Preview: The Boii

[Reno Melitensis]

A great preview once again, well done EB team.

Cheers.

[fraoula]

Thank you so much for this one.

[Lusitani]

YEAH!!!! More roman head hunters!!!!
But... what is the celtic empire referred in the text? :P

V.

[Horatius Flaccus]

Great preview! Love the 3 evolution stages.

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But am I the only one who doesn't get the tool working?

EDIT: The tool is now working and it's awsome!

[WinsingtonIII]

Wow! You guys weren't lying when you said this was a big preview, I haven't even watched the video or used the 3D tool yet and it's taken me over a half an hour to go through everything!

It's overwhelmingly awesome though, I really like the helmets on the late Argoi especially.

Keep up the great work!

[HunGeneral]

Now this is really a large preview... I still have the tool an the video to view... If I would have to find a word for ll of this then it would be: AWESOME or even better: FANTASTIC!!!

[bobbin]

Glad to see this all come together. It's all amazing stuff!

[J.R.M]

OMG! Awesome, fantastic, incredible! There´re no words in English to describe this, so i´ll search in spanish... well maybe i should just write a chilenism:
La raja CTM!! la kago...
Please dont try to search what it means. xD
Thx very very very much EB team.

[-Praetor-]

@J.R.M.: Jaaaaaajajajajaja, si se cachó, la mala cuea que tenís es que justo tienes un chileno dentro del equipo de EB-II. Pero estoy de acuerdo, el mod es la cagá. :P

@Phalanx300: Everything you see is WIP. Particularly, the name and the starting provinces are being currently revised, so both will most probably change in the near future.

[Bucefalo]

There aren´t words even in spanish to describe this masterpiece, so i will make a comparison: After porn this is the best thing on the internet

I am deeply impressed, specially with the 3D tool: man those units looks so much more alive! You feel almost as if you had the game already! A world of difference from the screenshots without doubt, so i greatly appreciate the effort put into such program.

I almost can´t criticize anything, but i should point at some things to improve, in my mind it would be perhaps the quiver of the archers. They are probably WIP still, but they seem like they are going to fall to the land nearby, as if they needed more tieing to the sash? Very minor thing thought.

Other thing which i was wondering is that you mention in the preview that the Boii nobles, the Argoi unit, use both spears and swords. It seems from the screens that you plan to have them ingame use both weapons as well. I say this because as far as i know in M2TW if you give a foot unit both spears and swords (basically 2 melee weapons, one primary and one secondary) they will act buggy and do not use their spears or swords when ordered, but randomly changing between them. This can be pretty bad for the player because it is quite hard to have them use spears agaisnt cavalry, and swords agaisnt infantry. I imagine that for the ai would be even worse. So my question is, do you plan for the Argoi to use 2 melee weapons (spear and sword)? and if so, do you have any plan to address this issue of having no control over which weapon use the unit?

Ok i think i´ve written enough... i guess i will have to watch the video now, ohh the hype. Thanks EB team for another awesome preview, you´re the best

[Belisarius II]

My god, the Romans may actually have to fight for northern Italy!

[Tux]

But am I the only one who doesn't get the tool working?

Humm that's weird, the few members who tested it worked for them. I've also asked more people to do that.

Can you tell me if you have and which not of the following dll's in C:\WINDOWS\system32 path:

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'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\secur32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\glu32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ddraw.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\dciman32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntmarta.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\samlib.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\wldap32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\atioglxx.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2_32.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2help.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll'
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\mcd32.dll'

Some are of course present in any windows os and I'm unsure if the app. runs in other os than win xp.
I suggest using the compatibility option for that.

[Horatius Flaccus]

Never mind Tux, I figured it out, just had to update my drivers.

[Phalanx300]

An great previews again!

Looks like the Boii will be quite an trouble to beat seeing the huge land mass they start out with, beating Adui and Arverni combined.

Anyways some nice new units, the nobles do look great!

Edit: Perhaps when an new faction is announced it could show the minimap with all confirmed factions on it, to get an clearer view on things?

[Noble Wrath]

It was well worth the wait. The units beautiful (I really like the ''soft'' and ''earthen'' colours that units have in EB2), the faction intriguing, the effort to represent the social structure in game commendable.
If I may quote (and paraphrase) the words of Saruman to Frodo after his final defeat in the Shire: ''You have grown EB Team. Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise,and cruel".
There is only one thing I would ask from you. Please do not release the game before I finish university (sometime later this year) or I will never be able to finish it!

[Tellos Athenaios]

Some are of course present in any windows os and I'm unsure if the app. runs in other os than win xp.
I suggest using the compatibility option for that.

When I tested it, I ran it under Wine so I'd assume its fairly portable between Windows versions.

[Cartaphilus]

Awesome preview!!!
Congratulations for the team.

I will play the Boii first of all.

[oudysseos]

YEAH!!!! More roman head hunters!!!!
But... what is the celtic empire referred in the text? :P

V.

Really just a little poetic license- a reference to the Hallstatt homeland of all Celtic material culture that the Boii remained close to. 'Empire' is a bit of an exaggeration but sounds cool, and it's not like the Irish or Scots never embellish stories in the telling...

[Power2the1]

Really just a little poetic license- a reference to the Hallstatt homeland of all Celtic material culture that the Boii remained close to. 'Empire' is a bit of an exaggeration but sounds cool, and it's not like the Irish or Scots never embellish stories in the telling...

I forgot about that empire part. I was thinking it thought that it was the one that Ambikatos/Ambigatus/Ambicatus had

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Great job EB team!

[Lusitani]

Really just a little poetic license- a reference to the Hallstatt homeland of all Celtic material culture that the Boii remained close to. 'Empire' is a bit of an exaggeration but sounds cool, and it's not like the Irish or Scots never embellish stories in the telling...

I think it has to do with Guinness and whisky... lol.
How can anyone not accept that as an answer... lol
Cheers!

V.

[Maeran]

I've not looked at all the pics or the tool yet because my connection is having trouble with loading it all. Oh, how the EB gods taunt us. The video looks great- I especially love the jostling crush of the melee. And the officer/signifer's helmet :)

Is it me or do the units switch between two shield positions? A vertical shield (I'll call it 'closed') position, like we are used to in EB1 and a horizontal 'open' position. Do these mean anything (e.g. is the open position a more aggressive stance, while the closed one is defensive) or are they simply two equal options for the engine to choose from?

EDIT: Ah, missed that bit, bobbin.

[bobbin]

No, its just that the animations are not finished yet.

Disclaimer: The General/FM models and the animations (namely the shield positioning) are still WIP. In some places the video is "choppy" due to video-capturing problems.

Just one question. Is this the occultus faction that you gave to us to try and figure out which one it is? You know, after Bobbin found out about the Bosphoran Kingdom

I don't think it is, have a look for yourself.