The Royal Road - Our development journal

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Eventually; the mod is totally disabled right now (I removed the WIP barracks system that had been put in by Nero as a placeholder , so the only factions that can recruit units are those of which I just coded in the barracks) and hoplites currently lose against sparabara (that shouldn't happen; the perfect situation would be Hoplites that are weakened by prolonged arrow fire be defeated by Sparabara after closing in).

I give it a month of 2 before we need actual testing of stuff. And even then it will just be unit and initial campaign balancing; by far not anything close to the final version.

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

Sparabara should be about equal to dorikoi/ionikoi hoplitai. They had (better) training and prolly more experience, but almost useless shields.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Exactly; if the Sparabara ran all the way to the hoplites without the hoplites doing a thing the hoplites would win. If the hoplites first were weakened by arrows and then charged by sparabara it would be in equal battle, and if the hoplites got peppered by arrows and had to run to the sparabara they'd get beaten.

That's for the Doriokoi and the Ionikoi, at least. The more "elite" hoplites are basically above most eastern infantry, spare anusyia and kara arstibara (see: preview I) but would have very low stamina, making them easy targets for archers, axemen and cavalry.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Just an update on what we're doing: the fun stuff: modelling, skinning, adding and balancing units (which means actually playing the mod instead of the boring coding I've been doing the last months), etc.

[the persian Immortal]

have you guys changed the farvahar on the bobylonian general body gaurds ?

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Can you take a screenie of that?

[the persian Immortal]

exceus me !

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Hm, that came out wrong I was actually seriously asking you for a screenie to see where that farvahar was located.

[the persian Immortal]

oh the farvahar is located on the front of boby generals chariots , you know : the engel that have two wings and belong to the zoroastarians.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

engel

Ironically, that's Dutch for "angel"
I'll take a look at it

[the persian Immortal]

Ironically, that's Dutch for "angel"
I'll take a look at it

1. haha what did you expect I have onley learned english in school.

2.cool since the bobylonians wasn't zoroastarians before the persians coquer them.

[rez]

The winged symbol on the chariot is not a zoroastrian symbol but it did form the basis for the farvahar. The winged disc was around for ages before the Persians. The Persians added the man riding in the disc so that's how you tell the difference

[the persian Immortal]

ofcaurse but it's still a symbol of zoroastarianism.
and I'm not sure but I think that the bobylonians BG have full farvahars (just like my avatar )

[rez]

They don't.

[the persian Immortal]

oh yeah I took a closer look on them in Costum battles your right they aren't 100% farvahar but they are very similary.

any ways the original farvahar is the symbol of zoroastarians right ?

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

That bird-ring-ball thingy was the symbol of an Assyrian god, IIRC, too.

[parasa.b]

ofcaurse but it's still a symbol of zoroastarianism.
and I'm not sure but I think that the bobylonians BG have full farvahars (just like my avatar )

they didnt had farvahar . they had some thing similar to it . some thing like the symbol of sassanids in RTWBI

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Please keep these discussions in the chat thread. I'm fine when someone asks about the farvahar-ish thing on the Baylonian chariots, but the discussions then escalates into a general farvahar discussion. Please keep subjects in the proper threads

[the persian Immortal]

they didnt had farvahar . they had some thing similar to it . some thing like the symbol of sassanids in RTWBI

yeah I took a look , that for telling me anyways.
()to parsi manish bade digeh shast neshoon nadeh shookhi kardam merci

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Well, we are getting out of the "Baktrian impasse"; Nero has been doing some great work and is fixing the units for us. That means we're another step closer to a preview