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[nazgool]

# Another sweboz unit finished, the Skutjans, a small peak at it: http://bit.ly/gjfHJE ~Tux about 18 hours ago via web

Hehe, sweboz archer with black pox ??

[Genava]

Pffff, I want a new preview as apology!

[bobbin]

I was referring very much more specifically to state-equipped phalanxes where you might have men at the back who were nowhere near as well-equipped as the more trustworthy men at the front. In the quote we're even talking no greaves and a flimsy shield. I don't know whether they were even relevant any more in our timeframe.

I did notice the variations in equipment in the previews/videos, but in general they were equivalent rather than better/poorer.

We do have variations in armour within a unit which cover what your after, for example some of the soldiers in the Thureophroi unit have linothorax while other only get a simple tunic, it cannot be too drastic though as this will make them harder to stat.
We cannot control the position of the soldiers in the unit.

[QuintusSertorius]

We do have variations in armour within a unit which cover what your after, for example some of the soldiers in the Thureophroi unit have linothorax while other only get a simple tunic, it cannot be too drastic though as this will make them harder to stat.
We cannot control the position of the soldiers in the unit.

Cool, that's what I was thinking.

[nazgool]

General what are your orders? - Moros
about 2 hours ago via web

Hmmmmmmm

[stratigos vasilios]

Quick nazgool, Moros has asked you for orders! Get him to do something!

[Populus Romanus]

Quick nazgool, Moros has asked you for orders! Get him to do something!

-impersonates said general-


"Give them a highly informative, factual, unambiguous, and relevant piece of information."


-/impersonation-
Hehehe...I gots ya now.

[Tellos Athenaios]

How about: you can't fool me?

[Tanit]

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

[Moros]

He's got me there. Oh well... this thread now has 1030 posts, our twitter has 318 tweets and 398 followers.

[nazgool]

Some news from twitter :)

Finished the skins for a lusotannan unit. Great model by JMRC. - Gustave

[stratigos vasilios]

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

These aren't the druids we're looking for...

[Tanit]

Move along . . .

[Populus Romanus]

He's got me there. Oh well... this thread now has 1030 posts, our twitter has 318 tweets and 398 followers.

Wait - that worked? Let's be a little more ambitious this time...

Give us a useful, truthful, unambiguous piece of information pertinent to undisclosed new features made possible by the M2TW engine.

Muwahahahaha....

[nazgool]

Finished a skin for a lugian unit, a basic archer unit and a peak at it: http://bit.ly/hnkran ~Tux
about 3 hours ago via web

Another great skin Tux :) Thank you for sneak peak :)

[Horatius Flaccus]

Yes, great work Tux!

[B-Wing]

Wow, that's one rough looking Lugian. Looks like he's seen too many battles.

[fightermedic]

great work on the detail guys!
you really know how to do the grey-brownish style of the low class units to have it look realistically !

[fomalhaut]

wow! i prefer my units like this than the almost plasticy look of the Generals and Officers, i just don't feel for them as much as for this dude who got pulled from his farm :P but seriously that is some really nice detail, muuuch better than vanilla mtw

[Tux]

I hope this peak was better than the Sweboz archer.

[fightermedic]

no.. sorry you will have to post another one

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Beautiful detail on the tunic. You can see individual stitching running through. This is simply a marvelous job!

[anubis88]

That guy looks depressed because he's a lousy dressed archer in poor weather on a never ending campaign... He looks almost real :)

[fomalhaut]

That guy looks depressed because he's a lousy dressed archer in poor weather on a never ending campaign... He looks almost real :)

yeah!!

i also hope the fancy dressed generals and officers do have some scuffs and such on their armor, they looked straight from the cleaners in the previews:P

[Ibrahim]

That guy looks depressed because he's a lousy dressed archer in poor weather on a never ending campaign... He looks almost real :)

in other words, he looks like a guy who realizes he's a loogie....

[XSamatan]

i also hope the fancy dressed generals and officers do have some scuffs and such on their armor, they looked straight from the cleaners in the previews:P

Well, then you'll have to look closer ;)
There are battlemarks, e.g. on shields....

[fomalhaut]

i did! the Roman officer certainly looks perfect though, but i'm just nitpicking. the work is really good when the criticisms are aimed at the amount of dirt or scuffs on the armor.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Wait - that worked? Let's be a little more ambitious this time...

Give us a useful, truthful, unambiguous piece of information pertinent to undisclosed new features made possible by the M2TW engine.

Muwahahahaha....

We fix the lookup table associated with the unit descriptions. If you know your total war history, you might appreciate the following. Assuming you have M2TW you can see this one for yourself: use the M2TW unpacker and then examine the contents of data/text/export_units.txt in a hexeditor. You will find that at the end it contains a series of keys which correspond to the description keys needed for Vanilla RTW 1.0 to function. The number of keys divided by 3 (the description format stipulates 3 items for each unit) gives you the number of units in RTW Vanilla: 265.

[Populus Romanus]

We fix the lookup table associated with the unit descriptions. If you know your total war history, you might appreciate the following. Assuming you have M2TW you can see this one for yourself: use the M2TW unpacker and then examine the contents of data/text/export_units.txt in a hexeditor. You will find that at the end it contains a series of keys which correspond to the description keys needed for Vanilla RTW 1.0 to function. The number of keys divided by 3 (the description format stipulates 3 items for each unit) gives you the number of units in RTW Vanilla: 265.

Sweet!


How about: an unambiguous answer to the question; " what is one new undisclosed unit that will be in EbII from a yet undisclosed new faction (I am not asking for the name of the faction)?

[bobbin]

A horseman.