Sons of Atlantis - A Roman political uncorrect AAR

[Tristuskhan]

I have a little question, Obelics, which you do not have to answer if you dislike, but where did you get your french expressions from?
"ha! les cochons" (cptn Gaston)

[Obelics]

@eliad
thanks, hope you will like the further ones

@sub
you can bet it will come of some use

I have a little question, Obelics, which you do not have to answer if you dislike, but where did you get your french expressions from?
"ha! les cochons" (cptn Gaston)

well, could be i like french music so much (not too much modern music, lets say, more or less, until the end of the 70's), love it, i know some of it at memory, brassens, gainsbourg, vian, aznavour etc. so, often i write the things, ok not only the aar, listening to that... so it could be it is stronger than me, i have to put some little things in french... "les cochons" it could be i was listening Jacques Brel at that moment... (les bourgeoises).
Regarding Capitain Gaston, he was inspired by G.Brassens, if you have under hand a photo of Brassens, you can see his face is THE SAME as the Zradha Pahlavans...

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sorry George, i know your good soul will not be angry with me there where you are resting, sur ton plage de Sète, i know your cimetière, il est plus marin que le mien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqT2...eature=related

EDIT: Replay to Watchman post below:
Funny enough Freddy was actually from a Zoroastrian family, of persian origin if i have well read somewhere... anyway it's George... that is not questionable sorry!

[Watchman]

Personally, though, I'm reminded more of Freddie Mercury...

[eliad91]

I hope you're not done lol .
Please continue

[Obelics]

I hope you're not done lol .
Please continue

as i am sure i have installed 1.1 well, i will continue on the new build. lucklly I have not done much progresses, so in few time (i think 1 hour of game-play or 2) i could arrive just to the same point i was in the 1.0 game.

salut!

[Moosemanmoo]

Personally, though, I'm reminded more of Freddie Mercury...

Or my father in the 70s

[Obelics]

here's a small update, it is the first part of a bigger one i hadn't the time to complete. So for now take this first part, few battleshots and a lot of those strange pergamenes... it's just a transitional update. Hope not too bad. The story is proceeding on 3 Lines. A first fictional line completely free, A second pseudo-historical line, where i try to pursue just an historical "flavour". And a third narrative line, when i try to be inspired, in my limits, by the romance satyricon. It's not the case of this update, where there are present only the first 2 lines. Press F11 on the Keyboard and here we go:
















TABULA VII - A



Then we saw how it ended the good old Attilius... he was forced to rush the decisions and to accept the battle by the evil Carthaginians, cause there were more dangers coming from an unexpected direction, we know, sometimes, when you think you are actually fighting your enemy, well, that is the moment you are with your back exposed to what until now you reputed your friends... and PAM! that's the moment your so called friends could stab at you deep in the flesh... that was what happened here. The Senate was considering to sent another General in Africa, as an exponent of the Party that was favourable to peace. This party was growing up thanks to the increasing expenses of war, Rome was subjected, expenses that were huge in a war enduring for some years desormais. That was the real cause that forced Attilius to accelerate the operations. He needed a strong victory before the arrival of a Collegue. If his sad end had a consequence, this consequence was that to weaken the Party of the "war at all costs", but not the belligerant spirit of Roma, that was not anymore of the idea to destroy Carthage, but for sure She, the Urbs Eterna, would have fight until have won the war.
Anyway, here's the first of a series of documents we are getting used to find left and right, here and there, but that still we dont understand. A greek slave sayd he would have decrypted... but he hasn't producted results yet:

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and here's where all the cash is going to get vaporized...



CCLVI:

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a fleet of more than two hundred Triremes and Pentekonteres... most of that was built up in the dockyards of the subjected southern towns...



CCLV:

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we cant allow anymore to have a so dangerous neighbour there around the sea...so Scipio, this strange guy, the true and only double-sided one, was sent...



lets say that not even a single Punic speaking guy was found on the isle... and well, you have to read one more of these ok, i know they are a lot...anyway CCLIV:

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...the Carthaginian garrison revolted, but there are still some few residual forces to terminate...



... dont say it to me... i sayd they were a lot... anyway CCLIII:

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they sent a fleet of half an hundred ships to try to retake the isle, a small army landed there south of Karalis too... they have undervaluated our organizative skills... never expected to meet a fleet of more than 200 ships...



that was, the enemy fleet commander was taken completely by surprise, he tryed a diversive maneouvre to avoid the battle, but he was engulfed with the back on the cliffs, and the sun in the front... also, they could not abandon their disembarked army there on the shores of Sardinia...



not a great battle from our side, but it was our first real naval battle anyway... so despite its minority, it was worth to be told we hope.



With no more support by the fleet, and enjoying the sad view of the corpses of their friends emerging from the waters, there along the beach, the Punic Army was completely dishearten, and well, outnumbered...



CCLII:

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We can say our war with Carthage is finally come to an end.
Sadly, a Town friend of Rome has fallen under the barbarian hordes of the Gauls... Other towns will not suffer the same Fate of the poor Massiliotes...



as you can see here, some of the things written there, actually happened... othere really do not match... that's that misterious mistery hidden behind this strange papers... a last one coded FERRARA1516 - 251BC bah...

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we expect some few years of peace and tranquillity... naaaah, just kidding, dont worry, that was a sad day(?!?) yesterday for the Republic, but we will come back! We are your bad coscience...;)

TBC



hope enjoyed.

[eliad91]

Very good,as always

[Obelics]

thanks, ive almost finished the second part, this night i will complete it. So hope tomorrow will post.

[General Appo]

Fantastic!!!

[Subedei]

Very good work again Obelics...esp. the

[Obelics]

thanks! pity there isn't just a minigame for navalbattles. i say just a 2D single screen sprites minigame. Would have been very nice, like in the old-time school multy-screen games. I say just move your cloud of pixels (that is an huge fleet) against an enemy cloud of pixels, on a 2d bitmap sea, add some tactical manouvres, etc... it seems actual designers haven't much fantasy...

anyway update soon... my generals are so eager to spread their love around the world...

[Obelics]

here's that second and last part of table 7, it came out too big, and it took a while to complete, so i splitted it in two parts, having so, the time to complete it. I hope the evil perspective im using, is not getting me too much, im doing this just for fun, and with no pretensions, so, some time i like to "derange" the story out of the lines. Remember to press F11 and here we go (fast and furious):

















TABULA VII - B



Parcite luminibus, seu vir seu femina fiat obvia
[keep your eyes away, men and women who meet me along the way...]

Albio Tibullus

yes, we won our war with Carthage... this is just a preventive mission...



CCL:

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They didn't accept to fall under our influence...



briefing under the sun, too much sun straight there on your head, those metallic helmet can burn-out your brain you know...



not too much time to enjoy the trip...



and so the battle...



little green sheppards on the edge...



the lieutenants of Raul are not that nicier than their touchy leader...



but the qestion is just one, where the hell is that sick guy of an EPANDROS???



death could arrive there where you were never expecting it...



now seek and destroy!



...in 250 B.C. Emporion is officially declared "NO MAN'S LAND"...



there is love in this man...



there are things in life you will never be enough used to...



time to rest...



and a lot of people out there are just waiting for the inexhaustible fire of love kept hidden inside the heart of our men, not an official decision was taken yet... now that Carthage was pacified, we fear to be left out from the rich trading routs of the northern lands, leaving this routs lying there in Barbarian hands, means to renounce to a great opportunity to unificate the prolific exchanges that link the wild north to the productive south... but others, they fear even more the vague possibility that Carthage could raise up from its defeats, and become a greater menace for the Republic... they are, the nasty Carthaginians, expanding bad their sad influence in Iberia, so that a path of a further expansion for us, could be already drawn down all nice and prepared, in such direction. A decision is still to be taken by the way... as usually world is vast and misterious, and even more mysterious mysteries lay there out the walls...

TBC


hope enjoyed

[General Appo]

As always, brilliant.

[Hooahguy]

[Subedei]

"100 men like these....!"....Great.... RAUL! RAUL! RAUL RAUL!

[eliad91]

AHAHAHAHAHH thats so awesome
Scipio does have the face of "what happened" lol

[Watchman]

"...first time in my life I saw a guy dying of natural causes..."

[V.T. Marvin]

Great job, friend!
Your graphical presentation has reached another level of perfectness and when Epandros died of a heart-attack, I have really bursted-out laughing As I was reading it at work it caused a lot of curiosity in my office...

Deep respect to the incredible ammount of work it has to take to create such a cartoon. Keep on!

[Obelics]

thanks for the feedback vtmarvin, sub, gappo, eliad, watchm, tristus, hguy, moose and all the other friends (i wrote some of the names just randomly so they are not in order of what i like more, and i missed some names not on purpose , i meant thanks everyone ), as usually the feedback are really appreciated, and are all motivation points to continue it. I have to play the new 1.1 until that Emporion, or to continue it on 1.0, so i dont know. We will see soon. Thanks again alls.

AH! Finally I made the Little Glossary of Tables V, VI, VII-A and VII-B, and updated the House-Rules on the first post of this thread. Also i added the Titles for these 4 Tables. They are alls under the Spoilers (click on it to read)

Salut

Your kung fu is very good! (i dont know why the hell i come addicted to this kind of sentence )

EDIT: I also added direct links to the differents chapters, so now if you click on the title in the first thread, it open a single post page with that chapters. (uff, that was a work...)

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Dear Obelics,

your refreshing cynism, advancesd graphical skills and great storytelling saved my day! This is really so fun. Thank you very much!

[Obelics]

and your comments are always capable to warm the heart, thanks friend! (very nice to see you back anyway)

[ok tomorrow night i will start the "work " of conversion of my game from 1.0 to 1.1, damn...]



EDIT: replay to post below:

Great job so far, Ob!

Another solution would be to keep on running the Sons of Atlantis on the smooth stable and nice EB 1.0 and beggin the long conversion of the Wasteland on EB1.1. Well I know my insistance is abusive but I won't teach you nothing when I say... "Trompettes, de la Destinée... vous êtes bien mal embouchées".

And if that pityfull (I admit) private joke does not convince you, well, I'm gonna give up and enjoy those creepy romans, since the tale of those midgets is more than worth reading. Hail Karl Marx!

thanks tristus, regarding your idea i have to say that id have to have a lot of free time, to play and to do the images for 2 aars, really dont know how could i do that, anyway thanks for the joke, me too heard the trumpets, in fact i started a Pahlava Campaign for some turns, expecially after i saw the vtmarvin save, that stimulated me, but really i dont know what will come out of the cylinder... we will see (or we wont see, I dont know) thanks again and always Hail.

salut!

[Tristuskhan]

Great job so far, Ob!

Another solution would be to keep on running the Sons of Atlantis on the smooth stable and nice EB 1.0 and beggin the long conversion of the Wasteland on EB1.1. Well I know my insistance is abusive but I won't teach you nothing when I say... "Trompettes, de la Destinée... vous êtes bien mal embouchées".

And if that pityfull (I admit) private joke does not convince you, well, I'm gonna give up and enjoy those creepy romans, since the tale of those midgets is more than worth reading. Hail Karl Marx!

[Watchman]

[ok tomorrow night i will start the "work " of conversion of my game from 1.0 to 1.1, damn...]

"Prepare for awesomeness."

[Tristuskhan]

Lost in the Sands of Time?

[Obelics]

Lost in the Sands of Time?

well, not at all, mr Q decided things got interesting enough, so, according to a trickster role so beloved, started to mess with time-gates and all... just alive thanks to the interest we are capable to arouse in its child-like brain, hope He won't get tired of a new toy, not too early at last... or at last could he turn back to the Continuum and leave our souls to rest for a while... it's a dangerous exercise... it's a dangerous exercise... who can stretch us alive?

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hmmm, i dont know tristusk, every damned single update it's a huge time consuming thing, and the result are a bounch of pictures and some text, i could just post a sort of game progression, but i find that boring, and i wouldn't read it... so until i have the time and pancience and energy and ispiration to start another episode, please forgive my sloweliness, my infinite lazyness...

i was almost to write down a sort of announce of a retirement, but i thought why?, the real true "modern" answer to those kind of problems, is to leave the problem open, not just to try to resolve it...
So just imagine me (or my nickname) wavering in a Continuum, i could come back now or later...

salut comrade.

[Quirinus Kuhlmann]

Hey Obelics, I'd like to send best greetings into the continuum! And don't condemn your lazyness too much. Lazyness is a good friend, that keeps you from burning the candle from both sides. I'm shure your next update will be much better after a good period of fruitful lazyness.
Keep on keeping on!
Respectfully, QK

[General Appo]

Indeed. Take your time, and perhaps one day you will find the inspiration needed.

[Obelics]

thanks a lot friends, for now im enjoying my little warmy place in the Continuum parafrasing an over-quoted poet i will say: !There everything’s order and beauty, calm, voluptuousness, and luxury!"

anyway as soon as the nasty Q will be bored of us, he promised that he will let us go safes, so how knows... we dont trus him at all, but he seems sincerous

Salute!

[Subedei]

All Respect & Best Wishes to one of the most entertaining/gifted writers in this forum! Take care & enjoy the continuum!
SALUTE!
Bewar of Q, he is a nasty, yet funny S.O.B.

P.S.: Say hi to Raul