[TEASER] new AoD2 preview is coming soon...

[Pompeius Magnus]

A new preview is under construction at the moment - and will come (hopefully) before or during Christmas.

The focus of that new preview is our building-project. Brand new historical buildings for the 3D battle view (tactical view).
This teaser shows the Senate house of Constantinople (Magnaura).

Best regards

[jermagon]

Great news indeed !!
these new building will take the Roman mods to a very advanced level, not only a good looking-detailed- units but with most important brand new buildings

[AnthoniusII]

Finally some real medeival Roman buildings...

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Superb! I'm going to love this .

[Joar]

Great job.

[Constantius]

It just makes waiting just a little bit harder ,Nice !

[Athenogoras]

Great work, love it. The work you put in to this is really worthwhile I think

[Pompeius Magnus]

thanx a lot gents. +rep back to you
ATM we prepare the nika riots in front of the Hippodromos and in front of some other NEW buidlings. Some work is left, so please have a little bit patience.

[AnthoniusII]

thanx a lot gents. +rep back to you
ATM we prepare the nika riots in front of the Hippodromos and in front of some other NEW buidlings. Some work is left, so please have a little bit patience.

Give me some Germans to slay the rebels!!

[Pompeius Magnus]

do you have enough money?

[legio_XX]

do you have enough money?

best answer ever

One ofthe reasons I love the forums is stuff like this

Pm building looms good can't wait to see more, I see you plan to make this game deeper then I thought..awesome!

I don't think I can ever aprove of barbarian armys used by the Romans, I understand why...but still

[Pompeius Magnus]

best answer ever

One ofthe reasons I love the forums is stuff like this

The people think they can use their Buccellarii for "free".

[Ostrogoth]

Great news indeed Can't wait to see next preview, the last one was magnificent

[Pompeius Magnus]

thank you mate!

[AnthoniusII]

CAUTION Velisarius's Vucelarii were NOT germans..They were warriors of both east and west regions of the Empire as the chronicles describe...

[Pompeius Magnus]

:The composition of Hypaspistai and Doryphoroi (both are Buccellarii) is difficult to explain.

Even if most of them were drawn inside the empire is it fact that many goths served as Buccellarii - because they settled on roman land long time ago (thracia, Illyria, dalmatia).
So, those "Roman warriors" were probably a mixture of many nationes or tribes. Narses 400 Buccellarii were Langobardi and Huns... just an example - and this is a fact.

source: Bury, Hist. o. the late Rom. Emp.vol.2 and
Teall, The barbarians in Just. armies; Speculum 40 page 249-322.

Those pages (Teall, p249-322) are describing that the eastern Romans rarely used Soccii (Symmachoi) from outside the empire. The western empire used many of them before they felt, that's the reason why their army was finally perforated like a cheese from swizerland. The field army was based on mercs from outside the empire.

The eastern empire recruited many troops from Roman land. However, those so called "Romans" were often Heruls, Goths, Armenians (many many Armenians!), Isaurians... people who lived, settled and worked long time on Roman land. They identified themself a lot of times as Romani.
And this affects the Phoideratoi as well as the Boukelarioi.

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Belisarius' bucellarii, or military household, instead of quickly deserting the Goths and returning to Imperial service as Narses had hoped, have pledged their loyalty to the Gothic cause en masse, since only a day after his murder, news arrived that Narses was already marching towards Italy through Illyricum with an army ready to take advantage of the confusion caused by Belisarius' death: the bucellarii, nearly 7000-strong, many of them ex-Gothic soldiers, were eager to avenge their master's death.

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By the way (I found this information some minutes ago in my book from Robert Grosse): the leader of the Buccellarii of Belisar was Hildiger - he was a Goth too.

[Ostrogoth]

Any news about new preview?

[Pompeius Magnus]

still in progress
...and that is slow (due to real life business/christmas)

[Wundai]

Hey only found out about this thread right now!
Thanks I really like your screen of my Magnaura(Senate House)

(Lol *hint*, I'll mention I made it myself then I guess )

[Pompeius Magnus]

some screenshots from the coming preview.
It shows our new customized settlement plan from Thebai (Thebes) in egypt.
Furthermore you see the Legio Quinta Macedonia - one of the last Legions of the Roman empire - operating as offensive Limitanei (officially still a Comitatenses unit and classified as Stratiotai)

more detailes about city and army will be given in the new preview.