No problem

Don't know about that too. I'm used to chess battles from most board strategy games (except Total War I think), but I'm tranquil that E:WoM will have not only a tactical map but also cool battle animations (differently from Civ that has little). I've seem some relating E:WoM with TW.

Yeah it is degrees somehow. Just wanted to show something that is designely meant to be so, and more cute. Don't worry, I don't intend to convice you, just to share my vision regarding that.

Ok, now you're complaining that there are reindeer?! You DO know that reindeer have been around a lot longer than 'Santa's Reindeer,' right? And reindeer happen to look a lot like 'Santa's Reindeer' (or is it the other way around) because, well, "Santa's Reindeer" are reindeer! People even eat reindeer all the time in cold climates (I've even tried it - it's hard to tell what makes it bad, the meat or the cooking). What I find appalling is that there are trees! TREES! What kind of serious fantasy game has trees?! That's the stuff of fairy tales!

/Sarcasm... Really, now you're just being silly. I mean, if the reindeer had a bright red nose and was pulling a sleigh you'd have a point. But no. Seriously, there is nothing more fairy tale about reindeer than there is about horses, or fish, or ostriches. You are basically saying that because reindeer have been used in one prominent fairy tale type myth, that they can't be used in any other way? That's just being closed minded and unimaginative.

Edit: I was so overwhelmed by the ridiculousness of that statement that I completely forgot to write the rest of my post:

Quoting Anomander,

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Thanks for the last Screenshot of the battle scene... that does look interesting, though I am wondering whether the battles now will become something similar to the chess match on the Millennium Falcon. Moving forces in a chess like manner, for them to fight it out when paths cross... 

I really hope the devs will clear this matter up soon. For one, they haven't really explained what "continuos time turns" means, and at least one dev has remarked that they didn't intend to release that screenshot with the grid, because it was basically just a test and doesn't accurately represent what the battles will be like. I really hope that's true; they've said they want battles to include and show thousands of individual soldiers, and I don't see how that can be done if they stick with what's shown in that screenie.

I'm just going to stop by for a quickie without reading everything, I just saw this and felt a need to comment.

Keep up, dammit.
The devs have commented that the battle-scene with the grid was released by accident, since it gives the wrong idea of the tactical battles. The tactical battles are in real-time (unfortuntely).

Don't eat that.

We need more screenshots! You should make an "work in progress" screenshot section where you post "it may or may not look sorta like this.. maybe"-screenshots, it'd allow you to bombard us with screenshots of everything, without behind held hostage if something changes!

In conclusion: MOAR PIX!1!one

Edit: And bear calvary.

We will have more screenshots as the engine gets further.  The initial screenshots aren't even lit yet.

1) Awesome, some new artwork! (or at least artwork I seem to have missed)

2) That better be a lion I'm seeing on the head of that savage!

3) Triple-post, eeey..?

If you succeed in making the game look or feel at all like that image, I might dehydrate from all the drool... Likewise, if the units look as good in game as they do in the concept art...  

The swede would know, wouldn't he .

Damn.  If the game ends up looking even remotely close to anything like that, I'll piss myself with joy! 

[Martok begins repeating mantra:  "I will not have unrealistic expectations, I will not have unrealistic expectations, I will not have unrealistic expectations...."]  

I could respond but after 10+ posts but I wont....

But thanks for popping on and commenting. I suppose more improved screenshots would help convinve me otherwise!

I was about to threaten to slap you... but then I looked at the picture again and the rangers are a little funny looking. What's with the stocking hoods? Are they trying to disguise themselves as elephants?

I'm very pleased with the art style Stardock is taking for the game. Much like the World of Warcraft vs. Everquest 2 art debate,  taking highly stylized graphics over more realistic darker tones produces a more colorful, creative and complete visual environment that will withstand the test of time.

What else did you expect of a proponent of bear cavalry... no taste.

The art direction in WoW is very nice, even after all those years, while games that came out at the same time and took a more "realistic" approach look very outdated now.

I absolutely love stylized colourful art in my games.