Roma Surrectum 2 Faction Preview - The Dacians

[Dacian Invasion]

it is a sica longsword! trust me you'll like it!

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[Brusilov]

2 be honest alex is a must have.

The problem with doing that is that then everyone will be forced to buy RTW Alexander. I'm quite sure that the developers did not want to force people to do this. Even if you can pick it up cheaply now-a-days.

RSII does play well with RTW Alex - I've been using that exe for most of my beta testing and used it before for RS1.5 (I've not played RS1.6 as I was an 'active' beta tester and screen shot donkey that longt ago).

it is a sica longsword! trust me you'll like it!

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See post #214 in this thread - there you will see a group of them.

For those that can't be bothered scrolling back (it's Tone's screen shot).....

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[Dacian Invasion]

Another thing ive been wondering about is weather there was some sort of placeholder for the falx. I mean come on, u couldnt just walk around with it around a belt, you were bound to get injuries from it. Surely there was some form of elastic sock that would be strong enough not to get cut by the falx when you shove it in?

[Visarion]

Dacians had scabbards for sica, the tip of the scabbard was made from iron...

[Dacian Invasion]

hmm okay, because i had a hard time imagening how the hell that curved top of the falx would fit into some sort of scabbard... I still do though, even if only partially. I say this because the sica on the picture looks more like a ''>'' than '')'' if you know what i mean, so the easy solution would be a soc on the other half of the scabbard. But the falx looks more like ''J'', and it has a lot of sharp space even if you have the half moon top coved with iron. I guess they found a solution but yeah... i just fail to see it i guess.

[xXEsotericXx]

The problem with doing that is that then everyone will be forced to buy RTW Alexander. I'm quite sure that the developers did not want to force people to do this. Even if you can pick it up cheaply now-a-days.

No it was just a exspansion with just very good AI , and as a RTW fan should have it at home its only 10 E, and cmon its alexander right

It's like 4 years old or something.

[Visarion]

i just fail to see it i guess.

Curved swords had scabbards too!

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tone made some excellent scabbards for Dacians:





Dacians used scabbards with an iron tip and a leather body for their curved swords!

[Dacian Invasion]

Curved swords had scabbards too!

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tone made some excellent scabbards for Dacians:

Yes those are myghty fine units, but those are not falxes and the scabbards there are shaped like '')'', so is the sword and therefore it fits perfectly. That sword is not shaped like a falx so... Like i said before

[Visarion]

sica had more than one forms! I don't see what you want to proove here!

I mean take a look at this sword and it's scabbard!

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EDIT: Sica was the Dacian name of the sword and falx was the Roman name! Sica came in many variaties and dimensions...

[Dacian Invasion]

sica had more than one forms! I don't see what you want to proove here!

I mean take a look at this sword and it's scabbard!

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EDIT: Sica was the Dacian name of the sword and falx was the Roman name! Sica came in many variaties and dimensions...

Ok ok many forms and names and blah blah, still thats no J formed sword :S

[Visarion]

........... You wanted something like this instead?

[Dacian Invasion]

........... You wanted something like this instead?

Yep, thats what i said, thats ONE shape, and it may be a falx, but still, im just pointing out that i fail to understand how the more J formed type would have some sort of scabbard. I never dissagreed with u

[Visarion]

I understood that! no worries! I sent a message to tone and suggested him to make the curvature of that sword a little bit more inwards and starting from the middle, to look more natural!
I did my job! I can do no more! it's his decision now! either way the unit is nice!

[Dan Rares]

", forced Domitian to sue for peace with Dacia and they were left with relative independence provided they pay annual tributes to Rome. " - false


Great work .

[diegis]

There is couple articles regarding dacians swords, saw there is maybe a confusion betwen "sica" (big knife/short sword) and "falx" (large two handed sword). This are just archeological findings, but acording with images carved on some ancient places, there was a medium one handed falx too (thus not discovered archeological) or some of them had attached quite a big wooden handle polearm like style, but not sure how precise are those depictions

First article is about "sica", second about "falx", both have images and dimensions of swords. They are mostly write in romanian, but have at the end a smaller part in english as well

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33875732/B...VS-IV-7-8-2009

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33876270/B...a-Sebus-I-2009

And some images with "sica" (finded in Romania, northern Bulgaria and northern Serbia), there are more in that article











And now with "falxes" (all was find in central Romania, especialy in or close the old dacian capital Sarmisegetuza)







At the bottom are some roman coins representing Dacia, with a female holding a two handed medium sized falx

[Kael BloodMoon]

Cannot wait to play this ! Definitely my first RS2 faction. Sa moara fetili, the wait is killing me !

[xXEsotericXx]

Why do others even try to compete against RS II , this is truely masterfull!!!!

[tone]

Guys, it's not about competing, it's about art and being creative.

[Brusilov]

Why do others even try to compete against RS II , this is truely masterfull!!!!

You will also find that the RS team have used models from the EB and RTR teams.

There is a fair amout of co-operation between the RS and RTR teams on a regular basis. The idea of the launcher that is part of RSII came from the RTR team.

There is inter-team co-operation - more thann many people will ever realize.

The various mod teams all have thier own ideas of what will make a mod more enjoyable and realistic to play.

[apple]

Many of us works on other mods too.