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clayton ballentine
06-22-2005, 18:59
what is your favorite time in history mine is Acient Rome
King Henry V
06-22-2005, 19:04
The Middle Ages. Dark and bloody, just how I like it!
edyzmedieval
06-22-2005, 19:07
My favourite is the Medieval World... Also, I like the most the Byzantines and the Teutonic Knights...
Marquis of Roland
06-22-2005, 19:08
The 90's. It was rather fun..... ~:cheers:
Duke Malcolm
06-22-2005, 19:10
The Georgian and Victorian Ages, leading a little on to the Edwardian Era.
Templar Knight
06-22-2005, 20:03
My top 3:
Middle ages - dark and brutal :knight:
17th century :duel:
Victorian :toff:
Dutch_guy
06-22-2005, 20:13
Middle ages.
Roman era.
WW2 period ( thanks for reminding me Gregoshi )
:balloon2:
Gregoshi
06-23-2005, 06:32
When I was in school, WW2 was my favourite era. At first I read every WW2 book I could get hold of in the library. Then when I discovered war games, I mostly play WW2 games, though some exposure to Roman games sparked a little interest. Then in my 30's I got bit by the American Civil War bug when I attended a battle reenactment and that has been my favourite era of late. However, the release of STW sparked an interest in Japanese history that I came to find much more fascinating than I had ever thought possible before.
King Henry V
06-23-2005, 11:09
The Napoleonic Wars was an interesting period as well. Bernard Cornwell did that for me.
Franconicus
06-23-2005, 12:23
The 90's. It was rather fun..... ~:cheers:
90ies were just a shadow of the 80ies, and those were nothing compared with the 70ies. But every decade cannot match with the 60ies. They were great. A decade were everything was changing and everything was possible.
So open your mind, brother, and vote for the 60ies
King Baldwin IV
06-23-2005, 15:59
the Middle ages. hehehe.
PanzerJaeger
06-23-2005, 16:53
Ww2
Marquis of Roland
06-23-2005, 19:17
~:cool:
90ies were just a shadow of the 80ies, and those were nothing compared with the 70ies. But every decade cannot match with the 60ies. They were great. A decade were everything was changing and everything was possible.
So open your mind, brother, and vote for the 60ies
Yea, the 60's looked like a lot of fun, but its not my favorite because I wasn't around back then. ~;)
Give me a time machine and I'll go anyday.
Living in Los Angeles in the 90's was more interesting than the 80's in my opinion, which is where I was, so I vote 90's. ~:cheers:
Word War II would be a close second, even though I wasn't around back then either.
Colovion
06-23-2005, 19:24
I have a crazy fascination with almost all of antiquity.
Though I also thoroughly enough WW2 and the Medieval era, the medieval era is my first love.
Craterus
06-23-2005, 19:30
400bc - 400ad
1905 - 1918
1933 - 1945
The Wizard
06-23-2005, 21:36
90ies were just a shadow of the 80ies, and those were nothing compared with the 70ies. But every decade cannot match with the 60ies. They were great. A decade were everything was changing and everything was possible.
So open your mind, brother, and vote for the 60ies
Dirty hippy socialist sixties... ~;) The eighties are certainly better! Gimme them Miami Vice suits man, it's summer and the ladies are all dressin' fly! Pity 'bout the synthesizers, but hey, we've still got disco and funk!
So... you got the eighties, you got now, you got the post-1815 19th century, you got 1901-1945, you got the Middle Ages, you got the Renaissance, you got the 17th century, you got the Dark Ages, you got Antiquity...
As you can see, little in history does not interest me. Except the sixties. And the seventies. ~D
~Wiz
edyzmedieval
06-23-2005, 21:42
The eighties are certainly better! Gimme them Miami Vice suits man, it's summer and the ladies are all dressin' fly! Pity 'bout the synthesizers, but hey, we've still got disco and funk!
As you can see, little in history does not interest me. Except the sixties. And the seventies. ~D
~Wiz
Wiz is proudly speaking my language... ~D
caesar44
06-23-2005, 22:20
to live ?
today (thank god)
to learn about ?
roman era
to play ?
middle ages
:duel:
RabidGibbon
06-24-2005, 00:56
I've been interested in the Peloponnesian war (but obviously not enough to learn how to spell it!) as well as all the battles before it to repel the persians.
I also still have a hankering for WWII from my mis-spent youth.
But obviously I'd much rather read a book, watch a movie or discuss in a internet forum than actually have to live it. Crawling around in the mud and being stabbed or shot isn't my idea of a good time. ~;) (Except for paintballing of course!).
Marquis of Roland
06-24-2005, 01:16
I wonder how well "paintsword" would work.......
And how is the 80's better than the 90's?
The 90's rules, baby! ~:cool:
Evil_Maniac From Mars
06-24-2005, 03:14
wOOt! Non-spam thread from Clayton! ~;) :dizzy2: (had to, sorry)
1) Middle Ages, mostly the Holy Roman Empire and Teutonic Knights
2) Biblical Times+The Papacy
3) Irish history of the past 1000 years.
RabidGibbon
06-24-2005, 10:21
Originally posted by Marquis of Roland
I wonder how well "paintsword" would work.......
Not very well at all. The foam swords can be loaded with so much paint that a hard enough swing will hit anyone within 20 feet regardless of parrying etc etc.
From those I've talked about it with the practice was given up some time in the 90's.
And back to the topic....
1) Middle Ages (only in Japan, the rest is not as intresting)
2) Time of the roman empire
Quite TW, ain't it?
Nice to see you again, clayton. ~:)
kallitheus
06-24-2005, 11:35
I like reading about the antiquity,especially ancient Greece.
Right now i am into the peloponnesian war,and the work of Thucidides
which i find a fundamental area of study for history since it includes,alliances,
protectorates,defensive alliances,embargoes,politics,propaganda,peace treaties,unpredictable events(the epidemy),and a whole lot more events
to read.
DukeofSerbia
06-24-2005, 11:47
Europe between 1450 - 1815
cegorach
06-24-2005, 12:18
1. Europe 1560-1700
2. 2nd WW, especially in Asia,
3. all the rest except the XVIIIth century and middle, late XIXth century :bow:
Every bit of history has its good bits but also many bad bits.
Personally I think I'd have liked to have been a teenager in the 60s & in my 20s in the 70s.
But then the idea of being around during Vietnam, the doomsday clock sitting on 2mins, Aborigines not having the vote in Aus, Apartheid South Africa, US civil rights activists still getting shot & lynched etc isn't really appealing...
I like the idea that the future may hold some kind of utopia with no big bad stuff, so now being as close to that as is possible I kinda prefer living now.
King Henry V
06-24-2005, 16:40
Utopia's boring.............Nasty stuff is much more interesting :duel:
doc_bean
06-24-2005, 17:19
The Middle Ages.
I do wonder how the 90s will be remembered, it was a time when almost everything was 'retro'.
cunctator
06-25-2005, 08:38
The whole ancient meditereanean /middle east history from the beginnings until ca. 600ad.
Especially the late bronze age and the roman empire around 100bc-250ad.
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