Huns are playable?

[RGA]

According to the playable faction guide which comes with the Special Edition, there will be 10 playable factions. As you can see in the picture below, the Huns are third from the right, upper row. Did CA follow the practice of Rome 2 and release the Huns as the game's first Free-LC, as the case of Pontus?

[Grosskomtur]

Sure does look like it in the upper middle faction!

[Linke]

[texoman81]

yeah with higher resolution it is obvious that Huns are the 10th faction. It looked like it before but was hard to see for sure. Thanks for a hi-res version.

[NostalgiaFan]

I hope this is true. Won't make me pre-order but it would be nice to have the Huns playable in some way.

[PointOfViewGun]

It's expected of them to get a card from the box but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be playable.

[texoman81]

It's expected of them to get a card from the box but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be playable.

So you think they gave cards to the 9 playable factions and then to ONE non playable faction but not the others? The other factions that are playable through DLC don't even have cards. It is quite obvious there will be 10 playable factions at launch. Either Huns will be named the 10th faction included in the base game, or they will be the first Free DLC like Pontus was. There is a reason they went from saying that Huns will not be playable to saying wait and see.

[The Outsider]

So you think they gave cards to the 9 playable factions and then to ONE non playable faction but not the others? The other factions that are playable through DLC don't even have cards. It is quite obvious there will be 10 playable factions at launch. Either Huns will be named the 10th faction included in the base game, or they will be the first Free DLC like Pontus was. There is a reason they went from saying that Huns will not be playable to saying wait and see.

Exactly, they were probably planning on adding the huns as dlc but they realised thatthis mmight have a negative impact on sales especially in Hungary and Turkey so they decided to include it at the release.

[PointOfViewGun]

So you think they gave cards to the 9 playable factions and then to ONE non playable faction but not the others? The other factions that are playable through DLC don't even have cards. It is quite obvious there will be 10 playable factions at launch. Either Huns will be named the 10th faction included in the base game, or they will be the first Free DLC like Pontus was. There is a reason they went from saying that Huns will not be playable to saying wait and see.

Yes. That one nonplayable faction is the Huns, the whole point of this game. They'll get a card regardless of whether they can be played or not. This doesn't mean that the Huns won't be nonplayable for sure if we ignore CA's words. It just means that the cards doesn't mean they will be.

Exactly, they were probably planning on adding the huns as dlc but they realised thatthis mmight have a negative impact on sales especially in Hungary and Turkey so they decided to include it at the release.

I doubt sales in Turkey and Hungary make up a lot of volume.

[texoman81]

Yes. That one nonplayable faction is the Huns, the whole point of this game. They'll get a card regardless of whether they can be played or not. This doesn't mean that the Huns won't be nonplayable for sure if we ignore CA's words. It just means that the cards doesn't mean they will be.




I doubt sales in Turkey and Hungary make up a lot of volume.

Actually they weren't planning to make the Huns playable at all. They confirmed this many times in interviews, but then after the backlash from the community, they decided to reconsider. They then said no decision had been made on the playable factions yet, follow us on social media.....

They are putting off announcing the Huns to make it a special announcement. They will probably do it in a rally point. We all know huns aren't really the whole point of this game. This game is BI2, the Huns are no more important than any other tribe. In fact they achieved less than most of the other tribes. Attila is just a MARKETING PLOY and an attempt to make it less obvious they are selling us BI2 as a separate games. The Huns carried the same weight when BI was made. In both games the Huns are just one of ten playable factions. That will be confirmed soon and you will be proven wrong...yet again

[PointOfViewGun]

Actually they weren't planning to make the Huns playable at all. They confirmed this many times in interviews, but then after the backlash from the community, they decided to reconsider. They then said no decision had been mod on the playable factions yet, follow us on social media.....

They are putting off announcing the Huns to make it a special announcement. They will probably do it in a rally point. We all know huns aren't really the whole point of this game. This game is BI2, the Huns are no more important than any other tribe. In fact they achieved less than most of the other tribes. Attila is just a MARKETING PLOY and an attempt to make it less obvious they are selling us BI2 as a separate games. The Huns carried the same weight when BI was made. In both games the Huns are just one of ten playable factions. That will be confirmed soon and you will be proven wrong...yet again

I know they confirmed the Huns as non-playable but how about a source for them saying that no decision was made on the matter? Or is it one of those nonfindable sources?

[Totalheadache]

Does seem a bit silly to me you make a game called Atilla and then people cant play as the Huns...

Why not add a diff bonus or specific missions to make the game more historical/fun/strategic and whack the Huns in. Perhaps the Hun side could be more of a campaign...oops dont want to give CA dlc ideas.

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

ughhh, Attila may be playable, that's good, but now, the historical issue.

The game starts 395AD, 11 years before Attila was born and 39 (me not knowings how describe insolences) years before he took control of the Huns and led any geo-political entity to rape raze mechanic his way across Europe...

I mean, there is a limit to how ahistorical you can be, and CA are giving it a damn good go... If they don't change it, then I probably won't buy this, unless they make up for it in the quality of there products, hopefully, without DLC

Well, I see that CA are going completely off tracks now, Jeats, Jutes, Peats, Poots are NOT Viking ancestors, although, that's a trivial issue to me

Not sure if Danes existed here though...

[texoman81]

ughhh, Attila may be playable, that's good, but now, the historical issue.

The game starts 395AD, 11 years before Attila was born and 39 (me not knowings how describe insolences) years before he took control of the Huns and led any geo-political entity to rape raze mechanic his way across Europe...

I mean, there is a limit to how ahistorical you can be, and CA are giving it a damn good go... If they don't change it, then I probably won't buy this, unless they make up for it in the quality of there products, hopefully, without DLC

Well, I see that CA are going completely off tracks now, Jeats, Jutes, Peats, Poots are NOT Viking ancestors, although, that's a trivial issue to me

Not sure if Danes existed here though...

Attila not being born yet isn't really a problem, except it will make playing with the Huns very boring until he comes of age to take over, if they are portrayed accurately. They are just going for name recognition amongst the masses. The word Viking draws attention so they use it. People know who Attila is so they name the game after him. No the Danes didn't exist as a united people until the 10th century.

It really seems to me like they have merged what was going to be 2 separate campaigns. BI2 and a dark age setting. That's why we have races and religions from different times thrown together.

[iWarsaw]

I saw an interview where they said Huns wont be playable. They've also said in another one they would be.

Lets agree CA needs to get their straight. Hahaha

[NostalgiaFan]

I saw an interview where they said Huns wont be playable. They've also said in another one they would be.

Lets agree CA needs to get their straight. Hahaha

AMEN to that!

[Toho]

ah man... does that mean the huns wont be as powerful as they were planned to be? god damn it...

[LestaT]

I don't think the Huns itself will be playable but I'm pretty sure there will be a playable Attila mini campaign like Caesar in Gaul for Rome 2, possibly is stages like what we had in NTW's Napoleon's campaign. This will be separate from the grand campaign.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

I don't think the Huns itself will be playable but I'm pretty sure there will be a playable Attila mini campaign like Caesar in Gaul for Rome 2, possibly is stages like what we had in NTW's Napoleon's campaign. This will be separate from the grand campaign.

ahhh it does say "huns" as number 3 faction and the map is pretty clear about it.

[LestaT]

ahhh it does say "huns" as number 3 faction and the map is pretty clear about it.

Where ?