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[Brennus]

Or just dying in the case of some of the (other) team members.

EDIT: It has just been brought to my attention that the above comment may be misinterpreted. I would like to stress that no team members are dying. Some are just exhausted.

[Ailfertes]

Working on figuring out a way to increase the speed at which we add settlements to EBII - Kull

Hunting bugs - bovi

Good!

[LusitanianWolf]

Or just dying in the case of some of the (other) team members.

EDIT: It has just been brought to my attention that the above comment may be misinterpreted. I would like to stress that no team members are dying. Some are just exhausted.

And we are much thankfull for the effort!
But please don't overstrain yourselves too much, we need or EB team members alive and well!

Hunting bugs - bovi

The smell - worse than any camel - is the enemy! Fear has un-manned them! Fear of you, O brave warriors, fear of you!

[V.T. Marvin]

After all, after countless hours spent on the project, they must dying to show us the results.

We are - and not without great trepidation...

[Ailfertes]

Hunting bugs - bovi

The smell - worse than any camel - is the enemy! Fear has un-manned them! Fear of you, O brave warriors, fear of you!

So long as the bugs are not hunting them...

[Maeran]

Herodotos' giant gold digging ants

[Ailfertes]

Testing unit behaviour. -Moros

Working on adding new settlement models with bovi, V.T. Marvin and Moros. Much recent success - Kull

Finished the Etruscan Hoplites. Small sneak peek - nazgool pic.twitter.com/gBKZguXsG7

Working on Celtic governments with V.T. Marvin - Brennus

Work continues!

[Ailfertes]

Reconstructing Etruscan linguistics with paullus - Arjos

Fixing errors with Tux - V.T. Marvin

Good luck!

[Tux]

I'm positive the first roster will be amazing, and we'll just have to have some patience waiting for these guys:
(I don't like chariots anyway )

Are you sure about that?

[RAWROMNOM]

My jaw just broke my desk.

[LusitanianWolf]

Are you sure about that?

Unlike Ailfertes I do love chariots and I´m totally impressed! :
Though I don´t have the guts to play as Arche Seleukia I do hope to get my hands on these beauties playing as Pontos! Unless Pontos gets different chariots thats is! Anyway, I will surelly use them in Custom Battles and maybe multiplayer!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And the Santa Claus reindeers are also uber cool

PS: Btw what I really really really don´t like is Cataphracts! :P

[Ailfertes]

PS: Btw what I really really really don´t like is Cataphracts! :P

Nice one

They do look astounding! It's rather a 'philosophical' issue I have with them, though I'm prepared to reconsider. What are the downturned spikes for?

[Tux]

PS: Btw what I really really really don´t like is Cataphracts! :P

Hehe, nice try. :P

Nice one

They do look astounding! It's rather a 'philosophical' issue I have with them, though I'm prepared to reconsider. What are the downturned spikes for?

To cut anything that might get under the chariot. The same goes with the middle blade.

[Stath's]

Awesomenes!!! I was waiting nothing less:D

[Ailfertes]

Thanks to V.T. Marvin for adding the new, historically accurate Aedui temple descriptions. Let us all bow down to Borvos - Brennus

New pictures showing the work in progress being done on Seleukid scythed chariots. Check it out at https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053563225 … - Tux

An infinite loop ensues.

Finished work on the Deuotegos Taranoi; the special temple for the Aedui dedicated to the god Taranos - Brennus

Scythed chariots finished - Tux

So I guess first release after all!

[Ibrahim]

I just hope that soon, I can simulate demolition derbies with the scythed chariots, as I already do in EB 1.2!

[Ailfertes]

Improving grass and soil textures for battle map - Tux

New images showing the improved soil and grass textures Tux has been working on; https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053563489 …

Also links to this forum. The terrain looks nice by the way, and so do the units fighting on it.

[moonburn]

Are you sure about that?

sometimes when i´m reading and browsing i get the impression that we as men haven´t evolved that much i bet this was the vehicule of some 40 year old who was begining to have grey hair or bold spots and decided to impress the ladies and the younger kids by pretending he is still a youngester (northern italy is filled with such dudes driving around on their ferrari´s but it still beats going to the public pool and watching these geezers with excessive bodyhair proeminet belly´s in their speedos it traumatizes you 1st the image and then the beautifull girl next to him while you are there with your old girlfriend who kind of has depreciated from the time you got her and from a beatifull teenage girl she became a woman with a fat ass some kind of belly flacid that you can´t drop cause she as some wierd pictures of you and you got acostumed to her )

[Maeran]

No, I never see anyone drive ferraris into the pool.

[Ailfertes]

Much news in the last 24 hours. Seems like the closed testing phase is creeping closer. For the management of the testers I propose solitary confinement with forced caffeine injections.

A big thank you to sirtim for another solid Iberian province description. This time round Asturia - Brennus

Adding yet more new soil, grass and rock textures to EBII. Only two more climate regions to go - Tux

Discussing how to manage our beta testers when we recruit them - bovi

Working with Kull on a plan to defeat the CTDs which occur in siege battles - V.T. Marvin

[moonburn]

beta testing maybe it´s time to get the kingdoms expansion pack

[HFox]

Working with Kull on a plan to defeat the CTDs which occur in siege battles - V.T. Marvin

Outflank then and finish them off with your cavalry

[Ailfertes]

Editing Celtiberian temple descriptions so they can be added to the build. - Brennus

Too long?

New, improved sky textures added, thanks to Hereje at Total War Center for permission to use his work - Tux

Reviewing the province descriptions our fans have kindly written for us. Thank you for all your support! - Arjos

The porting of DBM settlements is coming along nicely. Now at 75% complete (40 of 53!) - Kull

De Bello Mundi? Are you using some of their buildings or the settlement outlines, or... ?

[Tux]

De Bello Mundi? Are you using some of their buildings or the settlement outlines, or... ?

Some of both.

[BroskiDerpman]

Some of both.

Is it mainly the Hellenistic and Roman ones you guys are porting?

[Kull]

Is it mainly the Hellenistic and Roman ones you guys are porting?

To be clear, we are porting the settlements (huge props to Rhaymo for allowing it and makanyane & Wild dog for technical advice and tool upgrades), and that is for EVERY EB2 culture (where we don't have our own, of course). The specialized buildings that tie back to EDB will come later. For now the goal is to have no Medieval-looking settlements at ANY level of your EB2 cities.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

To be clear, we are porting the settlements (huge props to Rhaymo for allowing it and makanyane & Wild dog for technical advice and tool upgrades), and that is for EVERY EB2 culture (where we don't have our own, of course). The specialized buildings that tie back to EDB will come later. For now the goal is to have no Medieval-looking settlements at ANY level of your EB2 cities.

That is really awesome and personally unexpected. I always figured that buildings would be one of the last things dealt with. Glad to see mod developers working together towards more rewarding experiences for the fans.

[BroskiDerpman]

To be clear, we are porting the settlements (huge props to Rhaymo for allowing it and makanyane & Wild dog for technical advice and tool upgrades), and that is for EVERY EB2 culture (where we don't have our own, of course). The specialized buildings that tie back to EDB will come later. For now the goal is to have no Medieval-looking settlements at ANY level of your EB2 cities.

Hip hip huzzah!

[LusitanianWolf]

EBII NEEDS YOU: If any fans of Europa Barbarorum have experience with 3D modelling, we would love to hear from you. - the EB Team

Re-working Camillian Haststi as the current model has been deemed unsatisfactory by EBII standards -nazgool

Why was it deemed unsatisfatory?

A big thank you to RAWROMNOM for his industrious efforts helping us - The EB Team

Concepting Celtic strat map characters. Our Gallic assassin is likely to be the only unit in EBII equipped with a winesack - Brennus

A teaser of the new vegetation effects. An army of Pahlava hunt down a Ptolemaio force at a desert oasis: pic.twitter.com/x81D9qLwJv

Gorgeous! The other vegetation screens in the sneak peaks topic are also impressive! I just hope that my ancient laptop will be hable to handle it.
And ouch, Pahlavan archer-axemen, that's a whole new level of nastyness!

[Ailfertes]

The sky is nice as well!