roman sneak preview?

[Atticus]

i'm not popping the question when rs 2.0 will be released, but i wonder if we can have a little sneak preview of some new roman units?

[swhunter]

The Roman Faction is not being worked on just yet, but very soon. A few things here and there.
There are stuff going on about them but it isn't finished.
thanks for asking.

[MarcusTullius]

We've got a few previews before we introduce the Romans as the crowning glory of the mod

[Martin N]

The romans were great in RS 1.0, and if your doing stuff to them im sure theyll be awesome! but yeh theyll have to preview the other factions first im sure, but when the romans preview does come, well be on the edge of beta release im sure

[naeblis]

huh? what romans? their aren't going to be any romans in the new mod

[Snake_Plisskin]

yea smeg the romans, leave them out and give the italian penisular to one of the gallic factions lol
.......... joke !

[tone]

We've shown you these new units already:

Batavian auxiliary:


Auxiliary cavalry (these are still subject to some changes):

[chenkai11]

We've shown you these new units already:

Batavian auxiliary:

He looks virtuous.

Awesome graphics.

[MarcusTullius]

He looks virtuous.

Like all good Roman army soldiers should!

[bohema]

OUTSTANDING

[lolgast]

they look great And finally they aren't all clones anymore

[tone]

There'll be 10 auxiliary infantry cohorts and 6 auxiliary cav alae (plus a couple of more specialised cavalry auxiliary units) - each will be unique.

[torzsoktamas]

There'll be 10 auxiliary infantry cohorts and 6 auxiliary cav alae (plus a couple of more specialised cavalry auxiliary units) - each will be unique.

Will the city hoplites be unique.For example in RS1.5 the Athenai is the same as the Bosphoran and the Bizanten,only the colour and the shield differs.In RS 2.0 (bisedes the spartans) will all of the city hoplites be unique,

Probably it was asked before,and if it was asked, sorry for asking it again.

[Bebbe]

Will the city hoplites be unique.For example in RS1.5 the Athenai is the same as the Bosphoran and the Bizanten,only the colour and the shield differs.In RS 2.0 (bisedes the spartans) will all of the city hoplites be unique,

Probably it was asked before,and if it was asked, sorry for asking it again.

Oooh yes. The hoplites are soon to be finished.

[Atticus]

will there be more different types of auxiliary depending on the area they're recruited in? because i assume the batavian auxiliary can't be recruited in, let's say, egypt?

so will there be an equivalent in the east (or any other place than the north west of europe) to the batavian auxiliary?

[Snake_Plisskin]

great job Tone, love that scale armour. How would the armour vary across the empire?? say mainly western armour types would be made up of leather or chainmail, where as the eastern you would find more scale mail? or due to the ever moving armies around the empire it would vary throughout ?

looks great !

[Coldcall]

Tone,

Wow very cool auxillaries! Rome will have some neat looking units to recruit other than just the named legions.

[tone]

Yes, there will.
And the city hoplites hav quite a bit of variety between them - 6 different types of helmet as well as some armour differences.

[Coldcall]

I have to take my hat off to Tone and the whole RS 2.0 team. Considering how different this game is now to the boring Vanilla RTW it is quite amazing.
RS1.5a feels like a totally different game already so i can only lick my chops in anticipation :-)

[Candelarius]

Wow, those are awesome units!