September/October Preview?

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Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Visit a lot of different sites associated with EB and you never know what in
the world you will come up with. You may find some really cool new things on a
website somewhere if you are lucky, a forum possibly, a review even linked to a
gallery of shots, or some other type of sneak peak into various things EB. Or wait
for them to show up eventually in the game and you can see them then. But if a
new patch or extra download is what you want, you probably won't find any
unit updates or anything like that. But you never know. We have lots of cool
pictures of our new units already shown so maybe that's enough. :laugh4:

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I like coming to one site, dammit. :P

I occassionally visit the EB site too (mostly to link it to people I am promoting it to) but I can never tell when things are updating there. :(

There was something hidden in that message, but it has already been stated now, so no worries.

It's all to confusing to me! I like things presented in an obvious fashion; not some elaborate internet-spanning forum game. :) (And yes, I hate those "Where's Wally/Waldo/Whatever" books too!)

I do like the thorakitai; although I hope that the Baktrian theureophoroi has those cool snaky shields. :)

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Originally Posted by Trithemius

It's all to confusing to me! I like things presented in an obvious fashion; not some elaborate internet-spanning forum game. :) (And yes, I hate those "Where's Wally/Waldo/Whatever" books too!)

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I can post a lightened pic of the kretan archer mentioned earlier if its ok with EB. although I do think its kind of neat making us work at these things keeps the mind ticking over. :idea2:

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Originally Posted by Andronikos Kypriakos

I can post a lightened pic of the kretan archer mentioned earlier if its ok with EB. although I do think its kind of neat making us work at these things keeps the mind ticking over. :idea2:

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Well I have more than enough to keep me going in that respect! I just want to ogle pretty pictures without having too jump through too many hoops. ;)

Maybe I am old and curmudgeonly or something? :P

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Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Visit a lot of different sites associated with EB and you never know what in
the world you will come up with. You may find some really cool new things on a
website somewhere if you are lucky, a forum possibly, a review even linked to a
gallery of shots, or some other type of sneak peak into various things EB. Or wait
for them to show up eventually in the game and you can see them then. But if a
new patch or extra download is what you want, you probably won't find any
unit updates or anything like that. But you never know. We have lots of cool
pictures of our new units already shown so maybe that's enough. :laugh4:

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I suppose I could have been a little more straightforward. :grin:

You are evil ... :P

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Originally Posted by eadingas

You are evil ... :P

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... genius

Foot

I suck at finding those things...

I couldn't find any new pictures :idea2: You are tormenting us evil genius Teleklos :nurse:

I'm sure I saw those pictures on the site last week how long have they been there? they look great.

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Originally Posted by Andronikos Kypriakos

I'm sure I saw those pictures on the site last week how long have they been there? they look great.

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They're old :inquisitive:

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Originally Posted by Foot

... genius

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With too much time on his hands. ;)

Some old wip pics of Germanic units

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/MercCavII.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/RebelCavII.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/SwebozCavII.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/Chatti.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/Frnkmnnz.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/Harii.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/HABUKOZ_SWAIUT.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/SKANDZA_SWAIUT.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/Sweboz.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/S...WAIUT_MERC.jpg

https://usera.imagecave.com/PSYCHO/REBEL.jpg

Guys with Clubs? Never seen them before...

Of course I only played the Germans a little while...


What I wonder is if the EB team would be kind enough to give us another little hint about who the other new faction is besides the Saka. Just to make us think a little. It was guessed on another forum what it was (Sabaea) but that was just from an Ibex photo and I was told by an expert the other day that the Sabaean's main symbol was more along the lines of a crescent moon. So just a little hint from the EB team would be great, even if it makes us shake our heads in confusion.

Real men don't use no sissy swords!! :grin:

Looks like Psycho was pretty generous guys. Those are a lot of new shots.

WHOOOOAAAAA!!!!!!!!

That's a totally awesome September preview! Great to see some new stuff for the Germans (and for those who missed it, there's also a German merc on the Eb website). Is that a new version of the wodanawulfoz, with the painted body?

Thanks Psycho!

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Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Real men don't use no sissy swords!! :grin:

Looks like Psycho was pretty generous guys. Those are a lot of new shots.

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Is it sad to find myself looking for patterns? :idea2:

Do RMDUNSS or LLPWPGP or TAALONS mean anything to anyone?

Seriously though, great looking units there! :2thumbsup: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2:

Those Germanic units look great, I really like the club-wielders since they are mentioned in so many historical sources. Great work!

ho are those darker dudes with what looks like to be stone axes??? amazing!!!! and the Mad Clubbers rock too

Thanks mate! Some really nice shots, good to see the Germans getting an update.

In some of the shots, such as the first one, is that a new grass texture? It seems somewhat more vibrant than I remember, though I haven't played RTW for a while.

Thorkitia use swords like Hypaspists? Or they use Thureophoroi Javelin+spear combo?

thorakitai use javelins + spear. the soldiers they represent would have had swords as well, but there are limits to the RTW engine (though I think they carry xiphoi in the models).

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Wow the Sweboz are going to be great look out Casse here I come!

Are the Sweboz getting a flashy new general (and bodyguard?) model? I'd like to try some foot generals sometime and apparently the Sweboz bodyguard is fairly tough so it sounds like a good place to start.

'fairly tough'? freakin' hard to defeat is more like it. I just ran a custom battle to try and beat a sweboz army, and that general's unit ripped apart my Romani better than Gaesatae ever could if the Gaesatae had 1HP.

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Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

'fairly tough'? freakin' hard to defeat is more like it. I just ran a custom battle to try and beat a sweboz army, and that general's unit ripped apart my Romani better than Gaesatae ever could if the Gaesatae had 1HP.

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It's so true!!

I was also wondering about the boons to carthage in 0.8 (Their my favourite faction). Q1: Will their be new libyan units/mercs as promised?
Q2: Will there be Libyan Chariots?
Q3: Will there be new numidian, african, moorish, and Mauretanian units?
Q4: The descr. for Iberian assault Infantry says that they included balearics, will balearic islands be able to recruit the Iberian assault Inf.?
Q5: Will there be balearic slingers? (Please)

A couple shots you might find interesting:

Ever seen odds like that? (note that one of the two men in the Seleukid "army" has been self-generated and is an officer :grin:)
https://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8002/uhohuu3.th.jpg

Some tweaks after getting feedback on the Roman GUI, and a couple new additions (can anyone figure out what the new thing is?):
https://img57.imageshack.us/img57/21...guishx7.th.jpg

Wow! That new GUI looks great. I really like the riming around the Battle Map!

You've tweaked the shape fo the unit shapes on the radar map on the battle map? They're no longer traingles in the bottom pic.