• Siege Engines:

*Oxybeles


By: Alin

Translation : Catapult (missile-thrower)
Description : Light siege engine, constructed to fire bolts on the enemy line.
Buildable by : Allied Hellenes

*Bricoli


By: Alin

Translation : ???
Description : Light siege engine, constructed to fire bolts on the enemy line. Short range and inaccurate.
Buildable by : Germania, Britannia, Iberia, Dacia?, Thracia?, Sarmatia?

• The Navies:

*Transport Boat (subject to further translation)

Translation : N/A
Description : A large merchant galley, used only as a transport auxiliary.
Buildable by : Rome:, Dacia, Thracia, Parthia, Sarmatia

*Liburnes

Translation : ???
Description : Technically a late design, used mostly after the fact of Octavian’s victories made the Mediterranean an imperial roman pond. An aphract, two-banked galley, they generally seem to have carried a ram, but otherwise raged from 16 – 50 oars.
Buildable by : Rome

*Covered Liburnes

Translation : ???
Description : Same as a Liburnes but with a fully covered deck.
Buildable by : Rome

*Trireme

Translation : "Three-oared"
Description : War galleys with three rows of oars on each side. Relies on speed and maneuverability to ram enemy ships.
Buildable by : Rome

*Corvus Quinquireme

Translation : Crow "Five-Oared"
Description : Warship with three rows of oars, with two men pulling each of the top two oars. Besides the regular bronze ram, this ship carries a special ramp with spike that would be dropped onto an enemy ship to facilitate boarding, the corvus.
Buildable by : Rome

*Biere Aphraktos

Translation : Unarmoured (not fully-decked) "Two-oared"
Description : Two rows of oars. Light, fast ship that uses a ram in combat.
Buildable by : Carthage, Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Pontus, Armenia, Dacia, Thracia, Parthia

*Biere Kataphraktos

Translation : Armoured (fully-decked) "Two-oared"
Description : Two rows of oars. Light, fast ship that uses a ram in combat.
Buildable by : Carthage

*Tetrere

Translation : "Four-oared"
Description : The ‘four’ was an updated version of the trieres, really meant mostly for fast agile tactics, not boarding.
Buildable by : Carthage, Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt

*Pentere

Translation : "Five-oared"
Description : A powerful and flexible galley, depending on how the ship is designed (with one two or three oar banks) these ships are capable of both the maneuver and ramming tactics of the earlier age of the trieres, or the artillery and boarding tactics of the large polyereis.
Buildable by : Carthage, Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt

*Pentekonteros

Translation : "50-oared"
Description : Older warship than the trireme with a single row of 25 oars on each side. The trireme's staggered seating permitted three row of oarsmen, and an outrigger above the gunwale, projecting laterally beyond it, kept the third row of oars out of the way of the first two.
Buildable by : Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Pontus, Armenia, Dacia, Thracia, Parthia, Baktria

*Trimehiola

Translation : ???
Description : The triemiolia was invented by the Rhodians to help with their anti-piracy policy: An aphract trieres, with (based on the name parallel) the same kind of rig as a hemiolia. With three oar banks and sails (and possible a lighter build than a normal trieres the triemiolia presumably, could catch a fast pirate with its own game, and with a larger crew and professional marines, could overwhelm the pirate or simply ram it. In terms of translation the Triemiolia is not three-and-a-half, but instead simpler version of the compound word made by combining trieres and hemiolia.
Buildable by : Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Pontus, Armenia

*Triere

Translation : "Three-oared"
Description : War galleys with three rows of oars on each side. Relies on speed and maneuverability to ram enemy ships.
Buildable by : Allied Hellenes, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Pontus, Armenia

*Curragh

Translation : ???
Description : Small ship made of a wooden frame and covered with hides for floatation. Barely suitable for combat as it carries
very few people for boarding.
Buildable by : Gaul, Iberia, Britannia

*Tallship

Translation : ???
Description : ???
Buildable by : Gaul, Iberia

*Baitaz

Translation : Boat
Description : ???
Buildable by : Germania

*Skipaz

Translation : Boat
Description : ???
Buildable by : Germania

*Nava

Translation : ???
Description : Presumably a light ship powered by sails.
Buildable by : Baktria

*Pirate Ship

Translation : N/A
Description : Hemiolia, A fast dikrotos (two-banked) galley and famous as the quintessential pirate ship. The name and its reputed use by pirates have been taken to suggest the ship typically used both oars and sail, thus allowing in to catch a fleeing merchant and outlast a warship that had been cleared for action (i.e. without its sails and rigging) in a chase. The One-and-a-half presumably means just before closing on a prize the aft section of the top rowers could quickly pull in their oars, lower what would probably a light mast and sail and then be ready to serve as boarders.
Buildable by : Rebels

• Unique Buildings:

Europa Barbarorum promises to not only be filled with historically accurate military units and geography, but also some of the most famous and important structures from around the ancient world. The wonders as found in vanilla Rome: Total War have been deleted and will be replaced by buildings found within the cities instead.

Although there are hard-coded limits on the number of buildings they can add, many cities should have the structures that made them famous. These buildings will vary in terms of the bonuses they offer (usually just to the province they are found in) and other factors.

Here are several of the ones we have gotten sneak peeks at over the last few months, with probable locations listed by city, province, and region:

*Ammonion

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 22 April 2005
By: ???

Description: The important Oracle of Zeus-Ammon in Libya.
Location: Siwa/Libya/Egypt


*Artemision Ephesou

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 22 May 2005
By: ???

Description: The glorious temple to Artemis at Ephesos.
Location: Sardis?/Lydia/Asia Minor


*Caernahfronynys

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 1 April 2005
By: Teleklos Archelau

Description: The Neolithic standing Calanish Stones found on the Hebrides off the coast of Caledonia.
Location: Atauna?/Caledonia/British Isles


*Capitolinum Templum Jovis Optimi Maximi

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 1 April 2005
By: Teleklos Archelau

Description: The enormous temple complex of Rome dedicated to Jupiter, where the Sybilline Books are housed.
Location: Rome/Latium/Italy


*Cyclopean Monuments

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 29 April 2005
By: ???

Description: Pre-Carthaginian monuments built throughout the Balearic Islands.
Location: Bocchoris?/Baleares/Mediterranean


*Ereipia Babyloniaka

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 22 May 2005
By: ???

Description: The ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.
Location: Seleukeia/Babylonia/Mesopotamia


*Ochetos Arabikos

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 22 April 2005
By: ???

Description: The canal connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, opening the way for trade.
Location: Memphis/Middle Egypt?/Egypt


*Olympia

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 4 March 2005
By: Havenvoordieven

Description: The site where the Olympic Games were held on the Peloponnesus.
Location: Corinth?/Achaia?/Greece


*Teamhaidh Cnocinhaofan

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 1 April 2005
By: Teleklos Archelau

Description: A sacred complex on and around a famous hill in Ireland.
Location: Tara?/Hibernia?/British Isles


*Thebiae Nekropolis

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 1 April 2005
By: Teleklos Archelau

Description: Glorious tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, still venerated by the Ptolemies in order to appease the masses.
Location: Thebes/Thebais/Egypt


*Varkana Drubustih

SCREENSHOT
Post Date: 22 May 2005
By: ???

Description: Also known as the Gorgan Wall, the enormous defensive wall built by the Parthians extending eastwards across two provinces from the Caspian Sea.
Location: Zadracarta?/Hyrkania/Iran and Asaak?/Astauene/Iran

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