EB's Removed Units (Nostalgia thread, not "how to get them back")

**mlc82** · 03-16-2009, 03:50

Maybe I'm just overly caffeinated at the moment, but I'm thinking of downloading all the old EB versions I can find and installing them in a new RTW install to create a "best of the forgotten EB units" thread... You can still download some of the older versions here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...php?linkid=546

**bobbin** · 03-16-2009, 09:25

Remember Pontos's old bodyguards? they were truly awful, kinda like a heavy skirmishing cavalry that would die against anthing it fought.

didn't know you could download the old versions, downloading 0.72 right now.

**SwissBarbar** · 03-16-2009, 09:37

does someone have a picture of such a corinthian hoplite? I'd like to see them.

**bobbin** · 03-16-2009, 10:02

Here you go.

Here's some of the others i've found

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Thats what i could find after a quick look through the 0.72 files

**SwissBarbar** · 03-16-2009, 10:05

nice

**theoldbelgian** · 03-16-2009, 12:10

ok wait that beatifull imperial cohort up there was replaced with those guys who look like a mix of men and baby frogs(don't know what you call them in english but in dutch its "dikkopje"=>literly fathead

**Dutchhoplite** · 03-16-2009, 12:25

It's tadpole!

In Dutch they're also called "kikkervisjes" => Frogfishes :)

**Ludens** · 03-16-2009, 12:26

Originally Posted by Βελισάριος

Why were they taken out?

I'm guessing the Corinthian Hoplites were anachronistic, though I'd have liked to have them in my army. That is, if my assumption is correct and they're still wearing the Corinthian Helmet and otherwise equipped like the Classic Greek Hoplites of Marathon, for example.

Not at all. The Corinthian hoplites have been reskinned, given a wider recruitment range and renamed classical hoplites. They also lost the phalanx ability.

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Were they removed for Saba units?

No. There is still some unit space left.

Many German units were reconcepted (renamed, reskinned, restatted) because the new German FC was not satisfied with them. The Merjoz was the most notable casualty: two-handed axes apparently were a late Viking/Saxon development, so they really did not belong in EB.