Thorfinn the Shallow Minded

I agree with Enrique. If there were to be an opening cinematic it would need to show battles: preferably with each civilization shown once and in historical scenarios. That would be a ton of effort.

My bet is that they merely do not intend to give away all the information regarding all the factions. DLC civilizations seem to be a pretty reasonable assumption too though.

I will say exponential armour is preferred by myself.

Correct, the Etruscans were hellenized while they urbanized themselves. It was first the Euboeans I believe, followed by the Corinthians, and finally the Athenians who conducted trade with them, lending a lot of the Hellenic culture to the Etruscans.

Don't forget that Hannibal was blind in one eye.

By far, it would be better to introduce the Latins and Etruscans before the Seluecids.

Perhaps each civilization should have transport ships which can garrison elephants, cavalry, and siege units. At least the Iberians should for that matter, but if I am not mistaken, the Iberians are not meant to be a naval civilization, making the idea possibly irrelevant. Even so, a technology which allows them to acquire better ships at a high metal cost, simulating that the ships are being bought, could be added for them.

Maybe workers could have a gather penalty when the elephant is outside of friendly territory.

I agree with the above post. Another technology could be made to enhance them in the later game.

The Persians actually are a link to the Mauryans likewise.

Very good. I will begin composing an article on Pericles for a start. It will most likely take perhaps a couple weeks to draft, but I will do my best to make it as good as possible. Do you prefer it being in the Pages format or would you prefer me to alter it to a PDF document.

@ Sigvatr I will generally be referring to the ancient histories that I have (Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, Polybius and a number of others so no worries there. @ Kosmo, how would that apply to ancient historians who never had their books published while they were alive?

Hello. As I have been in the forum for a number of months, I see no relevant reason to make a formal introduction. My reason for making a topic is to offer my services for the addition and improvement of the history articles in 0 A.D. Although I will not be able to work extremely quickly I will do my upmost to cite all sources I draw the information from and write articles of good quality. I cannot assure you that I will be capable of writing articles for every culture due to limitations in resources, yet I should be able to write accounts of the Hellenic nations, Romans, Persians, and Carthaginians. I will need advice on what I do with my articles once I have completed them: generally pertaining to the place I would post them at. Is there any article that you would specifically want me to work on?

Preferably not. I prefer the Celtic Druids.

They are probably Samnites, but I could be mistaken.

Perhaps I am incorrect, but as far as I see, the only known culture to actually use the box formation was the Roman civilization. Why is it available to every other one? I frankly cannot verify this statement, yet it might be a matter worth discussing.

The person would have to decide which they would wish to benefit from first.

I suppose that my argument for its addition would be it would help with making the game more replay able. If each embassy is given more unique aspects such as a useful technology of some kind the player would be given interesting strategic options from one game situation to the next. Otherwise, I cannot find any other thing that would cause it to be very different from how it is now. In that sense, the game design would hardly change, and the change which would occur would be quite subtle. As far as I see, no has shown any drawback to adding it; still, I merely wish to convey that doing this could improve the gameplay. It seemed a matter worth defending as there was no strong opposition to the idea.

Yet should we not change the game design if it benefits the gameplay in addition to the GUI?

Perhaps Carthage would not suddenly have access to all embassies at one phase. Instead when the player begins, he or she chooses to have one available at the village phase, selects another upon opting to research town phase, and unlocks the last automatically. That could give them a bit of a Age of Mythology/Age of Empires III feel and would give it more symmetry.

I am currently learning the language in North America, so no.

The Etruscans actually urbanized around 800 B.C. and were still existent until 300, making it far more relevant for them to be included in the official release.

The Mycenaeans and Hittites are also important to add.

The Etruscans should definitely be a playable civilization. They fit extremely well into the timeline and possessed a very unique culture.

Likewise, it would be nice if the Spartan pereoikoi could be upgraded to pikemen through an upgrade. The same could be done with elite Athenian hoplites after researching Iphikraean Reforms.