Some questions

[alexkon3]

Hello. After reading through the FAQ i've seen that the factions have been updated since the last time i saw it. So Lugia, Bosporan Kingdom, Arevaci
Nabatean Empire are new for me. Will those be in the first release too? cause i cant remember that they where ever really mentioned in an preview or in the dev blog.

So what makes those realms special or in what are they unique? I think i read that the Bosporan Kingdom was some kind of cultural melting point between scythians and greeks and so on. I didn't really check on the others I just read about them in Wikipedia which is by no mean any kind of history book^^ I saw something about the last nabatean king Rabbel II Soter and i thougt Soter aka old greek Savior? so are the nabateans helleno- arabians? I hope the EB team can answer my humble question
Greetings from Austria =)

[Moros]

Yes all of these will be part of EB II and playable as well.

The Nabataeans will start of as bedouins, but can later through reforms become a settled eastern tribal culture and even a hellenistic kingdom. However for the first release the later two stages of possible evolutions aren't fully worked out yet.

[alexkon3]

Wow so the nabateans where a hellenic- bedouin kingdom? Interessting. And am I right with the bosporan kingdom? Are they a cultural mix between scythians hellens and thracians. if i may ask what do those factions feel like if you play them? Are the nabateans more like light cavalry swarming the enemy and the bosporans a good mix between everything? I imagined some kind of hybrid army for the bosporans using parts from all the different cultures. I would of course understand if this info is still confidential master moros xD

[LusitanianWolf]

From All the Previews In One Thread...

Preview of the Nabatu/Saba
Preview of the Areuakoi
Preview of the Lugiones
Preview of the Pergamese
Preview of Taksashila-(Mauryan-Satrapy)
Preview The Boii I Preview The Boii II Preview The Boii III

Not much has been undisclosed about the Bosporans afaik though, but I gess you are right on them being a mix from greeks and scythians, and will possibly have the kind of tank-archers you could recruit there on EB1


From the The-Sauromatae Preview where the Kimmerios Bosporos was undisclosed as a faction.

And so, in Europa Barbarorum II you will have the opportunity of playing as the Kimmerios Bosporos, or the Bosporan Kingdom. Sitting on the northern shores of the Black Sea, this Greek Kingdom managed to successfully marry the cultures of the steppe people with the sedentary civilisation of the Hellenes. As the Bosporans you will be able to call upon both the powerful infantry of the Hellenes and the swift and deadly cavalry of the Sauromatae and other tribes of horsemen of the Steppe.

[moonburn]

Wow so the nabateans where a hellenic- bedouin kingdom? Interessting. And am I right with the bosporan kingdom? Are they a cultural mix between scythians hellens and thracians. if i may ask what do those factions feel like if you play them? Are the nabateans more like light cavalry swarming the enemy and the bosporans a good mix between everything? I imagined some kind of hybrid army for the bosporans using parts from all the different cultures. I would of course understand if this info is still confidential master moros xD

it´s always a good mix if you know what you´re doing

someone who plays traditionally steppe factions the greeks will be a strong base to get back and regroup
(hoplites and phallanx as a moving base of operations and protection for the horses and foot archers)

for someone who plays traditionally as hellenes the "scythians" will be used to protect the flanks and harass the enemy into a head on engagement (steppe warriors to screen the advance of the phallanx and then perform the flank operations)

the bosphoran kingdom is like the takashilas a new learning experience on how best to use them what are the weakpoints and the strongpoints and pretty much wich way offers less resistance aka as where to expand

[alexkon3]

it´s always a good mix if you know what you´re doing

someone who plays traditionally steppe factions the greeks will be a strong base to get back and regroup
(hoplites and phallanx as a moving base of operations and protection for the horses and foot archers)

for someone who plays traditionally as hellenes the "scythians" will be used to protect the flanks and harass the enemy into a head on engagement (steppe warriors to screen the advance of the phallanx and then perform the flank operations)

the bosphoran kingdom is like the takashilas a new learning experience on how best to use them what are the weakpoints and the strongpoints and pretty much wich way offers less resistance aka as where to expand

Hmmm I'm really exited for the bosporan kingdom. I like to play with the diadochi the most and scythian horse archers are one of my most important units in my macedonian campaign.

So i have thought of some new questions hahaha.
what is the actual source for the Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou? as i am buying some books on the seleucid empire (my favourite diadochi) like: From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, The Roman War of Antiochos the Great , The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns i would like to know if there is actually a book where some of the evolution's of the Hypaspistai are explained. Also in Rome TW. EB and all other mods of Rome + rome 2 the seleucids have armored elephants. is there actually something written about that? I've only ever seen 1 relief where an armoured elephant tramples a Galatian warrior. and where do we know if this is an elephant of the seleucids at all.

[Lysandros]

what is the actual source for the Thorakitai Agematos Basilikou? as i am buying some books on the seleucid empire (my favourite diadochi) like: From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, The Roman War of Antiochos the Great , The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns i would like to know if there is actually a book where some of the evolution's of the Hypaspistai are explained. Also in Rome TW. EB and all other mods of Rome + rome 2 the seleucids have armored elephants. is there actually something written about that? I've only ever seen 1 relief where an armoured elephant tramples a Galatian warrior. and where do we know if this is an elephant of the seleucids at all.

General bibliography on the Seleucids: http://vkc.library.uu.nl/vkc/antiqui...%20Empire.aspx (maybe even taken from a thread here, I think)

I suppose looking for Bar-Kochva and keywords like "army" is a good start for answers to your questions, but I haven't read all of it myself.

[abou]

Also in Rome TW. EB and all other mods of Rome + rome 2 the seleucids have armored elephants. is there actually something written about that? I've only ever seen 1 relief where an armoured elephant tramples a Galatian warrior. and where do we know if this is an elephant of the seleucids at all.

Sorry, I missed this earlier.

The terracotta you are referring to comes from, I believe, Egypt. The elephant has what I think are lames on the legs and neck. There is a fragment of a bronze figurine from Mysia that shows a fully armored elephant with scale over the body and a chamfron on the head. Sekunda put it in one of his books, but it was originally published in a 19th century collection of Roman and Greek bronzes.

The literary reference comes from I. Macc 6.43: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/...1&byte=4219672

[43] And Eleazar, called Avaran, saw that one of the beasts was equipped with royal armor. It was taller than all the others, and he supposed that the king was upon it.

[kdrakak]

From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire,

You are actually buying this? Every copy i could find was ridiculously expensive! I am curious did you decide to pay as much as you had to or did you find it at a reasonable price?