carthaginian turncoat

One of my generals got the ancillary carthaginian turncoat after a battle against Saba. Somewhat surprised, I started looking for a bug; only to find out Saba has the carthaginian culture.

I don't know much about the Saba, but wouldn't the eastern culture fit them better? Or were they that different from the other eastern factions?

From Wikipedia:

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Semitic languages are attested in written form from a very early date, with texts in Eblaite and Akkadian appearing from around the middle of the third millennium BC, written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform. The other scripts used to write Semitic languages are alphabetic. Among them are the Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, South Arabian, and Ge'ez alphabets.

Yes, the Sabeans were semitic, the same ethnic group as the Israelites and the Phoenicians that inhabited the eastern Mediterranean seaboard. Carthage was a Phoenician colony.

Edit: come to think of it, the ancillary should be renamed a Semitic turncoat. Then again, although the Carthaginians and the Sabaeans were ethnically related, I doubt they had much in common when it came to politics and military, so a Carthaginian turncoat would not be much use against the Sabeans and vica versa.

Originally Posted by Ludens:
Yes, the Sabeans were semitic[snip]

Didn't know that, thanks.

Many Carthaginian things were used for Saba as placeholders. Saba progess was slower than the other factions, so there are still many thing unfinished in Saba for EB1.

Originally Posted by Ludens:
Yes, the Sabeans were semitic, the same ethnic group as the Israelites and the Phoenicians that inhabited the eastern Mediterranean seaboard. Carthage was a Phoenician colony.

Edit: come to think of it, the ancillary should be renamed a Semitic turncoat. Then again, although the Carthaginians and the Sabaeans were ethnically related, I doubt they had much in common when it came to politics and military, so a Carthaginian turncoat would not be much use against the Sabeans and vica versa.

Jews and Arabs are both Semitic peoples...

Need we say more?

Originally Posted by Macilrille:
Jews and Arabs are both Semitic peoples...

It is hard to believe how the same originated people killing each other now :shame:

y not? the chinese called each other barbarians for thousands of years....they still do today...

Originally Posted by satalexton:
y not? the chinese called each other barbarians for thousands of years....they still do today...

Quisque est barbarus alio!

I've gotten a couple of Carthaginian turncoats but not any other turncoat. Maybe a Roman once, but that was all.

In Denmark we say "Frænde er frænde værst" = "Kin is worst on kin"...

Civil wars (and those involving members of variants of same religion *over* religion, like Jew/Christian vs Moslem Catholic vs Protestant, etc...) are always nasty.

Yea flame ahead fact is, historically Christianity and Islam evolved of Judaism.