Rome II Pictures & Videos Thread

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola]

Take your eagles out of the forest, if I'm not mistaken.

[naiveharry]

Whats with the statistics for legionary cohort. Morale 50!!!!

[Ensyvtre]

Whats with the statistics for legionary cohort. Morale 50!!!!

My guess would be that they adjusted the stats for the video so the videor. Their intent was to show us some pre-alpha gameplay, not some legionaries cutting down barbarians for fourty minutes.

[super_newbie_pro]

Rallypoint 12 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB9st...ature=youtu.be

[KLAssurbanipal]

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola]

Another faction.... more time i'll need to spend in the game

[KLAssurbanipal]

I have few requests:

- there is only one face (like Macedon, Carthage and Rome). Barbarian factions have various faces with beards, mustaches but Hellenistic units are clones. Is it hard to make few faces of Hellenistic units after few months? I heard that it isn't pre-alpha now. Please, make more variety of faces. This is only half an hour.

- Mounting plumes for helmet is incorrect. Please, delete this weird 'pickelhaube'. I wrote about it there: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...reens+mistakes -

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

3. I think that the plume of the Thracian helmets is unnecessary. There are no sources for it. Why? Because these helmets have an iron comb. It totally doesn't fit.



I think that you based on this photo:



But here there isn't this strange attachment and the crest is on a comb.

This reconstruction is based on the 'Nile Mosaic of Palestrina':



You can't see much in this picture. For sure you can't see the attachment. This style of comb should be clean.


This helmet has the correct plumes. At this helmet could be plumes because it haven't a comb:



However, the attachment looks weird (like the Pickelhaube):



Here is an example of Thracian helmets: a comb (without plumes) and plumes (no comb):



(The Macedonian Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles)

The correction of these helmets is a few seconds in 3ds max.

- This units have nice helmets and cuirasses, but don't have anything new - helmets from Roman preview (hastati), cuirasses, shield and tunics from Carthaginian/Macedonian preview. It could be better if one type of helmets will be specific for only Pontic faction.
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/p/ar...os_general.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/102_5122.jpg

- Why some warriors don't have helmets? I think that they are rich guards, so they all should have helmet.

[Augustus Scipius]

I have few requests:

- there is only one face (like Macedon, Carthage and Rome). Barbarian factions have various faces with beards, mustaches but Hellenistic units are clones. Is it hard to make few faces of Hellenistic units after few months? I heard that it isn't pre-alpha now. Please, make more variety of faces. This is only half an hour.

- Mounting plumes for helmet is incorrect. Please, delete this weird 'pickelhaube'. I wrote about it there: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...reens+mistakes -

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

3. I think that the plume of the Thracian helmets is unnecessary. There are no sources for it. Why? Because these helmets have an iron comb. It totally doesn't fit.



I think that you based on this photo:



But here there isn't this strange attachment and the crest is on a comb.

This reconstruction is based on the 'Nile Mosaic of Palestrina':



You can't see much in this picture. For sure you can't see the attachment. This style of comb should be clean.


This helmet has the correct plumes. At this helmet could be plumes because it haven't a comb:



However, the attachment looks weird (like the Pickelhaube):



Here is an example of Thracian helmets: a comb (without plumes) and plumes (no comb):



(The Macedonian Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles)

The correction of these helmets is a few seconds in 3ds max.

- This units have nice helmets and cuirasses, but don't have anything new - helmets from Roman preview (hastati), cuirasses, shield and tunics from Carthaginian/Macedonian preview. It could be better if one type of helmets will be specific for only Pontic faction.
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/p/ar...os_general.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/102_5122.jpg

- Why some warriors don't have helmets? I think that they are rich guards, so they all should have helmet.

To put it politely, is this really necessary? Do we need to analyze again what is and what is not wrong in the pictures?

CA has educated historians of its own, they are not some amateurs making stuff up.

[Hycranus]

I have few requests:

- there is only one face (like Macedon, Carthage and Rome). Barbarian factions have various faces with beards, mustaches but Hellenistic units are clones. Is it hard to make few faces of Hellenistic units after few months? I heard that it isn't pre-alpha now. Please, make more variety of faces. This is only half an hour.

- Mounting plumes for helmet is incorrect. Please, delete this weird 'pickelhaube'. I wrote about it there: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...reens+mistakes -

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

3. I think that the plume of the Thracian helmets is unnecessary. There are no sources for it. Why? Because these helmets have an iron comb. It totally doesn't fit.



I think that you based on this photo:



But here there isn't this strange attachment and the crest is on a comb.

This reconstruction is based on the 'Nile Mosaic of Palestrina':



You can't see much in this picture. For sure you can't see the attachment. This style of comb should be clean.


This helmet has the correct plumes. At this helmet could be plumes because it haven't a comb:



However, the attachment looks weird (like the Pickelhaube):



Here is an example of Thracian helmets: a comb (without plumes) and plumes (no comb):



(The Macedonian Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles)

The correction of these helmets is a few seconds in 3ds max.

- This units have nice helmets and cuirasses, but don't have anything new - helmets from Roman preview (hastati), cuirasses, shield and tunics from Carthaginian/Macedonian preview. It could be better if one type of helmets will be specific for only Pontic faction.
http://www.europabarbarorum.com/p/ar...os_general.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/102_5122.jpg

- Why some warriors don't have helmets? I think that they are rich guards, so they all should have helmet.

Man this board will complain about the slightest most insignificant things

[Big Brown Bear]

This should give you a laugh.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...=wrong+sandals

[rossw]

Too soon... lol

I wonder how sparty will be depicted in the game.

OP, surely?

[Narf]

[Dan113112]

Those swords are the wrong kind for the period.

[Greve Af Göteborg]

Those swords are the wrong kind for the period.

How? they look like Gladius to me.

[((Hector))]

when cooming ?

[Dan113112]

@Greve Af Goteborg: I meant it was the wrong variation of the gladius. That looks more like a Mainz or Fullham or a Mainz-Fullham when they should be using a Hispaniensis (spelling?) type. It's alright, though. The game does cover 300 years of Roman history and the Mainz type was used around the middle of the TWR2 campaign timeline.

[General Maximus]

Whats with the statistics for legionary cohort. Morale 50!!!!

They don't use stats from previous games in Rome II. Morale can now range from 10 to 70.

[Swerg]

How? they look like Gladius to me.

IIRC, the earliest possible origin of the gladius would have been in the punic wars, so if the game starts prior to or during the first punic war, the Romans wouldn't be using the gladius.

Of course, this is one area where it might just be convenient anachronism, since having Rome update their sword model every 20 years would be a pain.

[Pinarius]

"Gladius evolution":
http://www.ffil.uam.es/equus/warmas/...ROMEC%20rd.pdf

[nuclearaddict]

I hope they use katana swords in-game.