From Chronicles: Alexander the Great tailer. And don’t worry, these aren’t for ranked.
Does this elephant have plus 1 range?
Still no bombard elephant, though. Shame. Just make it scenario only if needed.
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Since this is chronicles, it could just be a reskinned battle elephant. Or it could be a new unique elephant unit.
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You’re right but not right in the same time.
Yes this unit will have the same “role” as the vanilla battle elephants.
No they won’t just be a reskin.
Let me explain it abit differently.
It can totally be the said object, I mean unit in the game file, but with different purpose and behavior. With how the game is set, they can totally make a very unique version of the unit for chronicle.
You’re right on the side that it’s probably gonna be a Regional unit that will serve for futur elephant style civs, such as Cartagho, and also cause the UU for Puru seems to be their bamboo archer.
However if you look closely to the design of the unit, compared to vanilla one, this one is meant for two soldiers on top and a “box”. They got very long spears, thrusting spears, were vanilla one are more about the elephant beeing the main damage dealer, with a “slashing” spear type there the idea is to cut people with a long stick. Those elephants are here to pierce units from far away.
I also think that indian elephant and african elephant are very different species, one is bigger than the other but I can’t recall which one is the biggest. That could mean they’re not regional, as there is too much difference in the animal from region to region.
About the stats, I think they will have 1 range, if you look carefully the sprites you can see animation damage with units abit far, but it’s too early to know that.
On the other side, they seems to be packed a lot, but in a narrative setup it can’t be relevant for their “price”.
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For war; the African is smaller, and Indian is larger.
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Yeah that was that, african were faster and could be maned by one rider where indian one were just monstruous beast capable of heavy damaging by themself.
I spotted some elephants on the stable design for Puru, so they’re gonna be definitly on stable. And it’s not a 2 men elephant, it’s a 3 men elephant infact.
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Gunpowder units in classical age?are you for real?
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1- it mainly was used by the Mughals after the time of AOE2, under Akbar and Shah Jahan, while the founder Babur is at the tail end of AOE2.
2- I didn’t expect gunpowder units from the times of Alexander the Great.
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It indeed looks like this elephant will have a 1 melee range.
Maybe it will be dual-attack, the spearman poking the enemy from a distance while the elephant causes 0-ranged trampling damage.
On that note. The Macedonian Silver Shields hold their weapons exactly like the Elite Guardsman, which might mean they are a replacement for it.
Or hoplite replacement at barracks with cavalry as UU for Macedonian.
Not as likely. The units which replace parts of a line tend to have a similar silhouette to what they replaced.
And Macedonians fielded traditional hoplites alongside the phalangites.
Yeah but what makes Hoplites beeing Hoplites. By default it’s the Hoplom, but some hoplom wielder evolved into Ekdromos style unit with lighter shield and sword instead of spear. However it’s true about the hoplites also present in Alexandros army, but weren’t they greeks auxiliars ?
Based on the trailer, macedonian special things will be scorpio (bombard cannon replacement), Phalangites, Companion cavarly. We also see some ekdromos but it’s probably campaign units choices, as noble greek cavalry or tarantine javelin throwing cavalry, or thebean sacred band hoplites what so ever.
About the animation similarity, you should think of it diffrently. First, yes, holding spear style were similar on similar type of soldiers. Elite guardsman represent spearmen that were not wielding Hoplom but smaller shields like those wielded by Phalangites which was the Telamon if I’m right. The Hoplom was designed to protect the maximum surface it could, ad covered nearly the entire arm. The phalangite style smaller shield was meant for the bearer to be able to hold the spear with two hands, in opposition of the hoplite style there you had it with one hand most of the time. So that’s normal there is some similarity on animation style for units with similar purpose, of having a shield that doesn’t prevent the bearer to use the spear with two hands.
Other thing to keep in mind is budget. Using the same animation bone pattern cost less money to produce, so yes reusing base pattern makes sense on that regard.
One more thing is about letting player easily understanding what they’re facing. If the animation is kinda similar, you’ll directly guess it’s the same purpose. If units animation style are too different, players might not have the direct interpretation of the similarity.
Phalangites won’t be a elite guardsman replacement / evolving, they will have another role. They’re macedonian specificly drilled guys in one specific style of combat, where guardsman are just spear bearers.
If you let hoplite line to the macedonian, with making the phalangite an upgrade of an existing unit line, like the legionary for romans, they will have a lot of balance issue. Hoplite are tanky, phalangites are high ranged. By doing so you could have hoplite on first line, and phalangites on second line. Put the phalangites in Stand Ground position and they will protect the hoplites with their long spear, which could ends up beeing deadly gameplay wise.
I’m pretty sure the macedonian won’t access elite hoplite. Maybe they will have regular hoplite, but they won’t have elite one.
They’re getting the scorpio, one cavalry unit, and one long spear unit, plus fortified outpost. This makes them already very solid, if you add the hoplite line to that it’s gonna be rampage. Or maybe they’re loosing the militia line ? But that sounds abit weird.
Asia elephants is bigger . Indeed north Africa elephants they smaller than Asia elephant quite much. Africans bush elephants is different. 3 kind of elephants on the world . and 1 dwarf elephants from Malaysia they different too.
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