EB Preview :: Lusotannan

**Krusader** · November 19, 2006, 05:32 AM

Greetings Europa Barbarorum fans.

As some of you might know we announced a third faction some time back. And as some of you might have suspected, it's the Lusitanians or in EB, Lusotannan. Thus the Iberian faction will be focused entirely on the Lusotannan, one of the most known ancient Iberian tribes, if not most known, who made the Iberian peninsula an ill-favoured place to be for any Roman legionnaire during the Roman republic and early empire. This means the Lusotannan will only start with the Lusitania province in western Iberia and the former Celtiberian province will instead be a rebel allied one.
But you think we would announce a preview with only this as the announcement? No of course not. A lot of work has gone into the Lusotannan and you can see the new units below.
Enjoy!!

And of course, many many thanks to Aymar de Bois Mauri for the work on units and the faction itself. Teleklos Archelaou for his work on graphics. But our biggest thanks goes to Sarcasm who has done a tremendous effort on descriptions and research and without him, this faction wouldn't have been so far, and also to Anthony who helped with making a "Lusitanian language" based on Indo-European and it's relationship to the Celtic language variants in play in this region.

Factional units

Iovamann:

Caetranann:

Gestikapoinann:

Scortamareva:

Ambakaro:

Ambakaro Epones:

Iberian Regional units

Balearic Light Infantry:

Balearic Slingers:

Dosidataskeli:

Loricati Scutari:

Iberi Lanceari:

Some ingame screenshots of the new standards for Lusotannan and Iberian rebels

As always, if you have questions or comments, the best place to post them is here, where the EB team is most active:

Europa Barbarorum ORG forum

Europa Barbarorum TWC forum

We give special thanks to Imageshack that provides us with a simple, foolproof, and free way to show you all these pictures each week.

Have a great day!

Sincerely,

The Europa Barbarorum team.

**MRY6** · November 19, 2006, 05:49 AM

Good stuff

**Windseller** · November 19, 2006, 06:57 AM

outstanding!
im definately in love with all these new units for 8.0 even though i would have tried it again with epirus im now convinced to give the lusitanians a shot too
keep it up we love you all

**Iberus_generalis** · November 19, 2006, 07:05 AM

Go EB!!! GO EB!!!

Viva o Orgulho Luso!! há mais de dois mil anos a desafiar as potencias invasoras!!=)
Long live the Lusitanian Pride!! For more than two Thousand years defying incoming invanding powers!!=)
give them what they need!! =)
how lucky i was for me to come to the net before going to the university city...=) go EB!!!

BTW will we replace the iberia faction or are we gonna be another faction in iberia? it would be fun to have two factions here=)

now im definetly going on to 0.8...just hope there are at least 47 model slots for the units i added to my 0.74.... this just got interesting=)

where can i get a banner of this new faction? i wanna show off my pride in being a descendent of this people...

**Zenith Darksea** · November 19, 2006, 07:38 AM

I knew it! These look really fantastic. Please tell me that 0.8 is close to release. I can't wait to play with these toys!

**Keravnos** · November 19, 2006, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Zenith Darksea

I knew it! These look really fantastic. Please tell me that 0.8 is close to release. I can't wait to play with these toys!

You and me both!

**Krusader** · November 19, 2006, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by Zenith Darksea

I knew it! These look really fantastic. Please tell me that 0.8 is close to release. I can't wait to play with these toys!

8 units left that needs recruitment...
And some other stuff.

**Korinthos Hoplites** · November 19, 2006, 09:23 AM

What a preview!

This makes me even more eager to get 0.8!

**.Socrates** · November 19, 2006, 10:26 AM

Great job as always EB team.

**Sarkiss** · November 19, 2006, 10:32 AM

great preview, as always

so i guess it is this Lusotannanian, who kicked Roman butt in times of Tiberius and before that.
thanks.

**Ludicus** · November 19, 2006, 10:45 AM

Congratulations,outstanding!
Great job,EB

**The White Knight** · November 19, 2006, 11:04 AM

These are masterpieces, every single one of them. Huge applause to you Aymar de Bois Mauri! I think I'm going to start my first 0.8 campaign with this most gorgeous faction

!

**Aymar de Bois Mauri** · November 19, 2006, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by The White Knight

These are masterpieces, every single one of them. Huge applause to you Aymar de Bois Mauri!

Thanks, TWK.

Originally Posted by The White Knight

I think I'm going to start my first 0.8 campaign with this most gorgeous faction

!

It is pretty playable now.

**Aymar de Bois Mauri** · November 19, 2006, 11:11 AM

Thanks everyone for your comments. Those that worked on the faction tried their best to give you a pretty preview and an even better game immersion. Just hold on a tiny bit more for 0.8...

**Teleklos Archelaou** · November 19, 2006, 11:35 AM

No editing ability over here, so I'll just post these in this post instead of slipping them into the first one:

Here are the banners for everyone:

The one you can put in a sig banner with other ones too:

And if you like userbars instead, here is that:

**invictus** · November 19, 2006, 12:22 PM

Im breathless EB team, i especially love the Ambakaro Epones and the Dosidataskeli. The mask and mail is simply amazing. -Leon

**Elminster** · November 19, 2006, 12:54 PM

Awww...here I thought we'd get to see Faction X finally. Oh well...these guys look awesome. Augh! I want to play every faction all over again! Nice to see Iberia done the justice it deserves...

**Eduorix** · November 19, 2006, 04:31 PM

Im happy that finally the people of the Iberian Peninsula will have a descent faction. Im half Spanish, but will not get in nationalistic stuff and saying how happy Im now. I have read about that this is only 60% of the units in Hispania. I cant wait to see the Northern tribes of the Cantabrians and Basques.
I want to say thanks to all the people involved in this preview and just ask a little question.

What language voice mod will the Lusitani speak in the campaing?

**Aymar de Bois Mauri** · November 19, 2006, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Eduorix

Im happy that finally the people of the Iberian Peninsula will have a descent faction. Im half Spanish, but will not get in nationalistic stuff and saying how happy Im now. I have read about that this is only 60% of the units in Hispania. I cant wait to see the Northern tribes of the Cantabrians and Basques.
I want to say thanks to all the people involved in this preview and just ask a little question.

What language voice mod will the Lusitani speak in the campaing?

It was a very tough decision the one we had to make. Due to the very sparse remains of the several Iberian languages and the even more sparse remains of the Lusitani one we had to go for a mix of Indo-European Lusitani words and constructions and Proto-Celtic. Sarcasm, Anthony and Ranika can answer this much better than I can since I am no linguist but it was a very, very hard job to achieve. We are, however, happy with the results and hope you like them.