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Welcome Alex! Great English, way better than my Spanish will ever be

Welcome to the forums! Lotta females have shown up in the last little while, good stuff The Y chromosome count here could use some balancing

Thanks guys Now that you mention it, I didn't touch on numbers Funny thing is the Herodotus numbers are impressive but hardly reasonable. The accepted number today is no higher than 300,000 in the extreme, with 200,000 being more likely. In fact there is good evidence that the Greeks out-numbered the Persians at Plataea, since Xerxes had taken many of his troops home with him. I've read stuff that says the Persians were possibly as "few" as 45,000 at that battle. But 70,000 seems to be the concensus vs 100,000+ Greeks. But in any case, the Greeks were an impressive army to say the least.

Happy Birthday Cat!! Best wishes for many more to come! (B-)

My fave is Aldaron's MGS 3 avatar, way way cool B-)

Popping in to tell you that another article is up in the history section on the 0 AD site, the second in a series on the great battles of the 0 AD civs. This one focuses on the Hellenes and great battles like Marathon, Guagamela, and Plataea. Hope you guys like it

We all love those little round, colorful, hunks of condensed sugar, but what is better? Chocolate or psuedo-fruit? Personnally I voted Skittles. Something about having a mouthful of them and just letting your tongue enjoy

Thanks Nate Muchas gracias! E-mailing....

I've been hosting my avatar on Angelfire, but for some reason it is not displayed on the forum. Any ideas why? It worked before Has Angelfire gone Geocities on all of us? Bad Angelfire! LOL I just found that smilie, have a feeling we're going to see quite a bit of it. Thanks guys

This is a great day in aviation/space history. Being a big aviation fan, this is just great Star Trek is coming "Beam me up Scotty!" BUZZZZZZZ "Very funny Scotty, now where are my clothes?"

Welcome to WFG Zeus! Hope you enjoy your time here Its really great to meet new folks coming here :)

Happy Birthday Nate!!

I think Uppy means Adventures in Odessey, a Christian radio drama. I used to listen to it all the time It has lots of goofy and serious characters and some really great stories. Its really good stuff

Welcome! Hope you like it here at WFG

Wow! Sounds like a great book, gonna have to look for it. What's up with this stuff about Roman infantry being armed with bows or on horses? If anyone does a little bit of research they'd know they did neither of these things, legionnary or auxillia infantry That's a cool idea: reviews of historical books for the site Could have "The 10,000", "Gates of Fire", "River God", etc up there

Haven't read them, sounds like I should Any more details on them?

Thanks guys @ Malte - For sure, but they make for boring reading If you think of anyother biggies that I missed, let me know. @ Black Op - LOL yeah they are short, I initally wrote them to be companions to a larger Roman article, but that didn't work out. They'll probably be edited in future. The Greek one that is progress is a bit more detailed

Thanks Will do Jason Needs a little bit of editing but not a whole lot.

Well, its been a while since I posted a new history article, but two new Roman articles are up in the history section of the 0 AD site One is a brief history of Rome and the other is a collection of the greatest battles of Roman history. At the moment I am preparing to turn this into a series of articles, one for every civ in the game, much like my articles on weapons and armor. Hope you enjoy them!

I want to be an Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. Martial arts and weapons are my passion, plus I have strong feelings about justice and honor, so it seems like a nice fit In addition I really like the Crown Victoria cruisers they get to drive Taking the written test on June 17th B-)

Happy Birthday dude!

Well Gibbs found his terrorist, who wasn't a terrorist but still isn't a great good guy either LOL Great episode, Tony is priceless and I loved what Gibbs did to the terrorist at the end of the episode LOL Would get himself in a lot of trouble in real life though

Happy Birthday Erik! Again I'm late! LOL

DOH!! I'm late!! Happy Belated Birthday Oivi!

I'm looking forward to the NCIS finale From what I can gather, Gibbs finds the trail of his terrorist B-)