Quote Originally Posted by TWFanatic View Post
Part of an early version of the lorica segmentata was discovered in the excavation at Kalkriese. Students of Roman history will quickly recognize where I am going--Kalkriese is likely the site of Varus' military disaster. This disaster is of course the battle of Teutoburg Forest, which took place in AD 9. It is thus very probable that the this type of armor was in use under the reign of Augustus--whose reforms I suspect made this armor a viable option for those legionaries willing to suffer its many nuisances. However, for all we know the lorica segmentata may have been known of even during Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, if very primitive and completely impractical.

Including an entire cohort of legionaries equipped with such armor thus strikes me as being of dubious historicity. However including a texture of a single such legionary within an entire cohort following Augustus' reforms is not necessarily ahistorical, and is plausible in M2TW thanks to some new features not present in RTW. Trying to suck up by labeling everyone interested in the latter course as "fanboys" not only is lame, it displays your lack of knowledge of what you are insulting others about. I suggest you at least do your research, Mike Hunt, before making posts like those above.

That said, not reading the FAQ is simply stupid and never excusable--even for someone who has had four beers.
I have read what you have typed in your first paragraph from other LS threads (which I have throughly read) and I think I am a bit knowledgeable about the subject (although obviously not as much as 99.9% of the people but I do know from what I have read in the threads). And I feel as if you made this post not out out of sharing knowledge but because you were insulted by my choice of the word "fanboy". While that was rude (to which I apologize), honestly I don't see how its any less rude to see the question appear multiple times with the side in favor of LS presenting the same evidence/argument again and again (for example: your first paragraph) and although being turned down each time continue to bring it up again when the question reappears. And I am one who wishes LS was in the game (alot!) and I have checked eagerly to see if someone actually made a mod to include the unit but so far nothing. I have become somewhat annoyed and dissappointed with LS fans now because of this and I think that while I recognize that you may know much more about the topic then I ever will, you really must be full of yourself to think that my above post was meant to be explicitly insulting to you and all LS fans when really it was just bad humor on my part. Once again I apologize for the "fanboy" comment and I will refrain from such attitude in the future, but it really seemed at the end of your post to be a bit harsh and jerk-ish.

Also I don't understand about the "trying to suck up part". Who am I sucking up to? The EB team? Would they let me be one of the first to try the EB2 beta if I sucked up to them or something?