Rolf Dew

Yeah I know what you mean, accents can be made fun of! Oh btw, my family can only speak english and afrikaans, same with my grandparents ect.

@Astrid Yes I agree with you completely! I am a mix of cultures, on my mother side, I have Persian (My ancestors left before Islam took over, they were Zoroasters), the red hair and white complexion come from them. My mum's mother is light browned haired (she was born a red head) and pale skinned, grand dad was also red haired and pale and her grandmother was blue eyed and red haired. So I have no idea what part of Persia they were from lol. My mother's father was an indian. My dad's side is also mixed too, his mum was blond haired, blue eyed and nordic complexioned, his dad was a light skinned indian, I am not sure where my dad's mother was from. We suspect that we are mixed with european somewhere up the line. Yeah so my dad is blue eyed, light brown haired and like a german complexion, my mum is more olive skinned, with reddish blond hair, with some brown also. My sister and I are dark brunettes, with brown eyes and white skinned, like in between olive and white skinned. It is kind of weird, we get mistaken for europeans all the time, my dad is generally mistaken for an afrikaner or germanic originated person, my mum for a southern european and my sister and I have been mistaken for different types of Europeans too. Yeah it is weird.

@Astrid haha I did not know that Kim was your role model! It is good to hear that some Norwegian girls are modest! Yes I know what you mean, sometimes it is better to not have a label attached to you. I'm a Christian, but most of the girls I meet are Christians too (although not all are Christians), but they are still very materialistic and shallow sadly, some are pretty modest but still shallow, of course not everyone is like that. True here also, the girls in the farms and smaller areas are more friendly and down to earth.

@Astrid Where I live, we have a lot of those mall loving, more materialistic type of girls, a lot also only care about looks too. Most of the girls I know in my area are either English origin or German origin. The English origin one's tend to be very liberal, arrogant and materialistic, the German one's I know are very conservative, as for Afrikaans girls, I don't know many here, but the one's I met elsewhere seem more old fashioned and friendly. As for other race girls, well I don't really know much about them, but those I do know, are generally extremely liberal, pro feminism and the complete opposite of everything I value. Although due to my appearance (as I mentioned before, I have rather dark hair and eyes), I am mostly mistaken for a foreigner, especially a European of some sort, most think I have come directly from either somewhere in Europe or elsewhere, so it is odd.

True, Religion and Money do cause a lot of conflict.

It is nice to hear that Norway has some normal girls still

Yes it is really sad, you are right, we all need to get along! Thanks for the kind wishes I really appreciate them!

I am pretty sure that is how the first round of a set of matches works

Haha true this topic has really drifted! Exactly, sad to hear about your wife, maybe one day lol.

@Astrid yeah sadly a lot of guys have no idea when it comes to treating a girl equally and worshipping them lol. Guys and girls will always be different and have gender roles, but equality can be achieved without switching roles completely. Being equal doesn't mean one has to hate everything about their gender lol. Yeah that is true, I also never really noticed my sister's hair that much growing up. Haha I know what you mean about the accents, the aussie accent is great! The South African english accent is like a posher sounding version of the Australian accent really. Other accents in South Africa are quite different . Nice, so he is a Norwegian Australian! It is nice to hear that most Norwegian girls are still traditional .

@Sundiata Yeah it is really turning into a mess all over the world, it seems like violence in increasing everywhere, which is really sad. Indeed the Wildfire community is amazing, filled with wonderful and interesting people. Crime is pretty bad in South Africa depending on where you live. It seems living on a farm is dangerous nowadays too, we've had a fair share of crime too. Although murder and rape is extremely common in some parts of the country, especially in the poorer areas and the suburbs. Which is real sad. We even have land invasions, some guys come and squat on farms or other properties and build townships there. Rural areas are a bit more peaceful though. In South Africa there is too much politics and it affects the country very badly.

It is really sweet to hear that you and your husband still have a normal married couple relationship, I have heard that feminism is pushed to the extreme in most of the Scandanavian countries. I can imagine that getting your hair wet can be a big problem, my sister when she was younger, used to fall asleep when my mum blow dried her hair, because it took forever to get dry . Your mum sounds like a great person, it's nice that you and your husband have such a great relationship and similiar hobbies! Do you guys speak English and Norsk at home?

@Sundiata Yeah the Zulus get too much attention compared to the real african empires in Africa's past . Yeah people can get kind of stupid when it comes to seeing people that are different from them. Thanks for the pictures, it is really interesting!

It's sad to hear about the increase in crime, yeah it is better to be safe than sorry. It sounds like your hair looks great! Haha so you like a real manly man, I can imagine what your husband looks like now. Unfortunately, some people don't know when to mind their own bussiness. It must draw a lot of attention when you and your mother and sisters go somewhere together.

Yeah maybe one day she will regrow it . Yes it was quite pretty, she loved it. She used to always get shocked looks or people asking her, "wow you have very long hair!" My sister was the only person I knew with hair way pass her knees, it is pretty uncommon in my family (and extended family) and even where I grew up. Once she grew it almost down to her ankles, but she was rather small then and my mum trimmed it a bit. She also wore her hair tied up in public mostly, especially since we used to cycle and swim a lot as kids. My mum loved for my sister to grow long hair, but sadly my mum's hair could never grow very long, it grew very slowly (although my mum has such an interesting hair color, it has streaks of blond (kind of a golden color), red and brown hair! My sister has some red streaks too, my grandmother was a red head as a baby and red hair was pretty common in my mum's family). My hair grows very fast and thick like my sister's, so I have to have hair cuts pretty often lol. My sister has wavy hair, so it looked like a flowing mane when it was long.

@Sundiata those pictures are very interesting, seems like they were very good fighters from what you told me. The musket traditions are very interesting too, the black people in South Africa rarely used muskets in combat, so it very interesting too see. Nice hair, isn't it heavy?

Yes they are, for the most part . My dad was a bit short, so I am only 175 cm, one can feel real small around some of the larger Afrikaners and germans. My sister also grew her hair long (past her knees) until her late teens, then she cut it. Nice, so you must look like a real valkryie!

Nice, you have dreadlocks! Yes genes are very interesting! Where is your dad from if I may ask?

Yeah a lot of the afrikaners (mostly dutch and german originated people) are nordic looking and tall too! Yes it is really beautiful here, I have heard that Norway is amazing! I am not dutch or afrikaans, I am an english speaker, but I can speak Afrikaans and understand dutch. Yeah most of the European originated people here have a nordic look (including the british originated people), although a fair amount of people are not nordic looking too. My dad has blue eyes, but brownish hair, my mum has brownish/blond hair and brown eyes, my sister and I both have brown eyes (we had green when we were babies though) and dark brown hair lol. Blue eyes is pretty common here, especially amongst afrikaners and british origin people. We have a fair amount of german origin people where I live and I know one or two norwegian origin people too.

I will definitely take some pictures when I get a chance . We farm fruit mostly, avocados, dragonfruit, blueberries and more

I also live on a farm but in South Africa!

I would love to see this concept in a mod or the main game if possible, it could add more strategy and thought to the citizen soldier concept in my opinion.

I would love if there was a feature, where when a citizen soldier is used to gather resources, then he would become just a regular unarmed villager. There should be like a armory building, where unarmed male villagers can go to, to turn into soldiers, there should be like a raid bell or something similar, so that when an attack happens, these unarmed citizens can become citizen soldiers. I believe in this way, raids can still be feasible, as citizen soldiers would be vulnerable to raiders when they are used as workers and this is also historically accurate, as citizen soldiers did not carry their weapons and armors at all times. This could be like a conscription idea, where male (and female in certain factions) villagers can become miltia or basic citizen soldiers when it is times of war. I hope I was clear in explaining this concept.

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't some civs (like the mauryans) have male villagers that were not citizen soldier, because if I recall correctly, they had a caste system, with a warrior class, priest class , so forth. So perhaps some civs should have male villagers too.

I agree with Sundiata, the naked fanatics appears do have been a very inspiring/terrifing unit. They seem to have intimadated enemy units by their very boldness and crazy behavior by not wearing armor and their screaming and shouting.