adding known generals and kings

**anubis88** · 06-07-2007, 19:50

Hi! i was wondering if it were possible that throught scripting you could add certain characters? Like Hannibal becoming 18 in the actual year that he became 18 and becoming a general with great possibilites? and to add other important characters like Philip V, Tigranes, Mithirad, Scipio Africanus and so on? Of course with their biographys included

I noticed tha Hamilcar appears with Carthage about 15 years in the game with his biography, so i was wondering if there were plans to make other historical characters to appear in game

Cheers

**abou** · 06-07-2007, 19:56

Yes, they can be added, but we won't. EB is not about rigidly portraying history for 300 years, but about giving you a start date to work with. Other generals like Pompey or Hannibal gained prominence because of specific situations and we will not force that on the player.

What if Hamilcar died?
What if there was no Social War for Pompey to distinguish himself?

See what I mean?

**Caesar89** · 06-07-2007, 20:18

so no Julius Caesar? ah big shame, i was so lucking forward to conquering gaul with him. I think it would be great if more historical characters were added, i dont see how it would restrict the campaign as different players could use them in different ways.

**Pharnakes** · 06-07-2007, 20:29

Do a minimod, I think quite a few people would be interested.

**abou** · 06-07-2007, 20:35

Originally Posted by Caesar89

so no Julius Caesar? ah big shame, i was so lucking forward to conquering gaul with him. I think it would be great if more historical characters were added, i dont see how it would restrict the campaign as different players could use them in different ways.

Does anyone read Sci-Fi books anymore?

If you alter an event in history what follows afterwards has a high probability of being changed. To make history happen exactly as it occurred would greatly restrict the player.

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**Pharnakes** · 06-07-2007, 20:45

It'd still be quite fun to have people like that pop up every now and then though, afterall, as he said you don't have to use them. But for example, I know alot of people try to do historical roman expansion, in which case a few figures like that would be fun, no?

Ohh, and that link dosen't work for me, but let me geuss: back to the future?

**abou** · 06-07-2007, 21:03

The movie is Primer, although Back to the Future could work as well

And look, someone needs to put an end to this whole "playing Rome with historic expansion" thing. There is a big difference between playing Rome historically and artificially mimicking Roman expansion.

**M V Agrippa** · 06-09-2007, 07:07

Originally Posted by abou

What if there was no Social War for Pompey to distinguish himself?

I thought Pompey came to prominance after the Social War fighting for Sulla in his war with the Marian forces after Sulla got back for defeating Mithridates VI in The First Mithridatic War.