Phoenix-TheRealDeal
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Yeah, but wait until you guyz see what replaces it!
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Really good and interestng article, Josh.
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Yea, a fine article, Nathan.
The Carthaginians were also noted for the killing of thier generals who had failed to win in battle.
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I'm so *proud* of him... you make him come to life as a truly awesome dude.
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Needs some goods and goodies placed around in there.
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He's beeeautiful.
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Thums up for a work well done.
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BTW the above text delivered to us by Alejandro "Piteas" Carneiro, himself a professor of ibero-romano-hellenistic history at a uinversity in Spain. He was also a principal resource for the collection of information and data leading to the design of the Iberians civilisation in 0ad.
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We are using Tanit as the civ's principal theme symbol for buildings and other accoutrements in the game.
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A truly excellent article on the Carthaginians.
A couple of comments:
It is questionable if 'howdahs' carrying armed troops were ever mounted atop the Forest Elephant. Their primary purpose was to 'trample' troops during an attack rush. It is noted that graphics often illustrate, especially the elephants of Hannibal Barca, as having fighting superstructures carrying several men atop of them. That is probably not incorrect to a certain extent. Pharoeh Ptolemy of Egypt gave a number of INDIAN elephants to Hannibal as a gift during an ambassadorial mission. Something like 6 or a dozen, I cannot recall exact numbers at the moment... but not too many. Also, while the walls of Carthage had stables built into them for housing up to 400 elephants on the inside 'ground floor' (and for cavalry horses inside-2nd floor--troop billets on the third--parapets and towers higher up), it isn't known if the city ever indeed had that many in its possession at one time. But in any case the Forest Elephant would have accounted for the majority of eles in the army and the Indian Elephants in a smaller number (at least during the early days of the 2nd Punic War) have accounted for the graphic representations in pictures showing Hannibal leading his army over the Alps with a number of superstructured eles in it.
BTW, by the time Hannibal got his army into Southern Italy during the 2nd Punic War, ALL of the eles that had made it over the Alps (some 3 dozen?) had been killed off except one... his own personal mount, an Indian named Sara. Sara managed to live on for most of the remaining years of the campaign.
PS--Why are some of the articles shown here not giving credit to their deserving authors? Methinks that be by oversight when having transferred them from the old website?
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Outstanding article; very comprehensive.
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This is an excellent article except for the fact that the Balearic Slingers were not Iberians nor did they have anything to do with fighting on 'the Iberian side' during the various wars between those people and Rome.
The Balearic Isles were semi-colonised by the Carthaginians through their major trading and manufacturing port at Ibiza during the heyday of that civ's control of the sea, and the renown slingers from there were employed by the Carthaginians. Presumeably, also later employed by the Romans to some extent after the demise of Carthage was brought about.
This is not to say that there were no slinger in the the Iberian peninsula, indeed slingbolts are to be found in profusion at a multitude of archeolgical sites throughout the land. But they did not have the renown of those from the Balearic Isles who were the most famous for their prowess thoroughout the Mediterranean lands.
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I think this is the best article bar none that I've seen written on Iberians arms.
The only thing that I'd like to add is that the Saunion and probably the pilum-javelin, too, because of its long iron 'head' were often used qas thrown 'flaming spears' by the Iberians. What they did was tie a bundle of 'straw' behind the point, soak that in some sort of pitch and then light it. Interestingly, one graphic I have depicting that shows the flaming projectile being thrown against a building, but in the literature that I've seen it is said that these were used most often and to good effect against enemy TROOPS!
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I'm glad you wrote about this 'war' Nathan because you are right in saying that few people know about it... have even heard of it. During the course of it the Romans lost thousands of men, and at the end of it when the city fell they entered to find that approximately 90% of the nobility remaining alive from the siege of starvation had commited suicide rather than to submit to the Roman yoke. The Romans sold the remaining population into slavery. Well done.
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Excellent!
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I love it.
The Iberians did make use of slate 'tiles' and in some cases 'Spanish' tiles in their roofing... depending on where located in the peninsula... so methinks appropriate to the civ.
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Eve
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Gorgeous.
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Yeah, impressive... and riding right into an ambush.
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That 'floating rock' is actually presagiong the battle to come... as it hurtles its way down the slope on a pre-planned collison course with the head end of the Roman column where it will soon raise havoc... THEN as the other legionairres attention is diverted to their left... walla! The Iberians spring the ambush from their front and right whacking them to a fare-the-well.
Historically, it was only a matter of time, but it took more than a hundred years for the Romans to subdue the tribes of the Iberian Peninsula and rename it Hispania.
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It is, of course, an awesome screenshot, but of interest to me too is the fact that Klass who visits the Ardennes periodically says that it looks a lot like it really is.
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Excellent article, Stuart.
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Looks good.
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Looks good.
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Great sketch.... as this is a basic unit and already armoured, need to see how advanced and ultimate would differ though one can presume that the horse will acquire armour at advanced and perhaps ultimate a plumed helmet (?).
Iberians: Building: Scout Tower
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I gotta say that I love it. And it is 'unique' in the game (all other scout towers being built of wood on square base while this one is of stone on circular base). It is what I'd hoped it to be.
All towers and some other structures, eg, civ centers, fortresses, walls, will have the capability of units standing atop them that can fire down from the height onto approaching foes. It's a game so they won;t really be scrunching down behind a parapet... the idea being that they are out there for you to SEE them. The dynamics of the game itself and the fact that they'll get a bit of an elevation bonus will determine to what extent they are susceptible to enemy fires as targets... they are not playing paintball and hiding behind tree trunks... lol.