Things you learned from playing vanilla RTW

[Moosemanmoo]

Lorica segmentata

Auugghhhgh its too much! Put it away! Put it away!

[-Praetor-]

If it would be for some documentaries, I would believe that Hannibal fought Lorica Segmentata legionaries.

Amen to that.

The fact is that vainilla RTW, aside from all it`s misconception, delivered much bigger quantities of accurate info than any documentary from The History Channel available. (Bloddy cheek from self-styling with such a name. That channel depicted a series of battles using RTW engine, showing it as the paramount of historical accuracy.)

Off course that when you compare vainilla RTW with EB or with other historical mods, you get the feeling that the former disfigured history with a malevolent purpose in mind. But you have to remember that to a largely uncultured public, showing historical Gasaetae or an accurate Republican Roman Army in the vainlilla release would have been shocking or boring, respectively.

If CA would thought that by selling history books they would have made more money, they wouldn`t have released RTW.

Cheers.

PS: If you had truly wanted to learn hardcore history, you wouldn`t have invested 30 dollars in RTW and you would instead have used that money to buy a Goldsworthy book, or would have buyed a hardcover edition of Cesar`s comentario de bello gallico.

[satalexton]

i got both >_> and still have enuf to spare for spore...

[General Appo]

Upperclass twit.

[Dumbass]

Frivolous loon.

[General Appo]

Dumbass.

[Ibrahim]

Dumbass.

:now, now, no need to insult the fellow...

[Aemilius Paulus]

i got both >_> and still have enuf to spare for spore...

What the heck does this mean anyway? Don't quite see what upsets people so much. I am not very good at understanding humor either, so please excuse me if i missed out something seemingly very obvious.

[Maeran]

Well, satalexton seems to be saying that he spent his money on a copy of RTW, and a copy of Goldsworthy (which book btw?) and a copy of Gallic War and still spent money on the game Spore, which came out earlier this month.

Everyone else seems to be irritated by his wealth. Or him buying Spore.

Like satalexton, I have bought all of the above (in Goldsworthy's case, it was The Complete Roman Army). Probably like satalexton, I didn't buy them all at once. Very possibly like satalexton, I bought Goldworthy, and Civil War because of EB (I've bought a great many books because of EB- my classical library blooms). I'm not rich, but I can save up.

As for Spore. It's quite fun.

[penguinking]

As for Spore. It's quite fun.

Isn't it awesome? I built a race of dragon people. It and Oblivion are the only games I consider anywhere near EB.


While vanilla may have included several silly fantasy units, it is way ahead of most games. While it could have been so much more historically accurate, that's not really what the game was about.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

As for Spore. It's quite fun.

Spore=SUCK i aint taking THAT kind of customer BS for a game that aint replayable. Sims was awesome, Spore sucked donkey bawlz.
As for what i learnd from RTW it learned pretty much the same as HunGeneral.