Here are some screenshots http://www.totalwar.org.pl/?ShowGal=23 . The demo is in PC Gamer but there is possibility that it will be also in the internet. There are three battles tutorial,Chalons,Badon Hill.
BI Demo!
Here are some screenshots http://www.totalwar.org.pl/?ShowGal=23 . The demo is in PC Gamer but there is possibility that it will be also in the internet. There are three battles tutorial,Chalons,Badon Hill.
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the equites can swim!?! what the hell!
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No, only light infantry can swim. Check out the post here.
http://rometotalrealism.com/ipb/inde...showtopic=3264
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Originally Posted by Shrapnel
hounds of calaan or what ever are heavy infantry....AND THEY CAN SWIM
so can equites and other light cavalry dont argue with me...i,ve played the demo
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Whoa! Battlefields looks much more bigger!
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Nice to see the 'spirits lifted by the general' description in one of the screenshots, reminds me of good old Medieval.
Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon Phil Bennett's pre 1977 Rugby match speech
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Wow, this game rocks!! I love BI, thank you CA!! Especialy the schiltron formation looks great! (irony) Now seriously, look at the screen posted by Little Legioner, they`ve only changed the special ability icon but the formation is a PHALANX!!!
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If they could, what would be the problem? Horses can swim with a rider on top of them, so why not with an Equites?
Umm, can you say by only watching that screeenshot? Not saying that it looks better close-up.
It would be nice if someone could explain to me what exactly a schiltron was. I think the schiltron on the screenshot looks much denser formed than a phalanxs from RTW.
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Epuites weren't actually light cavalry in real life . The riders were equiped in armour as heavy as a Princepe or even Triari in some cases ; they were rich men to begin with and bought there own equiptment which resulted in them being armoured like heavy cavalry {though they still managed to suck} . Were they to make a habbit of swimming accross rivers , assuming the small Roman horses {ponies by todays' standard} could support the extra weight of the riders' heavy armour when in deep water , the riders {whom were not good riders compared to most cavalry} would be at notable risk of falling off midstream {this was before the Romans adopted the Celtic four pomel saddle , they might as well have been riding completely bareback for all the use any saddle they knew how to make then would have been} whence they would have sunk like stones .
The risk would have been sufficiently significant to have ensured they never made a habbit of trying it as a common maneuver .
Edit : this is all assuming the Equites refered to was the origonal ... it just occured to me that were in a thread about BI , which should have no unit called only "Equites" , so I was assuming the origonal statement was made after some dev. post or such about how BI will expand the Vanilla RTW , which doesn't properly portray Equites , but bloody well should ! :p
Besides , I'm not with it today .
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A schiltron isn't a phalanx!
a) It's immobile
b) It has the shape of a circle, thus presenting no flanks and creating an excellent protection against cavalry.
At least that's what I got from CA (and history)
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Thanks KK
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Also use your eyes, the schiltron formation isn't currently highlighted, meaning they aren't using it. What you thought was them in "phalanx" formation is just them marching forward in a standard formation. Say what you will about CA they are hardly just gonna fudge up some formation by using the phalanx formation and tell you its the same thing, are they?
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Oh, yes i missed that, thank you, you`ve bring me hope back again.
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Aye, but I think they're about 800 years off
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It's an ahistorical travesty. They could have at the very least copied their unit designs out of Osprey. But noooooo, they make ugly barbarians and give the late Romans lorica segmentata. Also, I hear that Chalons only has three of the armies that fought in the battle, as opposed to all 6. *sigh* Luckily, the Fall of Rome demo should be coming out soon.
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I'm not paying 40 dollars to swim at night.
So far this is the only new addition that CA has come up with.
Frankly, I'm going to keep my men far from water as possible. And even if swimming is an advantage, I'll still kepp my men far from water as possible. I'd rather have them killed then wet and killed.
Night Battles are cute, this is something that could have definately been in RTW. I'm sure they did originally have it, but then later took it out. Can't use up quality ideas, like fighting at night in, in the first game!
I can see the 2nd expansion now.
Climbing trees at dawn.
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