20 NEW PICTURES! Screens + artworks (Roman testudo, buildings, barbarian agents and units, wardogs)

[gammalfarmor]

That is some awsome artwork allright!

[CenturionSam]

Wicthes? -.- I can see Druids coming along for moral but not with a stick. I can see a Brigantes woman fighting but that's probably because I love the movie centurion XD

[Nashk]

Not to be a party pooper or anything... But for everyone complaining about historical accuracy you do realize that complaining about concept art is a waste of energy? Whether the end product is historically authentic or not, the end product almost NEVER looks like its concept art. Take a look at a few art books for games and movies some time and you will see that developers go through many variations of concepts until they settle on something, which might not even be one of the concepts to begin with.

I'm not saying the arguments over historical authenticity are valid or not but it is a waste of energy getting worked up over concept pieces used more for marketing and generating buzz than being used for the actual game.

[InferiorBeing]

They still have Screaming Women? Seriously, I thought CA had grown up a bit since Rome 1.

[SinerAthin]

They still have Screaming Women? Seriously, I thought CA had grown up a bit since Rome 1.

German women were known to partake in battles where their husbands were being massacred, even though they were nowhere near as effective as in the Spartacus series.

It's not like the Barbarians will attempt to conquer Rome with all-female Armies in R2:TW xD

[eighthgear]

They still have Screaming Women? Seriously, I thought CA had grown up a bit since Rome 1.

Ancient historians wrote that when the Cimbri and Teutones invaded the Republic, they did so not as an army, but as a peoples - men marched with women and children. In battle, the women would stand with the baggage carts and camps and shout encouragements at their men, and if their men ran away, they would kill them. Screaming women certainly do have historical precedent.

[frontier-auxilia]

holy **** those celtic unit look rad as ****. GJ CA i cant wait to lead my selected band of chosen warriors to punch a hole through roman lines.

imo the looks are authentic enough without the faux fantasy element and shirtless soccer fans look. im happy.

[frontier-auxilia]

holy **** those celtic unit look rad as ****. GJ CA i cant wait to lead my selected band of chosen warriors to punch a hole through roman lines.

imo the looks are authentic enough without the faux fantasy element and shirtless soccer fans look. im happy. what we considered “historical” is purely based on limited fragmentary evidence anyway. im cool with CA giving things an asthetic lift. Celtic warriors with some roman equipment is not too unhistorical if said celt took it from a legionnaire he killed as supplementary equipment. Even mongols do that when john caprini came across a cavalryman who wore chainmail taken from an alan he killed.

[Kinjo]

Not to take anything away from CA's art team but this guy should be working for CA!



Mariusz Kozik
http://www.lacedemon.info/

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[KLAssurbanipal]

Not to take anything away from CA's art team but this guy should be working for CA!



Mariusz Kozik
http://www.lacedemon.info/

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I know Mariusz. He is from my country.
There is a one RTW2's image by Mariusz:



I hope there will be more artworks and these will be loading screens.

[Kraut]

The wardog is... scary...

[Mr. Os]

Only one TWC will I ever see such nitpicking over concept art. Annibal please stop posting.

Concept art is just that. Concept. Stop thinking its the final thing.

And to those of you crying 'muh historical accuracy', You can take the Iceni to Baktria and back, its possible. This game is not a history simulator and it was never intended to be so.

[sabaku_no_gaara]

Why did they try so hard to make the arverni people so ugly? Their faces are just yuk, whereas I could imagine doing the Iceni warrior woman, the Arverni one made me want to scream and run away shouting: kill it! kill it with fire!

[Mahmood]

Very good !
Make some artworks about eastern factions

[Sharpe]

That sort of gear could have potentially existed. Not exactly high science.

[bibi g]

How does woman march and fight wearing long skirt? or are these pictures showing charioteer?

[Augustus Scipius]

How does woman march and fight wearing long skirt? or are these pictures showing charioteer?

She is either a family member or an agent, in both cases she does not have to move by foot. Women were never fighting as their own unit in battle.

[O'Hea]

The Iceni concepts all seem to be wearing hamata- obviously the final product is going to deviate from the concepts but to me, this indicates that the higher-tier Iceni units are going to be based on Romano-British concepts. It's not historical in the event that the Romans never hold Britain for an extended period of time, but I think in artistic terms its a perfectly justifiable choice and it may be necessary to make high-level British armor distinguishable from Gallic armors.

[Big Brown Bear]

The Iceni concepts all seem to be wearing hamata- obviously the final product is going to deviate from the concepts but to me, this indicates that the higher-tier Iceni units are going to be based on Romano-British concepts. It's not historical in the event that the Romans never hold Britain for an extended period of time, but I think in artistic terms its a perfectly justifiable choice and it may be necessary to make high-level British armor distinguishable from Gallic armors.

Wasn't chainmail first invented by the Celts? It believe it was later adopted by the Romans after they encountered the Gauls and realised the potential of mail armour.

[barry12]

i wonder how the women managed to get hair straighteners in that era? They look a little too manicured for my taste.