Quote Originally Posted by Blxz View Post
There are a whole bunch of changes in the MTW2 game engine that the team wants to take advantage of. Most recent example is with normadic factions and the whole city/castle settlement thingy. So whether its possible or not to just port it over the EB team has decided not to be like CA and make an almost exact copy of their game, but to instead recreate it.
Yes, the whole point of EBII is to recreate EB1 in all possible aspects and not just porting the models, skins, traits, texts, etc, to the new engine. We recognize that this is a huge task, but we work everyday on it.