52 playable factions!

[abou]

It would be great if some of the fans were willing to take that upon themselves. For a while there was development of the EB Late Period Project, but it never got off the ground. Good starting dates would probably be around 172 BC and 72 BC, which leave the option for resurgences of several Mediterranean states.

It is something that I hope fans seriously consider. With sub-mods such as Asia ton Barbaron, the potential is obviously there. It is just more of a matter of whether the fans want to get organized and put things together. Just, please, no lorica segmentata.

[Mecha Pope]

Yes, it would be great to have the kind of fan enthusiasum to pull such a project together. The skill too, someone like me would be worthless for anything but research, if that; I may be a history major, but my University has a very limeted amount of material pertaining to the clasical period that can't be easily found on the internet.

Great idea, but like I said it would have to be fan created, we can't hardly ask the EB team for any more than they've already given us. I'm personally shocked that they're going through with the effort of making EBII at all, they've already busted thier asses on EBI for so long; it's an insperational testement to thier dedication that the long-standing mod members are still at it.

[bovi]

It would be great if some of the fans were willing to take that upon themselves. For a while there was development of the EB Late Period Project, but it never got off the ground. Good starting dates would probably be around 172 BC and 72 BC, which leave the option for resurgences of several Mediterranean states.

It is something that I hope fans seriously consider. With sub-mods such as Asia ton Barbaron, the potential is obviously there. It is just more of a matter of whether the fans want to get organized and put things together. Just, please, no lorica segmentata.

Actually, for a starting date of 72 BC the LS is conceivable, presuming of course that the gameplay exceeds the current end at 14 AD. You would be able to use the unit slots of the Camillan troops for sure, and as the Marian reforms happened in 107 BC I would think that the whole Polybian roster would be gone by then too.

[abou]

I was considering that the game would still end at 14 AD. At least that would decrease the need to be modeling a lot of new units by the fans. Even then, I think a case could be made that when we see LS depicted in art it was more a matter of differentiation between Roman and Auxiliary troops (i.e. Trajan's Column) rather than a concrete indication of equipment.