Preview: Taksashila (Mauryan Satrapy)

**Visarion** · July 14, 2011, 12:14 PM

speechless!

**Hypno Kitty** · July 14, 2011, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Foot

Really? You really don't know?

Your one and only comment on this thread was not about this thread but rather making a claim which not only is flammatory, but is unsupported by the thread itself. I call troll - the only sad thing is, is that maybe you aren't even aware that you are trolling.

Foot

Gees, didn't expect my question mark to get people going like this.. I apologize for my first comment. I am sorry for expressing my thoughts about this modification. And yes, I failed to understand that I was "trolling". It was not my intention to "troll". I apologize for that too, even though I was completely unaware of the fact that I was indeed doing so.

Cheers

**Berengar** · July 14, 2011, 12:14 PM

Outstanging work. I've been waiting for a playable Indian faction since my Seleucids rounded the Thar desert so long ago. I don't mind how long it takes you guys, even if it's after Rome Total War 2 and Shogun Total War 3, I will be loyally waiting until this mod is released.

**beos777** · July 14, 2011, 12:16 PM

very nice work.....incredible!

**David93** · July 14, 2011, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by Foot

We would need about 1/2 as many provinces again to realistically represent the Indian Sub-Continent (which the Mauyran Empire controlled the majority of at our start date). Thats just not feasible. It is also not feasible to have a faction split (not even down the middle) and have half of it off map and non-existent, and the other half playable by the player. We think that that idea is ridiculous.

As for how we would deal with the mongols. How would we know? Thats not something we've thought about so I'm not going to give you and off-the-top-of-my-head answer. What kind of question is that?

I'm sorry to hear that you don't think that the most realistic way to represent a faction that doesn't even figure on the map and had thousands of interesting, internal but undeniably off-map struggles of its own to content with should be to have those few provinces that appear on the map to appear as rebels with several scripts to help reflect the power that is going on outside of our map. We don't think that making one huge differences to how the game represents provinces (by making the current larger than they actually are to represent people living off the map), economy (by making the economies of three provinces represent the entire economy of a single, large faction), politics (by making the capital, power-base and cultural home of a faction appear off-map), as a decent way of making a mod.

Foot

Now, that just wasnt nice,

awesome work guys

**Ozzmosis** · July 14, 2011, 12:29 PM

Wow, absolutely incredifantabulous! Just goes to show that EBII is well worth waiting for! I'm gonna make my kids play this when I have them (in like 20 years

) It'll still be unlike anything else, and I really can't think of a better way to get people interested and learned in ancient history! I learned so much from EB1 and from the looks of things, EBII will be an even better representation of the ancient world - as epic, bloody and awesome as it was!
The entire EB team is a credit to all historians, artists, scholars, pretty much all of humanity! This isn't just a game, it's one of the greatest educational tools there could ever be! Thank you so much, EB team, I really look forward to your next preview!

**brymht** · July 14, 2011, 12:38 PM

Looking Amazing! Really looking forward to this mod!

One Question : What culture will they have? I had though that one of the main reasons no faction was being created in Axum / Meroe was the lack of an additional culture slot....

Wouldn't a Mauryan Lite faction need to use an additional culture slot as well?

**alin** · July 14, 2011, 12:53 PM

Fromg the .org:

Originally Posted by Foot

We didn't. They exist quite happily in the Eastern Culture slot, as while the Satrapy was part of the Mauryan Empire, the ruling class of this region had been more heavily affected by the culture of Baktria and the Persian Empire.

Foot

**brymht** · July 14, 2011, 12:54 PM

OK!

**Coeur de Lion** · July 14, 2011, 01:12 PM

Simply beautiful, watched the video after reading all the history and the whole context etc just blew me away. Seriously guys, for a series which, in its infancy, was centred around Rome and its wars, you have engaged so many more people with cultures and histories that we didn't know or maybe even care about. You are heroes, when this mod is eventually released, I would strongly suggest setting somewhere up to donate to....you people deserve some serious rewards for all the work you have put in over the past years.

Heroes, absolute heroes.

**Blatta Optima Maxima** · July 14, 2011, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Faction Description

and in the streets can be heard the strange tongues of Yavanas, Parasikas and other Mlecchas.

Weren't the languages still very similar in this period?

**I Am Herenow** · July 14, 2011, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Archaalen

Maybe Rome will be Greek culture!!

Not that I'm aware ...

Originally Posted by Diglytron

An amazing preview guys!!

i am still reading the long texts, and i eaven did have printed them so interesting it was!

It's very nice of you to say that, but if I were you I would hold on just a little while longer with making hard copies etc. since my edits haven't actually been put in the OP yet (at time of writing). The team was just so excited about telling the fans about this faction that they released the preview literally the moment it was ready! (At half past midnight, if you look).

Originally Posted by Dago Red

The parasol man is perhaps the best figure I've ever seen in any TW game.

Haha, I was rather impressed too the first time I saw him! (And as I played no part in the creation of the unit, I think I am allowed to say that without adding "if I do say so myself"). If you want to see one in action, you get a little snippet at c. 4:54 in the video.

I Am Herenow

**Anelson** · July 14, 2011, 01:53 PM

Indian army
Congratulations to EB team!

Take Greeks and fight against the big Indian army! The dream of Alexander the Great

**~~cpt_obvious~~** · July 14, 2011, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by Protector

Indeed absolute great work ...
and it would beside all the gameplay mod efforts even more awesome if it would have the "up to date" graphic and details like in current STW2...

Indeed. What would happen if the EB2 team gave the ETW Roma Victrix creators some units to see what they look like in the new engine?