Twitter discussion

[Brennus]

On what grounds were the family trees created? I assume you had a lot of leeway.

It varies from faction to faction. For the Boii we have historically attested individuals who were living at that time and so we made use of these. In the case of others "Celtic" we worked on the idea, which is current in archaeolohical theory, that such societies owed to their ethonym to a semi-mythical founder. So for example the Averni (as far as I remember) start off with Aruernos as their faction leader.

But yes, much of it is educated fantasy when it comes to creating family trees. Although saying that, even if you were to play a game in EBII which was historically accurate to the nth degree, it is unlikely that, invading Gaul in 58BC, you would find the Aedui being led by Dumnorix and Diviciacus etc.

[Hank90]

Did you guys use BIATEC coins (Bratislava type) inscriptions for Boii family names? They were made from around 70 BC to cca 44 BC (until Burebista).
Some inscriptions: BIATEC, FARIARIX, EVOIURIX, AINORIX (or armorix), BUSSUMARUS, IANTUMARUS, COBROVOMARUS, COVIOMARUS,

[Brennus]

Thank you for reminding us of these. Mention has been made to them in some of the Boii descriptions, but I don't think we thought to use the names from them.

[moonburn]

the chronology in the biatec coins are off by over 200 years anyway

i still think that barbarian family trees should be based more on tribal elections taking place beteween the strong families than in an actual real life barbarian family anyway

ofc i´m the dude who defended that influential people should be put as retinues on councils and stuff and when the time came we just grabbed the retinue and add it to an existing military unit (this would ofc lead to the creation of a 3rd tier in cities known as the council and depending on the buildings and ofc the city size so would the size of the council would be)

and ofc the hability to put zenus the mule leading a classical hoplite army or putting a clerk leading a militia group (ok so some caps would have to be put in to prevent a geomancer from taking control and leading a noble cavlary unit ... )

but this sistem would represent rome far better and many other societies like the greeks or kart hadast altough not monarchies like the diadochi

[LusitanianWolf]

I haven't been much around the forums latelly but I still check the EB twitter acount (only reason I have twitter) more than once a day and I'm very excited with the progress! Thank you so much for your incredible efforts!

[Dargaron]

Looking at the mini-map in Moros' excellent South Arabia screenshots, I notice that the Sauromatae's borders extend all the way to the top of the map. Does this mean the northern steppe/forest zone is no longer Eremos?

[Kull]

Looking at the mini-map in Moros' excellent South Arabia screenshots, I notice that the Sauromatae's borders extend all the way to the top of the map. Does this mean the northern steppe/forest zone is no longer Eremos?

That is correct.

[Tux]

Another round of fan requests, so everyone please post what you would like to see that has or hasn't been previewed yet.
Aftwerwards we will show the most common requests in the sneak peek section.

[QuintusSertorius]

I'd like to see something of Pergamon or Kimmeros Bosporos. A unit, an agent, a settlement, anything at all.