Out of pure curiosity...

**Arjos** · 08-19-2010, 12:43

Units or something related to their assimilation by the romans (about this last one it just came to my mind the new "peoples" buildings)...

If elements of civilization is wrong, which word is more suited? (English isn't my first language)

**Mediolanicus** · 08-19-2010, 15:15

Originally Posted by Arjos

Units or something related to their assimilation by the romans (about this last one it just came to my mind the new "peoples" buildings)...

If elements of civilization is wrong, which word is more suited? (English isn't my first language)

Well.. You have just answered your own question.
Their culture is assimilated with early Roman culture. So yeah, the Romans will be portraited as Romans.

**Arjos** · 08-19-2010, 15:38

I remember of Etruscans fighting aside the Boii and Senones, and even involved during the Social War...
In EBI it was like they never existed...

**Moros** · 08-19-2010, 16:10

The answer is yes. More details will follow in a preview or a release in the future.

**Mediolanicus** · 08-19-2010, 16:13

IIRC when the Etruria region in EB I rebelled, the rebels were called "Etruscans". I don't know how else they could be represented by the game enigne. IMO they were not any different from the Oscans, Samnites, Romans, or any other Italian people that was part of the SPQR in 270BC.

Probably we'll get some information in the province description.

**Arjos** · 08-19-2010, 16:35

Originally Posted by Mediolanicus

IMO they were not any different from the Oscans, Samnites, Romans, or any other Italian people that was part of the SPQR in 270BC.

Well they wouldn't arm themselves as Hastati and Equites for example...
There was even a Cohors Perusina ^^

**Power2the1** · 08-20-2010, 01:33

Originally Posted by Arjos

I remember of Etruscans fighting aside the Boii and Senones, and even involved during the Social War...
In EBI it was like they never existed...

There is one Northern Italian unit that is composed of Celts and Etruscans planned, and another already done is Gallic with Etruscan influences in it's arms and armor. You could refer to it as Gallo-Etruscan.

**antisocialmunky** · 08-20-2010, 04:25

Didn't they have some sort of very odd probably Asiatic language?

**Arjos** · 08-20-2010, 06:06

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Didn't they have some sort of very odd probably Asiatic language?

Seems like they migrated from Anatolia after the bronze age collapse, but other say that they where native...
BTW great news Power2the1 ^^

**Tellos Athenaios** · 08-20-2010, 07:02

Well there are province descriptions for that kind of thing. Unit wise you shouldn't expect much, certainly not for the first or second release: Etruria is undoubtedly a fascinating regions with a strong expression of its local culture *but* like on Sardinia it is already occupied by a major power (which is going to take precedence over a the quirks of a region) and on its own it will never be more than a mildly interesting rebel province.

**Cyclops** · 08-20-2010, 07:26

Originally Posted by Arjos

Seems like they migrated from Anatolia after the bronze age collapse, but other say that they where native...
BTW great news Power2the1 ^^

Yeah one of those situatons. Obviously they have a cultural link to the east and adopt a lot of Greek ideas so an Aegean origin (at least for some of the ruling class) is quite probable, but there's heaps of continuity in the material culutre as well, so i'm guessing a great proportion of Etruscans were locals. Maybe a similar situation to "Celts" in the British Isles? Or English/Lallans speakers in Scotland?