- Preview II - The Barbarians -

[ArtoriusRex]

Never seen such Roman barbarians, great work!

[MorganH.]

Great Preview !!

Greetings !

[MarcusTullius]

Looks amazing guys! Very well done!

[apple]

Splendid job mate.

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Great work and a wonderful preview!

[vecordia]

Hail to you guys, stand strong

[Pompeius Magnus]

very good
I like the vandal raider.

[Allied_Threat]

Invasio Barbarorum has always been one of my favorite mods, so I'm definitely looking forward to further progress.

[Emperor BLUBBS VII]

Everything looks great so far!!

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

Just a few quick corrections you should implement, 1, as far as I know only the romans and chinese were utilizing crossbws at this time. The Arcuballista, let alone manu ballista, was much to complexe for even the romanized goths! The romano british may have fielded this technology yes, but it was not availible to barbarian cultures. also, Axes at that time were for the purpose of throwing only. It was not practical in combat against a shield wall or swordsman. The spear was always the basic tool of the barbarians, and only supported by the sword when the spear broke. In factthe romans eventually only started using spears. But beside these good job!!!

[Gäiten]

Do not mistaken that crossbow with a complex manuballista. It is a far more simple and less powerful design.
There will be Roman Manuballista Sagittarii.

[Pompeius Magnus]

Manuballista Sagittarii?
or do you mean "Manubalistarii"?

[Gäiten]

Of course Manuballistarii

[justinius]

So wait does IBRR=IBFD and will these units be available in the next patch or something?

[Joar]

So wait does IBRR=IBFD and will these units be available in the next patch or something?

IBRR is the next installment of the previous IBFD 7.03, it is the original IB mod that has been renamed to RVINA ROMAE. The next version ( 8.0. ) is not a patch, but a new stand alone version.

If you read the mod info on this page, you'll get an overview.

Everything you see in these previews are new-made and will be featured in RVINA ROMAE 8.0.

[justinius]

IBRR is the next installment of the previous IBFD 7.03, it is the original IB mod that has been renamed to RVINA ROMAE. The next version ( 8.0. ) is not a patch, but a new stand alone version.

If you read the mod info on this page, you'll get an overview.

Everything you see in these previews are new-made and will be featured in RVINA ROMAE 8.0.

ooohhhh thanks +rep

[ATN]

Did Saxons actually have crossbowmen?

[Joar]

Did Saxons actually have crossbowmen?

Yes they did, but they did not, however, have food mixers. They were a savage people, completely lacking any understanding for catering equipment and kitchen appliances.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

the manu ballista was a more powerful ealier design that used torsion spring technology, as it's name implies. (literally: hand ballista). There are many possible ways this was loaded and fired, but it was most likely the same way a scorpio was. The arcuballista commonplace amognst the late empire and not as powerful as the manuballista or medieval crossbow. But it was simple in manufacture but still too complex for most barbarian or gallo-roman cultures. like in the vanilla BI the Jastorf (celtic) cultures of Ireland and scotland may have still had this technology (arcuballista).

[Slaytaninc]

Jastorf isn't a "Celtic" culture, certainly not of Ireland and Scotland.

Jastorf is the culture that mostly aligns with early Germanic tribes (There were Celtic groups who had that material culture, but it was mostly associated with Germanic tribes)