Gaesatae Question

[lobf]

I searched here and Google.

[General Appo]

Then you are inept at searching. And please, let it stop at that, don´t take these... investigations any further, or we may have to take action to... prevent unwanted facts from surfacing. *shifty eyes* *tries to wink to Hax, but can´t stop the shifting* Ah, it´s happening already!!

[abou]

I searched here and Google.

I didn't know that something had to appear on Google in order for it to exist.

[lobf]

Me neither. My point is just that normal methods of obtaining this information have failed, so I figured I'd ask you guys.

[Midnj]

You could, you know, point him to the "Celtic Overpowered!" thread rather than being a douche about it.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?p=1825398

Link probably won't load. It wouldn't load for me and I had to view it in Google cache.

EDIT: of course, in the end that thread doesn't seem to answer the specific question asked by the OP in this thread... nor did any of the other search results I perused.

[Primative1]

Loads fo me ok using Opera, and Frostwulf makes some good points.

[lobf]

Did you miss the part in the description of the Greeks vs. Celts bout in Thermopylae ? The part where some Celts are claimed to have pulled out javelins from their own wounds and thrown them back ? For that matter, IIRC the description also seemed to suggest they were rather difficult to convince to lie down and die of their wounds too, and seemed to fight in some sort of berserk fury... and the way the account flows sort of associates this stuff with the naked warriors.

So this seems to be the basis. Can anyone tell me which account this is?

[Frostwulf]

So this seems to be the basis. Can anyone tell me which account this is?

This is from the battle of Thermopylae when the 'Celts' invaded Greece. Brief description of the battle from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...e_%28279_BC%29

The part Watchman is bringing up is from here:
http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias10B.html

You will not find any sources,citations or any other form of information as to the basis of the EB Gaesatae.

Here is one thread with Ranika on the Gaesatae:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/archi...p/t-58846.html

He talks of the Gaesatae but no where mentions the sources.

[Hax]

*shifty eyes* *tries to wink to Hax, but can´t stop the shifting*

Ah..yes..


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[General Appo]

Ah..yes..

Dammit Hax, havn´t you read the New Faction thread lately. I suggest you go and so right now, or else... *shifty eyes*

[Elmetiacos]

I didn't know that something had to appear on Google in order for it to exist.

Nothing is "on Google". Google searches the web, it isn't a collection of registered sites like you used to get in the mid 1990s.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Nothing is "on Google". Google searches the web, it isn't a collection of registered sites like you used to get in the mid 1990s.

Still to appear on means something different from to be on. In any case if you want to search for something like that you might be better off by a combinating of a meta-crawler and regexp searches?

[Fenrhyl]

I searched too for the source, because this "magic potion stuff" also appears in a french "comic strip" series Called "Alix" which setting is the Caesar/pompeius war. In one of those, vercingetorix escapes from his jail and has a shot of this potion in an attempt to kill caesar.
It is commonly rfered to in Gaul history but i can't find any indication about it, be it in french or english.

[NeoSpartan]

[Metalstrm]

Yes the question was pure and simple: On which sources did the team base the claim? Nobody needs to hear something like "use the search button", especially when the reply is not there. Furthermore, we are not out to hurt anybody's feelings. Moreover, if one wants to be scientific about it, he would immediately reply with the proper proof if someone doubts his claim, and not act all pissed off. Even if it has to be done a thousand times. Or well, if it's bugging me that much I would sticky it to be visible by everyone.

Ok, maybe I got a bit carried off there, and I'm not referring to anyone in the EB team (I don't even know who all the EB members are), but to those persons that answered curtly with the typical search reply. The answer is not in the previous posts.

[Fenrhyl]

The "brew" used by gaesatae is used in Asteric & Obélix, Alix, EB and other creative work. I can't imagine all those creators took the idea from nowhere. There IS a source.

Where ?

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