Guess some of the new EB buildings

**Lord Gruffles** · 02-09-2007, 04:50

Oh, OK. I'll take one stab since I don't think I've seen this proposed.

#4, right off the bat, looks perhaps like the burial mountain for the Kings of Persia (don't remember the name to be honest.) You know, the one that Darius never quite made it to because he was defeated by Alexander.

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Gruffy - in the game the icons will be half the size of those, so they don't look as good really, but they are put together at 4X the size they are in-game, so the detail here is 2X and it looks a lot more detailed than the way you're used to seeing them. I haven't checked out MTW2 on this yet - I'd guess they (building icons) probably are the same old size still.

Don't down play them!

The fact remains.... THEY ARE GORGEOUS!!!!

More Kudos to the EB Team!

**abou** · 02-09-2007, 05:59

I can't help but look at 3 and think heavy, Germanic forests...

**Geoffrey S** · 02-09-2007, 08:04

The last one looks like that place in Greece, with something dedicated to Asklepion in the area. Forgotten what the exact name was. And number four, is it Syracuse?

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 02-09-2007, 08:23

I think that three could perhaps be a Sacred Grove of the Druids. Other than that I have no idea.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 02-09-2007, 08:54

I'll tell you that #3 is in Galatia. Anyone know of the name of the place?

hoom is awfully close with #2. Might as well chalk that one up too. It's a Carthaginian commemorative monument. Or funerary monument if you want to call it that - the constructed image is of the mausoleum at Dougga, but the icon is from the one at Sabratha in Libya. Another big one not shown here is the Souma of the Kroub, near Constantine. The one at Dougga is usually touted as the only remaining great monument of Punic architecture still standing on Tunisian soil (an evil Brit had almost completely demolished it in order to get at the biliingual Libyan and Punic inscription on it - now in the British Museum). Plus they are from the third and second centuries BC, so right up our alley. Also, it is not a unique - it can be built in many places in Qarthadastim lands (probably in type1 and type2 gov lands).

**cezarip** · 02-09-2007, 11:05

Ah, then #3 is the Drunemeton?
Hmm, to me they do not look line oaks...

Just out of curiosity, is Mount Olympus getting into 0.81?

**Gazius** · 02-09-2007, 12:16

I'm going to take a blind google assisted stab into the dark and say #1 is Xerxes' canal.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 02-09-2007, 16:32

Originally Posted by cezarip

Ah, then #3 is the Drunemeton?

Originally Posted by cezarip

Hmm, to me they do not look line oaks...

That was the pic that was submitted with the proposal. I'll get rid of it and find one that clearly has oak trees. What types of oak trees are found in Anatolia? I'd hate to get a type that wasn't found there at Ancyra.

Originally Posted by Gazius

I'm going to take a blind google assisted stab into the dark and say #1 is Xerxes' canal.

Well, you're kind of right, but kind of wrong. Xerxes canal might be cool, but it really doesn't do a lot for someone holding that province - no big trade benefit would result like at the diolkos at Corinth. The image of the canal in the icon is actually the canal at Potidea (not Xerxes' but another one (ancient I believe) on the Chalkidke), but it represents a canal we couldn't find images of - a canal in the Hayasdan province. Anyone know what it is?

As for the temples, they are Greek, but we generally don't include a temple as a unique. One of the exceptions is if it is in territory that is definitely not-greek at the game's start. This is a place with multiple large temples in one location (3, 2 are right next to each other) in territory not controlled by a greek faction or a greek rebel subfaction at the game's start.