EB's Removed Units (Nostalgia thread, not "how to get them back")

[SwissBarbar]

Both the Iberian Dosidataskeli and their Goidelic equivalent were removed, as were the Goidelic Ordemalica (hammermen). I don't recall the Teuton mercs, but that section of the EB website hasn't been updated in a long time. Note for example the Bruttian infantry, which also never made it to the game (IIRC that skin got lost too).

The bruttian infantry didn't make it into the game? how do you mean that. I had armies with Pezoi Brettioi in my Arverni campaign

[bobbin]

The bruttian infantry didn't make it into the game? how do you mean that. I had armies with Pezoi Brettioi in my Arverni campaign

He's talking about a particular skin, the unit made it in, just with a different skin

Does anyone have a picture of that removed Yuezhi unit that was mentioned?

AFAIK the Yuezhi remained fairly unfinished and only had a few faction specific units made for them before they were removed, of those this is the only one that is not still in the game.

Sampul Spearmen

[Banzai!]

Damn you RTW hardcoded unit limit!
Quinctilius Varus, give me back my Irish Hammer Infantry - It's Hammer time!

[bobbin]

I don't think any of the units were removed due to unit limitations (EB still has a lot of unit slots left), mostly due to them being found to be ahistorical or in the wrong timeframe.

[Labrat]

I don't think any of the units were removed due to unit limitations (EB still has a lot of unit slots left), mostly due to them being found to be ahistorical or in the wrong timeframe.

Specifically, one person campaigned to have the heavy Goidelic units removed because they were ahistorical, and the team's Celtic experts could not be contacted and had not left information about their sources. Unless these sources are found, the units will not make it to EB2. The Dosidataskeli are IIRC historical, but so rare that they would not have been around much.

[chairman]

Damn you RTW hardcoded unit limit!
Quinctilius Varus, give me back my Irish Hammer Infantry - It's Hammer time!

for this awesome double reference!

Chairman

[Connacht]

AFAIK the Yuezhi remained fairly unfinished and only had a few faction specific units made for them before they were removed, of those this is the only one that is not still in the game.

Sampul Spearmen

Nice unit.
I would like to reintroduce it in the game, has anybody still got skins, models and whatever is related to these Sampul guys?

[Dutchhoplite]

I've noticed him a long time on the EB page :)

Who was this guy??

[Zett]

I've noticed him a long time on the EB page :)

Who was this guy??

I think it's an older skin of the Hippeis Xystophoroi (Greek Noble Cavalry)

Darth Stalin made a mini mod to get the old imperial cohorts and evocati (sp) back look for it in the mods section i have it and love it

Has it been updated to 1.2? I know that their is an updated version of it in ||Lz3||s Mini Mod Pack but I only want to change the skins and I'm too lazy to search the files in the Mini Mod Pack, that are needed to change skin, unitcards and so on.

Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam

[Labrat]

I think it's an older skin of the Hippeis Xystophoroi (Greek Noble Cavalry)[/IMG]

Either that or the old Hippeis Thessalikoi skin.

[MeinPanzer]

Nice unit.
I would like to reintroduce it in the game, has anybody still got skins, models and whatever is related to these Sampul guys?

Considering these guys are based on a tapestry found at Sampula in the Tarim basin which is early 1st c. AD and shows strong affinities with depictions of figures on textiles from the Noin-Ula burials in Mongolia of the Hsiung-nu, this unit is very likely anachronistic, if not outright wrong in representation. The figure on the tapestry is very likely a Hsiung-nu noble. I can't identify what the shield is based on, but I've not found any information on shields from the EB timeframe in the Tarim basin.

[bobbin]

Nice unit.
I would like to reintroduce it in the game, has anybody still got skins, models and whatever is related to these Sampul guys?

See my post earlier in the thread (number 19) about doing that, the download is 138mb so it's not too big.