Preview September 27th 2005

[Meneldil]

Scion the Worm took care of them :)

[Geoffrey S]

Those faction icons look very metal! The rest of the screenies ooze a dark atmosphere too, if ever a mod needed an update to the landscape and sky graphics this would be the one. Could go for a very dark, gritty feeling.
I'm impressed.

[Epistolary Richard]

I believe I speak for everyone else when I say "How the *bleep* are you going to do 255 provinces?"

[Meneldil]

I believe I speak for everyone else when I say "How the *bleep* are you going to do 255 provinces?"

Apparently, we found a way to increase the province limits. Oh wait... our PR director has contacted me. He just made a mistake

[Bartix]

Looks so greaT!
bleep

[Csatadi]

How beautiful they are!
Scion you are really a gifted guy!

[Archbaker]

Are those metal shields?

The units look really great. I can't stop looking.

[GoreBag]

Just a note...the Irish and Scots (who were considered Irish until not long ago at this point) ARE Celts. It'd be better to say that Alba had some Pictish influence and not bring up the Celtic point.

[Ranika]

The Gaels are a mash of Celtic and the Iberian Galaecian culture; the thing is, Galaecians were Hallstatt Celts. Hallstatt Celts tended to wear; tight trousers (and sometimes braccae, loose trousers, as they moved west), knee-length shirts (in which case they'd be bare-legged), thigh-length shirts (worn with tight trousers), cloaks that hung around the shoulders, boots, and favored axes and spears in many ways. Sound like anyone? Gaels were ostensibly La Tene Celts in terms of development when they came about (due to melding with Belgae, Gauls, and Britons), but had huge gouts of Hallstatt culture remaining, accounting for their clothing and numerous traditions. They were Celts, but not the common concept of Celts (which is the north-western European continental Celt; trousers, often shirtless or decked out in chain, with lots of longswords, oval shields, and such).

[Reverend Joe]

Those textures are absolutely astounding. Especially the faction symbols- best I've ever seen. It loks like the MTW atmosphere might be applicable to RTW after all.

[GoreBag]

The Gaels are a mash of Celtic and the Iberian Galaecian culture; the thing is, Galaecians were Hallstatt Celts. Hallstatt Celts tended to wear; tight trousers (and sometimes braccae, loose trousers, as they moved west), knee-length shirts (in which case they'd be bare-legged), thigh-length shirts (worn with tight trousers), cloaks that hung around the shoulders, boots, and favored axes and spears in many ways. Sound like anyone? Gaels were ostensibly La Tene Celts in terms of development when they came about (due to melding with Belgae, Gauls, and Britons), but had huge gouts of Hallstatt culture remaining, accounting for their clothing and numerous traditions. They were Celts, but not the common concept of Celts (which is the north-western European continental Celt; trousers, often shirtless or decked out in chain, with lots of longswords, oval shields, and such).

How could the Hallstatt culture have remained so prevalent among the Goidils?

[Ranika]

Combination of isolation (physically, not commercially or politically; in the dark ages and earlier, the Gaels were fairly prolific traders and due to their relative importance as a redoubt of Christianity in the early Christian periods, they remained an influential part of the Christian church, and ergo, European politics); however, they were physically shut off from much of the world and failed to adopt the developments that led to later Celtic and then pan-European cultural movements (accounting for their style of clothing and the like); and presumably Hallstatt similarities to the native culture that inhabitted Ireland, as well as the large Iberian immigrations (there were quite a large number of them) from Galaecia, which was ostensibly late Hallstatt-Celtic/early La Tene Celt, with Iberian inspired overtones, kept a heavy Hallstatt appearance over Ireland.

[GoreBag]

So..they arrived in Hibernia during the Hallstatt period and just stayed Hallstatt? I didn't realise that Hallstatt migrations stretched out that far.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Just a note...the Irish and Scots (who were considered Irish until not long ago at this point) ARE Celts. It'd be better to say that Alba had some Pictish influence and not bring up the Celtic point.

Sorry, I hope the edit I made now is better...

[GoreBag]

Perfect!

Those shiny shields really look awesome, too. I noticed, though, that the huscarles all carry a shield, except for the column of troops on the left of the picture, who don't carry a shield, but wield their axe with both hands. Are they different huscarle units, or does a single unit mix-and-match troops?

[skeletor]

Sorry, if we could make a single units with ceveral troops, it wold have been a seal breakthrough. What you see is the shield aligning with the angle of the picture, and with the resolution of the picture its gone. However you will see ceveral difftrent huscrals in the game.

-Skel-