Getting into certain factions

**Lusitani** · 09-08-2008, 05:31

Originally Posted by ||Lz3||

you celtic smelly scum...

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Smelly but proud!!

RAAABUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

**Celtic_Punk** · 09-08-2008, 06:26

what celt isnt proud?
RAABUUUU!!!

btw Fenix, are you Nate? the one who did all the art on the loading screens?

**bovi** · 09-08-2008, 06:37

No. Nate is Caratacos, who unfortunately is no longer working on the mod.

**DeathEmperor** · 09-08-2008, 07:24

I've never been able to bring myself to do a Ptolemaioi campaign. I know they have an excellent unit roster and I know the campaign would be incredibly fun, but I can't because they were the rivals and chief enemies of the Seleukids.

Ever since I first played as them in vanilla years ago I've been a HUGE fan of the Seleukids. Playing as them got me interested in their history and the more I read about them the more fascinated I became. I consider myself fairly well-learned when it comes to most of their history, with the only exception being my disinterest of their time after Antiochus VII Sidetes as after his reign there was almost nothing but dynastic infighting. Almost everything I know about the Seleukids, Antigonids, Lagids and the Hellenistic Age as a whole is self-taught, gained from reading books ranging from ones that only just discuss the original Diadochi such as Alan Fildes & Joann Fletcher's Alexander the Great to more specialized sources such as B. Bar Kochva's The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns.

My fascination with the Seleukids and the inspiration their history (and EB) give me has caused me to begin writing a novel series based on the life of Antiochus the Great. I've also started a more fiction focused story called The Sun and the Star, which is centered around Antiochus the Great and Philip V with alternate versions of the Second Macedonian War and the Roman War of Antiochus the Great.

All of this is the reason why I've never played a Ptolemaioi campaign. One never knows for sure, I might actually give them a shot in EBII

**fenix3279** · 09-08-2008, 07:53

Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk

what celt isnt proud?
RAABUUUU!!!

btw Fenix, are you Nate? the one who did all the art on the loading screens?

No, like bovi said, it was Nate who did those works.

**Celtic_Punk** · 09-08-2008, 08:47

damn, I wanted to ask him if he had any other art like the aftermath of that selucid/ptolemy battle. It was really good and i wanted to print out soemthing like that and hang it on my wall.

thouuugh if you have some stuff like that, i wouldn't mind having a butchers hook at your portfolio

**fenix3279** · 09-08-2008, 15:22

Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk

damn, I wanted to ask him if he had any other art like the aftermath of that selucid/ptolemy battle. It was really good and i wanted to print out soemthing like that and hang it on my wall.

thouuugh if you have some stuff like that, i wouldn't mind having a butchers hook at your portfolio

No, I don't have much like that. Most of my works are limited to what my instructors want done. I wish I did though, seeing that I'm a big fan of Nate's work. Unfortunately, I do not work on things related to EB extensively as Nate did. Maybe sometime in the future if I ever decide to try it out.

**The Celtic Viking** · 09-08-2008, 17:23

Well, I have it quite the opposite to you, fenix. Whenever I'm playing as something that is not a "barbarian" faction, I long to go back to my clean Celts. The only exception would be when I played my Sabaean campaign, for some reason (which is why that's my favourite faction after the Celtic and Sweboz ones).

**fenix3279** · 09-08-2008, 22:07

Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking

Well, I have it quite the opposite to you, fenix. Whenever I'm playing as something that is not a "barbarian" faction, I long to go back to my clean Celts. The only exception would be when I played my Sabaean campaign, for some reason (which is why that's my favourite faction after the Celtic and Sweboz ones).

The Saba are your favorite faction? Wow, I really didn't expect that. Because of your name and sig, I always pegged you for an Arverni kind of guy, much like myself.