Genava55

I like the idea because the recent Total War are impossible to mod correctly and the engine of M2TW is far too old and too limited. It could be a nice alternative in the gamer world. You want to do a kind of mix between a paradox game, a Total War and an Anno game?

It is already the case. Even codified ethics like deontology can be twisted to do what we will consider bad things today. See the following Take an example from the history of deontological ethics, with Calvin and Luther. Their ethics is based on the natural law of God, the belief that what is good and bad is already explained by God. They killed a lot of people, they have forbidden art because of this way to see what is good or not. Most of the theological tyrannies are based on the same mental process of building a moral code from a deontological perspective. Even the deontological ethics of Kant take in account the motive of the person. The only difference from the virtue ethics is that Kant believes in golden rules, as never lying in any occasion (which has cause a lot of debate and contradiction). I really suggest to read this debate about the categorical imperative of Kant from a nazi perspective, there : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/19/evil-trial-eichmann-morally-responsible https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah-arendt-adolf-eichmann-banality-of-evil The problems arising in the deontological perspective is often the same: contradicting rules. The trial of Eichmann is in fact solved by calling what we called virtue. I agree totally with MacIntyre for this, in the end all ethics end to the virtue to solve their own weakness.

Personally I am more in favor of virtue ethics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ https://jme.bmj.com/content/29/5/297 The most important reason for this is because I don't believe we can codify or make a set of rules for what is good and what is bad in absolute terms. It is too late to elaborate, maybe tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noin-Ula_burial_site https://scfh.ru/en/papers/history-embroidered-in-wool/ https://scfh.ru/en/papers/steppe-fashion-/

In the same register: The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany http://karant.pilsnerpubs.net/files/Propaganda.pdf

Well, it is mostly a matter of political interest and all the studies on this hypothesis are really subjective, therefore hard to interpret. As you said, there are several oversimplifications of their population history and all the conclusions are not really scientific nor historic. From my perspective, the simple fact to justify or to deny the right of a population over a territory by their supposed genetic origin is dull.

Not only, a lot of religious conspiracy involves Jews. Even before the WW2 (the Protocols of Zion is good example of fake conspiracy). But I don't think it is the place to discuss about it.

I didn't forgot. I stopped on purpose because the list was long enough There are others funny cultures like the Khazar khaganate, an empire with nomadic origin but with their elites converted to judaism at some point Their empire reached the Aral sea.

The region have an amazing history of successive civilizations. - Andronovo and Bactria–Margiana cultures during the prehistory. - The Scythians, the Saka, the Dahae and the Parni for the iron age. - The Achaemenid Persians. - The Macedonian Empire and its successor in Persia, the Seleucids. - The Bactrian independancy and the rise of the Mauryan empire. - The split between the Indo-Greek and greco-bactrians. - The installation of the Indo-Scythians kingdom. - The rise of the Parthians in the west and the split with the Indo-Parthian dynasty in the east. - The arrival of the Tocharoi of Strabo, the Yuezhi. The foundation of the Kushan nomad empire which took the control of the region. - The reversal of the Parthians by the Sassanians in the west, the rise of the Xionites and Kidarites in the North and the expansion of the Gupta empire in the South. - The foundation of the Hephtalite empire. - The rise of the Göktürk ant the Islamic conquest for the post-Roman era.

For Celtic ship, there is this discussion: http://www.kelticos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2228 There are some similarities with Bronze Age Phoenician Ships. https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/watercraft/phoenician-ships/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck

Probably not Triremes. https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/girona/20170101/412998512665/arqueologos-reproducen-3d-barco-ibero-cap-de-creus.html https://elpais.com/ccaa/2015/10/06/catalunya/1444164898_572579.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43327782_Historiografia_sobre_la_Marina_en_la_Antiguedad

http://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/ETUDESarchivees/Navires/Documents/RepublicanWarships-Damato2015.pdf

Petra and the Nabataeans are probably better suited for the vanilla or for Delenda Est.

Ah ok, I didn't know. Well, anyway I am sure you know far better than me the subject

My 9 years old laptop has a Intel GMA HD integrated graphics and I can play games on it like Anno 2070, StarCraft II, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and Supreme Commander 2. A laptop lifespan is generally around 5 years in Europe and 10 years in Latin America. Even in Bolivia, one of the poorest country of Latin America, I rarely seen too old computers. In the administration of a small bolivian town, the oldest computers I seen are a few Pentium 4 all-in-one desktops that were already struggling to perform their basic task. I am pretty sure than the last users of Windows XP (less than 10% in the world) will probably switch to another OS in the next 5 years and even Windows 7 needs higher hardware requirements than 0 A.D currently. I totally agree with the idea to keep the game as a very accessible one but I think there is room for a moderate graphical improvement.

It made sense also because the Gauls share the same archeological culture, the same language and had a very connected network of settlements sharing the same evolution during a long time period. The same for the Iberians. Regional specificities are minor and not temporally constant, in contrary to the Greeks. It means an ethnic centered mod which is problematic for the Germanic factions where the North-West Germanic languages didn't splitted before the third century AD and the West Germanic languages didn't splitted before the sixth century AD. Moreover their ethnicities are well mixed and shared together by huge confederacy system that appeared during their history like the Suebi/Suevi, the Marcomanni, the Alemanni and the Franks. Plus the Merovingian and the Carolingian dynasties are new levels of complexities from an ethnological perspective.

The problem is that this logic should be applied to others factions as well. For example, the Jin dynasty, the Sui dynasty and the Tang dynasty in one faction for the Chineses.

Gold on white, I like it. Classy b*tches ruling North Africa and Middle East like bosses

We should only not use a black background to not drive peoples mad

I personnally think it is better to have a dependancy with a horseman. It is easier. You kill simply the horseman to get ride of the falcon.

An attacking eagle or falcon is maybe a bit exagerated, I don't think there is any account of this. But a scout unit, either a lonely bird or a horseman with a following bird, with huge vision and hunting bonus, it is justified from historical accounts.

Diodorus Siculus XXV: The king of the Orissi/Oretani, however, came to the aid of the beleaguered city, and by a feigned offer of friendship and alliance succeeded in routing Hamilcar. In the course of his flight Hamilcar contrived to save the lives of his sons and his friends by turning aside on another road; overtaken by the king, he plunged on horseback into a large river and perished in the flood under his steed, but his sons Hannibal and Hasdrubal made their way safely to Acra Leucê. Strabo, geography 3.3.2: Of those who dwell above the aforesaid mountains, the Oretani are the most southern, extending in part as far as the sea-coast on this side the Pillars. Next these towards the north are the Carpetani, then the Vettones and Vaccæi, through whose [country] the Douro flows as it passes Acontia, a city of the Vaccæi. The Gallicians are the last, and inhabit for the most part a mountainous country: on this account they were the most difficult to subdue, and furnished his surname to the conqueror of the Lusitanians; in fact, at the present day the greater part of the Lusitanians are beginning to call themselves Gallicians. The finest cities of Oretania are Castulo and Oria. For the other infos, it should come maybe from Cornelius Nepos and Appian, Iberike. But they are hard to find in english online. Moreover the st*pid guy that wrote the wikipedia page didn't put the original references. Edit: like always, the Roman historiography is full of legends, moral judgments and distortions of the truth for political reasons. It is hard to know which version of the Oretani's king is true.

@Lion.Kanzen I forgot to mention that the main issue for the moment about the current Iberian faction is that it is mostly based on the iberian culture but two of the heroes of the faction are not iberian... Caros is a Celtiberian chieftain leading the coalition during the second war, Viriato is Viriathus a famous Lusitanian war leader... Maybe Orison and Korbis are good candidates for the Iberians. Korbis is a king that won a duel against Orsua to rule the city of Ibis (not located today). Orison is a Oretani king that tried to resist against Carthage.