EBNOM FAQ

[anubis88]

Yeah, i had a few over 90s myself using rtw.exe.

One of the main reasons we decided on 80bc was the inclusion of Sertorious as a playable faction. Seeing what the FRRE team did with him, and learning everything i could i became a fanboy of the man :) Therefore including him in a mod that i started was a prerequisite :)

I believe that the situation is still very explosive. Mithridates may have lost the first war, but he's still very strong. Repelling the Romans without much sweat in the second Mithridatic war was a definitive boost in his confidence.

And who knows what happens when Sulla dies...

[Lysimachos]

Well, historically Sulla proved himself a republican by retiring.

Anyway, the starting position will provide an interesting balancing challenge, with many factions that are dependant on the goodwill of one of the superpowers in order to survive.


Edit: I have a new question.

You state that civil wars will be present and you list SPQR rebels as a faction. Will (the start of) civil wars be scripted or do you rely on the vanilla BI mechanics, where a civil war would start/expand if you were unable to keep order in your provinces?

[konny]

One of the main reasons we decided on 80bc was the inclusion of Sertorious as a playable faction. Seeing what the FRRE team did with him, and learning everything i could i became a fanboy of the man :) Therefore including him in a mod that i started was a prerequisite :)

Agreed on him, he was one of the most amazing characters in a periode that really was rich of extraordinary men.

As long as you have two Roman factions in game it anyways wouldn't take much time until we see a couple of sub-sub-mods that start on other dates, for example with Marius, with the Social War, with Marius vs. Sulla, with the 1st Triumphirate, with Caesar vs. Pompeius, with Octavian & Antony vs. the Republicans, with Octavian vs. Antony....

[anubis88]

Sure, those mods will be great if made. Those timeframes were all considered. My first wish was to create an Roman Imperial mod, starting with Augustus, but there wasn't much support for that. But, with the starting date of 80bc and a few reforms planned, i'll get the imperials i wanted anyways

There will be actually 3 Roman factions; SPQR, SPQR "rebels" and Sertorius; but the Sertoriani will be more of a combo-faction with the Iberians. So yeah, plenty of Romans to go around

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

Sure, those mods will be great if made. Those timeframes were all considered. My first wish was to create an Roman Imperial mod, starting with Augustus, but there wasn't much support for that. But, with the starting date of 80bc and a few reforms planned, i'll get the imperials i wanted anyways

There will be actually 3 Roman factions; SPQR, SPQR "rebels" and Sertorius; but the Sertoriani will be more of a combo-faction with the Iberians. So yeah, plenty of Romans to go around

Not to mention the Ptolemaic Gabiani and the many factional Roman 'copies' :-)

[Brennus]

Why were the Casse, Sauromatae and Saka removed in favour of the Nabateans and Jews. And what of the Yeuzhi? Nice faction previews btw, excellent work all round.

[Lysimachos]

Why were the Casse, Sauromatae and Saka removed in favour of the Nabateans and Jews. And what of the Yeuzhi? Nice faction previews btw, excellent work all round.

I will take the liberty to try and answer this without inside knowledge. The list of revealed factions above contains only 15 factions, which means there are still several slots to fill. The Saka are mentioned in Question 4 (as Indo-Saka). I have no doubt that the Yuezhi will be in, because at this time they held Baktria firmly in their grasp and would be the perfect nemesis for the aforementioned Indo-Saka - it would be strange if not.
Furthermore would in my opinion the impact of factions in Britannia and Skythia in EBNOM's timeframe potentially be much greater than when going from the start of EB, so I'm confident that two of the undisclosed slots are occupied to that purpose.

Feel free to correct me if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :-)

[gamegeek2]

Why were the Casse, Sauromatae and Saka removed in favour of the Nabateans and Jews. And what of the Yeuzhi? Nice faction previews btw, excellent work all round.

I will only mention that this comment is sorely mistaken. Anything else would ruin the fun!