Preview: Taksashila (Mauryan Satrapy)

[rclegions]

Excelent job! Amazing!

Im really curious about the chariots in action, how they will move and how will they attack, etc..
Very good textures and models! This mod is becoming the number one M2TW mod for me! ^^

Keep up the good work!

[gustave]

Excelent job! Amazing!

Im really curious about the chariots in action, how they will move and how will they attack, etc..
Very good textures and models! This mod is becoming the number one M2TW mod for me! ^^

Keep up the good work!

The chariot archers are pretty effective as long as you don't throw them in melee. They make good mobile missile platforms, you can move them behind the enemy lines to inflict lots of casualties. They also make good counters to horse archers actually, since they don't take much damages from arrows.

[Antagonist]

Magnificent.

Antagonist

[Boustrophedon]

Fantastic job guys! What a truly wonderful preview I'll be doling out rep like candy asap!

[Nelduin]

I don't find any word. As always, EB team has done an amazing and awesome work. Well done

[Black_Nebula]

Truly epic preview once again. This faction looks to be challenging

[cocobongoclub-DJ]

As usual, you guys confirm your bold vision... and got the skills to makes it happens. Awesome. Why waiting for an hypothetic RTW2 ? Here it is !

[TuCoT]

Great preview! Excellent work EB II team. Now we have an Indian faction in such a great mod.

[eddy_purpus]

Holy cow..............

I just crapped my pants...

I love you EB!

[Alkimachos]

Well done Team!! Amazing work there!!!

[pacco]

Awesome work guys!

[Nerva]

This was just awesome, and such a great surprise!
I just love you all EB2 team!

[Requies]

Awesome as always!

[MorganH.]

Another awesome preview to feed the hungry masses,and hungry for EB II we are !

Well done EB team and thank you.

@Foot :The july ES is going live in about 5 days,so ill be with you for the August edition interview very soon now mate! Looking forward.

[Diglytron]

An amazing preview guys!! i am still reading the long texts, and i eaven did have printed them so interesting it was! The units also look verry good. This is an preview with so much professionalism that i diddnt expect this to be found here. I think some members of this team really deserve an job at CA!

[Windseller]

hey eb team!

first of all astonishing and inspiring work on this preview! like everybody else i have to admit i did not see that one coming (but am really positively surprised!).

anyway i know that all the pictures are wip: so i just wanted to make a suggestion about (the now) alexandreia kaukasia. it seems that it and before that kophen are pretty much in the same spot as nowadays kabul. now a friend of my family is a refugee from the civil war in afghanistan from kabul and she was always referring to the city as the city of dust or sand. as she described it kabul is located in a valley enclosed by huge mountains that connects the cubcontinent and western asia (as can be seen in your pictures) and thus suffering from a wind that carries lots and lots of dust and sand from deserts located in the west through this valley. all in all a harsh conditioned land that is only inhabited for its strategic importance or location on trade routes and that is what it always felt to me in my eb1 campaigns. however in your new map the country around alexandreia kaukasia looks rather lush and fertile. so my point is even if i am not a professional geographer i think this is a wrong depiction of the area. afghanistan is a vast country with different geographical and climatic properties and there might be areas with "high fertility" as the engine describes it but the valley of kabul is definately none of these.

i dont want to play the smart ass just throwing out my suggestion

[Foot]

anyway i know that all the pictures are wip: so i just wanted to make a suggestion about (the now) alexandreia kaukasia. it seems that it and before that kophen are pretty much in the same spot as nowadays kabul. now a friend of my family is a refugee from the civil war in afghanistan from kabul and she was always referring to the city as the city of dust or sand. as she described it kabul is located in a valley enclosed by huge mountains that connects the cubcontinent and western asia (as can be seen in your pictures) and thus suffering from a wind that carries lots and lots of dust and sand from deserts located in the west through this valley. all in all a harsh conditioned land that is only inhabited for its strategic importance or location on trade routes and that is what it always felt to me in my eb1 campaigns. however in your new map the country around alexandreia kaukasia looks rather lush and fertile. so my point is even if i am not a professional geographer i think this is a wrong depiction of the area. afghanistan is a vast country with different geographical and climatic properties and there might be areas with "high fertility" as the engine describes it but the valley of kabul is definately none of these.

I cannot speak for the map team, however anecdotal evidence from people living in that region now is not a solid basis upon which to design our map. Climate changes over time, and there is no reason to believe that the area surrounding Kabal has not changed as well. We look for evidence based on ancient sources and scientific studies of historical climate conditions.

But thank you very much for the information.

Foot

[fightermedic]

wow, so this is the faction nobody ever will guess right?

[Windseller]

hey foot,

thanks for your reply and you really got me started on this! i am definately going to have a look at what the library has to say about that .

cheers

[Conqistador]

Simply amazing preview, EB2 Team! Congratz!