EB April Preview

[Ergion]

Wonderful work

[Ianofsmeg16]

After seeing that Preview, it's safe to say, I need a new keyboard

[fallen851]

Ahh the dorky hat command contest takes it to a new level...

I'm looking forward to the 1.5 port. Keep up the good work.

[soibean]

you teases you

[paullus]

Wow. Thanks for the update. Do we not get a picture of the Tarabostes? Just a description?

The icon looks awesome...some sort of kneeling, stylized elk-lion. Cool beans.

[Dooz]

There is a picture for the Tarabostes. Try refreshing or something. Pretty cool looking Getic unit too. Would've worked fine my my Getai campaign, psh.

[PSYCHO V]

Ahh the dorky hat command contest takes it to a new level....

lol ..doing our best

[Cheexsta]

Ok, so am I right in understanding that 0.8 will be for the 1.5 patch? Or is it going to initially be for 1.2 and then be ported over?

[Kull]

Ok, so am I right in understanding that 0.8 will be for the 1.5 patch? Or is it going to initially be for 1.2 and then be ported over?

1.5 Port plus all this other neat stuff.

[Steppe Merc]

Um... did no one look at my post? We will never have a faction of the Hisung-Nu. That faction is not the Hisung-Nu.
You are correct with the deer though, but many people held deer as important. People that would logically be included in this map and time period.

[Geoffrey S]

A little searching for stags/deer and any steppe people I could think of turned up this pretty quickly:
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/uj/ujf.html

Look at fifth image from the top. Look familiar? Guess something like Scythia's the faction, then.

Edit: at the bottom of this site too:
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/scythian.shtml

Edit 2: dammit. Just saw Jedispongee's post. Thought I was being clever, too.

[basics]

Hi All,

Can anyone explain what porting to 1.5 will mean?

Yours,
basics.

[Krusader]

Hi All,

Can anyone explain what porting to 1.5 will mean?

Yours,
basics.

Hey,
Currently EB is made for and requires Rome: Total war version 1.2 to function properly. When we say porting to 1.5 it means we are making EB function for the latest version of RTW which is 1.5

[Spendios]

Hi All,

Can anyone explain what porting to 1.5 will mean?

Yours,
basics.

It means that the mod will work on RTW with the 1.5 patch (now it's on RTW 1.2 ) . The 1.5 patch allow a lot of improvments for the game and for modders, just check the forum to have list of improvments.

GAH ! Krusader was quicker than me

[antiochus epiphanes]

i think its the sabaens.
looks more like a ibex than a deer to me.....
but then again itt could be sakae..

[Swabian]

finally i get my dirty fingers on this forum too. mhehe.

on topic: this creature is a stylized reindeer and the faction could be sakae/skythians or the turkomans, but i don't understand why the yuezhi are going to get replaced at all. their influence on east asia was decisive, meanwhile the skythian peoples played a relatively unimportant role compared to the sarmatian/alanian tribes. also if the skythians/sakae are introduced, the yuezhi should actually be in the game too, since they had a major influence on the former (caused migration).

edit: is the eb-team supporting the thesis that the denominations 'massagetae' and the 'yuezhi' are eponymous?

[MaximianusBR]

the reinforcement problem will be resolved?

[Justiciar]

Sadly there won't be a Mauryan faction in EB.. that's what we've been told at least. You never know with these cunning modditses.

[Ludens]

the reinforcement problem will be resolved?

The EB team hopes that porting to 1.5 will solve this problem. It seems to lie in the way R:TW 1.2 awards traits after battle and this may have been changed in R:TW 1.5. If not, the traiters face some hard decisions.