It's not EBII but.....

[Brennus]

It was a sunday afternoon, rather than be productive as I should have been I found myself on the toilet skimming through Youtube. I was searching for Medievall II mods after our good friend stratigos vasilios had recommended I try a few out. That's when I came across this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjMW...eature=related

I'm not sure if people have posted about this mod. Even from this short video it's clear this mod is anachronistic (New Kingdom Egyptians versus Imperial Rome, La Téne C & D Gauls versus Danubian Legions etc.) and I am not posting this video for mod bashing purposes. Rather I was wondering if the EBII team was aware of this mods development, and if so it might be an idea to get in contact with the developers. They certainly seem to have very good skinners judging by the Persian and Greek troops. Also it does appear this mod has borrowed elements from EB judging by some of the skins on the Gauls.

If anything, this video gives us an idea of the possibilites of EBII, especially the Iranian troops of which (as far as I am aware) no screenshots have been released.

[Arjos]

I'm not 100% sure, but that looks like running on the ETW's engine...

[Ca Putt]

oh neat, horribly anachonistic but very neat indeed. Tho I think many textures are "borrowed" from Rise and fall.

A nice thing about thisone is a thing I think many M2TW+ mods almost totally ignore, or keep to a absolute minimum: Unit variation. With that the mod plays rather nicely apart from romans who all look the same^^.

[Paltmull]

Tho I think many textures are "borrowed" from Rise and fall.

A lot of stuff is "borrowed" from EB as well. Both the red and the white blankets on the elephants at 00:57 are taken from EB. And that general at 2:36 is the EB Arverni general. Those gallic shield designs seem to be from EB too...

[Ca Putt]

Also the shields of the italian cavalry which is from the Samniti milites, at least that's how it looks from afar tho the Ajors shield really is 1:1 EB^^, not to forget those moustaches of those Gauls, I'd recognize those everywhere :D
The thing is that "borrowing" textures from mods(without asking) is a nono whereas borrowing textures from games is borderline illegal. Eventho I have often seen people copy stuff from R&F, have yet to hear of any legal measures against them. The thing with R&F is that they have pretty and very flashy textures that are perfect for high res RTS, as the game also has a FP"S" mode in which you see all the details^^ That said they also have Imperial Triarii and lots of "the mummy returns"egyptians.

Correction: further research showed that it's actually this modd(or a version of it and yes, there are elements of EB^^) http://empiretw.ru/board/index.php?showtopic=32775

[Tux]

If I'm not mistaken it's made by the same guy, can't remember exactly his name, who got banned from TWC and here for using our and other's people material w/o asking for permission.

[rickinator9]

No, that's the medieval II engine alright. I can really see it because of the vanilla MTWII textures that I don't like.