Barbarian Invasion screenshots at Gamespy

[The_Doctor]

http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/74...59/imgs_1.html

The night battles look good, there are even some units holding tourchers.

Why are there crusaders?

[Beefy]

ooooo new ones! looking good!


i think its gonna kick so much ass! cant wiat to play as the vandals!

[Barbarossa82]

New ones?? Were there earlier BI screenshots I missed?
I checked the earlier thread about E3 but could find no mention of them there. If they exist, could someone please point me the way to them? thanks!

[IliaDN]

It is a pity that there is no swimming units on those screenshots.
Night battles are cool!

[The_678]

There are swimming units here. They may just be fording a shallow river but I suspect that is what we'll be getting, not full-out swimming. And the road there suggests that you may even have to start building bridges yourself.

[tibilicus]

wow burning torches !!!!!!!!!!!! Now its looking good !

[clayton ballentine]

when is it coming out

[Viking]

Ah yes! This was what I was waiting for!

Those guys wearing greenish cloakes on the last screenshot, what kinda guys were those? The famous battle priests?

New ones?? Were there earlier BI screenshots I missed?
I checked the earlier thread about E3 but could find no mention of them there. If they exist, could someone please point me the way to them? thanks!

There was originally a screenshot in this thread, but it was removed `cause it was a scan.

There was also some more(more doubtful) screenies, but they were taken offline before I managed to see them.

[Count Belisarius]

Why are there crusaders?

I doubt that the guys with crosses on their tunics are crusaders, per se, since the game is set circa 400 A.D., and the First Crusade began approximately 700 years later. According to the catholic histories, Constantine the Great first displayed the Christian cross on the shields of his men before the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 A.D. These screenshots may depict soldiers in the service of a Christian Caesar, whether East or West I don't know. Any other ideas?

[bodidley]

According to the catholic histories, Constantine the Great first displayed the Christian cross on the shields of his men before the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 A.D.

It wasn't crosses, but the Greek letters Chi (X) and Rho (P) crossed over eachother, because they were the first letters in Christ.

The graphics look nicer than RTW original. Though, one of the units, I'm assuming it's a Hun unit, looks like a freakin' troop of eunichs. The Huns were turkic of course, but then again I don't expect a lot of accuracy from RTW.

[RZST]

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wallpaper, artwork, etc section.

[Oaty]

The Huns were turkic of course, but then again I don't expect a lot of accuracy from RTW.

Actually they are believed to be descended from Mongolia

[pezhetairoi]

yeap, they were pouring over the Great Wall of China (and getting trashed) a long time before they poured over the Carpathians.

[bodidley]

The Huns are believed to come from the Mongolian steppe, and that is where the popular assumption that they were Mongolian comes from. Mongolians were not the only people living on the steppe, however. The Naiman and Uyger are examples of Turkic people who lived (and in the case of the Uyger still live, the Naiman were wiped out by Genghis Khan) in the eastern steppe and flatlands. I'm assuming that CA is going to make the Huns look mongolian (as it seems to appear in the screenshots), but is it too much to ask that they not look like eunichs?

[Rodion Romanovich]

Wow, nice screenies! The night battles after all seem a lot more ambitious than I first thought!

[Orda Khan]

How can anyone complain about these screenshots? Must say it looks pretty impressive. This is the game I was waiting for!!

......Orda

[clayton ballentine]

when does it come out i want to know because i want to buy everyhistory game when it first comes out

[Orda Khan]

when does it come out i want to know because i want to buy everyhistory game when it first comes out

Supposedly August 2005

.......Orda

[Jochi Khan]

I have seen THREE months quoted.............

first September...then August...and lastly October

Jochi

[Little Legioner]

So, just wondering

If they change the design of battlefields. Foliage, hills, rivers etc. etc... Do they affect the RTW's battlemaps? I cannot remember whats happened on older TW series. Very long time has been passed