EB: Voicemod Preview

[Anastasios Helios]

I absolutely love you people...when I first began playing I believed it to only be a small step up from RTR...EB is a magnificent work of scholarship, linguistics, and history. A few questions however...

Will the Saba faction begin to speak using the Punic voices or will there perhaps be a Proto-Semitic/Proto-Arabic script in the future?

Will the Saka continue to speak Keltic during their battles, or will they switch over to the Iranian Phalava tongue?

...And I love your work on the Greek language!

A thousand congrats and thanks

[Anastasios Helios]

Also..if one was to recruit the Yuzehi troops of the Tarim Basin region, could they potentially be speaking Tokharian on a future release of EB? Or Perhaps it could be the language of the Saka faction?

[Basileus Seleukeia]

Marvellous. All these volunteers cvan be proud of themselves! It fills me with glee to know that there is so much effort put into this significant mod. Keep up the excellent work, and you'll never fail to surprise me!

[Tellos Athenaios]

@Anastasios Garamantos: you can find the answers to most of your questions in Shigawire's reply, one page earlier.

[Shigawire]

About Saba - uncertain. We have a member who is convinced he can do a good job of reconstructing something similar.. but it's not a high pri.

[Jarardo]

Nice work

[The Persian Cataphract]

Also..if one was to recruit the Yuzehi troops of the Tarim Basin region, could they potentially be speaking Tokharian on a future release of EB? Or Perhaps it could be the language of the Saka faction?

Tocharian? Last time I checked when searching for a vocabulary on variants and deviation of Saka language (Khotanese Saka), I came across a very meagre word list of roughly 200 terms and phrases, which were of little to no consequence to EB context. It is useless for all purposes, lest there is some up to date scholarship around.

[Anastasios Helios]

I have access to a list of Tokharian words...there are only 200 known words which is a rather disappointing. You guys have impressed me quite a bit already...I can imagine you guys having contacts with archaeologists in Kazakhstan and China and one day reconstructing more of this language!

[The Persian Cataphract]

Well, if it is to any comfort, we do have options as far as nations that far east go. Tocharian may not be it, and the Khotanese Saka may at best be sparse, however we do have some very powerful resources for Sanskrit which will be of tremendous use. We can not rule out the future prospects for Aramaic or Syriac-related languages in order to add flavour to the Near East. This is merely a showcase on what kind of options we truly have at our disposal. We don't just stop once these projects are done.

[Intrepid Adventurer]

Whoa, this is awesome. I can't wait to hear the new mods in game. In fact, I can't wait for the new EB version to be released. But if you guys keep adding stuff like this, I *can* wait, haha.

By the way, I was wondering about the Germanic voicemod: do you have an actor already? I'm not saying I know ancient Germanic or something, but I'm Dutch and I might be able to do the accent right. Just offering, perhaps I can help you guys, perhaps not. (:

[Swordmaster]

Gotta have my share here:

[Tretii]

I am quite astonished by the extent of EB project. Such dedication of EB team is quite rare for monies these days and even rearer for free. This project must mean a lot for you guys and let me assure you it also means a lot for us, funs.

Keep up excellent work!

[HFox]

[FalkyMrsWilliams]

When will be released and uploaded these voicemods? And the new EB version?

I'm very impacient... I can't wait, it looks awesome. But if a better release of the new version needs more time... Take the time which you need, EB Team!

Congratulations for this great job that is EB. For me is the best mod for RTW.

Have a nice day, guys!

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

I can't wait to hear the proto-Germanic, then try to repeat it myself...

[FalkyMrsWilliams]

Well, when will be these voicemods and the EB new version finished and uploaded?

I only need know when, aproximatelly, because it seems great, and I can't wait.

[Foot]

Well, when will be these voicemods and the EB new version finished and uploaded?

I only need know when, aproximatelly, because it seems great, and I can't wait.

We don't know, they are all in different states of completeness. You'll just have to be paitent. We have no estimated release date for either the next EB build or the release of any one of these voicemods.

Foot

[Praxil]

All this for free (for me)? Goddamn!

[Shigawire]

Yes, just for you. 5 dolla.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yeah, everything only for 5 dolla. ...

[pezhetairoi]

But me, I give you best plais, thirty foh fifty. Ya.

That aside, I am loving you all more and more. A fear though, does this mean 0.9's already distant release date will be even more distant? NOOOOOOO......

[Shigawire]

No. I think EB 0.9 and 1.0 will be released without all the voicemods. Voicemods are not a prerequisite for releasing EB 1.0.

Maybe we can call it EB 1.1 when the first is done, then 1.2 when the next one.. and so on.. just speculating.

[Puupertti Ruma]

No. I think EB 0.9 and 1.0 will be released without all the voicemods. Voicemods are not a prerequisite for releasing EB 1.0.

Maybe we can call it EB 1.1 when the first is done, then 1.2 when the next one.. and so on.. just speculating.

The other neat thing about voice mods is that they can be ported to EB2 with minimal work! Yay!

This all is so exiting, the reforms, voice mods, new units, upcoming EB2 and especially for me the all new map!

[Tellos Athenaios]

^^ Exactly. In fact, the very first rough ideas of how the Prebattle Speeches should be done (concepted by keravnos) were done with the port to M2TW in mind!

[I Am Herenow]

Casse ... would have spoken a dialect of Gallic (K-Celtic) ... the Goidilic hammermen could use the Q-Celtic ... Lusotannan will use Lusitanian ... for the Saka-Rauka and Sauromatae, ... the Iron dialect of Ossetic would probably be best suited. For Saka-Rauka, a mixture of Khotanese Saka with Pashton.

We can not rule out the future prospects for Aramaic or Syriac-related languages in order to add flavour to the Near East.

So your ideal scenario for EB1, once you had finished all translations and voicemods, would be as follows:

Key: Completed Work has started Work has not started

• Aedui - Gallic
• Arche Seleukeia - Greek [Arche Seleukeia accent]
• Arverni - Gallic
• Baktria - Greek [Baktria accent]
• Casse - K-Celtic (P-Celtic and Q-Celtic for some units)
• Epeiros - Greek [Epeiros accent]
• Getai - ?
• Hayasdan - Armenian
• Karthadastim - Punic
• Koinon Hellenon - Greek [Koinon Hellenon accent]
• Lusotannan - Lusitanian
• Makedonia - Greek [Makedonia accent]
• Pahlava - Pahlavi
• Pontos - Greek [Pontos accent]
• Ptolemaioi - Greek [Ptolemaioi accent]
• Romani - Latin
• Saba - Proto-Arabic
• Saka - Khotanese Saka and Pashton
• Sauromatae - Ossetic [Iron dialect]
• Sweboz - Proto-Germanic
• Eleutheroi - All of the above, and Aramaic

Am I correct? Also, what do you plan to do with the Getai?

The very first rough ideas of how the Prebattle Speeches should be done (concepted by keravnos) were done with the port to M2TW in mind!

Does that mean that insane generals will produce insane speeches, like in Vanilla M2, albeit in Ancient Greek etc.?

[Aranor]

Wow these are so cool! Can wait to play the next release!

[Kahju]

[*]Saba - Proto-Arabic

I'm pretty sure Sabaeans should speak Sabaean language, not "Proto-Arabic".

[I Am Herenow]

Well, I don't know - I'm no history expert - it's just that someone suggested it in an earlier post.

[Tellos Athenaios]

So your ideal scenario for EB1, once you had finished all translations and voicemods, would be as follows:

Key: Completed Work has started Work has not started

• Aedui - Gallic
• Arche Seleukeia - Greek [Arche Seleukeia accent]
• Arverni - Gallic
• Baktria - Greek [Baktria accent]
• Casse - K-Celtic (P-Celtic and Q-Celtic for some units)
• Epeiros - Greek [Epeiros accent]
• Getai - ?
• Hayasdan - Armenian
• Karthadastim - Punic
• Koinon Hellenon - Greek [Koinon Hellenon accent]
• Lusotannan - Lusitanian
• Makedonia - Greek [Makedonia accent]
• Pahlava - Pahlavi
• Pontos - Greek [Pontos accent]
• Ptolemaioi - Greek [Ptolemaioi accent]
• Romani - Latin
• Saba - Proto-Arabic
• Saka - Khotanese Saka and Pashton
• Sauromatae - Ossetic [Iron dialect]
• Sweboz - Proto-Germanic
• Eleutheroi - All of the above, and Aramaic

Am I correct? Also, what do you plan to do with the Getai?

First of all, I am somewhat amused by your EB project managing. It somehow exactly captures the way we do this inside EBH...

Secondly, you can just about forget accents. It's difficult enough already to get some Americans with about zero knowledge of the language pronouncing the standard Attic clause correctly. And that is one of the best attested dialects; we actually have sources on how to pronounce certain letters. (There are examples of transcribed animal sounds; such as beta-epsilon-beta-eta for sheep. The best guide to pronounce eta's, no?)

Besides, we already have some dialects covered: we have some seadogs adding some Ionic; we have some Cavalry insisting on Makedonian versions...

Does that mean that insane generals will produce insane speeches, like in Vanilla M2, albeit in Ancient Greek etc.?

No, it's more the way how we want to use some code characteristics to our benefit.

[agua]

hi everyone, long time player/lurker, first time poster.

I'll leave my many words of praise for this mod where it is appropriate, but as an audio dude I was wondering if the team might comment on the mics they used and the signal path? For the group captures did you use ORTF or XY or did you just capture in mono?

Sound for video games is a niché I might pursue eventually.

An aside on the subject of languages, part of my homework this weekend is translating bits and pieces of the code of hammurapi and next week we're diving back into parts of the epic of gilgamesh.

This has been one of my favorites parts of this mod. Keep up the amazing work and I'm really pumped to hear the mod.

Edit: BTW, if anyone really want to be tickled with their sound, buy a good pair of professional mixing headphones. It's amazing. I think my headphones (Sennheiser HD 650's) get used for playing games more than mixing at the moment.