Vote for another Cav at the .com

[Steppe Merc]

Another time to vote for units, mates We've got Scythian Noblewomen, Macedonian Cavalry, and Roman Cav. Since we've seen the Macedonians, and the Roman's cavalry SUCK, I went with the noble women.

[DemonArchangel]

did skyth women fight?

[Steppe Merc]

Yup, and the Sarmatians. They dressed up like the men, and were well know for their horse archery and lassoing skils. Of course, judging by the rest, we'll have a half nekkid Xena the warrior princess, but they did fight sometimes. In fact, the women's burial were often far more richer than the men's, and sometimess included weapons.

[Basileus]

i would vote if i was a member at the com, propably for the noblewomen aswell..hope it wins the vote

[Steppe Merc]

Well, as of now it's winning.

[hundurinn]

Damn I wanted to see the Macedonian Cavalry.

[Steppe Merc]

All the units will be recyled, so we can vote for them again.

[The_Emperor]

Should be interesting to see what the noblewomen are like.

[Dead Moroz]

Quote[/b] (DemonArchangel @ July 05 2004,20:13)]did skyth women fight?
It's rather a beautiful legend then truth. Caused by rumors that Herodotus wrote down in his book. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-book2.gif

But I like the idea about "Naked Scythian Noblewomen Fanatics". http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-clown.gif

[Rosacrux]

Moroz, I think you are reading too much into the name... I haven't seen any "naked" anywhere http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

But the truth is that this is just another fantasy unit from the CA Frankestein's Workshop of the Absurd. Herodotus carried that legend, fueled by the Amazon tradition as well, and we all know that any game containing Amazon units if most likely pure fantasy.

Well, so much is true about RTW. Pure fantasy.

Oh, whatever, I am tired of bitching. This post was initially only a "GAH" but I thought I should elaborate a bit.

P.S. They could model the Skyth broads after Ruslana, the "Xena, Dancing Princes" Eurovision song contest winner The Ukrainian seem to feel quite good to name themselves "offspring of the Skythians" so it's just fair http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

WTF am I talking about? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[Oleander Ardens]

Voted of course for the Scythic Cav http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

All in all I think that this one of the better "creative" units. Creative because we don`t know if they really fought, even if the weapons in female graves, the tradition of female archery competitions in nomadic cultures and Herodotus point to toward it. But in this case the phrase "in dubio pro CA" http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif applies...

Hopefully CA is consequent in it`s barbarian bare chest policy http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-clown.gif

Cheers

OA