Faction Uniformity

[Mister V]

Variety is great, but will we still see a stark difference between the magnificiently oppressive uniformity of the Romans and the rest? It was one of the reasons why I like to play as Rome in EB.

[Ludens]

I was wondering about the uniformity myself. Will "barbarian" units see a complete lack of uniformity? What i mean is will they be able to not only look different, but have different weapons? One man gets a spear, another sword, and yet another an ax? Is this possible within engine limits or am dreaming?

Technically yes, although a unit can use only one set of animations, so mixing slashing weapons with stabbing weapons will result in weird combat moves. However, this won't happen since those weapons have different stats. According to a post by an EB member there will be some variation in the weapons within a unit, but all weapons will have the same stats (so no short swords and long swords in a unit, unless of course they go into different weapon slots).

Variety is great, but will we still see a stark difference between the magnificiently oppressive uniformity of the Romans and the rest? It was one of the reasons why I like to play as Rome in EB.

I doubt it: as far as we know the Romans did not issue uniforms. My impression is that the later Romans used only a few shield motifs, but even these would have been done by individual artists, so there would be variation. But I have read no historical sources on the matter, so I wouldn't really know. For all I know, the uniformity in shield motifs may be another myth.

[bobbin]

There was a thread going over this a wee while back. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=115125