new faction possible?

[iberus_generalis]

i've been looking around foruns and playing a bit around with RB0.74, and noticed that there are 20 factions only in the game now...my question is, who is the faction not being used in 0.74, and how could it be made playable, and how could i tranform it, it a playable indian faction...if we have a western part of india, i find it well logical to be able to play as them...i could i achieve this? any tutorials would be welcome...=)

[Discoskull]

There's a new faction possible for RTW 1.5 because the Senate slot has been opened.

There is indeed a new faction for 0.8, but the EB team hasn't released any info about it yet...though I don't think it will be anywhere near India.

Look at the Res Geastae (however you spell it) mod by Prometheus, and there you will find a rather awesome Indian faction with some very pretty elephants and the like.

[iberus_generalis]

and in 0.74 can the senate slot be opened? or the 1.2 version of rtw doesn't allow me to alter it?

[CountArach]

The Senate slot could only be opened if the Senate were actually used. AFAIK there is no way for the faction to be played without the senate missions. Also playing the faction would be highly unrecommended and likely unstable.

[abou]

That will be different with 0.8 since it uses 1.5, which can use the Senate slot by renaming the faction. There is a thread around here detailing how it was done, but yes, there will be another playable faction.

[Olaf The Great]

If its not the Sabeans its the Mauryans.

[Discoskull]

I hope it's the Sabeans. Arabia would be loads of fun in comparison to 7.4. Then I could finally play as the Ptolemaioi...

[Conqueror]

If its not the Sabeans its the Mauryans.

IIRC, the EB has stated (sometime, somewhere, unless my brain is totally dysfunctioning today) that the only way they could do a Mauryan faction justice is by expanding the map eastward, which they definetly won't be doing (see if you can dig up the old threads here on why they decided to remove the Yuezhi faction from 0.8). So no Mauryans in EB, unfortunate as that is.

[pezhetairoi]

and i think someone should do some reading up on that mountain goat thing the occultus faction has as its sigil, its habitat would give some hints as to what it was. Europe's out of the question though.

[iberus_generalis]

and in 1.2 can the senate slot be altered like they said they did in 1.5? or it's impossible to do in 1.2?


seing conqueror's sig, i got an idea...is there possible to add new events to the game? won't it mess up with the script? or can we safely add some new entries?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, as Conqueror mentions, we have stated that there definitely will not be an Indian faction in EB. It might be interesting right before the release to put a poll up just like the internal one - and see if what people wanted (not necessarily what we are in the 'bidness' of providing though) matches the one that we picked, and if the distribution among other factions was close to what ours was. Hmmmm

[Lusted]

Its impossible to edit the senate slot in 1.2 due to the fact that cultures are hardcoded in 1.2 and are not in 1.5. and as far as im aware you cannot edit new events.

[Geoffrey S]

and i think someone should do some reading up on that mountain goat thing the occultus faction has as its sigil, its habitat would give some hints as to what it was. Europe's out of the question though.

Originally posted by me in original topic:

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BTW, is it an ibex? That'd place the faction in North Africa, I'd think; I'm pretty sure I heard of a Nubian ibex somewhere.

Edit: a quick search in google for nubian ibex provided me with this:
http://www.digital-images.net/Images..._Ibex_4849.jpg
and the information that this creature is found in Egypt, Sudan, and the Arabian peninsula; habitat is mountainous, so that would mean the western and south ends of the Arabian peninsula. That would imply a Nubian faction or an Arabian faction in the areas currently known as Yemen and Oman.

Symbol also appears on a certain unit previewed.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

We thought about it - making Seluekids into senate. The biggest issue we were left with was having a button that crashed when you pushed it. There were other problems, but we figured out ways around most of them - that was one we could not.

[paullus]

its an ibex, and in the start period various species of them could be found all over the map, but primarily: in central europe, in spain, in libya, in arabia, and in central asia. perhaps in other places, but that's what i remember reading way back in the day when the image first came out. now, only certain of those had the long round horns like the image, but i don't recall which.

[Darkarbiter]

umm didnt an EB team member mention something about a faction starting with b as well as the saka

[paullus]

a faction starting with b? i don't recall that, and i've generally been a total ho with any of the "who's the last faction" threads. too bad i don't know of any good factions starting with "b" anyway.

TA, the poll sounds like a good idea. alternately, you could put together a faction preview (though I guess I'd rather have .8...are we getting close to the release btw?)

[Cheexsta]

The elusive Bartix faction, perhaps?

[CountArach]

Bastarnae are the only people I can think of off the top of my head... and that is almost a certain no.

[Discoskull]

Arabia! .8 Ptolemaioi AAR!

[Trithemius]

Bastarnae are the only people I can think of off the top of my head... and that is almost a certain no.

Blemmye? :/

[GiantMonkeyMan]

i'll have three guesses :
-a german faction to stop the flow of the sweboz, the alpine ibex was once common throughout all of germania and was apparently considered to have healing qualities
-a nubian/kushite faction, due to the nubian ibex and to stop the advancement of the ptolmies
-a bunch of turban wearing maniacs whose religious views means that they have to ride ibex into battle, only they often break to ibex's backs and thus they haven't expanded far (until now)

[Trithemius]

-a nubian/kushite faction, due to the nubian ibex and to stop the advancement of the ptolmies

Blemmye fits this, but is a bit too late for the EB start date.

[Krusader]

Belgae.

Yet, they were declining so not them.

[eadingas]

It's obviously the Boii!

(btw, the "B" rumour is completely unfounded, but it's fun to see you guess ;)

[Musopticon?]

I still think it's Saba or something similar, since the Arabian peninsula has wealth of rebel provinces and because that would spice the Desert Wars up.

[Conqueror]

I still think it's Saba or something similar, since the Arabian peninsula has wealth of rebel provinces and because that would spice the Desert Wars up.

Not to mention a whole lot of trade resources. A faction in there would help to keep them off greedy Ptolemaic hands.

[Ser.Cornelius Equitis]

I still think it's Saba or something similar, since the Arabian peninsula has wealth of rebel provinces and because that would spice the Desert Wars up.

I think its going to be Awsan. My first post actually.

[Trithemius]

It's obviously the Boii!

(btw, the "B" rumour is completely unfounded, but it's fun to see you guess ;)

Spoilsport!

[Tellos Athenaios]

Spoilsport!

But fun too!