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Even the mighty brit/infantry_slinger_e misses elite slinger.mp4

During spectating I saw that some healers where healing while gliding. I don't know if they actually healed or had the animation running while they where walking or so. I can not reproduce this. I tried: Healing while different units walk away. The healer stops. 50 skirm + 10 healers vs 50 skirm + 10 healers: All stoned the healing process when units walk out of range. The walking begins. Capturing a building in a group This is what I saw: healing_glide.mp4 This is my attempt: healing_glide_mine.mp4

If structure capture is nerfed, Sparta will need to have another way to destroy or weaken fortifications. Currently, their only option are rams. Which aren't ideal, to say the least.

Afternoon, I had an idea for a bolt shooter related technology. Flaming bolts, that applies a burning debuff to targets.

If it's a GUI only thing, it could be as easy as to go to all the place Gauls are displayed and calling another custom Player.js method you would have created e.g. GetSpecificName()

Hip hop music can be considered, chronologically speaking, the last avant-garde musical movement to have reached widespread circulation in pop culture. Despite the general tone of the lyrics found in many rap songs — "Poopy-di scoop / Scoop-diddy-whoop / Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop", from Lift Yourself by Kanye West — hip hop music stands in the history of music as the genre that pushed to the extreme the subversion of Western musical tradition—a process already initiated by rock music at the beginning of the last century: the dominance of rhythm over harmony. Western musical culture, for centuries, made the study of harmony its defining stylistic trait. To simplify this concept and connect it to your everyday experience, just ask yourself how many times you’ve found yourself unconsciously tapping your foot to the beat while listening to a symphony from the 19th century or earlier. The answer is likely close to zero. Symphony orchestras, in fact, traditionally consist solely of instruments whose role is to play notes—in other words, pitched instruments. Even orchestral percussion instruments (such as timpani, marimba, glockenspiel, etc.) are tuned and play definable pitches that can be written on a staff. There is, therefore, no instrument whose primary purpose is to explicitly mark rhythm; rhythm in Western classical music is present only implicitly, as an underlying structural framework. Rock music disrupted this balance, bringing the essence of African tribal music into contact with the Western mainstream. Tribal music, as is well known, was originally composed of purely percussive, non-pitched instruments. These were not intended to play notes (a concept that didn’t even exist in traditional African cultures) but rather to mark time during religious rituals, allowing participants to dance in sync with the beat. So, in the 19th century, the modern drum kit was invented. Jazz and rock music radically transformed the cultural landscape of Western countries, whose musical tradition was suddenly renewed through its encounter with African-American musical heritage. But what does hip hop music have to do with all of this? Hip hop music further radicalizes this aesthetic process through two key mechanisms: the simplification of musical structure—made deliberately repetitive and ornamental so that it serves only as a backdrop—and the transformation of the vocal line into a purely rhythmic element. The voice, traditionally the primary vehicle for melody, becomes a percussive instrument; it stops singing, and thus stops producing pitched notes (and existing within a harmonic context), becoming instead a purely rhythmic expression. A precursor to this idea can be found in Sprechgesang, a vocal technique developed by Schönberg as a middle point between singing and speaking. That said, the truly sad part of this whole story is that most rappers—and the people who listen to them—are completely unaware of this historical and cultural nerdiness. They're like children using a nuclear reactor to warm up their steak. Truly fascinating. Poopy-di scoop / Scoop-diddy-whoop / Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop

Dynamically changing civs is quite impossible unless you change the way those json files are interpreted. This is a lot of work that could lead to engine changes. I am not sure if a single mod can achieve these things. But you can start by grepping which js files or cpp files are doing the interpretation of the civ jsons.

"Spear cav" spear cav shield.mp4

Women and the Army in the Roman Empire The presence of women in Roman military contexts has been established beyond doubt by scholars in recent decades. Nevertheless, very little sustained attention has been paid to who these women were, how they fit into the fabric of settlements, and what their contributions were to these communities. This volume offers new insights into the associations, activities, and social roles of women in the context of the Roman army, emphasizing the tangible evidence for the lived realities of women and families at different social levels. The various chapters adopt dynamic perspectives and shed new light on archaeological and historical evidence to provide novel conclusions about women's lives in antiquity. Histories of the Roman army can no longer ignore the women who lived and worked in its midst and histories of Roman women must acknowledge their important military role. The first volume to provide a sustained and comprehensive treatment of women and the Roman army Employs archaeological and textual evidence and incorporates work by a range of scholars to provide a variety of perspectives Significantly advances discussion of women and the Roman army by examining social roles rather than simply the presence of women in military spaces

I'm not sure. The farthest I've gone with JS in 0 A.D. is to backport small patches to an earlier alpha version.

The Musk Ox animation is also a little lifeless - is there a youtube tutorial I could follow to try to learn?

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You can check out the animations in Atlas as shown. Also the mane is funny moving and the horse goes bald for a while. aux-2025-08-19_16_02_31.mp4

Good catch! Thank you!

Let's wrap it up with a classic for now.

It's getting danker.

AI is probably researching this thread to train itself to recognize mental breakdown patterns.

The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants Although the Zapotecs have lost most of their cultural distinctiveness and undergone many changes, their way of life still displays links with a rich and fabled past. For more than three thousand years, the Zapotec-speaking peoples have occupied the fertile Valley of Oaxaca of southern Mexico – a region that was one of the earliest fully developed civilizations in America. There the Zapotec princely and priestly elites ruled a complex social and political organization, the theocratic state, and the Zapotec temple city of Monte Alban became one of the great cultural centers of Mesoamerica. The decline of the Zapotec civilization, and of Monte Alban as a civil and religious center, began before A.D. 900, with a shift toward divisive militarism, with the arrival of the Mixtecs in the thirteenth century and the rise of the Mixtec-Puebla culture, and with the invasion of the tribute-demanding Mexicas in the fifteenth century. The Zapotec princes’ elite status and most of the religious and political traditions ended. Finally, with the Spanish Conquest, when most of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs were reduced to rural, subject peasantry. This account of the Zapotecs and their worlds is what the author calls anthropological history. He draws on and integrates findings from archaeology, ethnology, ethnohistory, social anthropology, and other fields to reveal as fully as possible the worlds of the Zapotecs. The author, Joseph W. Whitecotton, was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved A description of the work of Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus and their colleagues in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley where the Zapotecs created one of the world's original civilizations. At its peak 1500 years ago, the Zapotec capital of Monte Alban - with its magnificent temples, tombs, ballcourts and hieroglyphic inscriptions - dominated a society of over 100,000 people with farflung territorial outposts. Yet a millennium earlier Monte Alban had been uninhabited and the valley's population less than one tenth its later size. The authors of the book go back to the beginnings of the settlement in Oaxaca 10,000 years ago to provide the answers to what caused this sudden cultural flowering. Ancient Zapotec Religion: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice. Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies. Zapotec: An Affectionate Portrait Of Southern Mexico And Its 3000 Year Old Culture This engrossing study of southern Mexico, an area fabulous for what it has already yielded to devoted archaeologists, haunting for what it has not yet revealed, centers about the Zapotec as the matrix of the Oaxaca peoples and builders of a glorious ancient culture. First we come to know the peoples of Oaxaca as they are today— the fifteen tribes, their fiestas and ways of life, their cities. Then we travel back in the vertical time of the Indians to trace the possible routes that led to the building of Monte Alban and other sites of ancient civilizations, surmise the reign of the Zapotec to its checking by the Aztec, to the acceptance of the Spaniards as deliverers from the Aztecs and allies against the Mixtecs, and see the consummation of the Zapotec heritage in the person of Benito Juarez, the great and progressive hero of Mexican unification. A fruitful approach to a fascinating research area, this achieves the vertical time of the Indians in showing the unity and change of past and present and gives the reader an insight into the theories research evokes and the facts it assures. Zapotec Monuments and Political History Of the four major hieroglyphic writing systems of ancient Mesoamerica, the Zapotec is widely considered one of the oldest and least studied. This volume assesses the origins and spread of Zapotec writing; the use and role of Zapotec writing in the politics of the region; and the decline of hieroglyphic writing in the Valley of Oaxaca. Lavishly illustrated with maps, photographs, and original artwork.

That would also be the burning damage application, but yes

And do bonus damage to structures

Those are good points, I have noticed the unit balance shifting since A27, I almost never see champion cavalry now, unless I am the one trying to use it, civs with strong anti cav options are also getting picked more, and Han crossbow and halberdier/spearman combination is horrifically lethal to champion cavalry and just about everything else too, I was genuinely surprised at how effective it turned out to be. Pikes have also become very decent damage dealers while maintaining good durability, especially great in wars of attrition, so that is a very nice change