Cassius Allanus
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Hmm...well it was a thought anyway. *goes back to his thinking chamber*
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If HeavenGames does a Heaven for 0 A.D. will certain staff there (hehe
) have an opportunity to beta test?EDIT: Disregard this question, I was being silly
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It's been said before (many times), but it will be ready when it's ready. What I really want to say though is that I intend to convince the Halos to authorize a Heaven at HG for 0 A.D.
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Oh dear....please excuse all my typos and grammar errors. I believe I was trying to do too many things at once hehe
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The Romans didn't "persecute" the Christians for directly religious reasons though. They made it illegal because the majority of Christians were refusing to profess loyalty to the Emperor in Rome.
Also, though the Romans did try to stop Christianity in it's tracks via fairly brutal methods, what about the Celts, Germanics and Slavs? The Celts capitulated very quickly to the Church (probably because of the near-universal pagan belief of tolerance), as did the Slavs (though they were lucky to be farther away, out of the Church's direct grasp of power), but the Germanics, and especially the Vikings, managed to resist for a while. Some say that the Viking raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne was in retaliation for the slaughter of pagan Germanics in Saxony by Charlemagne under orders from Rome, and the Vikings finding out about it and retaliating was certainly within their power (especially so with the Swedes) as they used the leiðangr system of organizing defensive navies and raiding expeditions. ( It was the maritime version of the Germanic system of hundreds which was described as early as 98 A.D. by Tacitus as the centeni. Since Tacitus also said that the Swedes (Suiones) had a powerful fleet, it seems likely that it was based on the leidang.)
After all this, I should point out that Christianity wasn't the only religion to exercise such brutal practices in its quest for expansion. Before it became the predominant religion of the Hebrews, Judaism had undergone drastic changes from its African pagan ancestry to turn into the people with the very morals Caesar89 gave several examples of. The other one is Islam. It has a similar story of expansion when compared with Christianity and Judaism, and well, here's a pattern: All three religions are related. Islam and Christianity both descend from Judaism. I'm not an anti-Semite, but the Semitic religions have time and time again shonw themselves to be arrogant and intolerant of others.
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I'll probably do Romans first, then Celts.
*struggles not to brag about all the prominent Celtic ancestry he has
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Good article, but I'm actually quite relieved that it didn't chronicle the rise of the religion, since it is usually depicted as being peaceful, missionaries going to teach the "barbaric" heathens, etc. In truth the whole process of expanding Christianity was brutal and cruel, with many innocent pagans being slaughtered. (Especially the Germanics, who resisted the most.)
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Welcome, KingRoy
(I think you know who I am )Personally, I'm rooting for the Maenad cheat...even as a Celt, those would have me scared
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oops, Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, but in RoN Australian Outback is more or less a random map version of Australia as a whole: it's a big landmass surrounded by water.
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yeah, Minoans and there flush toilets. if i was living back then, id live in there city's just for the toilets. tongue.gif
But the Romans had toilets too......
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I can't say for sure, because that is debated among linguists (and I'm certainly not in a position to argue one way or another because I'm not a linguist (yet), although I like to think the Finno-Ugrics are completely different).
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You're partially right
A: The Altaic language family, which includes Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and Mongolian.
Although arguing that the Bantu are now the best represented is valid because BHG added them into RoN as a language group instead of as the individual tribes (ie. Zulu)
Among the most poorly represented groups are the Indo-Europeans, but that's because there are so many Indo-European branches like Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Latin, Hellenic, and Indo-Iranian, and all of those divide up even further.
Another poorly represented group are the Sino-Tibetans (ie. Chinese).
Not to mention there are lots of groups that are not even represented, such as the Austroasiatics or the Finno-Ugrics.
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I believe the Huns were Mongols themselves, at least they came from the same area. And this gives me an idea...
Q. Does anyone know which civs are BEST represented in the RTS genre by language group?
I'll give the answer for this tomorrow.
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Ahh OK. Thanks a lot :-)
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Nice. My last name, Allan, comes from a Sarmatian/Scythian kingdom. The Alans were known for giving Rome a hard time LOL. Part of southern Russia still bears our name.
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What would a surgeon and/or doctor in the Roman army have been called in Latin?
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From AoK I like: Coastal, Islands, Black Forest, Highlands
From Rise of Nations I like: Australian Outback (it's RoN's equiv. of Coastal), New World, and Nile Delta
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In the CTW maps in Rise of Nations during, say, Medieval Age, I like typing "cheat nuke" with the mouse over the enemy's capital city
In singleplayer I cheat all the time, but in multiplayer I'm the most honest player ever
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(hehe The Russians also pulled that trick on the Swedes plenty of times, and the Swedes DID bring along plenty of supplies, yet it still stopped them.)
Maybe an option for the infantry to set forest (or whatever) on fire then?
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because the time period we are doing for them is well after they stopped fighting buff (which ended in the 3rd century BC, at least in mainland Europe).
Yes, but not in Britain. The Scots continued to fight naked all the way up until the battle at Stirling.
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I guess the closest the film makers for Braveheart could get to that was having them moon the English) -
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Awesome! This is the first game I've seen that will have the ability to make some decent mountains. ie. The mountains in AoK look like dirt hills LOL.....But this is sweet
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Hmmm. A taunt of what the Germanic leader says at the beginning of Gladiator could be good.
- Ihr seid verfluchte Hunde! = You are darned dogs!
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That works just fine for me, as I'll be using Romans most of the time.
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Sorry, I didn't intend on offending you. That comment was intended as a bit of a joke.
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"Corin" meaning spear reminds me of the Old Norse cognate (which is thusly phonetically similar) geirr.
Anyway, welcome