Besides, we ca't be sure that the guy is african.
Remember the old mediterranean portraits for CK 2? Maybe he's a spaniard or an italian.
Remember the old mediterranean portraits for CK 2? Maybe he's a spaniard or an italian.
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Definitely looks like a modern area game. The structure in the back looks like some sort of skyscraper with glass windows. And the guy does not look very ancient, hair-cut, "suit" etc.
"Imagine a Roman Empire that never fell. Imagine Roman spaceships, imagine how cool they would be." - The Meddling Monk, Doctor Who: The Secret History
I was at http://www.kolmarden.com/bamsesvarld this weekend...
Did you ride the spinning honey-jars? Seemed far to vomit-inducing to me, but the very slow car-ride was nice.
So different opinions on that one. I have no knowledge of what kinds of people inhabited North Africa during this time period. If there weren't many black Africans there or otherwise in the area (what about Egypt, for instance?), that'd point away from a classical antiquity/Rome setting. What does racism have to do with it, btw?
Post-apocalypse might be fun, but I'm not sure that'd fit the hint about a lot of people in the studio wanting to do such a game? Haven't seen them talk about that anywhere. I could just have missed it, but until I see evidence otherwise, I'm sticking with space since I've found quotes supporting that.
Why would blue skies have to mean Earth?
Good one... did you draw the portrait?
This really is the most intereesting piece of actual information so far: the game is likely to have characters in it, which also fits with pointing out that Doomdark is doing design. If it is in fact a space game, I'm hoping that it has a good emphasis on characters, which would help a space game stand out, 4x or PDS-style GSG.
The background don't look like earth. I don't know what the blue thing is but I don't think it is clothing.
Good point. Roman Empire could be the human faction of the Space game. Also explaining why 3 and 7 are so important.
If it's a space game, I hope they use that Coriolis setting. it's really interesting.
Modern, character driven geo-politics would be my dream. The modern haircut is more suggestive of this than space. But then Space seems to be a front runner.
But what is the white looking thing at the bottom right corner. It do look like an classical temple.
The temple of Janus, built between the two first settlements on two different hills of a united roman city.
My theory: Seven Kingdoms, 3 families (Stark, Lannister, Baratheon)
http://www.ibtimes.com.au/crusader-...ossibility-game-thrones-strategy-game-1422363
Well the hairstyle and (very) dark skin tone does not really match with anything particlarly antiquity based if you ask me Sub-Saharan africans must have been pretty rare around the mediteranee and this guy really doesn't look like a phoenician or ancient Egyptian. The (seemingly) cracked pillar however could indicate a more ancient setting but I think it fits better with some Retro-sci-fi setting (a world of Byzantine intrigue wasn't it?) with some large space empire at the brink of collapsing which really is a cooll setting.
Still pretty disapointed with it not being an ancient empires game, the timing would have been perfect considering the TW:Rome2 disapointment, the time past since EU:IV, the popularity of Romans in general and with history enthusiasts and the fact that an ancient setting could easily be released without competing to heavily with HoI IV or EU:IV.
Still pretty disapointed with it not being an ancient empires game, the timing would have been perfect considering the TW:Rome2 disapointment, the time past since EU:IV, the popularity of Romans in general and with history enthusiasts and the fact that an ancient setting could easily be released without competing to heavily with HoI IV or EU:IV.
If Augustus is going to be a space game, I hope Paradox will at least add space romans to it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceRomans
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TourOfTheMerrimack
