Twitter discussion

**DaciaJC** · 09-28-2009, 20:33

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

That hoplite is getting impaled by a newly skinned unit. Can you guess by whom?

I require that more of the image is shown in order that I may make an educated guess. At the moment, it appears as though a horse head shooting spears from its right eye has been photoshopped into the picture.

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 09-28-2009, 22:29

Getai Light Cavalry?

**Griggori** · 09-28-2009, 23:40

Originally Posted by Frontline1944

it appears as though a horse head shooting spears from its right eye has been photoshopped into the picture.

Best. Unit. Ever.

**Christianus** · 10-01-2009, 11:56

"A little experiment: http://yfrog.com/15snapshotqp
about 3 hours ago from choqoK"

Ehhh?

**bobbin** · 10-01-2009, 13:17

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

**-Almogaver-** · 10-01-2009, 16:12

interesting...

**Phalanx300** · 10-01-2009, 17:05

Finished the model of an sweboz spearman unit. -Tux

Seems like there's a lot of focus on the Germanic and Dacian units lately.

**Mister V** · 10-01-2009, 18:15

Originally Posted by bobbin

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

No way, the quick brown fox must be a new unit. After release I'm sure we'll see whining threads about how "the QBRs are way overpowered!!1" and then someone will bring up evidence to support their claim that lazy dogs are, in fact, not as lazy as they seem.

Seriously, though, even though I don't use Twitter, this thread reassures me that there is constant progress. I'm prepared to wait as long as necessary, but it's always good to see the progress bar going forward, even if it's by 1 pixel.

**-Praetor-** · 10-01-2009, 19:31

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

So, please don't think that because we don't say anyrthing the work isn't getting done. Perhaps we're too busy working on the mod that we don't have time to give you a preview!

Just stay tunned. Some day, your patience will be rewarded with a preview or something more.

**Phalanx300** · 10-01-2009, 19:43

But on Proto-Germanic, I've read that it has been reconstructed using modern Germanic Languages and going back. Do you guys get you information about it somewhere or do you reconstruct the language yourselfs?

**The General** · 10-01-2009, 20:04

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

*Eyes widen open*

So... much... done... awesome!

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

Says who? That would be most interesting to read... Not to perhaps everyone, of course, but to some, myself included. Every now and then I waste hours clicking related articles links on Wikipedia's linguistic articles.