You know you play too much EB when...

[Celtic_Punk]

Guilty.

When you prove the teacher is wrong when they say the Macedonians (no, Makedonians) had hoplites and tell the class the entire Greek names of all Hellenic troops. and the different Roman troops' names.

Taxeis Hoplitai
Taxeis Phalangitai
Prodomoi
Phalangitai
Toxotai
etc.

Rorarii
Hastati
Principes
Triarii
Equites Romani etc. etc.

GUILTY! I deserve to be shot

guity, your teacher deserves to be shot.

[satalexton]

dude, if i were the teacher, i'd skin u ages ago.... >_>

[gamegeek2]

man, I'm really guilty of correct pronunciation. We're studying Antigone in school and I can't help but pronounce the characters' names in Classical Greek and write their names in greek on the corner of my study guides because I'm bored. Every time someone pronounces "Polynices" with a soft 'c', I get a bit annoyed inside...why did the Romans replace the K with the C? If they didn't, everything'd be SO much simpler. (Then again, why'd the Greeks start writing left to right when its ancestor (Phoenician) and sister alphabets wrote right to left? Look where that's gotten us now!)

Because it might be annoying to 'normal' people IRL, I'm trying to reform this...gah! I said 'reform!' It's hopeless!

[desert]

You're kidding, right?! We were just reading the Three Theban Plays in Classical Literature!
Our teacher has a habit of correcting our pronounciations as well.

"Did you just say Cray-on? It's Cree-on. Did you just say O-edipus? It's Ed-ipus. Did you just say Thee-bees? It's Theebes. Did you just say Anti-gone? It's Antigonee."

You get the idea.

[gamegeek2]

[AN-TEE-GOH-NAY] is more like it, but you're really only able to pronounce it if you know a Centum language outside of the Germanic family.

I couldn't help laughing when a classmate said "Argonian" (It's 'Argive', and my teacher knew that as well). There are two Hellenic (ok, Greek) people in my English class (one was actually born in Hellas - ok, Greece), but they speak Modern Greek, which is like Modern English to Middle English (not earlier, as there were no Norman/French loanwords at that point)

Another funny thing is the stupid upsilon translation - it's like a german u (with two dots over it, as in uber), but the Romans made 'y' for the purpose of translating Y (Greek Upsilon), but they couldn't pronounce the letter, and y evolved to its modern use, the /j/ sounds (like in German 'Jungen'). Ah, stupid Latinization problems.

[NeoSpartan]

...when u are asking questions and modding factions in the game. Even though u don't have time to play it, and the campaign you are playing now has no involvement what so ever in the modding you are making.

(I am adding Gaesatae back to the provinces where they used to be for the Aedui and Arverni in 1.0, and my current campaign is with Backtria! And I haven't played EB in 4 days.)

[gamegeek2]

I haven't played EB in 4 days.

How do you do it?

[NeoSpartan]

How do you do it?

do what? do the modding... or manage to NOT play in 4days

[||Lz3||]

I haven't played in 5 weeks :cries:

[Pontius Pilate]

You know you play too much when the people in your dreams start moving as if in one unit and have little green arrows under their feet. (guilty)

[desert]

When you set up a swords-only Halo 3 match and have both teams line up and charge each other while screaming Celtic warcries.

[General Appo]

ARgARRAAHHAHHA!!!! Remove your sig Pontius, or you shall be the first poster ever to enter my ignore list.

[Pontius Pilate]

Seriously? What is wrong with my sig? Oh let me guess....Lorica Segmenta?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Maybe so, but it is mostly the picture. Or at least that's what I'm guessing General Appo is talking about. Having large to medium sized pictures for a signature is strongly discouraged and sometimes forbidden. Some of the people viewing these forums might still have dial-up, and that would severely hamper their loading times.

Lorica Segementata, btw, is considered to be of lower quality than lorica hamata. Many historians say LS was made to fill the loss of equipment during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

[Majd il-Romani]

when you cant bear to see the sight of LS

[Pontius Pilate]

Maybe so, but it is mostly the picture. Or at least that's what I'm guessing General Appo is talking about. Having large to medium sized pictures for a signature is strongly discouraged and sometimes forbidden. Some of the people viewing these forums might still have dial-up, and that would severely hamper their loading times.

Lorica Segementata, btw, is considered to be of lower quality than lorica hamata. Many historians say LS was made to fill the loss of equipment during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

okay I'm swapping out the picture right now, might take a few minutes though. Wait could you explain to me how lorica hamata is superior to lorica segmenta? Isn't LS a type of plate armor? Hamata can't be better than LS when up against every type of weapon right?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Advantages of Lorica Hamata over Lorica Segmentata:

• If offered much better coverage - segmentata does not protect groin, armpits, thighs, etc; coverage was the greatest problem of LS
• There were a lot of problems with LS, especially the plates falling apart due to the unreliable fastenings
• One size fit almost all of the recruits
• It required less ongoing maintenance, less tools, and much fewer spare parts
• It was more comfortable and more flexible although heavier
• It had a much longer lifespan - being able to serve many more successive recruits.
• One could slit a dagger under the plates of LS - LH was impervious to daggers

Otherwise, LS seemed to be better at protecting blows. Despite this fact, for some reason most experts tend to say that LH is better.

Anyway, but spoiler tags over your Gladiator picture - I doubt you're allowed a picture that large. Also, its Roma Victrix - Roma is feminine.

EDIT: Wait, that's not from Gladiator, is it? Is it from the HBO Rome?

[Pontius Pilate]

Anyway, but spoiler tags over your Gladiator picture - I doubt you're allowed a picture that large. Also, its Roma Victrix - Roma is feminine.

EDIT: Wait, that's not from Gladiator, is it? Is it from the HBO Rome?[/QUOTE]


Yes it is from HBO Rome, episode #1. Great series by the way. Wait my picture is still too big? How do I put spoiler tags around it?

MY EDIT: never mind I found out how to do spoilers tags.

[Gleemonex]

when you cant bear to see the sight of LS

Well-played, sir!

-Glee

[||Lz3||]

When you set up a swords-only Halo 3 match and have both teams line up and charge each other while screaming Celtic warcries.

you're kidding me right?

I would like soo much to be on that game

[Majd il-Romani]

Advantages of Lorica Hamata over Lorica Segmentata:

• If offered much better coverage - segmentata does not protect groin, armpits, thighs, etc; coverage was the greatest problem of LS
• There were a lot of problems with LS, especially the plates falling apart due to the unreliable fastenings
• One size fit almost all of the recruits
• It required less ongoing maintenance, less tools, and much fewer spare parts
• It was more comfortable and more flexible although heavier
• It had a much longer lifespan - being able to serve many more successive recruits.
• One could slit a dagger under the plates of LS - LH was impervious to daggers

Otherwise, LS seemed to be better at protecting blows. Despite this fact, for some reason most experts tend to say that LH is better.

I heard that Roman Scaled Armor (lorica Squamata iirc ) was actually better than both LS and LH

but back ontopic you know you play too much when you have a life-sized working ballista on your roof
when you join the army and fight nude

[NeoSpartan]

Advantages of Lorica Hamata over Lorica Segmentata:

• If offered much better coverage - segmentata does not protect groin, armpits, thighs, etc; coverage was the greatest problem of LS
• There were a lot of problems with LS, especially the plates falling apart due to the unreliable fastenings
• One size fit almost all of the recruits
• It required less ongoing maintenance, less tools, and much fewer spare parts
• It was more comfortable and more flexible although heavier
• It had a much longer lifespan - being able to serve many more successive recruits.
• One could slit a dagger under the plates of LS - LH was impervious to daggers

Otherwise, LS seemed to be better at protecting blows. Despite this fact, for some reason most experts tend to say that LH is better.

Anyway, but spoiler tags over your Gladiator picture - I doubt you're allowed a picture that large. Also, its Roma Victrix - Roma is feminine.

EDIT: Wait, that's not from Gladiator, is it? Is it from the HBO Rome?

OH sh*t here we go again

[General Appo]

No we don´t.

Pontius, I don´t give a rats ass how big a sig you´ve got, it´s the LS that bugs me. Bugs the hell out me in fact.
Your second pic...lovely. First one...ugh.

[Aodhan]

You know that you have played to much EB when you order the construction of Oppida walls around your half acre lot, when you plan a raid on the neighboring houses for slaves, and finally when you start demanding ransom from your “Civilized” neighbors.

[Pontius Pilate]

NeoSpartan: OH sh*t here we go again

General Appo Re: No we don´t.

Pontius, I don´t give a rats ass how big a sig you´ve got, it´s the LS that bugs me. Bugs the hell out me in fact.
Your second pic...lovely. First one...ugh.

Amazing how a piece of armor can tick you off so much General.
And such a lovely piece of armor too.... -I'm kidding, I'll stop with the LS, I mean talking about it. Unfortunately the picture has to stay.

[General Appo]

Seriously man, LS just look so...toyish. It doesn´t look like real armour, it look like something from a really bad Star Trek episode. LH looks like a real armour, and it looks really Roman too.
It´s not just that LS is so extremely overused by Hollywood and everyone like that, I´ve just always thought LS looked wrong, long before I learned that it actually was pretty wrong in a sense.

[R-Teen]

When you flank your school headmaster when you didn't arrive at school in time.
When you try to charge the other vehicles while staying in heavy traffic.

[Majd il-Romani]

Seriously man, LS just look so...toyish. It doesn´t look like real armour, it look like something from a really bad Star Trek episode. LH looks like a real armour, and it looks really Roman too.
It´s not just that LS is so extremely overused by Hollywood and everyone like that, I´ve just always thought LS looked wrong, long before I learned that it actually was pretty wrong in a sense.

you play too much eb when you develop this attitude to a simple set of armor...

[gamegeek2]

You know you play too much EB when you actually care.

[General Appo]

you play too much eb when you develop this attitude to a simple set of armor...

You play too little when you don´t.