Preview: Arabia

[Noble Wrath]

The work is exquisite as was expected. The exotic arid lands, those gray uncharted areas beyond the borders of the empires are brought to life through painstaking research. Εύγε guys!

I don't know if anyone made the connection but we have nomadic,freedom-loving, desert warriors, the omnipresent spice and underground cisterns. Could we expect an elite unit of giant-worm riding Nabatu, who can avoid missiles through prescience induced by smoking err... incense before battles? Could we??

On a more serious note, one strength of the Sabeans are the huge desert wastes that separate them from the hellenistic kingdoms and their iron clad syntagmata. Not so for the Nabatu. I am curious how their early skirmishers will fare against the armies of the diadochoi, since the distances are short and the player cannot retreat for ever into the desert: due to engine limitations every region has a settlement that needs to be defended.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Very interesting!

[Captain Jazzy]

Just wow... This is utterly amazing, so much interesting info. Cant wait to play with the Naba, going to be really challenging up against the big Hellenic powers. Amazing work as per usual guys. :)

[Populus Romanus]

OMG I waited so long for this, gotta read it now!


THANK YOU, EB team!

[fightermedic]

this preview has "EB-quality" written all over it, and that says everything that needs to be said!

ah well, maybe one more thing.. why don't you release your previews in smaller bits instead of this MASSIVE epics every half year ;)
we the fans wouldn't be waiting so long for any new stuff, and the previews could avoid that certain "wow, massive wall of text incoming, no way i'm going to read all of THAT"-impression that sometimes comes with such huge amounts of information when deliverd as one post
just sayin

[asd2able]

After further reading... I didn't realise before that Nabatea was that much interacting with the hellenic and Roman world. I was under the impression that facts on them were pretty much scarce. You could'nt choose a more pertinant faction I guess, and they will be very interresting to play with.

[gamegeek2]

Beautiful, isn't it?