January Screenshot Competition

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I forgot to put this up, then I was putting it off, but here it is. The no picture editting rule will continue. Any pictures that do not meet the rules will not be including in the poll without notice to the creator.

Rules
-One submission per person per month
-Must be from EB
-No picture editting for this month's competition
-Only slight cropping will be allowed (small pictures are ok, just not extreme cropping)
-Please keep the demensions to a size that fits in the forum screen (maximum of 1024ish)
-Must obey forum rules

[SwissBarbar]

"The way is shut...!"



(Actual KH campaign)
When the Armies of the Koinon Hellenon marched to conquer Antiocheia, the seleukid Satrap of Syria led his army to the border to Kilikia and awaited the superior hellenic forces at the strait passage between sea and mountains, on the road that leads from Tarsos to Antiocheia. When the Hellenes arrived, they slaughtered the seleukid ambassador and his unit of light infantery, when he went forward to prevail upon them to retreat.

The hellenes formed up their battle array and shouted to the Seleukids, they should clear the way and retreat to Edessa or die here. The Satrap of Syria did not intend to let his people go into hellenic servitude, and knew that 2 forces have been sent from Seleukeia and Babylon and would arrive in Antiocheia soon. He decided to buy them the time they needed, sounded the charge and shouted to the Hellenes: "The way is shut!".

That day, the Satrap and his army went down fighting, but they held the Hellenes back just long enough, so the 2 supportive armies appeared near Antiocheia when the Hellenes layed siege on that city. Before they were ready to attack the city, the Seleukids reached them, and defeated them in a bloody battle. With that, Antiocheia was save. At the borderline to Kilikia, next to the road, the Seleukids raised a marble statue of their heroic Satrap. In its socle they carved those words, that adress every intruder until today: "The way is shut!"

(OOC: Stole the idea from the Leonidas-Saga ^^ Since there was no "Thermopylae" in my campaign, I just had to...)

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I think we have a winner already.

[SwissBarbar]

*G* Glad you enjoy it ^^ thank you

[theoldbelgian]

brilliant background story and i would love to have you win for that but the picture itself isn't that what i would say 'wow it doesn't matter what comes now i vote for that '
but brilliant background story simply brilliant

[desert]

It's kind of funny to imagine oneself as a traveler; all of a sudden you see a large statue near the road, which reads "The way is shut." Shrugging, you turn around and go back down the road.

I actually thought it was a LOTR reference, though...

[SwissBarbar]

hehe, it's a sign to remember future intruders what happened once to those intruders, not to frighten them by a simple statue *G*

I don't play LOTR, so its not a reference to that RPG. Its simply my own KH-Campaign that I roleplay.

I'm looking forward to great pictures of yours. Lets post

[desert]

No, I meant LOTR, as in, the books.

[SwissBarbar]

ah, you mean lord of the rings ^^. Why?

[desert]

Well, there was the old man that they found who said "The way is shut" just before he died, and well...it doesn't really matter.

[SwissBarbar]

ah, i know what you are referring to. The ghost there. "Der weg ist versperrt" in german ^^ yes

[Maion Maroneios]

Actually, he refers to Gandalf who shouted to Balrog: "You shall not pass!" be fore he fell with the monster into the abyss. And he didn't die, mind you Good picture and excellent background, btw

EDIT: Hey SwissBarbar, it's true like every film is transliterated into German there (assuming you are German, Austrian or maybe Swiss)? Quite funny, I used to watch some German channels in the past to get some laugh, especially when my mother did a passionate reproduction of the scenes while translating German into Dutch for me

Maion

[Megas Pyrrhos]

Well I haven't been on for awhile, so here's mine, taken from my current Epeiros campaign. I call it "To the Flank!"



246 B.C. Near the town called Klaudaia, namesake Klaudios Aiakides, founded by him in 251 B.C.. Klaudios, youngest son of the great Pyrrhos and now king, has finally reunited Hellas after his father was defeated and forced to conquer Lysimachos' old kingdom(wiki it if you don't know what I mean). The dreaded Getai in the north finally invaded Makedonia, and Klaudios and his nephew Antandros Argeades, grandson of Antigonos Gonatas(sp?) have led an army to stop the getic army that has laid waste to Klaudaia.

EDIT: It may not show up, I can't see it atm. EDIT: There we go. :)

[desert]

Well, no, I was talking about the book. In the movie, the Ghost says The way is shut, but in the book an old man says it some time before the War.

[Mediolanicus]

Can't see your pic, Megas Pyrrhos.

And to Maion: I absolutely hate dubbing movies! Belgium (well Flanders only actually) and the Netherlands must be the only countries that subtitle everything. The best dubbing I ever saw was Polish TV. 1 male speaker with a heavy voice played all the characters in the show and although you could still hear the original voices in the background, it was very strange to hear, among others, a little girl speaking with such a heavy voice...

Back on topic now...

Battle In The Woods

[SwissBarbar]

@ Mediolanicus: great pic ! We should post more wood-battles like this.

@ Maion Maroneios: Yes, I am Swiss like my nickname says I think he refers to the scene, where aragorn and his mates go to recruit those ghosts, and theres this inscription: "the way is shut, it was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it, the way is shut" . I thought from the beginning that this was familiar to me ^^ Yes, our films are synchronised in german, but most films are available in the original language with subtitles in the cinema and on DVD's several languages and subtitles are available in any case. Mostly I watch movies in the original language with german subtitles (or if I have seen it many times in english with english subtitles, good english lesson ^^.)

[Megas Pyrrhos]

Nice pic Mediolanicus

I also think that mine is showing now(at least it's showing up on my browser now )

[Mediolanicus]

Thank you Swiss Barbar and Megas Pyrrhos.

I like your pics too. Barbar's has something very cinematic about it and Pyrrhos's (which now shows on my browser too) looks great because of all that depth in the pic.

[SwissBarbar]

ah, now I see yours too, Megas Pyrrhos. Very good is it from your campaign or a random battle?

[Megas Pyrrhos]

Campaign, in around 246 B.C.. Pyrrhos died just 5 years ago. And I bribed Antandros Argeades into my faction as my King's great-nephew (he is the closer general, the one in the background barely seen is Klaudios)...I thought it was rather funny, but I roleplayed it off as, when Makedonia was reduced to just Athenai and Chalkis, Antandros came over to my faction instead of fighting to the last gasp, giving him governorship of Ipsos and master of soldiers in the eastern theater of war.

[Subotan]

First Serve

[hum]

nice shot, did'nt ever recognized so nice looking clouds ingame myself (i'm totally fixed on battle of course)

[Subotan]

nice shot, did'nt ever recognized so nice looking clouds ingame myself (i'm totally fixed on battle of course)

First, welcome to the .org, and particularly the EB section.

Yeah, I only realised how nice the clouds where after I'd taken the screen. It's a pity I don't notice them more often.

[Maion Maroneios]

Well, no, I was talking about the book. In the movie, the Ghost says The way is shut, but in the book an old man says it some time before the War.

Aha, I see. I just made a connection between 'old man dying' and my limited memory of both the movies as well as the books (especially the latter).

And to Maion: I absolutely hate dubbing movies! Belgium (well Flanders only actually) and the Netherlands must be the only countries that subtitle everything. The best dubbing I ever saw was Polish TV. 1 male speaker with a heavy voice played all the characters in the show and although you could still hear the original voices in the background, it was very strange to hear, among others, a little girl speaking with such a heavy voice...

Add Greece to you roster Yeah, it's can be quite irritating if you ask me. Well my mother said they do it to 'preserve their linguistic identity' or something of the same lines

Great pic, btw

Yes, our films are synchronised in german, but most films are available in the original language with subtitles in the cinema and on DVD's several languages and subtitles are available in any case. Mostly I watch movies in the original language with german subtitles (or if I have seen it many times in english with english subtitles, good english lesson ^^.)

I see, I do more or less the same as you. Only sometimes I don't enable subtitles at all, helps me understand and learn the pronunciation of English words, as with subtitles you're generally more fixed at what's written instead of what's said

Maion

[SwissBarbar]

I see, I do more or less the same as you. Only sometimes I don't enable subtitles at all, helps me understand and learn the pronunciation of English words, as with subtitles you're generally more fixed at what's written instead of what's said

Maion

True, true. I managed to ignore the subtiltes meanwhile when I understand whats spoken. So I can just switch to the ST for several words I don't understand. But that needs practice ^^

[Olimpian]

"Here stood the Pezoi"

[Subotan]

Nice. Mournful..

[Ibn-Khaldun]

"And here they come..."

[Subotan]

Niiice. I'm facing touch competition :(

[Olaf Blackeyes]

This one is The Breath of the Sands