Persian Units

[Abadu]

Hi people,i want to now if the persian civ will have some assirian and babilonian soldiers,will it?

[Paal_101]

Babylonians are in Assyrians are not in as such, but the Asabari could easily be Assyrian as much as Median. What with the massive amount of shared armor and equipment in the Achaemenid Empire among the Mesopotamians and Iranians it will be quite simple to simply state that many are either, despite their official name. Plus mods of Assyrians and Babylonians will be insanely easy to create.

[Historicity]

Paal,

I for one am not a big fan of the Near East [Persia in the sense]... but I'm guessing that the Babylonians will "donate" a horse-archer unit to the Persians?

[Paal_101]

Actually they provide crew for the scythed chariot.....Whoops....that slipped They are however armed with a bow, so they are archers, albeit not horse archers.

[Abadu]

None assirian pikeman or horse achers :sad:

But 0AD is easy to mod,we will can create our CIVs ,but i have a question,its easy to create new units and buildings?

[Yamato Take]

I would've rahter had Assyrians than Babylonians, but Babylonians are still cool.

[Abadu]

I agree with you,yamato

[Paal_101]

Nope, no Assyrians as such. 0 AD uses classes of troops determined by their armament. Unfortunately for the Persians the roles of spearmen and cavalry archer had already been filled in. But again, practically all one would have to do would be to change the name on the Asabari and change the head gear from a tiara to something more Assyrian to make it such.

We went with a slightly more eastern approach for the Persians, with lots of Persian, Median, Bactrian, and Scythian style influence for them, along with more western peoples like the Cappadocians, Phyrgians, and Mesopotamians. This was mostly because we wanted to use more traditional Persian/Iranian weaponry, which if we were using large numbers of more western nations would not be possible. In the end there is only so many units one can put in before it becomes overwhelming and not an advantage for the player. However modding is the answer to all your desires

That's our logic

And yes to create new units is easy, human or building.

[Abadu]

Thanks for the answer,the people here are to gentleman

I talked about assiria over babilonia because assiria has famous "units"(soldiers)how the pikeman,horse archers and siege towers,and i dont now much about the babilonia military(can someone talk about this?)

Now some questions:

When the game is finished,the team wil put editor guides on the site?i would be happy with this

And why egiptians arent in?

(sorry for be to curious and make a lot of questions,ok?)

[Paal_101]

Thanks for your kind words, Abadu!

I too do not know that much about the Babylonian army and I have been quite curious about about it for a while simply because there seems to be almost nothing available to read on it.

Editors will be simple to use and you can expect easy access to information on their use.

Egyptians are not in because 0 AD focuses on 500 BC to 500 AD, outside the time frame of the glorious Middle and New Kingdoms. Ptolemaic Egyptians could be an option to put in, but they wouldn't be the Egyptians we all know and love. Plus Bronze Age Egyptians would fair pretty bad against iron-equipped Greeks, Persians, and Romans.

We love questions, so keep 'em coming

[Abadu]

Im so glad for the answers,thanks for it

also,how does the team now the catarghean units and names?im curious

Why there is no hitites(i dont now how to speling right)?

And again,thanks for be to good with the newbies here

[Mythos_Ruler]

Bronze age empires and civilizations are not included in our game. This includes: Babylonians, Egyptians, Sumerians, Hittites, Hebrews, Mycenaeans, Minoans, etc. etc. The Assyrian and Median Empires are left out as well, si ce the game starts at 500 BC.

[Paal_101]

Carthaginian names were provided by a language whiz named Aviv who used to be a member of the team.

As for Hittites, same reason as the Egyptians - the time period of the game doesn't cover the Bronze Age

[Justinian]

I see a Bronze age mod somewhere on horizon. To bad i can't mod. woot my none-to-speak-of-talents

[FirePowa8]

With luck, modding 0 A.D. should be much easier than the average RTS, and so should be a good stepping stone for new-modders. Since the Bronze Age is such a cool though sometimes overlooked time period, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see it in game.

[Mythos_Ruler]

A bronze age mod would be pretty sweet - Minoans, Mycenaeans, Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, et. al.

Edited April 12, 2007 by Mythos_Ruler

[Justinian]

So it's agreed...

someone other than me will do it.