Twitter discussion

[bobbin]

not to mention he has dark body hairs and looks ugly like hell :\ i know a few dudes that look like that dude and they´re all latins or greeks not germans

I'd like to see your proof that Germans can't be ugly or dark haired?

[Tux]

I'd like to see your proof that Germans can't be ugly or dark haired?

Yeah, didn't knew Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't Deutsch.

[fightermedic]

Yeah, didn't knew Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't Deutsch.

well since he is in fact a Austrian guy i wouldn't be too suprised if there would be running a good part of eastern european blood in his veins ;)
just wild speculation from my side of course :D
people living in germany of course ALL are (and allways have been) fair and blue eyed.. couldn't imagine it any other way :P (for those that didn't notice: beware! sarcasm!)

[fomalhaut]

weird how hitliers propaganda can still affect our perceptions of an entire people who live in the boundaries of a state :P

[moonburn]

well since he is in fact a Austrian guy i wouldn't be too suprised if there would be running a good part of eastern european blood in his veins ;)
just wild speculation from my side of course :D
people living in germany of course ALL are (and allways have been) fair and blue eyed.. couldn't imagine it any other way :P (for those that didn't notice: beware! sarcasm!)

it´s almost as absurd as calling bayern part of deutschland they should be called upper austria :\

anyway i was just making a remark i noticed the hairknot but the fact that today germans have like everyone else intermingled with others and no longer have per se those phisical caractheristics doesn´t mean that in the past such "interminglings" where normal and to find someone wich "southern" caractheristics in a sweboz warband seems wierd to me also tux what is it written in that modern axe :?

[Ca Putt]

well not every germanic was blond(or red haired) it was just much more common amung Germanics(and celts) than romans and greeks to have blond or red hair, which explains why "we" were often discribed as blond.

tho I found a different "wrong" detail. As EB stands for Historical accuracy I think you should refrain from giveing a suebi unit a swedish chainsaw, Dolmar would be the logical choice. ;)

[stratigos vasilios]

A clubman model got finished. ~Tux

Hopefully not with a chainsaw...

[Tux]

tho I found a different "wrong" detail. As EB stands for Historical accuracy I think you should refrain from giveing a suebi unit a swedish chainsaw, Dolmar would be the logical choice. ;)

Damn and I hoped mirroring the text would hide that...

Hopefully not with a chainsaw...

As you wish, something even better:

[stratigos vasilios]

As you wish, something even better:

LOL! Outstanding from you Alin.

[LusitanianWolf]

Damn and I hoped mirroring the text would hide that...


As you wish, something even better:

Photon Man on EB? How will the e=mc2 trooper look? Gaesatae with a FGM-148 Javelin? XD

[Gustave]

Photon Man on EB? How will the e=mc2 trooper look? Gaesatae with a FGM-148 Javelin? XD

I think he's the big daddy

[LusitanianWolf]

I think he's the big daddy

I gess youre right

[athanaric]

it´s almost as absurd as calling bayern part of deutschland they should be called upper austria :\

Austria is only a part of Germany where they speak a funny dialect. Similarly, the Czech want to hide the fact that they're actually Germans by speaking an obscure language.

anyway i was just making a remark i noticed the hairknot but the fact that today germans have like everyone else intermingled with others and no longer have per se those phisical caractheristics doesn´t mean that in the past such "interminglings" where normal and to find someone wich "southern" caractheristics in a sweboz warband seems wierd to me also tux what is it written in that modern axe :?

Intermingling is as old as humanity itself. Some basic traits and features do exist though and have probably existed since Homo sapiens first settled this part of the world. For example, Northern Germans are not only fairer (by colour, I mean) on average than Southerners, but also tend to have different faces. Southern Germans have a greater variety of colours ranging from light blonde to black-haired types, even darker skin. They can resemble pretty much any ethnic group from Scandinavia to Spain to Afghanistan. By contrast, most Northerners look a lot like Scandinavians. I'm fairly certain that these characteristics, though perhaps a little less extreme back in EB's timeframe, predate the modern age.
Also, Schwarzenegger IMO displays a typical look of Alpine/Southern German types.

[Tanit]

Love the AOE jokes.

[athanaric]

Will you be able to replicate the capybara cannon from AoE 3, too?

[Kuningaz]

Austria is only a part of Germany where they speak a funny dialect. Similarly, the Czech want to hide the fact that they're actually Germans by speaking an obscure language.

I hope you're kidding.

[fomalhaut]

so i've been reading the Steles all day and i just realized that i can barely contain my excitement for EBII anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGH

and the new factions, i think they are so swell.

Massilya (you can tell in EBI that this must have been on the tipping point of being a faction. so much work in the regional units)
Boii (yayayay eastern celts)
Lugiones (more germanics, yessss)
Bosphoron Kingdom (wowzers! such an interesting faction)
Pergamon (another successor is great, i mean it!)
am i missing anyone?
which faction are yall most excited for? i want to play the Bosphoron Kingdom or Boii the most

[LusitanianWolf]

Lugiones and Boii! But every other faction seems so interesting that only EB1 can keep me away from madness! I hope NOM gets released soon to ease a bit the pain!

[Populus Romanus]

I knew it! You are not actually making EBII at all. This is one giant hoax while you make minigun models!

[LusitanianWolf]

Finished several unit skins - Gustave

[stratigos vasilios]

am i missing anyone?

Pritanoi? I'm pretty keen on them. I'm not sure whether I'm more keen on playing immediately or just reading all the info associated with buildings/wonders/units/etc.

[fomalhaut]

I wouldn't consider Pritanoi new, they are replacing Casse. so new in content but are not taking up one of the coveted slots. Just like whatever is replacing (?) the Koinon Hellenon wouldn't really be considered a new faction.

[Blxz]

I wouldn't consider Pritanoi new, they are replacing Casse. so new in content but are not taking up one of the coveted slots. Just like whatever is replacing (?) the Koinon Hellenon wouldn't really be considered a new faction.

New in content is new enough for me. I even think I'll play one of the original factions first. Seriously, the new content for the romans looks sexy and I am sure there will be similar stuff for everyone else. Virtually everything is 'new' by this point.

[TheLastDays]

Yeah and what they put in for the Pritanoi is basically a new faction, all they seem to have in common with the Casse is that they're located on the British Isles

[Arjos]

Not pertinent sorry, but I can't stop laughing when I look at Tux's new signature XD

[LusitanianWolf]

Not pertinent sorry, but I can't stop laughing when I look at Tux's new signature XD

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[XSamatan]

He deserves that!

[moonburn]

hey don´t diss hairstylists some of those girls are very atractive

as for the factions massilia won´t be a new faction however there might be the syracusans (like a 7% chance and everytime moros says no it drops another percentual point) and a syracusan faction is at least militarly viable and if they appear then their victory conditions include massilia (probably or hopefully a mission to reconquer alalia from the dirty poeni ) emporion arsé and the control of the western mediterraenean islands and the defence of magna graecia

a faction that hasn´t been yeat introduced are the arevaci wich are like 85% almost certain and then there´s the illergetes wich have even less chances then the syracusans

there´s been talks of a belgic or chatti faction showing up since the pritanoi start a bit furthern north and the chanel beteween france and great britain seems too empty so alow of fans are demanding more collour around that area (chances are anyone guess i atm say 50% )

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

hey don´t diss hairstylists some of those girls are very atractive

as for the factions massilia won´t be a new faction however there might be the syracusans (like a 7% chance and everytime moros says no it drops another percentual point) and a syracusan faction is at least militarly viable and if they appear then their victory conditions include massilia (probably or hopefully a mission to reconquer alalia from the dirty poeni ) emporion arsé and the control of the western mediterraenean islands and the defence of magna graecia

a faction that hasn´t been yeat introduced are the arevaci wich are like 85% almost certain and then there´s the illergetes wich have even less chances then the syracusans

there´s been talks of a belgic or chatti faction showing up since the pritanoi start a bit furthern north and the chanel beteween france and great britain seems too empty so alow of fans are demanding more collour around that area (chances are anyone guess i atm say 50% )

I believe he refers the the Massilyian Numidians, not the Massilian Greeks.

[nazgool]

Two more tweets

Finished several unit skins - Gustave

and

Finished two more hairy unit models, well one was less hairy the egyptian Machimoi. ~Tux