RotN Faction Preview - CARTHAGINIAN EMPIRE

[hæressiarch]

thank you for your nice comments friends more to come today

[hæressiarch]

updated

phoenician marine and gaesatae added

[dmesa]

Very nice haer

[magpie]

Great stuff haer, shields and tatoo,s look great on those new gauls.

[florin80]

Are all your carthaginian standard bearers sharing the same model?

[hæressiarch]

@ florin80

hi. there are 4 standard bearers models per faction. rome will probably have 6 different types of models.

[dmesa]

Nice news. I love the Carthaginian ones , i want to see some other eye-candy standard bearers for the gauls/barbarians, because they're generally crappy in other mods =)!

[hæressiarch]

soon dear friend. for now i need to finish all updates, cause we are very late with previews of other factions and i want to show massylii, iberians and gauls very soon.

[Sunbird Alkibijad]

Like the beard detail here, lovely stuff

[Svyatoslav]

Great work, one of the best units, if not the best, i've ever seen.

[Pompeius Magnus]

It's an amazing preview, very detailed descriptions and phantastic units.
I wish you the best for finishing your project.

[hæressiarch]

@ Pompeius Magnus

thank you Pompey . i hope you will like next previews too . the one we planned for last week was delayed. the reasos are:
1. i was unsatisfied with how some of our units looks
2. i was re-modelling few multiunits (lots of work with skin modifiers and stuff...)
3. i've meet with hamsha and she told me exactly what we need to change to improve things
but it's closer and closer now. i only need to add etruscans and ligurians...

[dmesa]

very nice news haer...this preview was astounding i'm waiting for tha next anxiously !

[Quintus Augustus]

This preview was so in depth i dont dont know what to say lol. those units look beutifal.

[hæressiarch]

@ Quintus Augustus

thank you Pirates and I we are both proud, but soon we will be even more proud. some of carthaginian units will be re-made in short time and their allies will be updated .

best regards

[Quintus Augustus]

@ Quintus Augustus

thank you Pirates and I we are both proud, but soon we will be even more proud. some of carthaginian units will be re-made in short time and their allies will be updated .

best regards

dont mention and i cant wait. the roman preview was just as good as this one. lovin the stuff

[Mile007]

First time seeing this and i can just say perfect!

[hæressiarch]

@ Mile007

we are honoured. welcome in the RotN world

[Edelward]

Why do you call Carthage an Empire ?

[hæressiarch]

it's simple because:

politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy (like suffets in carthage). fits well isn't it?
geopolitically, the term empire has denoted very different, territorially-extreme states —
at the strong end, the extensive spanish empire (16th c.) and the british empire (19th c.), at the weak end, the holy roman empire (8th c.–19th c.), in its medieval and early-modern forms, and the byzantine empire (15th c.), that was a direct continuation of the roman empire, that, in its final century of existence, was more a city-state than a territorial empire. and carthage fits here too

etymologically, the political usage of “empire” denotes a strong, centrally-controlled nation-state, but, in the looser, quotidian, vernacular usage, it denotes a large-scale business enterprise (i.e. a transnational corporation) and a political organisation of either national-, regional-, or city scale, controlled either by a person (a political boss) or a group authority (political bosses). and carthage suits well to this definition also.

an empire is a state with politico-military dominion of populations who are culturally and ethnically distinct from the imperial (ruling) ethnic group and its culture — unlike a federation, an extensive state voluntarily composed of autonomous states and peoples. as a state, an empire might be either territorial or a hegemony, wherein the empire’s sphere of influence dominates the lesser state(s) via divide and conquer tactics, i.e. “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, (cf. superpower, hyperpower). and tis is exactly what carthage was

i know that people like to use "original" and "proper" names. some are trying to use those names in "original" languages (which makes no sense to me, 'cause we don't even know how the spelled it!). we are calling things as they were. rome was a REPUBLIC and a FEDERATION, so we called it "Republic of Rome" and carthage was in the same time peroid a huge and powerfull hegemon, so we called it an Carthaginian Empire it makes a lot of sense in my opinion, and my colleagues from the team agreed, that we shouldn't try to make ethymological faux-pass only to give this faction a really "cool" name we like to consider ourselves a s serious persons (but we are not ) and i think that Carthaginian Empire sounds serious

best regards!