Rome 2 - SCREENS

[Arjos]

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Beside the first, which although has nice skins, all it gives me is: that's not how you use it :P And the elephants look rather indian to me...
I really like the Hastati (I think they are) in the third one, look really accurate and I wonder how the fortifications will work in building them or if they will just spawn in sieges...
Also the fire looks pretty authentic ^^

[Fisherking]

... :P And the elephants look rather indian to me...

Didn’t you know that the big elephants of ancient times were the Asian Elephants?

The elephants used mostly in Carthage and Egypt were smaller forest elephants of a type that are now extinct. They only stood about 8 feet tall but there are still accounts of them carrying towers on their backs.

The large Syrian Elephants are also extinct now. They were said to stand as much as 15 feet at the shoulder and were as large or larger than the biggest African Bush Elephants.

It is thought that a couple of these big elephants were in the ones Hannibal brought across the Alps. They were very prized as war elephants, larger than the ones remaining in India and the far east today.

[Arjos]

That's Carthage in 148 BC, as you said there should be forest elephants instead (if at all!)...
Good point for the Syrian imports though (it's even possible that they were indian elephants, brought there or raised in Syria), but as a very small minority in a carthaginian army...

Still I wouldn't like to see all elephants in the game being indian...
Especially the body paint, doesn't look like a lybian or phoenician motive...

[Barkhorn1x]

I love the ramshackle look of the siege towers. Those things were not built to last after all.

[Vuk]

hhmmm...they are pretty, but there are some worrying historical inaccuracies. Am I wrong, or are they portraying the falcata as being of far lower quality steel than the Roman swords. I thought that the Romans were pretty amazed when they found out how high quality the Spanish falcatas were. They were also typically ornamented too I had read. Why does the one in that first pic look like it is made of some pretty crappy metal by a mediocre smith? Am I just reading too much into that?

Honestly, I really don't care how many screens they put out. I just wanna see a video. Don't get me wrong, I would rather they didn't rush the game, but that is the media I am dying to see.

[hoom]

Well at the start of the 3rd Punic war the Carthaginians handed over all their main war gear & had to quickly manufacture new gear when the Romans demanded such extreme peace terms, so it may be legit in that context.
Also that may just be either a 'militia' quality blade (better weapons from upgraded weaponsmiths) or simply covered in blood/damaged from the battle.

[Arjos]

Afaik ornamentations were on the scabbard and handle, not on the blade. And as hoom said it was something typical of the noble classes...
Those in the picture look like a rather regular mercenary band of Caetrati...

[Martok]

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Wow, that's some pretty serious scenery porn. Now if they pay as much attention to the gameplay & AI as the visuals, I'll be a happy Klingon.