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[gary]

This looks fantastic the attention to detail is out standing, ok do you have a time when their might be a beta release date sorry i just had to ask.Thanks great work

[Rorarii]

yes, attention to detail is supurb. If your going to do something, and you have the talent, then do it right!

I think this mod is looking better than any so far, IMHO.

[Stormy]

Wow! Outstanding work fellas, impressive detail!

[The White Knight]

Very good preview. I can't wait for the next one/release.

[Pertinax]

Wow! Outstanding work fellas, impressive detail!

thx stormy

how much time between EB 1.0?

[~Alexander~]

Fantastic work
M@gic!

[Hanno the Navigator]

Words fail me in my appreciation of this!

[MAXIMVS]

Looking good! Can't wait ...

[PSYCHO V]

WOW ! Absolutely stunning! I adore the Gauls. Very much looking forward to this mod.

If I may add some imput however, I believe the mail shirts, hexagonally shaped shields and round broaches to be terribly anachronistic. These 4th C BC units should wear the winged mail shoulder pieces, have curved rectangular or oval shields with simple / no metal boss’ and have long fibulae pinning their cloaks.

my2bob

[Lord Rahl]

All screenshots are taken from units' actual motions.

^^^

WTF? Uh...great preview though! I am looking forward to this mod!

[Luciano B]

WOW ! Absolutely stunning! I adore the Gauls. Very much looking forward to this mod.

If I may add some imput however, I believe the mail shirts, hexagonally shaped shields and round broaches to be terribly anachronistic. These 4th C BC units should wear the winged mail shoulder pieces, have curved rectangular or oval shields with simple / no metal boss’ and have long fibulae pinning their cloaks.

my2bob

Thanks for your precise argumentations, Psycho.

Well, let me say that our mod starts in 338BC and ends in 222BC, so in a timeframe which comprises a part of the 4th century and the greatest portion of the 3rd century, between the Early and the Middle "La Tene" ages; so we can assume that our Celtic warriors should reflect a mix of features related to the two ages.
Hexagonally shaped shields are represented in ancient art from the 3rd century BC, for example in the Celtic decorations of the cauldron found at Gundestrup in Denmark; something similar, almost hexagonal shields, are shown in a relief from Bormio, northern Italy, dating also 3rd century BC. Hexagonal, oval, rounded or curved-rectangular shields were probably used all together and I didn't found any reference about an archeological evidence which confirms a chronological succesion of these types. The winged shoulder pieces of the mail shirt were used mainly in transalpine Gaul, today's France, and never become popular in Italy; instead, there are Celtic statuettes from northern Italy which clearly show squared shoulder piceces in the style of the "linotorax" cuirasses. About the evolution and the related date of the shield bosses, we can found different opinions among the scholars; Connolly in his "Greece and Rome at War" suggested that there was a sort of evolution starting with the simpler round form and ending with the more elaborated winged types. Others seem to accept that these different types cohexisted together; for example in the book of the Opsrey series "Gallic & British Celts" by Peter Wilcox and Angus McBride, the warriors of the "Middle La Tene" age are shown with winged bosses on their shields; although that's a disputed matter, I retained that feature because it has a very "Celtic" taste. About the rounded clasp I can say that it is represented in several different depctions of early "La Téne" warriors, like in the Opsrey books above-mentioned.

[Uranos]

^^^

WTF? Uh...great preview though! I am looking forward to this mod!

I guess it's a preview of a taunt animation of Gauls.

[hellas1]

That's a picture of a guys ass?... bizarre! I thought is was a woman! LOL :laughing:
What the hell?

De La Luna....crazy *****.

"Give us this day our daily dosage of this mod. Amen."

P.S. Original stuff Team, real smooth man. Please release this mod, no one else is touching this mod's content.

Hellas1

[SigniferOne]

That's a guy for sure, and he's not afraid to show his enemies what he's made of.

[Obi Wan Asterix]

I love the helmets!

Fantastic work guys... glad to see the progress.

[Luciano B]

I love the helmets!

Fantastic work guys... glad to see the progress.

Thanks Asterix.

Well the whole helmet thing was the main part of the modelling work.
We needed a great variety of helmets to reflect the many different types actually used in that time ...Attic, Italo-Attic, Calchidian, Montefortino, Coolos, Nagau-Vetulonia, Negau-Alpine, Italo-Corinthian, Illyirian, Pilos, Sesto-Calende, Capestrano, Cannae, Thracian, Hybrid-Thracian ...often in almost "infinite" variations for each type.

[Luciano B]

Ahhh so thats what it stands for.. your right very catchy!

one more question in regards to SPQR, are the following units hastati, principles, rorarri and triarii just a roman specific unit? or will other factions close to SQPR's boarders have the same if not very similar units? ie Umbri?

We used specific names like "hastati", "principes", "Triari" etc. only for the Romans, because these names are strictly derived from the Roman military organization which we know from the ancient sources. For example the "hastati" were the soldiers who used the "hasta velitaris" weapon; the "principes" were the soldiers of the "main body"; the "triarii" the soldiers of the "third" line; for the other nations, since there isn't any definite account about their organizations who reports the names belonged to the different units, we used more generic names related instead to their weapons and combat attitudes; so we used simply generic definitions like "ensiferi" (swordmen), "lancearii" (spearmen) ...etc.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

The units there are the best I have seen so far , great Job Mates !

[Luciano B]

Thanks a lot Prometheus; I'm really honored for you appreciations ...grazie!

[PROMETHEUS ts]

You are welcome , I like the fact that all the units are really perfectly historically accurate as can be on what game allows .... Ho ant the best are the shields and helmets ... very good job ! ^^