New factions?

[Foot]

We have plans for the KH, and you shouldn't expect to play them in the same way as you would play another faction. You will need to balance internal politics between the three major city states in the alliance, and the more territory you gain, the more unstable the alliance becomes. But you will be able to solidify the alliance into something for stable through careful diplomacy between the different cities.

Foot

[Horatius Flaccus]

Does that mean that you can 'transform' into an empire?

[artaxerxes]

We have plans for the KH, and you shouldn't expect to play them in the same way as you would play another faction. You will need to balance internal politics between the three major city states in the alliance, and the more territory you gain, the more unstable the alliance becomes. But you will be able to solidify the alliance into something for stable through careful diplomacy between the different cities.

Foot

uh that sounds good, that sounds very good

[Mulceber]

We have plans for the KH, and you shouldn't expect to play them in the same way as you would play another faction. You will need to balance internal politics between the three major city states in the alliance, and the more territory you gain, the more unstable the alliance becomes. But you will be able to solidify the alliance into something for stable through careful diplomacy between the different cities.

Foot

Thanks for the info - I have no doubt that the EBII team will turn out something great for the KH. -M

[Cute Wolf]

Thanks for the info - I have no doubt that the EBII team will turn out something great for the KH. -M

Maybe Sparta, Athenai and Rhodos are separate factions....

Or did the team decide to create a "Pope" factions for KH scripting purpose?

[WinsingtonIII]

Maybe Sparta, Athenai and Rhodos are separate factions....

Or did the team decide to create a "Pope" factions for KH scripting purpose?

They're not going to split them. The team has said already that all EB1 factions will remain in, which means the KH will remain as one entity. Plus, three faction slots is a bit much to use for three city-states whose importance was historically in decline in this period.

I'm also fairly sure that the team has previously said that they will not use a faction slot for a "Pope" faction, although I might be wrong. I do remember that they ruled out the use of "crusades" as a feature (to represent migrations I believe) because they require a separate "Pope" faction, which makes it seem unlikely to me that they will include one. But, who knows?

[Mulceber]

I don't think you'd actually need the "pope" faction slot - Jihad in M2 doesn't make use of it, even though it functions in a similar manner to crusades. -M

[Cute Wolf]

Yeah, depending what they decide to use these labels... Catholic, Orthodox, Islam, Pagan, and Heretic.....

[bobbin]

I don't think you'd actually need the "pope" faction slot - Jihad in M2 doesn't make use of it, even though it functions in a similar manner to crusades. -M

Crusades need a papal faction as you need to ask somone to call one, jihads are done through agents and so don't need to do this.

[WinsingtonIII]

I don't think you'd actually need the "pope" faction slot - Jihad in M2 doesn't make use of it, even though it functions in a similar manner to crusades. -M

I know, that's why I said they only specifically ruled out crusades as a feature. They have left open the possibility of using jihads.

[Mulceber]

Oh ok, my bad - I saw that you said that they ruled out crusades, but didn't realize that you were intentionally leaving open jihads. -M