EB for ETW ideas

[Mulceber]

naval battles would be fun in EB, but as stated before, I'm not sure if it would work properly for a couple reasons:

1. triremes were primarily intended for ramming, whereas 18th century vessels did almost none of that (and never intentionally)

2. the game apparently requires you to sail with the currents, and I'm not sure if the AI would be able to figure out oars, which would obviously negate that, although it could add an interesting component to naval combat - rowing allows you to go where you want, but tires your men out faster, sailing tires them out more slowly, but you're reliant on the wind.

Also, I'm not sure that land combat would work as well either, since ETW is focusing pretty much on ranged combat and RTW is mostly melee.

However, I could see this game also opening up a lot of opportunities.

50 available factions means we could add close to 20 factions to EB - thus allowing for Numidia, several more barbarian tribes, syrakousai, India and several other important (but regrettably too small) factions to be represented.

better AI means we might not have to endure all the complaints about the RTW AI

More available provinces means we could also perhaps extend the map even further, encompassing all of India, and perhaps even getting in some or all of China, as well as exploring some of the subsaharan african cultures from that time. The sky's the limit. Heck, if we get enough writers/programmers, it would theoretically be possible to do a world campaign. Think about it, now when you say "I just conquered the world with my ______ faction, you'd actually mean it!" -M