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    Default June Screenshot Competition

    Let's reanimate these monthly competitions!
    Check the rules!

    The winner will get his winning screenshot made into a individual EB-signature.


    Rules
    -One submission per person per month
    -Must be from EB
    -No picture editing
    -Only slight cropping will be allowed (small pictures are ok, just not extreme cropping)
    -Must obey forum rules

    Suggestions
    -Turn off banners
    -Turn off arrows and/or de-select 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

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    My first small semi professional military force of the newly Independant Bactrian Kingdom, recruited from the Eastern fringes of my small Kingdom (i only have 3 cities, i'm taking it very very slow). They were sent south to apprehend a Syrian General sent to 'pressure' us back to Satrapy. I thought it was quite beautiful, especially the Buddhist wheel on the shields and the standard bearers. I was quite proud to see them marching, as they were my first army recruited for defense of the Kingdom.
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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Nice, one of these again. I'll see if I can find a submission tomorrow.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Nice! I'll post my submission a soon as I can.

    Why is "no elephants" under "Suggestions" btw?

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    I imagine he suggested no elephants because they seem to pop up numerous times in every screenshot thread. There's only so much you can do with an elephant screenshot, and it is almost always just an elephant sending guys flying. Yes, it looks cool, but we've all seen it a million times and it's not very original. It's kind of like a humongous explosion in a movie, yeah it looks cool but we don't really even enjoy it that much anymore, the novelty has worn off after 20-30 years of that kind of special effect being inserted everywhere. Same with elephants. After 3 years of elephant screenshots, let's see something else!
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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Im working on a historical event based screenshot.



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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Noob question now: How do you turn off faction banners?



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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    preferences.txt

    Or if you installed the trivial script there´s an option to do just that.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    For those of us with limited technical ability how do you do that?



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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Quote Originally Posted by CashMunny View Post
    I imagine he suggested no elephants because they seem to pop up numerous times in every screenshot thread. There's only so much you can do with an elephant screenshot, and it is almost always just an elephant sending guys flying. Yes, it looks cool, but we've all seen it a million times and it's not very original. It's kind of like a humongous explosion in a movie, yeah it looks cool but we don't really even enjoy it that much anymore, the novelty has worn off after 20-30 years of that kind of special effect being inserted everywhere. Same with elephants. After 3 years of elephant screenshots, let's see something else!
    Well, actually elephant pictures tend to win, which is why they're usually against the rules entirely. ^^

    Quote Originally Posted by Brennus View Post
    For those of us with limited technical ability how do you do that?
    Click the EB Configuration icon on your desktop, click "preferences", and deselect "show banners", or click the "EB Preferences" file in your "Rome -Total War" folder and deselect "show banners". I don't know how to do if you don't have Trivial Script installed though.
    Last edited by Paltmull; 06-05-2011 at 17:25.

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    ewwwwwwww i can't imagine playing with banners on, totally kills the immersion

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Stop chatting and start posting pics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by -Praetor- View Post
    Stop chatting and start posting pics!
    as it is friend, i am the only one to have posted something!

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Well, we can't have you winning for lack of competition, can we? Here's my entry, which I shall call "East meets West".



    Click on it for full size.
    Last edited by The Celtic Viking; 06-09-2011 at 23:46.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Quote Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking View Post
    Click on it for full size.
    What exactly are we clicking on for full size... eh eh eh.
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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Alright, here's mine. I've already used it in the .org screenshot contest, but I really like it, so I'll use it here too:

    Phalanx battle:


    Click on it for larger size.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Quote Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios View Post
    What exactly are we clicking on for full size... eh eh eh.
    The shafts.

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    I haven't logged in in forever. I'll add some variety to the competition. I feel I should of edited out the guy that is flying really really high, it sorta ruins the capture. Oh well.

    Last edited by Megas Pyrrhos; 06-08-2011 at 15:17. Reason: Stupid imageshack.

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    that is a costom battle, or isit not? you'd seldom see reformed Pezhetairoi and Reformed Cohorts faceing eah other, let alone Augustean :DD



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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Quote Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios View Post
    What exactly are we clicking on for full size... eh eh eh.
    LOL.

    I'm still working on my entry, although I have a great lack of confidence in it now having seen the recent entries.



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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    By the way, what's the ideal size of the pictures? I've figured my natural 1920x1080 is a little big, but I don't know how much smaller I should make it. For this one I just chose the imagedump default for forum pictures (whatever that was) with the option to get the "real deal", but I don't know how close to optimal that is for this kind of competition.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    In general i'll always go for something at 1400 width (in competitions, not for previews though), so it can be seen full size on most general resolution of 1680x1050 in any forum.
    But this forum has a great feature that you all should use. If you insert a direct image link into
    Code:
    [IMG]...[/IMG]
    the forum will auto resize it and then you can click on it to see the full size. Like in my pic done for the EBII Sweboz Preview: (oh, and btw, this is edited, so this is not an example of what kind of pictures we expect from you)


    We are waiting for more pictures. Great shots so far. Keep them coming!
    Last edited by MaxMazi; 06-09-2011 at 23:56.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Lets try it.



    Edit: wohoo, it worked! Thank you!

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    There's a few of these I'm glad weren't in the org screenshot contest. Great shots TCV, MaxMazi and Magas Pyrrhos.

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    ya know just because there aren't epic battles therein doesn't mean mine isn't of some quality :'( :'(

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    My comment wasn't intended as a criticism of anybody elses shots, though yours would be improved if the UI had been minimised and the arrow moved off centre and cropped out.
    Last edited by johnhughthom; 06-10-2011 at 20:29.

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    I hope I am not the only one that sees the need to propose the following.

    I propose similar screenshots in the future be set up so that participants would have to send their submissions privately to a collector by a certain date, after which point no further submissions would be accepted, and the entire set would be listed in no particular order.
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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    C'mon now! We need some competition here!

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    Default Re: June Screenshot Competition

    Quote Originally Posted by Paltmull View Post
    C'mon now! We need some competition here!
    I am campaigning heavily as the AS against the Romani Marian republic. The sad part is that it only features routing vigiles and groups of elephants, hetairoi and cathaphracts charging through formations... Maybe I'll get a nice shot warding off the Yuezhi invasion?

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