[Preview] Mauryan Empire...... sort of

[Sir Walter]

I have seen now - very good!

[Lanjane]

Happy to see some Indians finally on the board Please take a look at Prometheus's Sacred Band unit, it's much better than current one in your mod.

[AqD]

It's good to see some Indians finally there Please take a look at Prometheus's Sacred Band unit, it's much better than current one in your mod.

welcome back!

The next version will have all FOE units merged... Have you seen the new Sacred Band in TIC?

[Lanjane]

welcome back!

The next version will have all FOE units merged... Have you seen the new Sacred Band in TIC?

Thank you. Yes, I have. But Prometheus's one is excellent too. So, you'll have to choose, select wisely

[AceBace]

Nice skins

[Lanjane]

And what about chariots, aqd? Will you replace them with more usable unit later, or not?

[fourganger]

Very nice, but I have one very minor gripe.

The non-towered elphants appear to be African elephants, rather than Indian elephants. Towered elphants look fine.

No biggie, but you might want to tell Prometheus.

[AqD]

And what about chariots, aqd? Will you replace them with more usable unit later, or not?

not planned because I have no research in mauryan empire at all

Very nice, but I have one very minor gripe.

The non-towered elphants appear to be African elephants, rather than Indian elephants. Towered elphants look fine.

No biggie, but you might want to tell Prometheus.

oh he's been away for years. I doubt he would still care about RG.....

[florin80]

The non-towered elphants appear to be African elephants, rather than Indian elephants. Towered elphants look fine.

Yeah, the model for the indian elephant from res gestae that survived was in some sort of wip form and it looked like falling apart:

So the vanilla model was used instead. But if aqd wants to take a look at Prom`s model and fix it I can send the file.

[svramj]

The female archers look more tribal and wont me suitable for a Mauryan royal armies general...you could give them the Ksatriya archers as guards...they're there in Res Gestae files... Em here if u need any help on the Mauryan history and research... could give them a more different recruitment and make them a bit challenging...

[Lanjane]

Female archers? Actually, I haven't noticed them on screenshots posted by aqd...

[Caligula Caesar]

I don't see any either...

Off topic: What actually happened with Prometheus? Everyone always says "survived" when referring to his work.

[florin80]

He quit modding rtw after releasing the romans as a pack and left the rest of the finished stuff(that`s what he said at least) to a few people who were supposed to finish the mod in his place. These guys never did that during a couple years of waiting and finally the sub-forum here was moved to the morgue without anyone offering to point towards a valid link for the first release pack. Prom afaik moved on to mod oblivion and never bothered with rtw again. The rest of the stuff ended up on the drives of half a dozen people where it stayed until I pleaded with them and manage to get all units together as a patch. The stuff was largely a collection of unsorted files with differences in version from one pack to another(most of them not having sprites or ui cards, let alone codding) so it was a bit of hell to put them together. Comparing to the preview pictures some were in a wip state and other things from the previews were not included on either of these. Prom came back at some point and promised to look for the missing stuff, but he never did. Hence the expression "from what has survived".

[Emperor Domitianus]

I hope he will reconsider this abandon and finish the job. He could also use some help from us here.

[AqD]

The female archers look more tribal and wont me suitable for a Mauryan royal armies general...you could give them the Ksatriya archers as guards...they're there in Res Gestae files... Em here if u need any help on the Mauryan history and research... could give them a more different recruitment and make them a bit challenging...

Thanks!

[Sardaukar One]

The Mauryan empire never went to war with the Seleucids during this timeframe.
Seleucus made a treaty with Chandrapugta(spelling?) in 303 BC, got 500 elephants in return for ceding the eastern provinces to India, which he could not have held onto anyway.
From then on out, both sides remained at peace.
India did fight with Bactria however.
Intially Bactria was succesful, but they ultimately lost and were overun due to Parthia, internal strife and being involved in India.

[Caligula Caesar]

Although, when the Mauryan Empire collapsed, Baktria invaded India again and conquered the Indus Valley, extending their empire by 100 years.

[The Guy With No Imagination]

eXACTLY

[alexandre dumas]

I love the quality of these units,that's why i made this short preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCvPamtkaHw

[Visarion]

in what games is this? you have so many games!