Carthaginian issues/bug report

**Marku** · May 13, 2007, 04:54 AM

i will keep adding any issues i find on the carthaginians into this thread and any alterations i think would be good for them

heres screenshot of the 1st 2 i spotted in custom battle

whats very odd about this bug is when i alt tabed out of RS and came back after doing the screenshot the glitch disappeared. this has been in past RS versions ive played too.

probably should of done screenshot in campaign but im sure tone or someone will know which unit that is. the text for that unit is obviously missing/corrupted and needs a quick tweak.

later on ill probably nag about some of the names and how they could be made abit more accurate for us carthage fans ^_^

edit: heres results of battle i had

ANOTHER EDIT:

They should be called Baelaric Slingers

What does bela mean? I'd prefer Carthaginian Citizen Cavalry

Auxilary sounds too romany IMO, Numidian Cavarly is the name usually used by historians.

this one should be renamed Iberian Heavy Cavalry

**rory o'kane** · May 13, 2007, 05:02 AM

pezheitairoi (sp) is the unit with the placement text error. should be a relatively simple thing to fix!

**Marku** · May 13, 2007, 05:23 AM

yeah thats right.

also elephants(in africa) should be named African Forest Elephants.

edit: war elephant/armoured elephants should be removed from carthaginians and so should their artillery(caterpaults), as far as i know they never used it.

more powerful elephants such as those should probably be reserved to the east who had used them much longer than the carthaginians who only started getting/using them during the 1st punic war in sicily.

another edit: please remove desert infantry unit, its not accurate at all.

**aja5191** · May 13, 2007, 10:41 AM

@ Marku:

Something you have to understand about our mod is that nowhere in the mod description does it say that we make historical accuracy our priority. We are not a mod like RTR, where accuracy is their utmost goal, and everything they do is built around it. Our goal is to provide a fun playing experience for the player, with as much historical accuracy as possible, given the circumstances.

And as for your bugs, I don't see any bug in the first picture, and I think you underestimate the amount of time and effort we put into historical research, especially into things like names. For the slingers, they are being recruited in Carthage, so why would they be Balearic? And everything will, of course, be modified and changed as we work through future versions of the mod.

**Marku** · May 13, 2007, 11:18 AM

my suggestions were not aimed at changing the gameplay, i know you guys want this to be more about the fun/gameplay side, units would just feel better IMO if they were named better, just as you've named all your legions properly, because it looks cool etc. Btw, Dvk has asked me to be carthage historian for RS. So its my job to moan hehe ^_^ whats the point being roman if you dont have a worthy rival? ^_^ FOR CARTHAGE!

**The Black Reaper** · May 13, 2007, 11:09 AM

look at the unit he put his cursor over on the pic.. it says unlocalized placement text

**dvk901** · May 13, 2007, 11:43 AM

So the moral of the story is: If you moan and complain about your favorite faction, you get asked to become our historian for them.

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**Drtad** · May 14, 2007, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by dvk901

So the moral of the story is: If you moan and complain about your favorite faction, you get asked to become our historian for them.

:

Yes.

**swhunter** · May 13, 2007, 05:35 PM

Well RS you wanted a feedback.
I understand fully your ideas here.
But it would be great to have updates ending up as historical in some ways.
These are good ideas sir.
Great Modd and going to only get better!

**dvk901** · May 13, 2007, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by swhunter

Well RS you wanted a feedback.
I understand fully your ideas here.
But it would be great to have updates ending up as historical in some ways.
These are good ideas sir.
Great Modd and going to only get better!

I was joking, bud. We consider ALL ideas. We are 'idea people'. That's where this mod came from..ideas. And more and more, our ideas are historical. You will see RS become a historical mix of EB, TE and SPQR...with stats by Angel.

**swhunter** · May 14, 2007, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by dvk901

I was joking, bud. We consider ALL ideas. We are 'idea people'. That's where this mod came from..ideas. And more and more, our ideas are historical. You will see RS become a historical mix of EB, TE and SPQR...with stats by Angel.

Yes Sir

I can see that. BTW do you think the historical landmarks will be on the next patch ? Which we discuessed about?

Oh yes could you if you dont mind on the next patch to have a list of the things you gents have done? It Should make the players mouth water?

thanks