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Only one screenshot and one unit so far, but expect regular updates. The unit they have is the Zweihander, of the Holy Roman Empire- a fully armored infantryman in plate with a massive two-handed sword. (This unit was not in the original Medieval).

Cool. I notice that the Zweihander is decked out in Habsburg colors. (Or perhaps Wittenburgische or some minor power, but that's unlikely since the HRE is a single country in MTW, right?). Little details like that what make games special.

They've updated the screenshots page, lots of new stuff.

CHARGE!

No new units added to the unit viewer ... yet.

Well, there goes any hope of free time I might have had for the year following this game's release.

Also, I may have befouled my underwear. Jesus, that looks sweet.

Vympel wrote:They've updated the screenshots page, lots of new stuff.

CHARGE!

No new units added to the unit viewer ... yet.

That is a most beautiful charge.

I can't wait to see some Byzantine units.

Especially Kataphraktoi.

There's a new 3D unit up called the Feudal Knight. Very sexy.

A thought just occured: I wonder if the Aztecs will be playable? If not, I hope for a mod.

Gamespot also has an interview up. With new screenshots, including the Aztecs!

More awesome pictures of Knights. Still no Kataphraktoi

Cool- they've added the Feudal Knight to the 3D Unit Viewer. Looks sexy.

I really have to stop looking at those screenshots untill I actually have the game. It only hurts right now

Alferd Packer wrote:A thought just occured: I wonder if the Aztecs will be playable? If not, I hope for a mod.

Why? So You can be curbstomped by a handful of Castillians?

Where are those damned Kataphraktoi?

Hmm... I wonder if we'll get to use thematic skutatoi regiments this time around. Perhaps even the elite Tagmata ...?

I hope so- I mean, if they can include Carriage Ballistae based off a single historical reference in Barbarian Invasion, they should be able to introduce those Greek units.

I'm still hoping they'll engage in some healthy speculation for what Constantinople's armies will look like in a situation where the city wasn't sacked and Asia Minor wasn't lost.

Vympel wrote:I hope so- I mean, if they can include Carriage Ballistae based off a single historical reference in Barbarian Invasion, they should be able to introduce those Greek units.

I'm still hoping they'll engage in some healthy speculation for what Constantinople's armies will look like in a situation where the city wasn't sacked and Asia Minor wasn't lost.

Most wholeheartedly seconded. Personally, I'd be more than pleased if they just offered some different variations on the normal units, as I find it more than a little ridiculous to see Byzantium holding onto its eleventh-century army units well into the 1400's in almost every single game.

At the very least, they *have* to include the Tagmata, who were just as infamous as the Kataphraktoi during the Empire's heyday.

And why not, say, include an ahistorical late-game skutatoi regiment armed with early gunpowder weapons? Kataphraktoi cuirassiers? Tagmata units armed with arquebusiers? ... And so on and so forth.

I could see the Byzantines going for carabiniers as well, to try to counter the horse archers of the Sassanids/Turks.

And I'd love to see the Varangian Guard update into something more along the lines of the elite guards of Western Europe, rather than remaining a rather mediocre (for an elite unit) heavy infantry.

Holy shit. Check out the new city map layout and terrain.

Link to another look at a city or castle on a hill top:

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If I wasn't so exhausted, I'd orgasm over that picture. Dammit, I need a new 3D card and more RAM if I'm to run this.

First Greek/ Eastern Empire unit in the 3d viewer!

Trebizond Archers. The classic.

The model is awesome- they've got the typical CA colour for the Empire, (purple, just like in MTW and RTW:BI)- a really detailed quiver and compound bow, a buckler on their back, sword in scabbard slung at their side ... wow. Looks great.

(Though I never used them in hand to hand combat, even though IIRC they were capable of it in the original).

Show us some infantry!

This reminds me of how cool the Bulgarian Brigands were as well.

Trebizond Archers, Byzantine Infantry, Kataphraktoi. That was a great combination. Even in the later eras.

The best thing about Byzantine infantry (apart from how cool they looked- well, not in the tactical map, nothing in the game could be described as looking cool, sprites and all that) was that as long as they were sufficiently upgraded, even in the late game they could be decisive. And unlike the heavy infantry of Western Europe, they come in large units.

Still, in the game they should speculate on some "modern" units for the later time periods.

Fire Fly wrote:Link to another look at a city or castle on a hill top:

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Man...that fortress is just saying: 'Storm THIS, bitch!'

I am going to love seige battles.

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Very beautiful knights.