The Irish Units

**lobf** · 03-13-2008, 20:25

**abou** · 03-13-2008, 20:32

Originally Posted by lobf

You need to seriously reconsider how you conduct yourself on this board. Your attitude in rushing to post material declaring us to be fanciful before the team responds to the original poster is getting very tiring to say the least.

**quackingduck** · 03-13-2008, 22:06

i also thought the irish units were cool. like the two handed hammer guys and stuff.

**lobf** · 03-13-2008, 23:23

Originally Posted by abou

You need to seriously reconsider how you conduct yourself on this board. Your attitude in rushing to post material declaring us to be fanciful before the team responds to the original poster is getting very tiring to say the least.

What are you talking about?

I didn't call you "fanciful". The guy wanted to know about the sources you guys used for the Irish units. That topic thoroughly covers that entire subject. Thus, everything he needed to know.

And should I be waiting for EB team members to post first to every topic?

Remove the stick, dude. Relax.

Edit- and if you're tired of all the topics regarding the Irish info, well I don't know what to tell you. I brought it up for the first time since October as far as I can remember, and I have no control over the people who brought it up again and again after I did.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 03-13-2008, 23:45

@lobf: problem is that, perhaps you may simply wish to point out something - on more than one (this) occassion you have managed ... to misjudge your audience, to put it mildly. Misdjugement of your audience lead to posting things which can be easily conceived as being rude. In this occasion you post a link to someone's private rant over a matter which has been discussed ad nauseam as far as more than one person on the board is concerned, like what?, just a day ago ? You could directly quote the material you intend to refer to instead, no? And upon reading the thread again I still think the man was not being fair nor true; something you can easily understand of why, I am sure?

Really fora rarely lend themselves for ambiguous replies (they are more often than not taken the wrong way, due to said ambiguity), cryptic replies (not everyone is a native speaker, and not everyone has the same 'view' on the world), or jokes involving other members. Heck, RL doesn't either.
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From the thread earlier linked to:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...4&postcount=36

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...9&postcount=81

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...6&postcount=85

You will have to make do with that.
EDIT2: Since I am too lazy to sort & quote all the tidbits. Since you can find many/much of the counter-argument(s) in the quoted posts I didn't bother linking to those as well.

**lobf** · 03-14-2008, 00:07

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

@lobf: problem is that, perhaps you may simply wish to point out something - on more than one (this) occassion you have managed ... to misjudge your audience, to put it mildly. Misdjugement of your audience lead to posting things which can be easily conceived as being rude.

My intention was certainly not to be rude. It's hard to properly convey the meaning of what one says over the internet.

In this occasion you post a link to someone's private rant over a matter which has been discussed ad nauseam as far as more than one person on the board is concerned, like what?, just a day ago ? You could directly quote the material you intend to refer to instead, no?

Private rant? It's not going to solve anything to start arguing over that thread again, but, at least in the beginning, Riadach was pretty level headed and reasonable. And what's the difference if I quote the guy or link the entire thread? There's a lot of information in there on each page, and I'd rather let this dude find what he's looking for on his own, rather than go through and find the most important parts for him.

And upon reading the thread again I still think the man was not being fair nor true; something you can easily understand of why, I am sure?

I'm having trouble understanding this. But if you're commenting on Riadach's attitude, it's besides the point and irrelevant.

**keravnos** · 03-14-2008, 00:30

Dosidataskeli are mentioned by hoplites of Emporion (not sure which of the greek colonies in the region fought against them, Emporion is the more likely one) who fought against them and lived to tell about it.

**quackingduck** · 03-14-2008, 03:08

for lobf: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=79193

**Jaywalker-Jack** · 03-14-2008, 17:12

Originally Posted by keravnos

Dosidataskeli are mentioned by hoplites of Emporion (not sure which of the greek colonies in the region fought against them, Emporion is the more likely one) who fought against them and lived to tell about it.

Interesting, can you suggest any reading?