Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions Khelvan and Urnamma. :)

EB will use our own system of recruitment based on the Homelands concept created by, and made popular by, Wes's MedMod for MTW. We have several ex-MedMod members as a part of our team, and this concept has been in the works for a long time in EB, even before RTW came out.

Factions will have fixed unit lists, where appropriate. They will have shared units, where appropriate. Also mercenaries in certain areas, where appropriate.

I will say that the Carthaginians will be able to recruit Iberian units in historically appropriate places, and not, for instance, in Carthage itself.

How accurate we can get depends on how well our theoretical system works in practice. However, we are confident, and testing on this is slated to begin presently.
Okey, good to hear this :) Lets hope it works out well :) But personally, with Carthage, I'd like to be able to train some (light/weak) Gaul troops in Gaul :)

Yes - I believe I have not yet heard of a faction banner/icon that will be kept as-is from the vanilla game. Your banner looks quite nice! However, we are creating our own banners and attempting to keep the style and substance relatively consistent across our factions, and I think work has already been done on the Carthage banner.

I believe you can see a prototype of our Carthage icon concept in the last bit of our screenshots thread - I think Prometheus spilled the beans, so to speak.
I understand, and with the prototype in the screenshot treath you are refering to the lybian spearman screenshots? If so, I like it very much :D and I find it good to see you are going to change it to the horse with the palm icon :)

Faction names have generally stayed English, unless you are referring to the city itself? Cities/provinces are generally using ethnic/culture-specific names from the period where available, and where not, using Greek or Latin where appropriate. As to the city of Carthage, I do not know our specific plans in this regard.
I was refering to the city, I like the name Carthago so much because it is the same as in Dutch ;) (my native language)

Carthage will hold its historical place as a true power in the region. Paramount in this are our expanded map and new provincial holdings, unit balance, and economic resources. Specifically there is far too much detail to go into here. :)
Then I'm looking forward to the release if the mod to see it for myself ;)

I am not sure what you mean by this. Remaking the cities in what way? Changing buildings? Changing the city view? Changing the way city build queues work?
I was refering to the appearince of the city :) But any change you can make to the cities to make it more historicly accurate is good :)

Don't worry, all factions are getting a new building system put in place, with more faction-appropriate buildings.
:) I hope I gave you some information you didn't have yet though ;)

Well, this depends. The suffete himself was a kind of royalty, for his period of election. Also, the old royal palace was the place where the Suffete (which is the latinized version of the word, btw) held court. People's assembly is misleading and sounds too... republican. Carthage could more adequately be called an Oligarchy. The citizens (who were mostly either rich or middle class) made the decisions that the subject populations had to live with.

I agree though, and some name changes will take place. I'm a historian specializing in the near east btw, and Carthage is my pet project. I can assure you they'll get the works as far as being historically correct goes.
Good to hear that such an expert is working on my favorite faction :D:D Do you have any idea on what some of the new names could be (a)

As far as the temple thing... Baal (hammon is superflous, it's just a title..) It's like calling you Jim the King, or something. Baal, Astarte, Tanit (who the carthaginians made a different Goddess than Astarte, for some reason) and Melquart.
Hhmmmm, I thoughed Baal ment Lord and then Hammon would be his name. Oh well, my bad.
And those are the 4 gods Carthage will have in their pantheon?

Thanks again for answering my questions :)