Have an EB Xmas!

[oudysseos]

To celebrate the birth of Mithra, why not get your kids some of this?

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aabe_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-GB-Site/Sites-Catalog/en_GB/v1228488107303/imagesOnline/products/4271.jpg

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aabe_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-GB-Site/Sites-Catalog/en_GB/v1228488107303/imagesOnline/products/7924.jpg

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aabe_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-GB-Site/Sites-Catalog/en_GB/v1228488107303/imagesOnline/products/4278.jpg

My kids have it way better than I ever did.

[Onehandstan]

I would be creepy having a Roman legion with their faces stuck in that smile... but that is pretty dern cool. Why does the catapult fire carrots?

[Maion Maroneios]

What? No Hellenistic pikemen? PAH!

:thumbsup:

Maion

[oudysseos]

It just keeps getting better.

http://www.bibyco.com.au/secure/catalog/images/igniteromanrepleg.jpg

And just for you, Maion,

http://www.toysoldiersclub.com/secure128/Images/ToySoldiers/ACG09_b.jpg

[theoldbelgian]

nice, this could be the start of an eb collectible eddition :D play your batles in life

[satalexton]

I'd give u a balloon for no LS, but u lose TWO balloons for 1. It's a Romaoi, aka barbaroi 2. You has no Mighty Makedones.
=P

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Nice findings! :2thumbsup:

I wanted to buy some of those legionaries in the first post to my son but his too young to play with them though.
Perhaps I'll play with them until his in the proper age? :laugh4:

[bovi]

Why does the catapult fire carrots?
Carrots are pointy, stiff and deadly. If fresh, of course. Afterwards they become flabby, poisonous and deadly. Good times all around.

By the way, you might want to check out Catapult Kits (http://catapultkits.com). I want one of these. Not for poisoning my neighbour with carrots, of course.

[Intrepid Adventurer]

HOLY CRAP that's some cool stuff bovi! I want one for Christmas!

[Krusader]

Nah, don't want em. Can't give Roman playmos with lorica segmentata...LS & EB doesn't mix :clown:

[a completely inoffensive name]

Carrots are pointy, stiff and deadly. If fresh, of course. Afterwards they become flabby, poisonous and deadly. Good times all around.

I like carrots. Never hurt me one bit.

[bovi]

So have you been hit by a carrot from a catapult? No, thought not.

[a completely inoffensive name]

What about from a rubber band slingshot?

[Dutchhoplite]

I thought these were EBII screenshots :P

[Maion Maroneios]

And just for you, Maion,

http://www.toysoldiersclub.com/secure128/Images/ToySoldiers/ACG09_b.jpg
I HAS PRESENT!!! WHOHOOO! Thanks sir, I'll think of something to give you as well. You seem to like Romans, correct?:yes:

Maion

[I of the Storm]

Mounted Archers! Fresh Mounted Archers!!! Just arrived from the east! Get one for your kids now!!!

https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3558/sch700312fg7.jpg

[oudysseos]

Notice how the Romans are smiling and the Gauls look menacing? Pure prejudice, that's what it is.

[HunGeneral]

Mounted Archers! Fresh Mounted Archers!!! Just arrived from the east! Get one for your kids now!!!

https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3558/sch700312fg7.jpg

Finaly some Horse archers:laugh4:
(When I saw the first post I wanted to complain about the lack of horse archers:furious3:)

But now all is OK:beam::beam:

(Any other Horse Archers or Cataphracts around?:idea2:)

[abou]

Notice how the Romans are smiling and the Gauls look menacing? Pure prejudice, that's what it is.Well, you would smile too if you had artillery.

[We shall fwee...Wodewick]

I couldn't find cataphracts, but I found Alexander the Great.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21qTXnk2CaL._SL250_.jpg

The only makedonian thing I have found so far. I want a Casse Champion figurine. I bet no-one on earth could find that.

[Maion Maroneios]

As I promised, oudysseos:
https://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2310/24158810009bda2ddd3bvb8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

I prefer this stuff from playmobile (even though I used to play with them as a toddler), they're more like toys for grown-ups:tongue:

Maion

[Zradha Pahlavan]

Mounted Archers! Fresh Mounted Archers!!! Just arrived from the east! Get one for your kids now!!!

https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3558/sch700312fg7.jpg

Already got one.

[Wausser]

As I promised, oudysseos:
https://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2310/24158810009bda2ddd3bvb8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

I prefer this stuff from playmobile (even though I used to play with them as a toddler), they're more like toys for grown-ups:tongue:

Maion

I saw those things in Rome a lot :beam:

[satalexton]

filthy romans, silly little barbarians in silly little trinkets for armour... =P

[Skullheadhq]

OMG! You monster! You give your kids LS! Do you want them when they grow up whining on the Eb fora
for LS?!:wall::whip::thumbsdown:

[Maion Maroneios]

OMG! You monster! You give your kids LS! Do you want them when they grow up whining on the Eb fora
for LS?!:wall::whip::thumbsdown:
:laugh4:

Maion

[bovi]

What about from a rubber band slingshot?
You... have? :2thumbsup:

Now where is the carrot-shooting smily when you need it...

[Os-Q]

I saw an ad for those playmobile Romans two weeks ago, (there's a trierime with wheels too!)
I only saw it once, I really wished I had taped it.

The kid in it yells: "TO BATTLE!" :2thumbsup: :laugh4:

[Maion Maroneios]

To battle? Not Roma Victor after the famous Gladiator?:laugh4:

Maion

[a completely inoffensive name]

You... have? :2thumbsup:

Now where is the carrot-shooting smily when you need it...

Yes...I have. And it was good.

[oudysseos]

Maion, thanks for the testudo! Can you tell me how to make it a thumbnail?

[bovi]

Save to disk, open with mspaint, select all (Ctrl-A) and choose to resize on the menu, I think it's under IMAGE.

Or, if you're asking how to get the thumbnail image from Imageshack, no idea.

[Jolt]

Notice how the Romans are smiling and the Gauls look menacing? Pure prejudice, that's what it is.


Well, you would smile too if you had artillery.

:laugh4:

The left blonde barbarian has the most funny of faces. His expression is like. "Ughh...Woah? What am I doing here?"

[Celtic_Punk]

Carrots are pointy, stiff and deadly. If fresh, of course. Afterwards they become flabby, poisonous and deadly. Good times all around.


Clearly someone has seen the movie shoot em up... The bugger kills at least 10 guys with his carrots. gruesome stuff mate.



FLIP ME SIDEWAYS! nice find oudysseos, thats a pretty solid legionaire

900th POST! WOOOO! 900 posts in one year

[oudysseos]

Loved that movie. Unrepentant silliness.

[Celtic_Punk]

doesnt he kill a guy in midair with a carrot? like 10 000 feet in the air or something? been so long since i saw it. Funny as hell though... always eatin carrots, lives in some abandoned house, and is crazy mean with a handgun

[Obelics]

i love the legionary a la "Barbie and Ken" in the 3 post. I tryed to google "time silhouette legionary etc." but didn't find nothing, havent they a shop on line or something like that?

anyway in theme for cristmas toys, they are broadcasting this promo of SPQR Risk on the tv in this period, i think for Risk fans:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/352940
(i found just this english review, since there are only sites in italian)

[Celtic_Punk]

everytime i play risk i create a massive empire, destroy several allies on my way there, and then end up getting swarmed by everyone because ive spread too thin, then once my main lines of defence get broken i lose horribly in a spearhead attack of doom

[Obelics]

ahah same for me some time, anyway i found a site with those time silhuette, found this spartan king always a la Barbie and Ken style:

https://i35.tinypic.com/2rr9qna.jpg

http://rscustomtoys.com/catalog.aspx?StoreName=rscustomtoys&DeptID=241524&page=3

but i cant find the legionary.

[oudysseos]

Holy shit! That is cool.

[moustache?]

[Aemilius Paulus]

Yeah, the mustache is inaccurate. I doubt the Greeks would shave their beard but leave out the "whiskers" for that would be imitating the much-despised barbaroi.

The plume placement is also inaccurate as only a few officers would wear it placed left-to-right. Normally, a king should have been wearing it back-to-front.

I am also a bit unsure about the makhaira, as xiphos was the preferred weapon of hoplites. Kind of hard to make those swings with makhaira or a kopis when fighting in a cramped phalanx battle. Not to mention that the slashing stroke is much less effective than thrusting/stabbing and exposes your body, denying it the protection of the shield, which the Romans emphasized thrusting.


But all that aside, die-cast metal sounds immensely impressive as usually such figures are made out of cheap plastic.

[Lusitani]

Ok that spartan is a really cool toy!!!! :yes:

[Obelics]

i like it better than metal miniatures, since im not a colletionist of think like that, it's just that they remember me those toys sort of "masters of the universe" i had when i was a child.

[Pontius Pilate]

An example of what not to get an EB fan this holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haitxwIYj3Y

[Sanctimonius]

Is the it compatible with the 1.2 patch?

Not sure I like the new direction EB is going with the skins......:laugh4:

[Celtic_Punk]

An example of what not to get an EB fan this holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haitxwIYj3Y

hahaha If I were a Christian I'd say "we're going to Hell for that one"


"The holy grail! 'IM GUNNA LIVE FOR EVER!!' THE ARK OF THE COVENANT! 'AAAAAUUUUGH!'" hahahahaha

look at all the steaming pissed off Christians commenting on it too lol. Oh man what silly people they are.

[johnhughthom]

I just got my nephew the first and second items in the OP. I also got him a mini arena with gladiators, lions, tiger, a chariot etc. I don't have a digital camera so no screenie. :embarassed:

[Ibrahim]

pontius pilate: I got one thing to say: thibb* (the only south arabian word I knew till recently)


thibb=sit down

[Shifty_GMH]

Found this site offering die-casts and thought I'd share: http://www.wulflund.com/pdf/action-figures.pdf

For Roman fans they have:
"Roman Republican Legionary"
"Roman Legions - March Pack"
"Roman Legionary, Attic Helmet"
"Legio X Gemina"
"Roman Tribune"
"Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars"

For the Greek fans they have:
"Spartan King"
"Greek Warrior"

Edit: Found a site that has a few more Greek and Roman characters: http://www.4-leaftoys.com/4_leaf_toys_013.htm

[||Lz3||]

I just got my nephew the first and second items in the OP. I also got him a mini arena with gladiators, lions, tiger, a chariot etc. I don't have a digital camera so no screenie. :embarassed:

wht does your brother/sister think about it ? :smash:

[johnhughthom]

wht does your brother/sister think about it ? :smash:

I'll tell you on December 25th.:laugh4: Let's just say they won't be surprised.