Hooah guy, you're an :furious3: (well, at least you're AAR is good)
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Hooah guy, you're an :furious3: (well, at least you're AAR is good)
:laugh4:
i introduced it to my friends and they hate me too... its ok... ur not alone....
Hooah's nice, stop being mean to him, Ibrahim. *slaps you silly in affectionate retort*
You didn't notice my third one was named Kluddargos? That's an EB unit too, you know. Does no one know what unit this is? I recruited it as the Arverni when I invaded a certain island, and used it against those certain islanders... Meep?
Hehe, I'm glad to see I managed to utterly derail the Tavern from their long lonely political road to a drunken brawl. Excellently welltimed. I shall congratulate myself. Barkeep, a caipirinha please!
*waits a decent amount of time*
Eh, this new Tavern's self-service?
*goes behind the bar and whips up own caipirinha*
I'm running into a deadline for submission of a paper. It needs to be submitted by Thursday, which means I need to have it done Wednesday morning so I can next-day it to where it needs to go.
It's on a group of six soldiers from the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry who were transferred west to Gunboat duty due to their experience as Great Lakes sailors. None survived the war. All six were assigned to the Mound City and five died when it's boiler exploded. The survivor was sent home with burns over 70% of his body for recruitment duty. He was then commissioned into the 36th Wisconsin and was killed as the regiment surrendered at Reams Station in 1864 during the operations against the railroads south of Petersburg.
weren't a few wisconsin regiments in one of the 2 iron brigades? (I dunno, I heard)
The Iron Brigade originally consisted of the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin and the 19th Indiana. In the late fall of 1962, the 24th Michigan was added to the brigade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibrahim
The "other" Iron Brigade was, quite literally, jealous of the westerners in their division who were universally accepted as the best troops in the Army of the Potomac, and invented a story where during operations in the spring of 1862, supposedly General Marsena Patrick said that the brigade had to be made of iron to make the long marches.
Now, I ask you- would you rather be called Iron for your courage and steadfastness in battle or for your ability to walk?
The Eastern Iron Brigade had routed en masse several times, including at the battle where the real Iron Brigade earned it's name--South Mountain--proving that the only iron they had was in the rifles they dropped as they ran.
The "Eastern Iron Brigade" was 22nd, 24th, 30th and 84th New York and, for a time, the 2nd Battalion of Sharpshooters. They sucked so badly that General Reynolds had to promote the commander of the 6th Wisconsin, Lysander Cutler, to command their brigade because none of the regimental colonels were worth a damn.
I'm a Cheesehead nationalist, so excuse my petty attitude.
I heard that they were a bad-@#!ed brigade. I'm surprised that the other one wasn't really made of iron...sad..
you think you're nationalistic? mom's from Ohio, in fact she's from Wapokoneta, the town where Niel Armstrong was born and raised (no @%!)$). she still rubs it into all other americans. oh and she won't stop with Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan (all 3 from that state, though the last was born in NY state). and Edison was orn in milan Ohio..she is FAR more annoying than you!!
When I am elected Governor of the State of Wisconsin, I will annex Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the northern-most 60 miles of Illinois. Both of these regions were part of Wisconsin Territory and were taken away in compromises to bring the two other states into the Union. They are rightfully ours and we will have them back. Then we'll have to "protect" the rest of Illinois and probably also Minnesota to make sure no one harms them. We need breathing room!
Yeah! You get them back! But it doesn't matter you know, as one day I'll be the president of Earth and I will annex the Universe! :juggle2:
Wellcome back Pez!
Thank you, Burakuku! It's good to be back. Rest assured, I've been peeking in on your ugly face from outside the Tavern, so I've been following the development of that gigantic carbuncle on your nose for some time now. :D Nothing like a carbuncle for you to get a cognomen/Greek name. Like 'Burakuku Carbunculus' or something.
It is contagious, they say. On Wiki. I didn't know that. I didn't even knew what it means. Burakukus Staphylococcus Carbunculensis!
Pez needs a BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
then give that boost (to pez)
BOOOOOSSSTTTT!!!!!
ooh yuch boosting fiend, (a pun on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p713bNaO4A (the last 5 min.). in fact, my last post was a pun on that too.
Hey guys, what do you think of my new mount?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...px-McNinja.png
ARGGH!! I wasted 80 minutes today attending a history class in my school. We were reading about the middle to late Roman republic, and I couldn´t believe the bullshit we were being told. Firstly my teacher tells everybody plus writes on the board in big letters that the Roman Senate always had 300 members, during the middle and late republic. Ridiculous.
Then he went on saying (reading straight from our books of course) that the Senators were above the Generals on the social pyramid, completely ignoring that nearly all Generals were Senators, and high-ranking such. He also made it sound like the Consuls had nothing to do with the military, and that the Comitia Tributa(of course he didn´t call it that) was arranged very democraticly, with everyones vote counting equally.
After hearing some sensational bullshit about Hannibal and the Second Punic War, we skipped ahead to the Third one, were the Romans killed every single person in Carthage, burnt the city until no trace of it was left, salted the earth and abandoned it forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. And EVER!!! The fact that most of the population were sold into slavery, that several meters high builsings were left standing, that the salting of the earth is just and old myth, and that Carthage was the third biggest city in the Empire, were all completely forgotten.
Now we skipped again to Gaius Marius, the great and noble dude who not only defeated a gigantic horde of savage Germans, but completely reformed the Roman army, kicking the worthless skirmishers and cavalry out of it. Who needs supportive troops when you´ve got Legionaries, the best men in the world, all worth at least 50 of those hairy barbarians, who certainly didn´t invent the soap.
Now we skip again (no mention of Gracchi brothers, Marius later career, Sulla or anything else) to the noble Spartacus. A savage wilderbeast from the darkness of the barbarian lands fighting for his freedom, Spartacus was a mixture of Wallace in Braveheart and Conan the Barbarian, and usually killed about 400 Romans all by himself in every battle, until finally the evil and ruthless Pompey through deceitful ways managed to kill him and crucify tens of thousands of slaves.
Spartacus certainly wasn´t an educated man, and it certainly wasn´t someone named Crassus who defeated him. The whole inclusion of Pompey is just to set the stage for the greatest hero of them all, the great and noble, the saviour of the Roman Republic and the whole world, Gaius Julius CEASAR!!!! This incredibly nice guy not only defeated the vicous Gauls, but also fought for the freedom of all Romans against the evil coalition of Pompey and the Senate. When Ceasar finally won he was brutally murdered by the evil Brutus, but his noble son killed that son of a bitch, and after the wierdo Antony and his Egyptian whore had killed eachother made himself Emperor, and saved the Republic!! Hooray!!!
Now I´m just wondering, where the fu*k did the people who wrote this book get their infromation? Because of quick Wiki-fuc*ing-pedia search in the English, Swedish and fuc*ing Icelandic version will tell you, THAT THERE WERE NO MOTHERFUC*ING 300 PEOPLE IN THE ROMAN FUC*ING SENATE!!! SHIT!!!!!!!! *headbangs keyboard. tfgvbvyhbujik
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There has always been a delicate balance between chaos and control...Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0A3...eature=related
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Its not spam :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Moros
Anyway, what would destroy all is Indokeltiparthilisticexohellenocious....People
Lets see...a few possible units here
1-Line Infantry
Neitos/Kuathoroi
A gallic man-
Greek Aspis-
Greek Hoplite spear with Gallic spear-head
Celtic chainmail with Parthian-inspired reinforcements
A lamellar cuirass over top the Chainmail(which is on top of heavy cloth)
An armor-piercing mace or axe(maybe even a Sargaris)
A face-veil lamellar topped helmet(like the Parni Bodyguards and Thorakitai Man-Tanks.
2 normal Javelins and a Pila
Leather Pants :P-
2-Shock Infantry
- Indian 2 handed Sword, 2-hand longswordor a Falx/Rhomphaia
shortsword incase something happens.
Gallic Chainmail
Persian laminated arm-protectors
Some sort of Visored hat with good visibility like a Boiotian
Woad for fun
Javelins
Drugs.
Pants.
3-Heavy Cavalry(best one)
Lamellar helmet with veil
Heavy Celtic Chain with Lamellar over-top
2-Handed Kontos
Longsword/mace/axe
Composite Bow
Lamellar Horse barding(like Cataphracts) Over the head too.
A shield on his back to use in melee and on foot.
BIG PLAID CAPE
Woad..as if you can see it.
4-Phalangitai
Lighter than normal celtic chain, but still with extra shoulder armor
Phalangitai shield
BIG PLAID CAPE
Sarissa with longer spear-head
Longsword
Lamellar helmet(I like them) no face veil though.
Woad...
5-Heavy archers
-Composite foot bow
-Longsword or Spear
-Any helmet that doesn't obstruct the eyes
-Light Celtic chain
-Smaller Theuros/Gallic Shield attached to back or strapped to left arm
-Big Puffy Plaid pants.
-No woad because the archer doesn't need to be distracted, copper dies maybe.
-Metal Phyterages(or whatever they're called) Indohellenic hoplites and cavalry have these)
Basically, other than the pants and woad, a cross between a Syrian archer, Neitos, Theurophontes, and Getic archer
Too bad they never existed, closest we got Indo-hellenes and Romans(Celto-Hellens really) And they both conquered an extremely large amount of land.
And the Light infantry and cavalry would basically be like normal Gauls and Thraco-..Gates.
Any other suggestions are valid
Note that the man inside is either Spartan or Celtic
I need someone to draw these, I'll do one :)
Eh what? Sorry I wasn't paying attentionQuote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
Right,
isn't that a Indokeltiparthilisticexohellenocious Bull?
That sounds awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmacq
A great spin on the supercalifragilisticexpyalidocious thing which I have never understood.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmacq
So this is the bull I have to look forward to as a history major. Lovely- me thinks I shall spend more time arguing than learning.....Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
Maybe its bloody antistratfordian and means something like honorificabilitudinitatibus?
who the hell cares?
lol
Not likely. It seems to me that Appo is experiencing the drastic shortage of history professors, especially ones who study the ancient world, around the world. The effect is that people whose specialty lies elsewhere end up teaching courses in the ancient world because of the demand from students for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Africanvs
At my Uni, we had a prof with specialty in the Maghreb teaching Asian history because there simply was no one else to teach it, but the demand for it was still there. Until we hired a Japan specialist last year.
You even run into problems when you have profs to teach courses--for instance another prof at the Uni is a specialist in the colonial US and the early Republic. I took a course she was teaching in the Gilded Age and she forgot the Progressive Era. It's not her area and profs are eggheads, so she eggheadedly neglected to include it on her syllabus. But it's pre-1900, so it's her responsibility to teach it, even though it's not material she's intimately familiar with.
Eggheaded...
...is that what their calling it nowadays?
Like Adlai Stevenson.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmacq
The more you know, the less sense you have.
Of course. Everyone knows there were only ten, one of whom loves Lorica Segmentata, and one of whom does all the secret hit and run contracts the Senate wants to hand out, via the arcani, a bunch of elite Jap ninjas captured in battle and turned over to the Roman cause much like the Parthians used their captive Romans against the Chinese.Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
Of course, your professor being such utter crap as he is, he probably didn't tell you that the Romans all wore Lorica Segmentata, did he?!?! The fiend.