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[[HOJ]Honorius]

Good Monday morning!

I stayed up rather late last night to finish all unit cards and info pics, so today's preview will be kinda short, but I will show you the last 88 units tomorrow to make up for today. And for today we have Thebes and Thessaly unit cards.

[[HOJ]Honorius]

[[HOJ]Honorius]

[Zhuge_Liang]

Good stuff

[Cyrus the Virus]

May I ask why the defence skill is so high on the units?

[Gelgoog]

you guys are making it so hard for me to pick what faction i want to play

[[HOJ]Honorius]

The defense stats are high in order to prolong battles, there are several ways of making battles last longer, this is a common solution you see in many mods. And as far as picking a faction to play, uh Troy!

[Cyrus the Virus]

Ok thx, thought so..

[Mad Guitar Murphy]

hadn't heard of this mod before, but it looks nice, think I'll download it this summer

[Sparton Matticus]

Why the long countdown? lol

[stu3216]

ya im just wondering but
there are units that have these really huge sheilds and there sheild only counts for like 2 defence

[Zhuge_Liang]

ya im just wondering but
there are units that have these really huge sheilds and there sheild only counts for like 2 defence

They would be the leather/hide shields. Not much use, but unit balancing is still being revised.

[Gelgoog]

actually hardened hide backed by wood can be extremely effect at deflect blows( which have a hard time digging in) and also has along of bounce to it allowing it to resist peircing to a reasonable degree.

[Zhuge_Liang]

actually hardened hide backed by wood can be extremely effect at deflect blows( which have a hard time digging in) and also has along of bounce to it allowing it to resist peircing to a reasonable degree.

Well for now we are keeping those stats as the total values work and if i were to change them it would mean going through each unit and detracting some points from the ability stats and adding them to the shield. This would be pointless, after all, how much use is a shield if you have no skill using it.

[MithradatesVI]

One thing that worries me is i'm not seeing any cavalry units...in any of the previews.


Are they there, or have they not been completed yet?

[Osceola]

One thing that worries me is i'm not seeing any cavalry units...in any of the previews.


Are they there, or have they not been completed yet?

There are some if you look in older previews. However in the Bronze Age cavalry was very rare. For example asides from chariots the only cavalry Egypt had were messengers. Other cultures mainly just had chariots. Thats due to the fact that it was extremely hard to fight on horseback without stirrups. The only people at this time and before who had perfected cavalry, were horse archers nations like the Scyths and Thracians. Historically the Amazons who were really just female Scyth warriors, were also horse archer cavalry. This is becuase the Scyths and the like had developed the stirrup.

However it's believed there must have been some cavalry, if very small, elite units, but obviuosly some people could do it.

[Zhuge_Liang]

Like we have said before on several occasions the cavalry renders will be posted later due to them being more time consuming to do. All of the units are completed and have been for months.

[dark_shadow89]

there will be few cavalry units, mostly infantry and chariots, as in keeping with historical data.

[Gelgoog]

i believe the only people to use a cavalry heavy force were the assyrians . who often worked in pairs with one being a lancer and holding the reigns of the other from his horse. the other is a mounted archer. that would be difficult at best to try and do ingame. indeed alot of light cavalry at this time were more mounted infanty then dedicated cavalry.

[Zhuge_Liang]

i believe the only people to use a cavalry heavy force were the assyrians . who often worked in pairs with one being a lancer and holding the reigns of the other from his horse. the other is a mounted archer. that would be difficult at best to try and do ingame. indeed alot of light cavalry at this time were more mounted infanty then dedicated cavalry.

Indeed that is the way we have included them.