Phalanxes, phalanxes, phalanxes

**Lemur** · 08-16-2013, 16:49

Can't watch, must attend to "work," but here's CA's video response to all of the questions about phalanxes.

**quadalpha** · 08-16-2013, 17:09

30": Damn it, those guys are back. Had my hopes up.

Edit: Start watching at 1'35 for Jack Lusted and actual information. The elephant is kind of cute.

**The Outsider** · 08-16-2013, 17:25

That didnt look so bad. Especially the rear cavalry charge looked really good. Thank god no flying units and you could see the shock of the impact. Also the animations of the formation looked quite good in my opinion but than again I have never been an expert of phalanx..

**Barkhorn1x** · 08-16-2013, 17:50

Now that looked good - but - my big question about the phalanx is still not answered:

Will multiple phalanx units manuever in a line when grouped or will they move in the totally daft fashion they did in RTW? That is the question!

Other bits:
- Brian Blessed - great to see him. Funniest Augustus ever
- How does one get to partner with Adriana in the animation dept.?
- "Those two" - and now they're drunk. Grreeaaatttt.

**Arjos** · 08-16-2013, 18:29

Only three sarissai engaged? ...why?

**Ca Putt** · 08-16-2013, 18:58

Brian blessed, now that was unexpected :)
@Arjos: because R2 can't afford having 2*256 men per unit for Phalangites. having five rows fully engaged at this scale would look odd. I agree It's wrong but so is having such small units.

My biggest question however has been answered: will Phalanxes be usefull when advancing?

**CaptainCrunch** · 08-16-2013, 23:29

Originally Posted by Arjos

Only three sarissai engaged? ...why?

So far this game has been a parade of compromises, I expected no less here. Personally I thought the animations looked pretty good overall.

Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

Will multiple phalanx units manuever in a line when grouped or will they move in the totally daft fashion they did in RTW? That is the question!

This ^

The fact that they haven't demonstrated something to that effect leads me to conclude that the feature is absent from the game yet again. Let's be honest, if something like that was in there's a very high probability they'd be showing it off every chance they got.

Engagement speed is abysmal.

Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

Will have to see what the EB team can do with it...that's the real question after all

Sadly I don't see this happening in our lifetime... but we can always dream, err pray.

**quadalpha** · 08-16-2013, 18:37

Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

Now that looked good - but - my big question about the phalanx is still not answered:

Will multiple phalanx units manuever in a line when grouped or will they move in the totally daft fashion they did in RTW? That is the question!

Other bits:
- Brian Blessed - great to see him. Funniest Augustus ever
- How does one get to partner with Adriana in the animation dept.?
- "Those two" - and now they're drunk. Grreeaaatttt.

She sounded American. Do CA have offices in the States?

The good news is that this is the last we'll have to hear of them before the game is out.