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Originally Posted by DeathFinger

Pigs would be enough

Or just release some sauropods and the things will lose their concentration. They would be more of a danger to the army that is deploying them because it sees soldiers as sausages and steaks. That might explain why they were never used in history...

Originally Posted by rickinator9

That might explain why they were never used in history...

Originally Posted by rickinator9

Or just release some sauropods and the things will lose their concentration. They would be more of a danger to the army that is deploying them because it sees soldiers as sausages and steaks. That might explain why they were never used in history...

historically their main problem was that you couldn´t have cavalry if you used those babies and if we consider that todays closest living relative to those beauty´s are the chicken then their original place of domestication south east asia doesn´t show up in our map wich brings in more problems in explaining and portraying the enviroment in wich they ended up being domesticated originally, most archeological evidences show that at the start they consumed only 1 virgin every 2 weeks per animal until people started to feed them with pigs and other mamals wich lead to an increase in their methabolic rate and their numbers increased dramatically wich caused demographic problems due to the competition for food most empires that used them where considered invincible but fell down due to internal problems because everytime there was a draught those babies revolted and started eating the peasents wich lead to popular outcry against the excessive budget of the army required to mantain those special units wich where inefective in amphibious attacks or against simple stakes in the ground

in many ways and in comparison with todays civilizations they could be considered the atom bomb of their day since the creation costs too much resources and once you use them you´ll be doomed in the short medium term so yes they look nice but their priçe goes far beyond their recruitment cost (/stupidity)

Originally Posted by DeathFinger

Pigs would be enough

EB isn't about balance its about showing off everyone's flamboyant face masks.

oh God, what have I unleashed?

what started as a sardonic remark, has escalated to a small meme!

EDIT: you know what, we might as well give it an EB-esque name, since the damage is done...

Tarbosauroi kataphraktoi maybe?

EDIT2: so any more news from the Twitter page?

More news :)

Baktrian Family reworked. A hard one btw (no sources = full pain) - DeathFinger

No sources means they will be invisible. An extra challenge for the Baktrian player: finding his ninja FMs...

I read "Thundering Zeus" few months back and was really amazed by how the team even managed to have a baktrian faction :P

Great work DeathFinger! ^^

Finally some news about one of my favorite factions! Thanks devs

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

oh God, what have I unleashed?

what started as a sardonic remark, has escalated to a small meme!

EDIT: you know what, we might as well give it an EB-esque name, since the damage is done...

Tarbosauroi kataphraktoi maybe?

EDIT2: so any more news from the Twitter page?

I was trying to resist suggesting that the Ptolemaioi might use native Spinosaurus aegypticus. And the Bartixian terrorzorz. Oh yes I was.

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

oh God, what have I unleashed?

what started as a sardonic remark, has escalated to a small meme!

EDIT: you know what, we might as well give it an EB-esque name, since the damage is done...

Tarbosauroi kataphraktoi maybe?

EDIT2: so any more news from the Twitter page?

It would be fun if the devs would actually put a Tarbosaur in a far corner of the map, just for laughs

"This is going to be an easy battle"
"Holy mother of god, what the hell is that?"
"Noooooooooooooo!" as his whole army is now fossile food

Originally Posted by rickinator9

It would be fun if the devs would actually put a Tarbosaur in a far corner of the map, just for laughs

"This is going to be an easy battle"
"Holy mother of god, what the hell is that?"
"Noooooooooooooo!" as his whole army is now fossile food

you mean like the 1st time i arrived in india and in meroe/axum just to find out those assholes had paquiderm cabs ?

Originally Posted by athanaric

No sources means they will be invisible. An extra challenge for the Baktrian player: finding his ninja FMs...

I think it only means that the historical sources on bactrian rulers are very limited, so that research is hard.

EDIT: If you were only joking, please let me get away with it. I'm a German, we don't know anything 'bout humor...

Originally Posted by moonburn

you mean like the 1st time i arrived in india and in meroe/axum just to find out those assholes had paquiderm cabs ?

What are paquiderm cabs?

Originally Posted by rickinator9

What are paquiderm cabs?

pachyderm cabs would be the correct spelling. i.e., he is referring to Elephants.

Originally Posted by moonburn

you mean like the 1st time i arrived in india and in meroe/axum just to find out those assholes had paquiderm cabs ?

Hahaha! Oh man that was outstanding, I laughed. Good stuff.

From twitter :)

A "sfn" has been modelled by True Leveller. -Moros

BTW. What is "sfn" ?

sfn = special force nomad

Originally Posted by maskoolin

sfn = special force nomad

Tarbosaurus, we meet again

Oh you...

It's related to the word Safinah, hint, hint.

He means Kashti.

Originally Posted by Moros

It's related to the word Safinah, hint, hint.

oh, that's an easy one: it's a sabaean/other possible Arabian faction's naval units.

More news from twitter

That actually happened, he's not just pulling your leg ... --Tellos.

and

A few days back I loaded up every in-game faction on the campaign map for a quick check. Very cool! - Kull

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

oh, that's an easy one: it's a sabaean/other possible Arabian faction's naval units.

I was waiting for you to spoil the beans. :)

Originally Posted by Moros

I was waiting for you to spoil the beans. :)

Hey I spilled them first. Though apparently nobody understood my translation of the word :(

Hush, hush poopsikins, here have biscuit.

Originally Posted by athanaric

Hey I spilled them first. Though apparently nobody understood my translation of the word :(

well, kashti is not immediately obvious, outside wherever on Earth the language it is from.

Finished most of the strat map ship icons and a unit info card for the hepteres: http://bit.ly/wssGyS ~Tux

I'm glad to see you Tux :) God work as always. I like Yours sneak peaks :)

With the sails it's so lovely ^^