V Undead General

This commander is a zombie. While this makes him impossible to kill in personal combat, his troops find it unsettling when they trip over bits of their leader's body that have fallen off. Your princesses won't thank you for marrying them off to this stiff.

Health +5
Morale -3 (for units downwind of him, -8)

Knight_Yellow

07-31-2003, 14:48

looks more realistic.

SlipJ

08-01-2003, 17:19

The strange thing is that they did change a face, but not the second sword... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Laelius

08-01-2003, 18:20

Why would they change the second sword? It is not unheard of for Roman cavalry to carry two - a longer spatha as well as a short gladius for backup.

In Gladiator (I know, not an exact picture of warfare in Rome), Maximus pulls out the gladius after getting his spatha lodged in a tree.

SlipJ

08-03-2003, 16:33

Didn't you missed smth? What for a cavaleryman may need gladius? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif To point the direction for the army? It's totaly usless in cav combat, couse too short... Show me some bas-relief or sculpture of roman warrior with 2 swords... As far as i know this tradition (to carry 2 swords) started from the Middle Ages.

About "backup": why not 3 or 4, or more...

About "Gladiator": watch how roman soldiers use piluums, carry shields (scutuum), and armor of some "noble romans" is "full metal jacket"... so it's not the best exemple.