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    i found it on the EB site page intestation, im just curious, cant reconnaitre it.


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    Looks like an older model for some Roman unit.

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    Isn't it the 0.8 Marian legionary?
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    Quote Originally Posted by strategos alexandros
    Isn't it the 0.8 Marian legionary?
    hmm... cant'be, and im quite sure is not from 0.7x too...
    could it be somethink new?

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    Isn't it a foot unit general or centurion or how to call it (I mean that man which makes the additional 2 men with standard bearer)



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    That's been there for ages.
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    how stupid, it's a capitan i think... i didn't recall that...

    EDIT: ok im not sure anymore, i dont think it's a capitan...
    i dont know, boh?

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    He's got those "pinion" thingys at the shoulders, and those were Officers Only weren't they ? And the kinky-looking thing hanging over them privates only came to use during the Principate IIRC.

    I'm betting on either late-period infantry officer, or one of the late-period units that have since then gotten reskinned.
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    He is the Romans army icon on the map when the army has no general.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sdragon
    He is the Romans army icon on the map when the army has no general.
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    Yeck! Trousers! How barbaric.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sdragon
    He is the Romans army icon on the map when the army has no general.
    ah! you got it Sdragon, great eyes, thanks! but im a bit deluded too i thought it was somethink new the EB team was preparing for the legionaries... I must be sincere, i dont like very much those big faces, in the new skins for imperial units... so i hoped they were adding new heads...

    ok never mind i will take the big faces!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Obelics
    ok never mind i will take the big faces!
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    There was also "Do not show your fruit", but if you ask me that sounds vaguely perverse.
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    ahah! yes, i dont want to show that to the monkeys...

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    That's not a current or future unit model.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Obelics

    i will take the big faces!
    there was big and good discussion of this when EB 1.0 came out. I "believe" it was explained that yes the heads were indeed a lil' out of proportion which is what made them look big. I "believe" a new model will be introduced but... I don't know

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    Quote Originally Posted by NeoSpartan
    there was big and good discussion of this when EB 1.0 came out. I "believe" it was explained that yes the heads were indeed a lil' out of proportion which is what made them look big. I "believe" a new model will be introduced but... I don't know
    thanks, i thought i was the only strange guy, that didn't like them... while every other one thought they were very cool... now i feel much better hope they will consider to adopt a new model in the next versions.

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    It's been done for 1.1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla
    It's been done for 1.1.
    AH! Thanks! That's a great news!

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    Nobody responded to my comment on the trousers.

    May I ask why EB would portray Romans as wearing such an abominable item of clothing?
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    They nicked them from the barbarians, obviously. IIRC trousers sort of became synonymous with the miliatry, which also over the centuries developed a whole lot of other "barbarian" affectations.
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    I don't think they are supposed to be actual trousers. I think they are some kind of... for lack of a better word 'leggings'...


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    I'd say "breeches" would seem to come pretty close. Might count as some form of hose instead depending on details though.
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