Announcement: Europa Barbarorum 2.2b is released!

[alex33]

I am all set to start playing

Just one quick question, is it necessary to play a M2TW campaign first before starting EB2?

No. when i bought medieval 2 on steam i hadn't even started vanilla medieval hahah

[QuintusSertorius]

A doubt that appeared as its been some time....how did one checked what you could build in a certain place? Or in what regions yo ucan have your different goverments? I tried going through the export_descr_buildings but didnt found the geographic limitations there. And in the recruitment viewer it shows everywhere for the buildings I was interested in xD

It's in the first line of the building, for example the Boii Confederation:

boii_confed city requires factions { f_boii, } and not building_present govallied and region_religion rel_e 75 and hidden_resource eastcelt

I am all set to start playing

Just one quick question, is it necessary to play a M2TW campaign first before starting EB2?

Play, no. But you do need to start one, to make the game generate various necessary files, before starting an EBII game.

[HuoShan]

Ask a question，now in 2.2a campaign and battle difficulty，Very easy means easy，easy means normal，medium means hard，challenging means very hard？THX！

[Dantman40]

Help! I have downloaded 2.2 to my desktop from every one of the links, multiple times. Every time I get 3 bin files, but no downloader and no EBII.exe. Norton Antivirus is turned off, but it has never been an issue before.

I have 7zip. My game is on a different drive than program files, but that shouldn't matter here, as I have not even gotten to installation. I am not a newbie to mods. I have played many M2TW mods, including EBII. A file search shows no EBII.exe on my computer.

[HuoShan]

Why the campaign and battle difficulty change names in 2.2a patch，now is very easy、easy、medium、challenging.

[pericol]

So hoplitai (i got them from Histria) have no abilities from now on and and their prower is cut in half?
Also, the Esseda at Sarmiszegethusa cannot be recruit after some time?

[QuintusSertorius]

So hoplitai (i got them from Histria) have no abilities from now on and and their prower is cut in half?

If you're referring to the nonsense that appears on the unit card, then I guess, yes.

If you look at their actual stats, on the other hand:

; COMMENTS              Hoplitai (Hellenistic Classical Hoplites) / Unit ID 306 / Start exp: 0 / Refr rate: 0,044 / Pool cap: 6
type                    hellenistic infantry hoplitai
dictionary              hellenistic_infantry_hoplitai
category                infantry
class                   spearmen
voice_type              Heavy
accent                  West_Greek
banner faction          main_spear
banner holy             crusade
soldier                 hoplitai, 64, 0, 1.2, 0.2
officer                 epilektoi_hoplitai
officer                 officer_hellenic_standardbearer
attributes              sea_faring, hide_forest, free_upkeep_unit, can_withdraw, power_charge, rehire_hoplite
move_speed_mod          0.83
formation               0.93, 1.13, 1.86, 2.03, 8, square
stat_health             1, 5
stat_pri                8, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, spear, 0, 1
stat_pri_attr           light_spear, spear_bonus_4
stat_sec                0, 0, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, none, 25, 1
stat_sec_attr           no
stat_pri_armour         7, 5, 6, metal
stat_sec_armour         0, 0, flesh
stat_heat               4
stat_ground             -4, -1, -4, -5
stat_mental             6, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist        14
stat_fire_delay         0
stat_food               60, 300
stat_cost               1, 3000, 375, 75, 150, 1500, 6, 375
stat_stl                8
armour_ug_levels        0
armour_ug_models        hoplitai
ownership               f_rome, f_carthage, f_makedonia, f_epeiros, f_kh, f_seleukid, f_ptolemaioi, f_baktria, f_hayasdan, f_pontos, f_parthia, f_aedui, f_arverni, f_casse, f_lusotannan, f_sweboz, f_getai, f_saba, f_saka, f_sauromatae, f_numidia, f_pergamon, f_gandhara, f_lugia, f_bosporan, f_arevaci, f_boii, f_nabatu, slave, f_bellouakoi
era 0                   f_makedonia, f_epeiros, f_kh, f_seleukid, f_ptolemaioi, f_pergamon, f_bosporan, f_pontos
era 1                   f_makedonia, f_epeiros, f_kh, f_seleukid, f_ptolemaioi, f_pergamon, f_bosporan, f_pontos
era 2                   f_makedonia, f_epeiros, f_kh, f_seleukid, f_ptolemaioi, f_pergamon, f_bosporan, f_pontos, f_nabatu
;info_pic_dir            f_all
;card_pic_dir            f_all
recruit_priority_offset 75

power_charge means their charge value applies for a lot longer, which is better than a big number that disappears almost immediately. Otherwise, they haven't been meaningfully changed.

Also, the Esseda at Sarmiszegethusa cannot be recruit after some time?

Yep, they disappear with the Celtic Riders reform.

[Dooz]

If you're referring to the nonsense that appears on the unit card, then I guess, yes.

So uhh.... are all the unit cards nonrepresentational "nonsense", or is this relegated to this one specific unit? Also, what the hooey? Why are unit cards nonsense? There's always been far too much internal strife....

[QuintusSertorius]

sorry, wouldnt that defeat the purpose of decreasing the unit size? triarii (and equites) were recruited from a more limited pool than the rest. decreasing the unit size but doubling the refresh rate would not reflected this fact well imho, and would only present their battlefield numbers but not the overall (limited) availability.

Depends on where the new refresh rate is set. If rpeviously they refresehd slower now they can refresh as fast as the other roman units because at the same refresh rate you are getting half the numbers. So it would make sense because you will be able to produce any kind of maniple at the same rate with the numbers accounting for the difference.

Jervaj has the right of it. All the units now have an equal refresh (Triarii used to have half that of other units), but each point of Triarii grants a unit half the size of the others.

Is there any info on Celtic Riders Reform? I also couldn't find anything related to celtic reforms except pritanoi government thing.

It's a new feature, not sure if Mantaprey has caught up with it yet.

If you fight at least 5 medium-sized (ie more than enemy 8 units) battles against certain settled factions, it triggers. The fallback is randomly between 260BC and 250BC.

It makes chariots disappear, and you get recruitable heavy cavalry and slingers.

So uhh.... are all the unit cards nonrepresentational "nonsense", or is this relegated to this one specific unit? Also, what the hooey? Why are unit cards nonsense? There's always been far too much internal strife....

The unit cards that appear in the game, just like the building cards, have hardcoded displays (ie the game chooses what to tell you about a unit from it's rather eccentric reading of the EDU/EDB). Which report complete garbage, like saying heavy cavalry is "fast moving" when it isn't. It's also why we had to find a workaround for building cards displaying negative capabilities, because apparently it never occurred to CA that you might want to use it.

[Dooz]

The unit cards that appear in the game, just like the building cards, have hardcoded displays (ie the game chooses what to tell you about a unit from it's rather eccentric reading of the EDU/EDB). Which report complete garbage, like saying heavy cavalry is "fast moving" when it isn't. It's also why we had to find a workaround for building cards displaying negative capabilities, because apparently it never occurred to CA that you might want to use it.

Ohhh, I see. Just a hardcoded game limitation. I was worried about a concocted scenario in my own head where some people in the team in charge of some areas had different ideas of what should be on them, and yeah. Phew. Thanks.

[melvidh]

Hello,

i am playing makedon cai-average/bai-average campaign 2.2a.

Could anyone tell me what are the requeriments to build a small granary? i cant build one in Demetrias. City has the "supervised hellenic administration" goverment and second tier farm ( i can only think in farms as prerrequisite) and i am not able to build there a small granary.

Regards:

Melvi

PD: I see the "Strategia" as goverment prerrequisite for the granary buildings line in the building brownser. But i dont see the Epistatei epi Hellenas, that it is upper tier goverment to the Strategia, in that list. Could that be the problem? is that working as intended? or if i have a goverment Strategia OR better i should be able to make the granary buildings line?

Umhh i just realiced that i have Strategia goverment in Pella, Athenai and Korinthos and i can make in all those cities the small granary without problems.

Umhh maybe it is just a matter of city size.. Pella, Athenai and Korinthos are cities already and Demetrias is only large town.. bah. ill find out in a bit ( Demetrias has 5800+ inhabitants).

[Bitiquinhus]

Is someone facing crashes when entering any battle on Linux ? I don't know if that's a problem with the port by Feral Interactive, but I'm not able to make the game print to the log file either.

[Bitiquinhus]

Is someone facing crashes when entering any battle on Linux ? I don't know if that's a problem with the port by Feral Interactive, but I'm not able to make the game print to the log file either.

Oh, found the solution on another thread. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful mod !!

[z3n]

Oh, found the solution on another thread. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful mod !!

I completely forgot about getting the Linux specific instructions in, I'll get those together later.

[Bitiquinhus]

Oh, found the solution on another thread. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful mod !!

Oops, too soon. Siege battles crash and the workaround of moving settlements folder to share/data/data doesn't work.

[Maroslav]

i noticed problem with skelet of foot officers in battle( played some randoms with Agrokunoi) and they fighting air. will add screenshot.

[Rafkos]

Ok guys, let's make it clear. The third one from the top for CAI and BAI levels

[Maroslav]

btw just now i realised there are death sounds from brave hearth lol gj

[Barnabas]

Is there any info on Celtic Riders Reform? I also couldn't find anything related to celtic reforms except pritanoi government thing.

[Rick]

In case this hasn't been mentioned, I got a "fatal graphics error". I then moved everything from high to medium and it worked. Now, as I recall when installing, there is a file for graphic enhancement. Am I wrong in thinking that this would enable us to push the graphics limit?