From Game Reviews waaay back in the day

Greek Fire?!


Check out these early swordsmen.


And these early knights!


What a quaint little shipyard, how cute!



Can we say lightning bugs?

about fire spouts (or lighting spouts xD)
probably they had lighting cause many units in TA had lighting (fire almost not appear in TA)

anyway most of this units looks ugly comparing to premier edition TA:K (maybe expect that unknow water structure (?shipyard?) (but it don't have veruna style)

Those units look pretty interesting. How do you think we could have access to them? are they somehow in the data.hpi file?

KD-Sage wrote:

Those units look pretty interesting. How do you think we could have access to them? are they somehow in the data.hpi file?

I was thinking about that. If they are still buried in the game somewhere, I would assume there, yes. It might be likely, however, that these were in earlier beta editions (as often provided to reviewers pre-release), and thus are completely lost to the void.

Bardan wrote:

KD-Sage wrote:

Those units look pretty interesting. How do you think we could have access to them? are they somehow in the data.hpi file?

I was thinking about that. If they are still buried in the game somewhere, I would assume there, yes.  It might be likely, however, that these were in earlier beta editions (as often provided to reviewers pre-release), and thus are completely lost to the void.

Nah, if they were in the game's hpis, we already could have discovered that. I've managed hpis for years and never found something like that.

They could be in the demo!

edit: nope the demo has t1 units only.

wow those units look awsome mabye we can recreate them if there lost forever

About demo version game

demo is same as fullversion (v2.0), but have ?cut off? files,
if you gonna put specific named movie files,=> those movies gonna be loaded
same with maps (ofc demo have only some specific terrains so most of fullversion parts gonna be loaded without "visible" terrain (but height of terrain is proper loaded, ))
same with music etc. etc.
So demo is for sure (for me) made after fullversion, not before (probably same with many other games)

Edit
BTW demo gave me better "1st time playing effect" than fullversion game LOL

I'm actually using the dragonship as a tier building in the new era. It is the ship throwing fire in the first image. I think I took it from the Light race. There may be other units like those in the 3rd party races.

KD-Sage wrote:

I'm actually using the dragonship as a tier building in the new era. It is the ship throwing fire in the first image. I think I took it from the Light race. There may be other units like those in the 3rd party races.

I want to say Brakada has a fire-throwing ship like that, derived from the idea of Greek Fire, no doubt.