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    How about adding a short Alexander Campaign?

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    Default Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    Nope


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    Quote Originally Posted by vpapako View Post
    How about adding a short Alexander Campaign?
    you mean like a campaign for ALEX.exe or a campaign for Alexander the Great in EB2? Either way, you haven't been here long, have you? EB is set several years after Alex's death.
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    Question Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    A large amount of completely unneccessary work. Spendios worded my opinion quite well.

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    No, the Alexander battle should be the prologue campaign... As the Normans in M2TW... How about let get Alexandros himself teach every new players the basic game guide... (He dies in the end of campaign though...)

    Should be an interesting opening...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    No, the Alexander battle should be the prologue campaign... As the Normans in M2TW...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    How about let get Alexandros himself teach every new players the basic game guide... (He dies in the end of campaign though...)

    Should be an interesting opening...
    a) RTW already had an Alexander campaign
    b) As a tutorial, an Alexander campaign would be too simple [1] and too poignant[2].

    An appealing idea for some, perhaps, but our Gaza campaign will leave little to be desired.

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    No, I Havent been here long, I' m fresh new, but I know history. Alexander died in 323 B.C. Rome total war and most mods begin at 271 B.C. I meant a short tutorial-like campaign like the original M2TW tutorial campaign with army movement, battle and siege training with Alexander, so RTW players could experience how the world was shaped into what they see in 271 B.C. And I don't think it's such a lame idea anyway.

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    And yes, RTW already had an alexander campaign, I'm not saying to reproduce that campaign, I'm proposing a small tutorial campaign. And I have faith that the EB2 team, with the M2TW engine can give us an Alexander we would really love.

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    An Alexander tutorial would require new units specific to the tutorial. And then you really have to ask yoursef - what's the point?
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    That would be really cool to meet Alexander made by EB team.
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    We can take the viewpoint of Alexander, having lectured on how to wage a great campaign, by Aristoteles, or his Father, Philip...

    Anyway, this should be an easy version of the backbreaking RTW: Alexander... coz this is proloque

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    Default Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    How about this, then. They've already made a tutorial campaign for EBII.

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    I don't get it, why would Foot be chanting his own name?


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    He probably has an alter dedicated to Foot in his room or something...

    Quote Originally Posted by A wise man in a previous post
    How about this, then. They've already made a tutorial campaign for EBII.
    This should be repeated, as people don't want to hear this or something. There already is an awesome tutorial campaign for EB!!! Forget Alexander.

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    I believe that Foot has taken a break from the public forums for a while...

    As for the idea of an Alexandros campaign, see the official EB team answer in the second post.

    Not only would it be a ton of work and require huge amounts of scripting to keep the AI from wandering off, but it would require the complete creation of a whole new faction. A complete roster of Achaemenid Persian units would have to be completely created.


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    Default Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    That was only a tutorial-purpose units... let me purpose a silly answer:

    You can pretend the Khuveshavangan, Dahae Baexdantae, Chidainh (although they're celtic), and some Arab / Persian archer - spearmen to be a persian units... and even you can use Phalava as Persians.... (although it seems badly ahistorical... it does nice to see a Phalavan general named Darius CondoCodomannus

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    Default Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    That was only a tutorial-purpose units... let me purpose a silly answer:

    You can pretend the Khuveshavangan, Dahae Baexdantae, Chidainh (although they're celtic), and some Arab / Persian archer - spearmen to be a persian units... and even you can use Phalava as Persians.... (although it seems badly ahistorical... it does nice to see a Phalavan general named Darius CondoCodomannus

    BTW soory for this posts...

    Incredibly pointless, you don't have to post everything that pops into your mind. Phalava is not the same thing as the Achaemenid Persian Empire and to interchange units between them would not be historically accurate.
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    Rule of thumb to all visitors:

    If you find yourself typing a "silly" idea or thought or answer, just hit the "x" button in the upper right corner of the screen before hitting that post button. If you follow this rule constantly then you can be 100% protected from scrutiny from other posters.


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    Default Re: Idea for Alexander Campaign

    Though we all should be more lenient with "silly" questions.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus View Post
    Though we all should be more lenient with "silly" questions.
    or we could decide to not post "silly" questions. I really don't think this is the best enviroment to post "silly" questions and answers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus View Post
    Though we all should be more lenient with "silly" questions.
    Seconded .

    Quote Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate View Post
    or we could decide to not post "silly" questions. I really don't think this is the best enviroment to post "silly" questions and answers.
    Is there a good environment for asking silly questions?

    I suspect that very few of these suggestions are intended to be silly. It's just that people don't understand the complexity of modding or history, or don't realize how much thought went into designing and making EB.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludens View Post
    Is there a good environment for asking silly questions?

    I suspect that very few of these suggestions are intended to be silly. It's just that people don't understand the complexity of modding or history, or don't realize how much thought went into designing and making EB.

    I just thought spamming was looked down upon in this forum. But I guess we could go easy on the new members.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus View Post
    Though we all should be more lenient with "silly" questions.
    Honestly. The point of asking a question is because you don't know the answer. If you don't ask question you choose to be ignorant.
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    There is a difference between asking a "silly" question or a "stupid" question and being a troll. Trolls will not be tolerated. Newbies who don't know something that may happen to be common knowledge around these parts isn't the same thing.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus View Post
    There is a difference between asking a "silly" question or a "stupid" question and being a troll. Trolls will not be tolerated. Newbies who don't know something that may happen to be common knowledge around these parts isn't the same thing.
    Right. I wasn't even considering trolls. Usually it's pretty obvious if their question is only antagonistic. See: Rastapopolous...

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    even though I think an Alexander tutorial would be cool, I've been here long enough to know it wont happen

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    Clearly this thread has run its course.

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