darthturtle

Personally, I think that mode will be pretty hard to balance, with the power difference between players. But if someone can pull this off, it will be an unique game mode, and should be pretty awesome IMO

Carthage at the time of 0 A.D. is the thriving trade empire during the Punic Wars, AFAIK. 0 A.D. as a point in time is non-existent, and the Carthaginians in-game will be during the high point of their civilisation, as will all other civilisations in the game

Or maybe a retreat button, like in Company of Heroes

As far as I know, heroes have leadership auras. I remember reading about it somewhere on the site.....

I'm assuming that you can toggle the behavior of the units, so that you can order units to hold and only attack when the enemy's in range, or order them to chase down all enemies in sight. Is this the plan?

I sure hope so! I have yet to see a computer that is more humble than mine!

I got a 1280x800 monitor. Unfortunately I have to play most games in 1024x768 because my PC sucks and can't run modern games at 1280x800.....

We shall fight in the beaches! We shall fight in the seas and oceans! We shall fight in the air! We shall NEVER SURRENDER! But seriously though, it might be annoying to have your units running away when you can win the battle with your ub3r m1cr0 skillz

That could be expanded into a "supply line"! That could open up some interesting options during a game

Give them some time, the game is still at alpha AFAIK

Personally, I think naming the unit using its native languages (e.g, calling Greek Hoplites "Hoplites" instead of "Greek Spearmen") adds more flavor to the game

I believe that is one of the features the developers are planning to include. As long as the fans can make scenarios, not having a campaign wouldn't be a problem

On chariot, those were only really seen before the Han dynasty, during the Han dynasty, chariots were replaced by riders on horseback. After that Chinese cavalry forces generally don't have chariots in them

Yes I do mean the qiang, it is true that they rarely fight in anything that resembles a phalanx, but during the qin dynasty, there is actually an experimental unit that fought like a phalanx, but that never caught on. I think the hook on a stick is the ge which I mentioned. But this weapon was replaced by the more versatile qiang after qin. The chained cavalry, if i remember correctly, is actually used by machurians originally, AGAINST the Chinese, but I might be wrong on this The chained ship , i think, was only used during the battle of the Red Cliff. It prevented soldiers from getting sea sick (since it was much more stable), but burned easily. I don't think it was used in other battles though. The repeating crossbow is my all-time favourite pre-gunpowder ranged weapon. Although in earlier versions, the power and range of the shots were reduced drastically to cope with the speed, but by the ming dynasty, the repeating crossbow gained the nickname of "anti-barbarian crossbow" (yuan rong nu) because of its effectiveness against cavalry charges used by nomadic armies against China

Well, I think Zhan Guo and Qin should be one civilization, Han and the 3 kingdoms be another, mainly because of the rapid rise in the importance of cavalry between the Qin and Han. So although the infantry will be similar (only main difference I can think of is the change from mainly using the Ge, which is a scythe-like weapon effective for use on chariots, to the qian, which is just a spear, this change also reflects the change from chariots to mounted cavalry) the other things will be pretty different.

I have no idea how this thread became an AoE 3 discussion thread.... can we go back on topic?

He won't be running around kicking Persians into bottomless pits would he?

This is a very interesting discussion - especially on how the Persians will be balanced in the game. It is hard to make unique sides in a historically accurate RTS since everyboby wants their country to be the best. I play as the Chinese in AoE 2 because that's the closest to my nationality. Although in a realistic situation, just because the Persian has more troops doesn't mean they'll be worse than an average Greek soldier, but in a game, like a few people have said, they have to be weaker for game balance. Remember, this is an RTS, and no matter how accurate it will be, there will be parts that will differ from realistic situations. RTS games are essentially "God Games", where the player have absolute control over their unit. Thus, no traditional RTS (as in, an RTS that uses the "collect resources, build an army and fight" model for gameplay) can be 100% accurate. I think the developers have to do a really good job at balancing the game so it is both fun and as accurate as possible I believe the 0 A.D. team and all the contributors to this project can do this, and that in the end, we'll have an excellent historical RTS.

Minor factions will be cool, and from what I've seen, it'll be easy to add new units to the game. One question though, will we be able to play multiplayer games with mods?

I would LOVE to see single player campaigns in 0 A.D. since I'm not a multiplayer person (plus the ping is TERRIBLE in Vietnam) and I would enjoy a campaign based on history since I'm interested in ancient warfare. However, if you're doing the Persian invasion of Greece, I wonder how the Thermopylae scenario will turn out.

Personally, I think home cities could be implemented better than in AoE 3, although if there's going to be home cities in 0 A.D. then I think they shouldn't be called that, It should be something else since I think you won't be sending "shipments" to a "colony" for some civilizations. Just a minor detail, but sometimes it's the little things that ruins immersion.

I highly doubt it, and I think it'll take too much time to get physics working in the code anyway

None on the list.... I'm Taiwanese, but my grandfather came to Taiwan with the nationalist army, so I guess it's Chinese, which isn't on the list.

Yet one more 0AD mod to look forward to! I've only played the demo for AoM, but I would like to see how this turns out! But, 15 civs? That's a lot of work if you wants all sides to be different.... P.S. Shouldn't this be in the mods forum?

Well, I hope it will be faster than 5 year, been waiting for a good RTS for ages (I can't get commercial games because I live in Vietnam, in Vietnam, pretty much everything you buy is pirated )