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

**Connacht** · 03-19-2009, 20:58

Originally Posted by bobbin

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** · 03-20-2009, 09:08

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

Who was this guy??

**Zett** · 03-20-2009, 12:06

Originally Posted by Dutchhoplite

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)

Originally Posted by sgsandor

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** · 03-20-2009, 12:11

Originally Posted by Zett

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

Either that or the old Hippeis Thessalikoi skin.

**MeinPanzer** · 03-22-2009, 02:14

Originally Posted by Connacht

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.