April SCREENSHOT COMPETITION

[Duguntz]

Yeah guys, everybody wanted it, but nobody made a move, so here is the thread of the month!!! Welcome to all screenshot, demotivator, Motivator, may the niciest win the balloon of April!

Rules
-One submission per person per month
-Must be from EB
-No picture editting for this month's competition
-Only slight cropping will be allowed (small pictures are ok, just not extreme cropping)
-Please keep the dimensions to a size that fits in the forum screen (maximum of 1024ish)
-Must obey forum rules

Suggestions
-Turn off banners
-Turn off arrows and/or deselect your units
-Make sure the cursor, "Paused", and map border aren't showing
-Crop out the UI (though too much cropping may get your pic disqualified)
-No Elephants

Limit for subscription of your screenshot : 23 april

[WinsingtonIII]

Nice, dude, good job taking the initiative. I'll look around my shots and see what's sitting around.

Just a suggestion though, cropping is your friend. A pic can be great but still look kind of strange because the UI and the minimap are sitting there. I would suggest using Gimp to edit your shots.

[Duguntz]

Welcome, it's my pleasure to open that thread, as it's always nice to see screenshots from others! and thanks for the advise, with GIMP, I didn't figured out how it's work yet, but eee, i posted only 4 pictures in my life on the forum (from wich the 3 above!) so, I still have to learn ;)

Looking foward to see your screenies!

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Yeah nice of you to take the initiative to start this thread, I thank thee.

Here's mine, with the brave son of Seleukeia alone charging the ranks of the Persian archers:

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THIS IS SELEUKEIA!

Since we can only post one picture per month I'll have save the other for next month...

[Duguntz]

the pic with the soldier alone charging those archer is really nice! good job! The other as well!

[Finn MacCumhail]

I was looking forward for it. Thanks.

Well, I couldn't choose only one pic but I see everyone post whatever number they like. It's good. More impressions.
Sorry but the caption has only one and the first pic

Unequal duel

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EDIT: if for some reason only one pic might take part in competition, then let it be the first "unequal duel" only.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

the pic with the soldier alone charging those archer is really nice! good job! The other as well!

Thanks!

[WinsingtonIII]

Welcome, it's my pleasure to open that thread, as it's always nice to see screenshots from others! and thanks for the advise, with GIMP, I didn't figured out how it's work yet, but eee, i posted only 4 pictures in my life on the forum (from wich the 3 above!) so, I still have to learn ;)

Looking foward to see your screenies!

What trouble did you have with Gimp?

Another minor suggestion, but if this is a competition, shouldn't everyone be limited to one screenshot? If everyone is posting 5 or 6 shots, pretty soon we're going to have to be choosing between 100+ pics.

[Unintended BM]

I just use paint for mine, takes like a minute and a half.

Also, I agree, everyone should choose one of their pictures posted to enter.

I'll have to get some good pictures during my Iberian conquest.

[Duguntz]

Yeah! I started the thread, but i never participated to any screenshot contest! if someone is used, please, share the rules with us! if we must pick only one pic, it's fine with me! but let's establish a number of rules! ideas?

[WinsingtonIII]

@Duguntz

Here are the rules from last May's competition, perhaps they should go in your original post:

Rules
-One submission per person per month
-Must be from EB
-No picture editting for this month's competition
-Only slight cropping will be allowed (small pictures are ok, just not extreme cropping)
-Please keep the dimensions to a size that fits in the forum screen (maximum of 1024ish)
-Must obey forum rules

Suggestions
-Turn off banners
-Turn off arrows and/or deselect your units
-Make sure the cursor, "Paused", and map border aren't showing
-Crop out the UI (though too much cropping may get your pic disqualified)
-No Elephants

The reason for no elephants is because apparently a shot with elephants won three months in a row, so people were worried that everyone was going to just start taking pictures of elephants. They just had no elephants as a suggestion instead of a rule, but I think it could be either.

For cropping, I would say allow any cropping that is done to get rid of the UI, etc, but over-the-top cropping that focuses on only one or two men in a big picture is too much.

[Jebivjetar]

Nice pics, guys! Especially I like the one showing brave sons of Carthage, sacred band infantry fighting some barbarian tribe.


Mine is called: Breaking the agema.

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[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Nice one Jeb!

[Jebivjetar]

Thank you, Arthy, my Romaioktonoi brother! :D

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Thank you, Arthy, my Romaioktonoi brother! :D

OT (sorry folks )

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I wonder what that wacky ptolemaoi soldier is looking at...

[Poulp']

Shirtlessness and Nudity Solving Their Problems

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I've found an alternative title, all thanks goes to:

Generally shirtlessness and nudity solve all problems in EB.

[SwissBarbar]

Persian wars

[Brennus]

Thats pretty epic looking.

[mlc82]

Big battle between the Sweboz (me) and either the Aedui or Arverni.

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[The Celtic Viking]

That's Aedui. Nice picture, too.

Anyway, I will resubmit an old one of mine, because I don't have any other and I think it deserves another shot. (Plus, I'd have to kick Celtic Punk's ass in self defence if I didn't. )

Mel Gibson:

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[Arthur, king of the Britons]

That's Aedui. Nice picture, too.

Anyway, I will resubmit an old one of mine, because I don't have any other and I think it deserves another shot. (Plus, I'd have to kick Celtic Punk's ass in self defence if I didn't. )

Mel Gibson:

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Haha awesome!

[Ca Putt]

@Arthur, king of the Britons: Now that's what I call a Standard bearer ! I guess you have my vote :)

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

@Arthur, king of the Britons: Now that's what I call a Standard bearer ! I guess you have my vote :)

Wow, thanks! :D

[Paltmull]

Celtic Viking's picture is kind of epic :O

Here's mine anyway: "morning rush-hour in gaul" (try to spot the italian tourists ;P)

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EDIT: For some reason the image got all blurry when I uploaded it to Photobucket. It's supposed to look better. :/
EDIT2: Uploaded it to Imageshack instead. Much better quality now.

[Famine0]

How do you remove the "paused" button? Or do you wait for just the right moment?
Also, I downloaded fraps and my UI changed... Now the map is in the top right corner and everytime I take a screenshot I have to crop out the top too. How do you guys take screens?

[Hooahguy]

A view of Southern Ireland

[A Nerd]

Nice pictures! I prefer 'This is Seleukia' thus far, though I prefer to play with out grass in my campaigns!

[Jebivjetar]

How do you remove the "paused" button? Or do you wait for just the right moment?
Also, I downloaded fraps and my UI changed... Now the map is in the top right corner and everytime I take a screenshot I have to crop out the top too. How do you guys take screens?

1) You can't remove pause button.
2) Why use fraps for screenshots? Just press the "Print Screen" button and you can find your images in your Rtw/Tgas folder :)

[Paltmull]

2) Why use fraps for screenshots? Just press the "Print Screen" button [...]

If you have anti-aliasing enabled your screenshots will be all black when using "print screen", IIRC.

How do you remove the "paused" button? Or do you wait for just the right moment?
Also, I downloaded fraps and my UI changed... Now the map is in the top right corner and everytime I take a screenshot I have to crop out the top too. How do you guys take screens?

If you - in-battle - press F1, a window will appear which lets you choose keyboard style setup. Select "FPS style setup"; and then you can toggle the radar visibility with F5 and the unit cards with F6. Hope that will help :)

[Subotan]

As I recall, old rules were:

No excessive cropping
One submission per member
No previous entries allowed

So if you have submitted more than one, please select the one which you wish to use in the contest. I presume that there is a deadline that all entries must be submitted by in preparation for the poll vote?

Anyway here's my submission, from way back when I had an AAR, lol.



Right click and press "view image" to see it in it's correct resolution