EB May Preview :: Diadochoi

[O'ETAIPOS]

Nice but aren't the Thrakioi Peltastai gonna poke their eyes out with those javelins attached to their bucklers arms when they swing and can you actually swing a 2 handed weapon with all that attached to your left arm?

They would probably throw javelins before closing for melee. But RTW engine can't reflect this

[Mithradates]

Man those elephants look good and with any luck they wont have the weird sun hat wearing people in them all the time

[edyzmedieval]

They would probably throw javelins before closing for melee. But RTW engine can't reflect this

BUSTED!!! Niiinooo niiinooooo....


Yes it can. The BI engine can. Sassanid Immortals anyone?

[stalin]

Actually, forget it just finish the mod. Sometimes less is more"

[VandalCarthage]

I think they should lose the javelins and not sure about the rhompia (didn't they use machaira?):

They used both; the rhomphaia is more distinctive, recognizable, and was a more common component of the whole culture region.

[Zanderpants]

Seems like it'll be Thrakioi (Thrace) and hopefully a faction in the arabian peninsula, though possibly one around parthia. At least confirm one? Please?

I don't know what the new faction will be, but I can promise you that it's not Thrace. They weren't really a coherent kingdom at the start date, sad to say.

I think they should lose the javelins and not sure about the rhompia (didn't they use machaira?):



but it isn't my mod

These men that were skinned are minor nobility/wealthy members of Thracian society, and therefore would not use a sica or machaira. The light peltasts would be equipped with a sica.

BUSTED!!! Niiinooo niiinooooo....


Yes it can. The BI engine can. Sassanid Immortals anyone?

I'm pretty sure he meant that the R:TW engine cannot reflect the loss of ammunition on the model. All legionaries throw their pila first as well.

[Dayve]

That Thrakian unit i have to say looks wonderful.. The one with the javelins and the rhompaia(sp, of course).

[Dooz]

Any developments on the reinforcement bug devs? Has testing for the port shown any changes?

[Greek_fire19]

Now that you have a 1.5 build, can anyone tell us whether the old 1.2 EB bugs like the reinforcement bug that everyone was trying so hard to find the cause of have been removed by porting, or are they still there?

It's no biggie cus 1.2 EB is pretty stable, but it would be nice if they were solved

[Teleklos Archelaou]

There are new bugs. We're trying to get them worked on, but it needs more testing and work. No one has reported the Reinforcement bug yet, but that doesn't mean it's gone.

[Mamba]

This is excellent, but I have to ask: will we have to totally uninstall our current version of EB if we are to use this new one?

I'm very excited about FINALLY being able to use BI and EB at the same time.

Keep up the good work, fellows.

[Dayve]

You could use EB and BI now if you like. Just make several copies of RTW on your computer and install the mods to them...

Anyway, when the 1.5 version is released, can you make sure you EB people post a step by step guide to exactly what needs to be done to install it, because some of these 1.5 mods give quickly typed up halfarsed instructions... Then when you try to play you get a CTD because it didn't install correctly...

[Obelics]

The faces! The faces! Please people dont change the faces! Great work on the preview, but just a little think, what it make me love this mod better than others, are also the faces of the warriors, in others mods some good skinned warriors are completely ruined by their dull faces:

this is an evil and smart horsearcher from another mod (i dont say what mod cause i dont want to create a stupid polemic):

well just judge yourself how it look smart and evil...

this is the faces of hetairoi in the 0.74:

well this man really look a dirty warrior used to blood...

and this is the new hetairoi in 0.8:


well it seems to me that the 0.74 version is far better than the new...
what make the difference to me is the far better expressive faces of EB.
I dont know if the old faces is a vanilla one or not, but i like it very much.
also the pahlava zadhra pahlavans faces are so expressive and kind, that other mods uber skinned and coloured cataphract, seems so manga ridicoulus style

now the new hetaroi faces are too small in that preview to know if they are good as previous, but i hope you maintain that old 0.74 ones, they are the best in my opinion

what do you think?

PS could you post a first plane of the new hetairoi face so i can judge better how is it?

greets

[Helgi]

Wow

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Cant wait I only have 1.5 and am praying that it comes soon. I REALLY like the war elephants (hey i like war elephants alot) and cant wait to finally play EB! O please come out soon