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Great job ! Thanks ! The helmet in the last picture is known as the Ciumesti's helmet, found in romania : Recently there is a single type of helmet found in Tintiniac, swan-shaped : That not a war helmet, but probably a ceremonial helmet. But i'didn't found drawing of this one... Edit : forget what I said previously :

Yes, we know today that the road were made by the gallics, and that was -already- an important system, Caesar used and improved them afterwards ! About the gauls, their major advantage were the food production, and their knowledge about wood and iron. With these things, they're able to support a large amount of population, 10 Million in the 1rst century B.C according to Christian Goudineau (That probably one of the most populated part of the roman empire... it became the granary of rome). But these numbers are submited to some controversies. The work of iron and wood show us the talent of their craftmans, especially with one invention that combines these three fields : the vallus ! Its a reaper, there is some picture on the internet, but also a good article on this website : http://www.gnrtr.com/Generator.html?pi=208&cp=3 Basically its just another idea of common unit like you said ! Edit : I've found some older post made by french people about the gallics like this one : http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11290&page=2#entry200460 And it's just cool to see that some idea were eventually added !Like the rectangular houses coming soon, and other stuff (especially gaesates) !

I've found the reconstruction of the Corent Oppidum on this website : http://com.cg63.fr/com/Corent/ This is maybe "Nemossos", capital of the Arvens It's in French, but the most interesting things are the views... English / French Sanctuary = Sanctuaire Market = Marché Habitations = Habitations Crossroad = Croisement Also for the Wonder I suggest the Sanctuary/Trophy of Ribemont-sur-Ancre ! After a famous battle between two gallics faction, the winners choose to build two trophy (that why I think it fits perfectly). One for them and another dedicated to their opponent. We can just take one of these. I'm seeking for some picture right now. The corpses of the losers (without the head) were put on a platform, in 4 or 5 rows. In arms. Waiting to be eat by the vultures (like the persians they think that their souls have to be brought in the air). After that the long bones were put in 4 cubic ossuary covered with dir and cob (1.60 meters of hight !! Thousand of bones !). These ossuary were drilled on the top, and the hole reach the ground. In the hole, a lot of crushed bones for the chtonics divinities. The rectangular enclosure is dedicated for the god, they burn the bones of the losers in the ossuary. The circular enclosure is for the casualties of the winners, there they put the corpse of the winners in the ditch, its also for the vultures.

I'm currently working on the first post. I've add a part on the sanctuary, i keep this one for the answer ! Firstly, thank you a lot for your participations, secondly : to @sanderd17 : I'll take my time and play the game a bit more, I don't want to miss some things, but for the boats it fit pretty well in fact. I'll make some research about the gallics boats. The trade is a classic problem, like any other RTS, the gallics are suposed to be bad in trade, in sea, in a lot of things, because we lack of information. I'm not saying that they're the best (of course no) but they have some qualities, like any other civs in the game. So they've an average trading system : -Tin, or salt trade, (add the copper for the briton) for the raw materialrs. Fo the roman it could be oil and wine for exemple. -Iron tools, wooden objects, and more (fibula, rasor, matress, ... has I said in my first post). -They were mintings their own coins. -The best thing about the gallics trade is probably the road system and the transport, they made exellent wheels, and chariot, faster than the others, because of the horseshoes of the horse, or the iron circle around the wheel (it's harder). They were a lot of vehicule known has gallics : -the carros (classic gallics chariot) -the carpentum (covered wagon, like a carriage) used by the roman after the conquest. another carpentum, for ceremonial i think. -the petoritum and the raeda (four whelled chariot) -the Plaustrum (another chariot but i need to go deeper ...) The best advantage for the gallics is not the things they trade, but the way they transport it, in my opinion. Each civs have special habilities in trade aniway, Gallics one should be diversified (different chariot choice) or faster than the other ... I was forgetting the horseshoes, yes, there is some proof now, especially a thesis work made by Gérôme Pieuchot-Ravisy "le fer à cheval à l'époque celtique" (Horseshoes in celtic period). They're konw since the IIe B.C. in central europa. But it work the same way has the Hyppo-sandals, with less iron used. (also a good website for the hyppo-sandals : http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-Horse.html ) For these things I think that the Gallics Blacksmith should be very complete, maybe some technology could be added (i'm still thinking about it). For the Glass, I found different citation, the one I use were from Plinius (Natural History as usual ...), but it doesn't seems to be exactly right, in fact Gallics made a different use of glass than the Greeks or the Egyptian, it wasn't for vessels, but more for pearl, necklaces or bracelet. So it's more complicated that I thought previously. For the Murrus Gallicus I'll make a post about it, Caesar called this wall like that but we don't know the name used by the gallics. @Serveurix/Ludo38/Sanderd17 => About the flag unit, this idea could be a good compromise ! @Ludo38 : Ah génial, j'ai vu qu'il y avait quelques autres français sur le forum, bonne nouvelle I know that this will be difficult to do, the flag unit may be a good compromise ! @Lion.Kanzen : I'll help, if i can find some picture, for reconstruction ! Totally agree with you, we need to separate this civs and give them more specificate attribute. @Megamania : Thank you

Hello everyone ! I'm new here, i discovered the game last week, and i need to say that i'm very impressed by the quality of your work ! I'm a french archaeology student, specialised in "protohistory" (bronze and iron age in France). I have some suggestion,i hope that i'm in the good section. I'll try to do my best in english, and not be too boring. I will make some post about the Gallics, they will be related to an aspect of the game each time. Take this like a post about the last archaeological discoveries of the gauls. The lastest news will be in Bold ! Introduction : Gallics were exellent traders, craftmens, farmers, and of course warriors... but it's always difficult to describe them. For a long time they were depicted like barbarian, stupid and violent. Text made by Roman or Greek author were not true all the time. To be fair, if the celtics tribes had a chance to do the same (supposing they choose to wrote), i think that they won't say only beautiful things about their neighbors ... Of course that could be explained, for exemple, Bellum Gallicum , wrote by Caesar is also a propaganda text, he needs argument during the war, and depict the celtic tribes as nice and peaceful people were not the best idea to convice the senat that they should invade the gauls. The confrontation between excavation and text is very usefull, it allow us to find the better theory about life of the gallics, since twenty or thirty years major improvement were made. We can point out the truth and the lies between the different text, name some discovery made during an excavation... In some subjects they were better than the mediteranean people. But in other they were worse. A / Stuff irrevealent to the game : This part is especially about the things that won't impact on the gameplay, but may be interesting to know. I'll try to present the way of life of the gallics. For exemple : -Better ship (Caesar says it himself during the battle against the Venetes in Brittany), strongest because made for the Atlantic ocean an not the mediteranean sea. -Better chariot (also carriage, wagon ...), they also invented the Vallus (prototype of the combine Harvester), and an important road system (that Caesar didn't forget to use btw...). So they had a very good trading system, they were able to make Lille-Marseille in less than a month. -they invented the horseshoes (the roman use another thing called "hypposandale", i don't know the word in english). -They invented the chainmail, and the curb/chain for fix the sheath to the hip, also the milimeter iron sheet (used for the whell, the barells, the cauldron and more). -They we're able to craft glass (it appears that Roman learn that from them) -They were not barbarian : rasor, mirror, invention of the soap and the matress. So they were pretty clean (for some of them). -They were using pants unlike the mediteranean people, called "Braies". -They also invented the salting for meat (smoked ham) and were expert of salt trading (in antiquities, salt is one of the most important resource because it's the only way to storing meat/fish ...). B / Stuff that could be added : 10/07/13 : Today i want to present you an odd instrument : The Carnyx I think the Carnyx should be implemented in the game, i don't know how, but this will be great ! Like a special unit for buff or somehing like that. it's one the major specificities of a gallics armies in battle. There is a lot of picture about it on the internet. They was an old topic (2008) about the subject, i made this one aniway because i hope to see it in the future, but i'm aware that it may be really hard to do. I will present more interesting things in the next post. C / Stuff that should be modified : About the war : -The hearth of the Gallic army is cavalry, they are really fond of horses, and they bought it from very far away (the gallic horse is short, and loke like a pony, but for the war they were able to use bigger horse, coming from other lands). After that they is also the trained infantry and mercenaries, well-equiped. The rest of the army is made of peasants and ineperienced people. - About architecture : We know today that the classic fortification is called the Murus Gallicus - About the religion : 10/10/2013 - Celtic sanctuary of Gournay-sur-Aronde has been found thirty years ago, it was the only exemple of celtic sanctuary found in France (with the one found in Ribemont-sur-Ancre) for a long time. Today the gallics sanctuary are more documented. In the central europa they're called "viereckschanzen", in France "enceinte quadrangulaire" (quadrangular enclosure).