Preview: The Gaza Campaign

[keravnos]

Wow. Simply stunning. Amazing graphics and unit diversity.

However, why did the two pike phalanxes just sit there and do absolutely nothing? Some of the animations also look a bit wrong (such as the cavalry one; they look like medieval knights in a charge than what they really are). Is there any way to import the old RTW animations? Nevertheless, I have to admit the majority of the animations were much better than the RTW ones. Do the soldiers still deliver that deathblow, like in vanilla M2TW?

Not to mention, the soldier's faces look a bit funny. Rather childish than the fierce grimaces they should be. EB I has pretty good soldier faces, but the same cannot be said about other mods. Are the skins shown in the video final or are they still in development?

There were horsemen back then who did fight like medieval knights with the spear couched, aka the "Longchophoroi". Earlier Hippeis would fight with the spear overhand as you say. They would also carry a smaller "cavalry" aspis.

If you are interested, check some online pictures of your Namesakes' dedication to Delphi after he defeated Perseus (Thanks DeathEmperor). You will see that they carry the large shield that are portrayed using at the video.

They weren't the only ones of course,