Preview Scroll Three: The Song Dynasty

[seaboy]

nice job man. so when you working on Dai Viet Faction plz notice us maybe we have some more detail for u because we've still continued to find the history evidence

[zero0609]

Great preview, I am really amazed by the amount of effort you guys put into researching the history of Song, I don't even know some of the stuff in the preview and i am Chinese

I think you guys made a mistake in the ethnography part of the preview, shouldn't it be Jiangzhe(江浙） instead of Liangzhe?

[JonathanB]

I just finished scanning the preview and I have to say again......Damn fellas. That was the best preview I have seen. I hope you get a couple more people to help you with this great project. I live in Taiwan so am I really appreciate the wok you guys have done.

[uanime5]

Excellent as always, keep up the good work.

[dick178]

awsome!

[Augustus Lucifer]

Anyhow, I wondered; since artillery will have a more defensive purpose in this mod (at least for factions like the Song), does that mean you've found a way to make artillery more effective from behind city walls?
I believe Dominion of the Sword was trying to elevate catapults and ballistas and cannons up on the castle walls, but I'm not sure, might be wrong.
It would be cool to see, anyways.

The ability to elevate artillery to city walls is something that Argantonio achieved some time ago using the World Editor. DotS is likely awaiting a time at which they can utilize this new technology. You can read up more on the world editor and its progress here, there's a lot that has been done with it and one of the main future hurdles will be making it so the layman isn't to confused to use it!

I think you guys made a mistake in the ethnography part of the preview, shouldn't it be Jiangzhe(江浙） instead of Liangzhe?

It's possible. The ethnography information was provided by Xuande, he was one of our better researchers we've had but has sadly since left due to real life commitments. He left us some good information about the Song, but most of it is stuff we'd have trouble building on as it is university-level and none of the current team members are pursuing an East Asian History degree.

To all who can't open the spoilers, it's advised you check to see if you can open them as soon as you first load the page, and if you can't then try refreshing immediately. This seems to be an issue vB has on several occasions which is solved by refreshing the page 99% of the time.

[Andalus]

I am glad to see that work on this mod continues, you have come far. The preview is excellent, the text entertaining and the images stunning! The video looks amazing! Will that be the intro movie for the Song in campaign?

I've put this in the news at TWH.

[S-te-Fan]

Omg, there's some of my work in this preview . The flamethrower!

[James the Red]

I am convinced that this mod will one day have as much of a following as Europa Barbarorum, it looks truly excellent.

I have a question, it mentions the Byzantines at the flame thrower unit, I am wondering, how much did the Chinese and Romans know about each other?

I live in Taiwan so am I really appreciate the wok you guys have done.

My brothers wife is from Taiwan

Are you ethnically Chinese or Taiwan native?

[WImPyTjeH]

For those of you complaining about spoilers not opening: wait. There are literally 100mbs of images in the preview, which is why we created a thumbnail version in the first post.

Err... no doesn't work with thumbnails version either, the spoilers still won't open...

I can easily load all the images in the normal version too, no problem, but the spoilers just don't open for me...

[Wundai]

Oh yes, I guess after the preview, its finally okay for me to put Previewed Song Units in my profile picture.
Ey Alex

Btw my buildings came out great on the pictures, thanks for that

[aramus555]

amazing... thank you

[Andalus]

I also had a problem with opening the spoilers, but once I refreshed the page, they worked fine.

[TiTiTimmy]

OMG very nice +rep

[S-te-Fan]

Use another browser if you can't open the spoilers. When I used Google Chrome instead of Firefox it worked.

[apple]

Well done guys.

[Theodotos I]

Very nice work. I can't wait to see the code on this game.

[cocobongoclub-DJ]

My goodness, i though that i have saw the most beautiful previews, and i discovers yours... Awesome is not strong enough, keep it up, it's stunning...

[mavyalex]

Hello,

I have a question: are there this type of Chinese unit like in Age of Empires 2?

"Chu Ko Nu is the unique unit of the Chinese civilisation. This unique unit has the properties of the Arbalest" but can fire 5 arrows in a row. The only disadvantage is the range of the unit, it has a range of 4 : a poor range for an archer.

It would be great to see that...I wonder if they could fire 5 fire arrows too at the same time...It must have been impressive...

[S-te-Fan]

Jup, we'll have units with repeating crossbows.