EB Preview :: Hegemones tou Stratou

[Krusader]

Greetings Europa Barbarorum fans.

Work on the next EB release is going smoothly, in fact workload has increase in the later days.

To show you how much work has been done here are some generals for you to view while waiting. These will be your family members, the male members of the royal family (or noble houses of Qarthadast) who will lead your armies to great victories or devastating defeats.

Thanks goes to stefan25 for these excellent generals. And to Caratacos for drawing the awesome shields and to Forgus for his aid on Baktrian shield! And also thanks to spirit of Rob for the Klerouchikoi Phalangitai at bottom of the preview.

Generals

Epeiros


Makedonia


Arche Seleukeia


Ptolemaioi


Baktria


Qarthadastim


Koinon Hellenon (retouch)

Shields

Arche Seleukeia: This shield shows Apollo on the Omphallos surrounded with the framing motifs from the Philip II shield. The Apollo is the overwhelmingly dominant motif on Seleukid coins from this era and continues to be so until Antiochos IV.


Epeiros: This shield depicts the fearsome Kerberos, the three headed beast that guards the gates of the Underworld. Such a fitting image, for the leaders of the regions where the cruel Acheron river flows.


Makedonia: Motifs from the "Philip II" shield, with 7 half-circles surrounding the 8 pointed Makedonian star.


Ptolemaioi: The central theme is the Ptolemaic eagle gripping he thunderbolt, surrounded by Horus Egyptian motifs. This shows the actual fusion between both cultures.

The shields for Baktria & Qarthadastim contain graphical nudity, which is why they are clickable links instead of thumbnails.
View at own discretion:

Baktria
The shield shows Dionysos, the god of the arts and altered-consciousness. Here he is flanked by his followers the Maenads after they had ripped Pentheus to pieces in the woods - his head rests under Dionysos' foot. It is said that in early times Dionysos had conquered Baktria and brought the art of wine to the region; hence the importance of Dionysos to the Hellenics in Baktria.

Qarthadastim
This shield shows the image of Melkart/Melqart, the patron god of Tyre, Carthage`s mother city. He`s the Phoenician version of Herakles, and as such, he`s depicted killing the Nemean Lion, the first of Herakles`s 12 Labors.




And as a little bonus:
Kleruouchikoi Phalangitai Showcase

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We hope you have enjoyed this preview of the new generals.
Please note that unless stated otherwise, ALL pictures, names, and descriptions shown in our previews are works in progress. We continue to improve on all parts of EB, and we will continue to do so long after our initial release.
Since some areas where these news items are posted cannot handle wide images, we appreciate your restraint from quoting full-size images.
As always, if you have questions or comments, the best place to post them is here, where the EB team is most active:

Europa Barbarorum ORG forum

Europa Barbarorum TWC forum

We give special thanks to PicOodle that provides us with a simple, foolproof, and free way to show you all these pictures each week.

Have a great day!


Sincerely,

The Europa Barbarorum team.

[Kampfkrebs]

FIRST!

Look great, as usual

[Subedei]

Got to love the Epeiros Shield!!!! Thanks for the preview....

[Karielle]

Baktria has an interesting shield.. o_O

Anyway, great work, they all look absolutely amazing!

[Laevex]

Great work! All of this is stunning.
Loving the Ptolemaoi shield. It has a really supreme, imperial look and blends Hellenic and Egyptian cultures nicely.

[Geoffrey S]

Very smart work, should make them extremely distinctive on the battlefield.

[Kepper]

great work

[Krusader]

Thanks for the comments.

Preview has been updated.

[Strategos Alexandros]

The Epeiros, Quarthadastim and Ptolemaioi generals are brilliant! great work

[paullus]

Glad y'all are liking them! Stefan has done amazing work with them, and Rob's klerouchoi phalangitai are some of my favorite incoming features for the next release.

[keravnos]

Very smart work, should make them extremely distinctive on the battlefield.

On behalf of all of us, thanks Geoffrey, that was one main concerns, and it is very comforting to see that we actually made them different enough.

[Rhipsaspis]

Absolutely beautiful work!!! I'm looking forward to the next version so badly!

[shlin28]

Great Work!!!

[Digby Tatham Warter]

Absolutely beautiful work!!!

I second that, adds more depth to the game when each faction has it's own flair.

There's some very detailed work gone into those puppies, well done everyone.

Ps thanks for the extra pikeman link, not everyone's cup of tea, but I do like my pikes, and Arche Seleukeia will no doubt be getting another outing.

[burn_again]

Yeah, great work! So many details on the generals... I think I'll have to start a new hellenic campaign when the next version is there.

[Lovejoy]

Great Work!!! I love the new generals. The new Shields are almost too good! But my favorites are the new Klerouchikoi Phalangitai units(I hope you make em recruitable in more areas then before, they are gonna be my new backbone of my hellenistic armies) . I cant wait for the next version! <3 <3 <3 <3

[keravnos]

The following quote depicts in almost absolute detail what those Hellenistic Generals were... Alexander wannabe's to the extreme, but Megas Alexandros was only ONE.

... is the Hellenistic monarch par excellence, his career driven by megalomaniacal ambitions leading to murderous assaults upon family and followers and disastrous foreign adventures against superior forces. His idealized portraiture attempts to mimic the gods with its bold staring gaze and unruly, free-flowing hair, but at its most extreme is a personification of hysteria in its Dionysiac sense.

Who do you think this description is talking about?

No, not the one that comes to mind... Hey, try to at least guess before clicking on the button below...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

If link doesn't work copy paste it into a new explorer/firefox window

http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotvie...cID=99&Lot=353

results will surprise you

[Swiss Halberd Pike Landsknecht]

looks great

sorry if this is a stupid question, but is this work for a newer version of EB for RTW (as I thought 0.81final was the last one) or for M2TW,

but I guess it must be for RTW as it's obviously in this section

[Sarkiss]

The following quote depicts in almost absolute detail what those Hellenistic Generals were... Alexander wannabe's to the extreme, but Megas Alexandros was only ONE.



Who do you think this description is talking about?

No, not the one that comes to mind... Hey, try to at least guess before clicking on the button below...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

If link doesn't work copy paste it into a new explorer/firefox window

http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotvie...cID=99&Lot=353

results will surprise you

i knew it was him

[I Am Herenow]

looks great

sorry if this is a stupid question, but is this work for a newer version of EB for RTW (as I thought 0.81final was the last one) or for M2TW,

but I guess it must be for RTW as it's obviously in this section

It's for the new RTW version of EB; as you rightly said, EB2 stuff is in the EB2 Forum. The current version is called "0.81afinal" because it's the last version that will be called "0.8"-something: that simply means that the next release of EB (for RTW) will be called 0.9 or higher.


Now for my own question: what does the title mean?

I know it's got something to do with rule and rulers, but that's only from GK - never actually studied Greek so I need some help with understanding it

[Geoffrey S]

Leaders of the armies I think.

[keravnos]

Leaders of the armies I think.

"Leaders of the army", correct!

[Thaatu]

About the Bactrian shield... I prefer the blond, although the dark haired is also very cute. The severed head is outright sexy.

[Swiss Halberd Pike Landsknecht]

It's for the new RTW version of EB; as you rightly said, EB2 stuff is in the EB2 Forum. The current version is called "0.81afinal" because it's the last version that will be called "0.8"-something: that simply means that the next release of EB (for RTW) will be called 0.9 or higher.


Now for my own question: what does the title mean?

I know it's got something to do with rule and rulers, but that's only from GK - never actually studied Greek so I need some help with understanding it

oh right

wasn't too aware about 0.9, not sure when that would be done, and whether we would need to uninstall everything (EB & RTW), or just install a eb 0.9 exe that would 'upgrade' it

I haven't had too much time to play in general, but have really enjoyed EB so far

[TWFanatic]

Gorgeous! I believe these skins are so beautiful that they will transcend the battlefield, making the RPG factor in the campaign even more exciting, something at which EB already excels. I anticipate the personal touch they will give each faction.

[Andronikos]

Bingo, you are great, guys! I am really looking forward to the new EB.

[Watchman]

Awesomeness. These actually make me sort of understand why back in the day people who could afford to had as much ornamentation tacked onto their war gear as they could.

...and I've got the Seleukid and Ptolemaic one pegged as the shared first place for peacockry... which really seems only appropriate in a way.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

The Generals look fantastic! I especially like the Seleukid one, but the Bactrian shield is... well sexy that's it!

[madmatg]

i am so very excited about generals being in the game! i cant wait to fight with 2 or 3 family members in an army!

[Lysander13]

Those Generals look outstanding. Truly looking forward to getting my hands on the next version.