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How accurate are chariots and halberds? My understanding is chariots show up a lot in early medieval epics, but there are not any finds from ancient times.

Andrew Martz, a former senior software engineer at World's Edge, confirmed in a separate LinkedIn post that the studio's next project was cancelled as part of its reorganisation under Activision. People made a meme about the future:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverni https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverni or Iverni? The earliest evidence of the Ogham is dated around the 4th century AD, it is the Silchester Ogham stone, it features an epitaph written in Primitive Irish dedicated to Tebicato maqi Memor ("Tebicatos, son of Memor"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Irish_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brehon Okay for me if we mentionned it is a legacy of an oral institution

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Not necessarily the devs from what i've heard, just the team that was working on the marketing and esports stuff, that being World's edge. Forgotten Empire's is the dev studio, and that hasn't been given over to activision, unless they're a packaged deal?

Only in the name. The structure itself is a plausible interpretation of what an important sanctuary could have been in the British Isles. Not based on a particular site but a synthesis of several sites.

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For Hibernians there is not that much material; althoug there are few things that could be used to set them apart. Ceremonial headdress (for heroes and maybe even champions https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/iron-age-la-tene-in-ireland/ http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/irish-crafts/petrie-crown.htm Cork horns (probably attached to a headdress) EB2 Irish units (avoid EB1 units some were very innaccurate) https://europabarbarorum.fandom.com/wiki/Bodina_(Goidelic_Skirmishers) https://europabarbarorum.fandom.com/wiki/Kladibiakoi_(Goidelic_Swordsmen) https://europabarbarorum.fandom.com/wiki/Eqoreda_(Goidelic_Cavalry)

The Britons currently have an Irish wonder. If Hibernians becomes their own civ perhaps Britons could get a new wonder in the future (based on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset).

Well these are the most interesting. The first are, from left to right, Athena, Hera, Aphrodite, Paris (with a Phrygian hat) and Hermes (with the Caduceus, or staff of Hermes, which many pharmacists use instead of the Rod of Asclepius as their symbol, tragicomically indicating commerce instead of medicine). The orb in that case is just the golden apple he gives to Aphrodite to declare her the fairest goddess (she promised him the most beautiful mortal, and we all know how that ended). The second is Mithras grabbing Helios crown. Both are solar deities, Mithras coming from the East, and I don't know much about this situation in particular, but it does seem like he's taking rulership over the Sun. Apparently this image comes from a Mithraeum, underground temples dedicated to him (I remember seeing at least one, in Ostia Antica). In principle everything was chill between these deities after that, somehow.

Gallo-Romans Composition with auxiliary tribal troops from Western Europe. Very powerful Romanized troops scattered in Cologne. Heavy barbarian cavalry of Alamanni and Franks. I know it only lasted less than Palmyra. I like the concept, plus Dominate troops are starting to appear. If we wanted Aurelian's empire, what would we call it?

I drew a lot of inspiration from thinking about Nero's colossus.

Very interesting, I thought about that but I must be careful. I thought a lot about Christian iconography. I have some examples of Roman painting and late painting. Mostly to add effects on top of the drawing. There is a statue of Constantine.

Hard to know without having more information, many deities would look like this. For example, this is apparently Jesus (Christus-Apollo according to a couple of flimsy sources), from the 11th century, with his right hand raised commonly associated to a blessing: There the orb again seems a sky symbol. I'd be tempted to say the eight arms are all the "sabbats" (related to the seasons, which appear on the four corners of that picture), but it's the Wiccans that in modern times put together the partial sabbats different ancients would observe. Still, you can check da Vinci's Salvator Mundi painting, where the crystal orb is taken as the "celestial sphere of the heavens": All this just to show more modern and analysed stuff, and that there could be a continuity in interpretations. After all, the sphere you drew reminded me of the Farnese Atlas sculpture, from the 2nd century, which has the ecliptic among constellations basically where you drew it (in the upper right, apparently by chance? Because the new picture you are posting is not that clear on that): Regarding emperors holding it, the 2026 Encyclopædia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/art/orb-royal-emblem) states it's a "symbol of the cosmos, or of the universe as a harmonious whole, is derived from the ancient Romans, who associated it with Jupiter and, hence, with the emperor as his earthly representative". I've just found some people online claiming it's the world, but without presenting too much evidence. For all practical purposes, it represents everything, and the dominion over it from the one holding it.

Imperator of Rome is a very good, very immersive game, and its Paradox community has some great ideas.

The information above is not 100% from a single source. You can make corrections, and I will take them into account for a second version. For now I am reading about Mithraism and Persian Zoroastrianism. A bit about earlier Semitic religions in the area. I would like to know the interpretation of this image. He looks like the sun god. Is similar to Malak-Bel or Malak-Bal, or his Roman version of the sun. I looked for the meaning of that in the statues and figures of gods. Many Roman statues make the gesture of addressing their troops. They apparently "ask for the floor" and for their listeners to remain silent. The other thing is something I see in the statues of Roman emperors: having an orb in their hand. Another idea is this. I plan to draw it several times, in various ways.

Age of Empires is now owned by of Activision. Is this the end of the franchise? At least for this decade? They also laid off a lot of people.

The original of this: Since you said you "believe" that, yet you drew what seems to be the ecliptic, I assumed you got it from somewhere. I haven't seen the original of that globe, I wanted to see its details.

But it loses the attested meaning, you imply the goddess chose them, I'm just saying they are picked troops

Basically, it's my drawing over the AI correction, and then I redraw over it. The difference is that it saves me time correcting the symmetry of the pic. I also made corrections to another drawing, but they were minimal. There are already open-source AI programs with open-source models and without these problems of commercial AI. There are still years of development ahead. Another problem with AI is that it lacks human judgment, and everything looks artificial and boring. Flyers created with AI all look superficial and boring, very fake. Everything competes with everything else: the text with the color, the composition with the saturation of elements; everything wants to stand out.

; I have several ideas from this group. I plan to create pieces from this group for various cultures of this era. That's why I asked for help to investigate the inspiration behind them.

Please have a look at the top post of this threat. I uploaded mercator verison 0.9.1 preventing entities of tjhe same owner placed twice at exactly the same position. It also enforces the game rules Putting a building on top of a tree or rock is refused. An object placed on top of an actor (citizien or other) creates a warning (the game seems to allow that) Objects off the map: refused. Mercator now also support defining screenshots taken in Atlas or putting its own simplified map layout as in post-atlas. Note that the tool is still in Beta version. I appreciate any suggestion, bug report etc.

Yes a herd of elephants getting stuck on a narrow path is somewhat acceptable but in the video the bouncing was way too awful. The reason why I would give this new "solid" propriety to only melee elephants amongst all land units, is that it's one of the costliest units. And "solids" having inelastic strong pushs, it will always make a large group of such "solids" always a bit tricky. But it doesn't mean that it should look as sh!t as in your video neither. I found a few bugs, improved some of the physics, and made couple tweaks that try to address that. Ideally we can still have "solids" do the minimum of overlapping. Tell me if you manage to test and still reproduce the weird bouncing!

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/altar-to-sol-a-rare-1-900-year-old-monument-dedicated-to-the-roman-god-of-light-and-used-in-a-secret-underground-ritual Mithraism and various Mesopotamian myths and beliefs speak of triads of gods; it is important to know why there are always 3 gods: one lunar, another celestial, and a third, which is sometimes Venus and sometimes cosmic. This is in Scotland on the other side of the Roman world, always the ritual of Helios with Mithras, in some has been found with the god of the moon. While searching for Babylonian deities and Middle Eastern myths, I found that Gilgamesh sacrifices the celestial bull. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_of_Heaven This is similar to that of Mitras, obviously Mitras is more advanced and later. It's interesting how remnants of religious syncretism remain. The bull is sacred in Semitic cultures.