Countdown to Open Beta - Swêbōz

**Dago** · 06-03-2005, 19:23

You can treat that as an advice.It will be good if you correct the descriptions to make the mod as historicaly accurate as possible.

**cunctator** · 06-03-2005, 19:28

Great as always. I will love the crush Swêbōz with my legions.

**The Wizard** · 06-03-2005, 19:34

The framea as a throwing weapon changed. It became the angon, the famous throwing spear used by the Francii, Alemanni and other neighboring tribal confederations. Meanwhile, as the Roman influence increased in the area (and the Celtic influence diminished), or the Roman frontier broke down (the latter happened later on, mind you), access to Roman arms was easier. The framea used for throwing evolved into the angon, a weapon remarkably similar to the pilum, which had grown out of use within the Roman army.

Why it was used less? It was a prestige weapon, because it was hard to make. It is hard to make a javelin where half of the weapon is iron, especially when the great Roman fabricae no longer produced anything similar. The Germanic smithies, where the smiths and their apprentices worked on a much smaller scale (albeit they made items of much more individual quality), took longer to produce weapons, especially such hard to make weapons as angons and swords.

In conclusion: the weapon you speak of may have existed and have been in use by the Francii and their neighbors, but it did not exist in the form you speak of in 270 BC. What the Germanic tribes of those days used is more akin to an Irish dart, to make a somewhat blunt comparison.

~Wiz

**TheTank** · 06-03-2005, 21:31

Are the Ridōhárjōz the only horse based unit that Swêbōz gets ?!
And want about slingers and warriors with chainmail and helmets ?!

**Sarcasm** · 06-03-2005, 21:55

Hold your....ehum....horses

. This is a preview, which means, not only it doesn't show *all* the units, but also that the units presented here might be WIP.

So, don't sweat it.

**Lord Tomyris Reloaded** · 06-03-2005, 22:47

True, there are 18 Germanic units in total.

**jerby** · 06-03-2005, 23:06

. nice preview. what abotu this weeks preview. you still owe us one...

Just kidding, dont ban me, dotn send in teh eB-hit-squad, i dont wanna die!

and i didnt see the hidden naked soldiers!....