- Preview II - The Barbarians -

[justinius]

yeah true

[Slaytaninc]

yeah true

I have Peter Heather to thank for that...

[Aethelstan]

Nice preview! I´ll reinstall RTW when this is released.

Congrats on the portraits - I like what you´re doing.

[JERUSALEM]

very interesting

[Constantius]

I must congratulate and confess I only just noticed preview. Great work. ... Oh and we have food mixers now, I assume the Normans brought them?

[legio_XX]

Think I might just cry when it comes out..Its been way to long since I have played Runia and more then ready to wait for 8.0 keep it up and perfect our MOM mod! thanks guys!

[Visarion]

this is crazy good! Longobardi Adalingi are just super!

[IVIarkI2I]

super awesome preview looking forward for the release

[Thiudimir2241]

Beware of the Burgundian Axemen. They are Wotan's revenge incarnate

[Antagonist]

Finally got around to reading this. Love the updates and the new units, especially the Langobard Adalingi

One small point though, I suppose no-one will really notice (or care), but "claiomhnaghta" specifically means "swordsmen", seems a little strange for an axe unit.

Antagonist

[justinius]

I just noticed that too. Shoudn't Claiomhnaghta refer to a longsword or a claymore ? (are these two words related?) Though I think there is not much evidence of long axes or longswords (like 2handers) in substantial numbers amongst Picts at this period.

[Gäiten]

Beware of the Burgundian Axemen. They are Wotan's revenge incarnate

Wotan`s Revenge - for that there is another unit ... an exclusive Saxon one

One small point though, I suppose no-one will really notice (or care), but "claiomhnaghta" specifically means "swordsmen", seems a little strange for an axe unit.

Good catch. Because I changed that unit from a longswordman to axemen, what would be a proper Gael name for axemen?

[justinius]

Good catch. Because I changed that unit from a longswordman to axemen, what would be a proper Gael name for axemen?

Tuanaghta would seemingly mean axemen during this timeframe though I'm not sure that heavy axes like the ones shown here were used in such a scale. At most, wouldn't Gaels or Picts wield a much smaller and lighter one hand axe that could be wielded accurately and with speed?

[Boitre]

This is amazing! Well done!

[Joar]

Thanks!

[Gäiten]

A little Easter egg for you: An Alemannic Aetheling, a heavy swordman.

[demagogos nicator]

Looks good thanks

[Eidgeniesser]

Looks awesome! Especially the scara and the aetheling. Its good that the alamanni have some nice heavy inf now too, was a bit disappointed at the savage horde in FD. Would be really great if they had a unique unit too, felt like they always have the same as the other germanic factions but less and no real specialization (maybe cheap units).
These heavy def infs look like what they need!
Thanks, am really looking forward to this

[Gäiten]

Hi,
each of the Barbarian factions will get some unique units. Some I think are going to be discussed controversially.

[demagogos nicator]

each of the Barbarian factions will get some unique units. Some I think are going to be discussed controversially.

Could we see more of them in the next unit minipreview?