Recruiting dosidataskeli

[Ludens]

Oh, and BTW, what happened to all of those barbarian artillery pieces? I saw their skins and models, but they never came out. Why?

I don't recall those, do you have links? Since the Barbarians didn't use much in the way of artillery I don't understand why they were made. Perhaps they are from the very early days, when not much research had been done?

So sad Goidils lost to Saba... Saba are quite lousy, although I suppose it was needed to have a faction in such an empty spot, as well as a spot reachable by land.

The main motivations where to represent the Arabs and to give a proper founder faction to the Arabian peninsula. In EB 0.7, the Arab provinces would rebel to Pahlava or the Ptolemeans, neither of which was realistic.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I don't recall those, do you have links? Since the Barbarians didn't use much in the way of artillery I don't understand why they were made. Perhaps they are from the very early days, when not much research had been done?

Oh no, on the contrary, that research was quite reliable, and barbarians built quite a bit of artillery pieces. One was the most common, and I do recall it being mentioned recently as well.

That famous one was basically a long paddle on a rope. Once you let the rope go, the paddle hit the ends of vertically aligned bolts, which would come out flying. The other one was a giant crossbow basically.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I am still looking for the skins that I saw, but here is a post by khelvan in the meanwhile:

Please forgive me, I misstated; the Chythrsydh ('Breath Bolts') and Cyrthcanepo ('Eater of Horses') are more field artillery than siege artillery. The Chythrsydh was like a long, multi-shot crossbow, not very big, though wide; it fired 4-10 bolts rapidly, used for anti-personnel. The Cyrthcanepo was a larger version firing much larger bolts, meant to kill cavalry. Both the Chythrsydh and Cyrthcanepo are like the bricoli in the way they fire; a spring mechanism slams up a plank into the back of the missles, which are set through bore holes, and launches them. The Celts used rams for sieges, and quite commonly sapped.

EDIT: oh, and here is him speaking of that mysterious historian:

In addition, the Irish historian I describe in posts above provided me the information on Celtic siege engines. He works directly with the as yet untranslated (though he is working on them) ancient histories of the Goidilics and other Celts. His work is not yet published. I trust his work over any historian that does not have access to the same materials. I have encouraged him to publish his work, but he isn't ready to do that, yet.

[Ghaust the Moor]

I sure hope that this "mysterious" historian publishes his work. I would love to read it.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I sure hope that this "mysterious" historian publishes his work. I would love to read it.

Well, that quote dated from 2004, so it may be possible he already has.

[Ghaust the Moor]

Well. I guess that means I should start looking. Heheh.

P.S. Would you happen to know the name of the historian?