Basically they did excavations in certain places I can't remember all the details, with a team from some university (Oxford?) I genuinely can't remember which one is the Oxford one anymore. One of them is a professor there, the others are mainly finished their phd or phd students from various universities.
Anyway, long story short, yes CA copied EB.
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I'm having trouble following what you're trying to get at.
You're saying a team from Oxford did some excavations that uncovered some of the evidence off which these units are based -> Therefore CA copied EB?
I don't think that's the point you're trying to make, but that's what it sounds like.
Yeah only their findings weren't published at the time or something along those lines, so the only way they'd have been able to draw the same conclusions is if they used the same work from EB.
The point is really simple, CA copied EB for RTW2 hence the unit variety since they didn't have to concept much themselves.
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Rumor has it that Oxford is only a submod of EB.
I actually made the effort to go back 5 years ago through a forum time travel machine to find this part of a post from one of them because I was tired of running off of my memory.
He was on an archaeological team doing excavations there for his university (he was a professor or PHD student at the time, I'm fuzzy on when he became a prof).So I found out today, scanning the Rome II forum at TWcenter, that CA had several commented-out units in the original RII, apparently so that they could give them as "new" units with future DLC. Among them are EB's Gallothracians and Komatai Epilektoi, two units I conceived entirely on my own from archaeological research in Bulgaria, and had never been featured in an Osprey or something like that, but boom, CA has 'em ready for Rome II!
That's true, britain is technically a subdivision of barbarians within europe and by extension oxford! After all, it's the little island beeeeside europe.
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Have you played Rome 2 before?
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