I'm not too eager to play in the Ancient Ages, so should I get the expansion pack?

Topic Subject: I'm not too eager to play in the Ancient Ages, so should I get the expansion pack?

Midgard Eagle
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posted 12-05-03 10:18 PM EDT (US)

To SSSi:
I've heard your expansion pack will cover the Ancient Ages. Now, I'm not too much of a fan of the Ancient Ages, so I'm not really considering buying the expansion pack.

But apart from the Ancient Ages, what else will the expansion pack feature? Will it have a large number of more random maps, for example? In essence, what I'm asking is how much gameplay there's left after I've removed the Ancient Age from the equation.

Eagle
PS: Don't even mention Japan in this thread. First, this is about an Ancient Ages-expansion pack, so I'd be surprised if it featured Zeroes and World-War II-era Japanese soldiers... Second, I just did a search and came up with five hits, and that's just the Japan-fan threads that have Japan as part of their title.

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Mokon
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posted 12-05-03 10:22 PM EDT (US) 1 / 18

u will still want to get it if u want to play with everyone else who is eager to get the xpack

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BlackEvil
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posted 12-05-03 10:24 PM EDT (US) 2 / 18

the xpack will probaly not come out for long time

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posted 12-05-03 10:56 PM EDT (US) 3 / 18

I'm actually enthralled that they're coming out with a prequel. There's just something about Roman legions and Greek wars that's just cool. That's why AoE 1 was one of my favorite games for so long, and that's why Bronze Age was my favorite age in EE. I can't wait ^^

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posted 12-05-03 11:11 PM EDT (US) 4 / 18

Yeah, personally I love that time era. But that's not saying much since I like playing all the different eras.

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yobbo_da_man
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posted 12-06-03 05:42 AM EDT (US) 5 / 18

im not eager either midgard. i cant wait for the third empires where i can bomb the hell out of people with supersonic stealth ST/OVL F-35's!

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Nobull
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posted 12-06-03 06:03 AM EDT (US) 6 / 18

i hope that this expansion had better formations which work

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Gen_Goobs
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posted 12-06-03 07:29 AM EDT (US) 7 / 18

Roman legions = tortise formation
Greek dudes whateva they r called = Phalanx formation

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qb_rms
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posted 12-06-03 10:26 AM EDT (US) 8 / 18

Quote:

Greek dudes whateva they r called = Phalanx formation

That would be the phalanx that lined up in the Phalanx Formation.

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Mokon
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posted 12-06-03 11:34 AM EDT (US) 9 / 18

Acturely the Phalanx IS NOT A UNIT!... some games do that but they are wrong.... the unit is the hoplite.... the only thing phalanx refears to is the formation

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Bane
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posted 12-06-03 02:07 PM EDT (US) 10 / 18

Well, I just don't see what will be different. Right now in Medival we have arrows, swords and spear. What are they going to do, take away some units?

I just hope the xpac adds more to the game along with the other stuff.

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posted 12-06-03 02:54 PM EDT (US) 11 / 18

Bravo, Mokon! The onl\y thing I would add is that Alexander the Great's "Companion Infantry" also lined up in phalanx formation.

NathraX
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posted 12-06-03 04:54 PM EDT (US) 12 / 18

Are there going to be more civs in the x-pack? (I mean of course in the existing ages)

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Intrepid
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posted 12-06-03 05:13 PM EDT (US) 13 / 18

It always bothered me how in AoE Hoplites upgraded to Phalanx.

Gen_Goobs
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posted 12-06-03 07:57 PM EDT (US) 14 / 18

Then Phalanx into Centurions. What is with that?

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Master_Blaster
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posted 12-06-03 08:17 PM EDT (US) 15 / 18

Well technically its posible to think of units abstractly so a unit in game is supposed to represent a group of fighting men. So calling it a hoplite would be bad and a phalanx would be correct since it abstracts as a group of hoplites. That at least is how I think of things since the scale of the game is so small, especially AoE which had the 50 pop limit.

Lysimachus
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posted 12-07-03 12:05 PM EDT (US) 16 / 18

Yeah, kind of the way I envisioned it too Master_Blaster.

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qb_rms
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posted 12-07-03 12:22 PM EDT (US) 17 / 18

Quote:

Acturely the Phalanx IS NOT A UNIT!... some games do that but they are wrong.... the unit is the hoplite.... the only thing phalanx refears to is the formation

Hoplites carried spears, phalanx carried swords...

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Lysimachus
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posted 12-07-03 12:42 PM EDT (US) 18 / 18

No, Phalanx is a formation that is made up of many Hoplites. Hoplites had swords, but the Phalanx formation consisted of layers upon layers of long lances...like a walking fork-tank.

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