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you make topics like this (guilty)
you randomly out of nowhere shout "SIGNA FERTE!!!!!" when walking around (guilty)
in Geography class, you refer to Egypt as Aigyptos, Cyprus as Kypros, etc.
you feel like doing this :wall: when you hear someone talking about ancient Rome
you are shocked when someone doesn't know who Arisone III or Dumnorix was
when you curse at your friend in Ancient Greek, Celtic, Latin and Persian because he won you in a game of snooker (guilty)
Ari-who? :laugh4:Quote:
Arisone III
You know you play too much EB when you watch a battle movie and declare that the losing side could have easily won the battle had you been in command.
You know you play too much EB when you constantly press F5 in the EB forum page to see if anyone is talking about EB.
Definitely so. I often find myself doing the same!Quote:
Originally Posted by Majd il-Romani
Anyway: You know you have played EB too much once they can correctly pronounce all of the native names of the EB units.
when you join the army and are shocked that they give you an Assault rifle, pistol, and bulletproof vest instead of a gladius, 2 pila, and chainmail
you know when you play too much EB when you start acting out unit attack movements
.. when you think that you have to build a fort after a days journey in fear of some celtic barbarians.:juggle2:
When takj in ancient Celtic and don't realise. (buzz buzz buzz!)
Well I definitely know when you've seen a lot of EB: when you think, "surely, we've had at least 3 of those threads before?"
When you wait to couch your lance before you pass a car on the highway.
Or when you use a pillow as a hoplon and a broom as a sarissa.(on your sister)
when you assassinate your boss lol
- when you start assigning people ancient greek codenames "Beta, Gamma Epsilon"
- when you refer to greece as "Hellas"
- You start transliterating everything on greek
- you write "Arche Seleukeia" (in greek) everywhere
- when you have an ache whenever you see/hear LS
:sweatdrop:
When you write an AAR. Though I suppose nobody really minds :)
When you meet your daughters boyfriend and send him away for not having army connections.
when ye want to charge naked into a street, having taken a hallucinagetic drug:laugh4:
When you catalogue everything from city status to FM in you'r notebook(guilty) wehehe
well at least now I know I'm not the biggest loser on this forum!
I dont catalogue EB stuff, but I do keep a captains log when I play Silent Hunter 3 :D
You know you play too much EB when you get in a fight you scream MOLON LABE! before the first punch is thrown.
That doesn't necessarily have anything to to with EB:inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibrahim
Yeah, it does actually: Gaesatae.
No kidding! I'm quite sure I posted in each single thread(including this one). Heh. Anyways, on the topic:Quote:
Originally Posted by TA
-You try to flank the cops chasing you in Grand Theft Auto
-You mutter "pan-do-ta-po-ee fay-lain-gi-tie" while on a public bus
-You think of every able-modied man you pass by in the street as a possible conscript for your legions, grimacing at the smaller guys, and knowing the taller ones would serve as your personal guard
-You go shopping at local thrift stores searching for a laurel wreath to wear
:clown:
When you start talking about Indo-Baktria when your Global History teacher discusses British attempts to control the Khyber Pass.
when you correct people who say persia to say pahlava, and call them Dahae and Parni instead of pahlavans!
when you know how to say all the celtic names
ans say out of nowhere "deu-te-roi pha-lan-gi-tai" an pantodapoi.
when you try to use the thing that hold the curtain as a spear
and try to use anything as a sword xD
You think your son is sharp/charismatic/vigorous and wonder which garrison commander you will marry your daughter off to.
if you don't leave the house with less than 2 people to cover the flanks..
if you never "attack" your girlfriend from the rear, because you don't want to make her rout across the red line you draw around your bed...
If whenever you see a scrawny dude at the pub, you wonder if you have the gear, money, and a spare horse to recruit him into a unit of Prodromoi.
When you begin walking, you exclaim "Taxeis".
While hiking/ walkin' around in the woods/ park your kid plays at, you scout out all the good ambush spots.
You know you play too much EB when you revive threads which had been previously locked.
I am guilty of the signa ferte part.
Also, you play too much (if that is possible) EB when you actually remember the names of units and settlements!
At least if that language has nothing in common with yours.. I don't find it very hard to remember the Sweboz' unit names.
When, as you start a fight, you scream "Rabo!"
When you want to charge through the streets while mounted on an armored Armenian horse and wielding a kontos.
When you refuse to admit the fact that there is anything such as playing "too much" EB (guilty).
that kind of act is an appomination to non-EB users. I suggest you do not tell them that, or you'll get commited (to an asylum)Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
When you measure the day with "EB Time" and "Not EB Time".
When you take pride in saying 'Eqvites Romani' and 'Misthophoroi' with perfect pronunciation.
or misanthropoi?Quote:
Originally Posted by Space_Ed
Wait there exists not Eb time :help::dizzy2:Quote:
Originally Posted by desert
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
OT:
When you invade your neighbor's house because he wouldn't give his daughter into marriage with your son.
Trying to steal an elephant from the zoo because you need it to invade your neighbors house.
Running naked trough the neighborhood because your Celtic army has destroyed a Roman legion.
You don't know when it's your wifes birthday but you know what is the name of every family member of your faction.
Trying to kill your son because you don't like his traits and don't want him to be faction leader.
You know you play too much when real life is a pause from EB.
I called myself EB slave.....
.....twice.
What should I do?
Help!
When you physically assaults your 7 year old brother after suspecting he might have misplaced your RTW disc (guilty).
..as soon as you exactly know "No, I cannot play this huge battle b/c the computer will crash after finishing it as I already play 2.5 hrs!":shame:
When you play the battle anyway, crash, and then auto_calc for the result you had, even if the casualties are different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Subedei
When you load up EB, promising to play just one turn.... and thats all you can do, because you're roleplaying it and your empire is so big that it takes all your free time for just one. awesome. turn.
When you spend 70% of turntime writing down everything remotely interesting going on in your Empire, including who births, marriages and all the dozens of people who got elected to Tribunis Militia (guilty).
if you suspect anyone wearing a hooded anorak to be a spy or assassin
if you introduce yourself with the name of the actual faction leader in your EB
if you call your favourite football team "cohors reformata" and wonder why they don't throw pila towards the enemy during the game
when you curse at the computer for 10 minutes straight in english, arabic, tagalog, and spanish because of a CTD (guilty)
when you refer to the entire Saharan Desert as Eremos
when you become an expert on history from 272 to AD14
when you conquer the entire map, including Eremos
when you try to auto-resolve a fight IRL
when you refer to the huge european cathedral as an Awesome Temple of Jesus
...you write stories of yourself fighting drugged naked men and smashing Roman skull's(guilty)
When you go on a cruise and try to convince the ship's captain to keep a watch out for "Leisterion".
When you refer to insurgents as Aphistamenoi.
When you cruise down the street in search of hetairai.
When you do stuff like this:
Code:*** Hax sets mode -o on Fizzil
*** Hax sets mode -o on Mouz|Away
*** Hax sets mode -o on aeroelastits2
<Hax> Welcome.
<Hax> This is autocracy Hax.
when you understand anything hax says... :jester:
When you rampantly fight your way downstairs, past your parents/wife/children/brother/sister/hamster/police and annex the chocolate/crisps/cheese/whateverfoodhere in the name of the Glorious Arche of Makedonia/Seleukeia/randomstatehere.
Hax, don't tell me you did that:inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hax
I wouldn't put it past him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibrahim
Multiple times.
This bar of chocolate is now state property of the Kingdom of Makedonia. ALL WHO TRESPASS WILL BE SHOT DOWN!
...guiltyQuote:
Originally Posted by Hax
You know you're playing too much EB when....
You refuse to say Empire:Total War and say Arche:Total war. (guilty)
Or spell everything with a hard 'c' with a k.
Like you spell crude 'krude' and classical klassikal.
You know you play too much EB when you think war is good because of the war games... (guilty)
Guilty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carthaginian General
When you prove the teacher is wrong when they say the Macedonians (no, Makedonians) had hoplites and tell the class the entire Greek names of all Hellenic troops. and the different Roman troops' names.
Taxeis Hoplitai
Taxeis Phalangitai
Prodomoi
Phalangitai
Toxotai
etc.
Rorarii
Hastati
Principes
Triarii
Equites Romani etc. etc.
GUILTY! :yes: :yes: :yes: I deserve to be shot :smg: :smg:
Over the last 3 threads on this matter this is the only post that has actually made me laugh. Some have made me chuckle, sniggle or smile, but this is the only that has made me laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Majd il-Romani
When you end up having to write 2 detailed book reviews, study before a major chemistry exam and write a detailed report about the making of a mousetrapcar (don´t ask me about it) all in one night because you´ve played too much EB. (Guilty as of right now. I really should get off the internet and start writing again.)
same... I have to finish a project in 1 hr... emm wth am I still doing here?Quote:
Originally Posted by General Appo
When you rush and only put one "You know you play too much EB when..." because it interferes with PLAYING EB!
Made me chuckle. Not laugh though.
When your main usage of your very expensive camera is taking photos of EB just to make sure that even if all computers in the world melt down you´ll still have some evidence of EB. (kinda guilty)
When you manage to convince that girl you´ve had your eyes on for months to come over to your place. You serve her a wonderful dinner, you charm her, you set up some really romantic lights, you play it smooth, everything is going amazingly.
She asks you put on some romantic music as she makes herself comfortable on your couch. And you put on your signed disc of Musica Romana´s Symphonia Panica, track 4 with all the heavy brass instruments on highest volume with your brand new subwoofer making the walls shake and ears shatter.
Extremely Guilty!!!Quote:
when you become an expert on history from 272 to AD14
guity, your teacher deserves to be shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hasdrubal455
dude, if i were the teacher, i'd skin u ages ago.... >_>
man, I'm really guilty of correct pronunciation. We're studying Antigone in school and I can't help but pronounce the characters' names in Classical Greek and write their names in greek on the corner of my study guides because I'm bored. Every time someone pronounces "Polynices" with a soft 'c', I get a bit annoyed inside...why did the Romans replace the K with the C? If they didn't, everything'd be SO much simpler. (Then again, why'd the Greeks start writing left to right when its ancestor (Phoenician) and sister alphabets wrote right to left? Look where that's gotten us now!)
Because it might be annoying to 'normal' people IRL, I'm trying to reform this...gah! I said 'reform!' It's hopeless!
You're kidding, right?! We were just reading the Three Theban Plays in Classical Literature!
Our teacher has a habit of correcting our pronounciations as well.:laugh4:
"Did you just say Cray-on? It's Cree-on. Did you just say O-edipus? It's Ed-ipus. Did you just say Thee-bees? It's Theebes. Did you just say Anti-gone? It's Antigonee."
You get the idea.:sweatdrop:
[AN-TEE-GOH-NAY] is more like it, but you're really only able to pronounce it if you know a Centum language outside of the Germanic family.
I couldn't help laughing when a classmate said "Argonian" (It's 'Argive', and my teacher knew that as well). There are two Hellenic (ok, Greek) people in my English class (one was actually born in Hellas - ok, Greece), but they speak Modern Greek, which is like Modern English to Middle English (not earlier, as there were no Norman/French loanwords at that point)
Another funny thing is the stupid upsilon translation - it's like a german u (with two dots over it, as in uber), but the Romans made 'y' for the purpose of translating Y (Greek Upsilon), but they couldn't pronounce the letter, and y evolved to its modern use, the /j/ sounds (like in German 'Jungen'). Ah, stupid Latinization problems.
...when u are asking questions and modding factions in the game. Even though u don't have time to play it, and the campaign you are playing now has no involvement what so ever in the modding you are making.
(I am adding Gaesatae back to the provinces where they used to be for the Aedui and Arverni in 1.0, and my current campaign is with Backtria! And I haven't played EB in 4 days.)
How do you do it?Quote:
I haven't played EB in 4 days.
do what? do the modding... or manage to NOT play in 4daysQuote:
Originally Posted by gamegeek2
I haven't played in 5 weeks :cries:
You know you play too much when the people in your dreams start moving as if in one unit and have little green arrows under their feet. (guilty)
When you set up a swords-only Halo 3 match and have both teams line up and charge each other while screaming Celtic warcries.
ARgARRAAHHAHHA!!!! Remove your sig Pontius, or you shall be the first poster ever to enter my ignore list.
Seriously? What is wrong with my sig? Oh let me guess....Lorica Segmenta?
Maybe so, but it is mostly the picture. Or at least that's what I'm guessing General Appo is talking about. Having large to medium sized pictures for a signature is strongly discouraged and sometimes forbidden. Some of the people viewing these forums might still have dial-up, and that would severely hamper their loading times.
Lorica Segementata, btw, is considered to be of lower quality than lorica hamata. Many historians say LS was made to fill the loss of equipment during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
when you cant bear to see the sight of LS
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus
okay I'm swapping out the picture right now, might take a few minutes though. Wait could you explain to me how lorica hamata is superior to lorica segmenta? Isn't LS a type of plate armor? Hamata can't be better than LS when up against every type of weapon right?
Advantages of Lorica Hamata over Lorica Segmentata:
- If offered much better coverage - segmentata does not protect groin, armpits, thighs, etc; coverage was the greatest problem of LS
- There were a lot of problems with LS, especially the plates falling apart due to the unreliable fastenings
- One size fit almost all of the recruits
- It required less ongoing maintenance, less tools, and much fewer spare parts
- It was more comfortable and more flexible although heavier
- It had a much longer lifespan - being able to serve many more successive recruits.
- One could slit a dagger under the plates of LS - LH was impervious to daggers
Otherwise, LS seemed to be better at protecting blows. Despite this fact, for some reason most experts tend to say that LH is better.
Anyway, but spoiler tags over your Gladiator picture - I doubt you're allowed a picture that large. Also, its Roma Victrix - Roma is feminine.
EDIT: Wait, that's not from Gladiator, is it? Is it from the HBO Rome?
Anyway, but spoiler tags over your Gladiator picture - I doubt you're allowed a picture that large. Also, its Roma Victrix - Roma is feminine.
EDIT: Wait, that's not from Gladiator, is it? Is it from the HBO Rome?[/QUOTE]
Yes it is from HBO Rome, episode #1:yes:. Great series by the way. Wait my picture is still too big? How do I put spoiler tags around it?
MY EDIT: never mind I found out how to do spoilers tags.
Well-played, sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by Majd il-Romani
-Glee
you're kidding me right?Quote:
Originally Posted by desert
I would like soo much to be on that game :laugh3: