Paal_101
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Thanks for the info! Funditor is a new one for me, never heard that before, thanks! 
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Unfortunately, regarding most of Rome's Iberian and Celtic opponents there is very little written material available to work from. This hampers us from writing longer and more detailed articles. Considering the amount of info available, Cory did a magnificent job
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Chronicles of Narnia - The Battle
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Stabbing Westward - Lies
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Thanks for your kind words and suggestions!
As for the Celts and their white hair, this was a documented historical feature. Celts, having a huge connection to the natural world, would intentionally use lime to spike their hair before battle in an immitation of a wild boar's razorback. Having done this with lime, the hair would turn white until it was washed out. The whole point was to intimidate the opponent and probably take on some sort of animal characteristic, similar to the Norse Berserkers. And nasty side affect of using the lime was that Celtic men had a high rate of premature baldness to contend with
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Indeed me to. Always wanted to see Megiddo, Masada, and Jerusalem. Way too much history to comprehend
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Welcome Evan! Let me be the first to welcome you to our humble home on the Internet
Are you a member of the Red Cross? I used to volunteer with that organization and have only good things to say about the people I had contact with. As for learning, this is a great place and it is most definately okay to watch, but don't be afraid to jump right in
We are always looking for new points of view and ideas. Again, welcome!
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We have chosen to represent the Roman army as seen during the 3rd century BC to roughly 100BC when the Marian Reforms kicked in. There are five major eras of the Roman army one could portray:
Pre-Punic (hoplites, Etruscan influence)
Punic War
Marian/Caesarian
Imperial (Dacian Wars, Invasion of Britain)
Late Roman (4th to 5th centuries)
Obviously we can't do all of that and it is unlikely we would make all of them, but plans are in place for the Imperial Romans and a good chance for Late Romans in Part II. Obviously this is all dependant on Part I being released.
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That's a good point. The police must cringe though.
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Okay, I came across this video a while back but just found it again recently. It is a montage of the 2003 Northern Arizona Machine Gun Shoot. And when they say machine gun, they mean squad and heavy machine guns. Pete Sake, some of these weapons were mounted on aircraft. Off hand the weapons present include:
M-2
MG-42
VZ-26
M1A1 Thompson
MG-34
Vickers
Lewis
M-60s
MAC-10
..... in addition to a couple of surprises
Unreal amount of firepower at this convention, combined with obvious consumption of alcoholic beverages. Yeah.......Sounds safe....... Especially considering that some of these weapons have rates of fire reaching 1300 rounds per minute. The boxes of 7.92mm ammo at the beginning had me gaping. US lifts the ban on assault weapons and things get a bit out of hand
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/15114/...ng_Contest.html
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Carthaginian names are in place, unfortunately I cannot spell them
Aviv set us up with some amazing stuff. He could tell you more but I believe he is serving his stint in the Israeli Army atm if I am not mistaken. As for units, each civ has its own basic stats which are somewhat standard among all the units. I.E. Celts are faster than Romans, Romans are tougher than Celts, etc. That should cut down on clone units, but obviously testing will tell.
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And another thing is that we are designing the civs around specific times in history, so for instance there would be no 3rd century BC units mixed with 3rd century AD units.
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That may be very possible ingame, we will have to see how the code works out ingame. We don't have that specifically coded in as far as I know, but for sure it could be experimented with if it doesn't already occur from the programming that already exists.
As for Roman legionnaires, for sure. Definately better soldier for soldier than any other in the ancient world. My point was that a lone Roman solider versus a lighter and faster opponent would have some serious problems in terms of manueverability. He is wearing 30 pounds of chainmail and carrying a 20 pound shield. The people I've talked to on Roman Army Talk, many of them reenactors, all say that the scutum is not the ideal fencing shield and (in Roman form) is made for formation fighting. Likewise for the hoplon.
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Definately, the Romans will be the master of one-shot-kill. Needed only 2 inches of gladius in you to kill you.
Must be mentined that hoplites were not built for one-on-one combat either, particularly their shield. The arm brace and hand grip setup made it a bad choice as a fencing shield, designed form the getgo to be used in a phalanx.
The ultimate one-on-one fighters in the ancient world had to be Iberian caetrati, Celtic swordsman, and well-equipped Germans.
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Hehe yeah: "Welllllll GOODbye CHILDREN!!" LOL
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How many of you have seen the Season 10 opener and Chef's departure?
I must say that has to be one of the most spectacular endings and sickest premises for an episode that South Park has ever pulled. In short it was amazingly funny. My roommates and I were laughing our heads off (quite appropriate in a way) Well? Anyone else?
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Action/Epic movies are my favorite. Basically it has to bleed before I see it
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I found it via the links at RedRampant.com, best click I've ever made
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Clasical, as in epic battle scores
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Another date of Roman significance - On this day (March 18) in 37 AD, the Roman Senate annulled the will of Tiberius Caesar and announced that Gaius Julius Germancus, better known as Caligula, Emperor of Rome.
Alot seems to have happened in Roman politics during the months of January through to June
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Technically it is the hoplites who are the strongest in terms of armor, ranking over the various legionnaires. Its a small concession for the sack of balance.
But that said, legionnaires, hoplites, and phalangites are all incredibly strong troop types, regardless of side
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The glorious death by murder rather than a death from disease, very plausible. He was certainly smart enough.
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It must also be said that a Roman legion travelled with no less than one ballista per century and one onager per cohort. This means that any legion in the Roman army had at its disposal 10 onagers and 59 ballista. That is a massive amount of firepower to bring to bear against any city. Multiply that by 28 legions and that brings the total paper strength of stone throwers in the field available for immediate use by local commanders across the Empire to 280 onagers and 1652 ballista at any one time.
.......Not to mention backups taken along on campaign to supplement those in the legions. Or those kept in storage at armories or fortresses for use when needed. These boys were no strangers on how to beef up their projectile's damage, increase the weapon's range, or looking for ways to make the crew more efficient.
For supplemental discussion, take a look at this topic on Roman Army Talk: http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=7160
The discussion revolves around one of the very few uses of large stone throwing siege engines in combat against infantry. Notice that only one siege engine in particular makes any sort of serious impact on the charge and that they were being used from a heavily fortified position. Ironically, it was a Roman on Roman fight, the Second Battle of Cremona.
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....on the Ides of March, Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by members of the Roman Senate lead by Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (who was stabbed in the hand by an errant dagger during the frenzy) and Gaius Cassius Longinus. After this day the events were set in motion that would lead to the creation of the Second Triumvirate, out of which would come the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus.
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