You know you play too much EB when...

[Pontius Pilate]

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.

Well I think, the reason you dislike LS is, because most of the LS you see being worn is by reenactors, who probably made their own LS or ordered it from somewhere. And most of the LS made now a days is created using modern materials. The LS made today would probably look alot different than ones made in Roman times. Also, ones made in Roman times were made of iron, while today's ones are made of steel and highly polished to look very shiny. And I think the reason why you think it looks so "toyish" is because of the bright sliver shiny color. I would guess in ancient times, after a few campaigns here and there the LS would look pretty rough and worn and not so toyish. Also, iron is not as shiny as steel.


Now this is just my personal opinion but I think LS looks more solid, stable, and stronger than LH. It is after all plate armor as opposed to mail, both of which have their pros and cons, other wise the Romans wouldn't have even adopted LS in the first place. If I had to go into battle a would probably pick LS as opposed to LH.

And yes, I know LS was not used in EB's time frame and I am not pushing the EB team to put it in the game. But LS was used during the 1 and 2 centuries AD, even though the auxallires and some legions continued to use LH and even scale mail.

[Hax]

..when you compare the USA's foreign policy with the RTW AI.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

When you write an AAR. Though I suppose nobody really minds :)

This
Also when you dream of how you can figure out a better way to do acient tortures on ppl

LOL sooo hard at the LS LH argument

[MerlinusCDXX]

..when you compare the USA's foreign policy with the RTW AI.

sad thing about that is that the RTW AI is actually smarter.

[General Appo]

By comparing the USA´s foreign policy with RTW AI, you are insulting the later. Apologise.

[MerlinusCDXX]

Duly noted, let the record show that I officially apologize for mentioning the 2 in the same breath...besides, what has the RTW AI done to me? (apart from charging my FL straight into the front of a Phalanx... )

[Majd il-Romani]

you know you play too much EB when you point out every single little historical innacuracy in ancient-civilization movies

[gamegeek2]

By comparing the USA´s foreign policy with RTW AI, you are insulting the later. Apologise.

Eh, if Obama gets elected (which I fervently hope)...

[AlexanderSextus]

You know you play too much EB when your friends are watching a music video that has a Julius Caesar quote in the beginning, and he says

"oh, thats gay, putting a random julius caesar quote in there."

They all start laughing, but you're all like "What the hell are you talking about, Julius Caesar was awesome, he took gaul in less th-...."





"Shut the F up dude we're trying to watch the video, nobody cares."

[Matinius Brutus]

You know you play too much EB when your friends are watching a music video that has a Julius Caesar quote in the beginning, and he says

"oh, thats gay, putting a random julius caesar quote in there."

They all start laughing, but you're all like "What the hell are you talking about, Julius Caesar was awesome, he took gaul in less th-...."





"Shut the F up dude we're trying to watch the video, nobody cares."

Sadly, I know exactly what are you talking about! They all say gay first thing when they hear his name- the rest is unimportant. If only I had a sword, I could show them!

[Andronikos]

...you read mostly history books and even those for AAR research.

(I am guilty of some previously mentioned, but what made me laugh most was stealing food in the name of my favourite faction by Hax, I do it so often...)

[Mulceber]

You know you play too much EB when your friends are watching a music video that has a Julius Caesar quote in the beginning, and he says

"oh, thats gay, putting a random julius caesar quote in there."

They all start laughing, but you're all like "What the hell are you talking about, Julius Caesar was awesome, he took gaul in less th-...."





"Shut the F up dude we're trying to watch the video, nobody cares."

Now, you see, if that happened to me, those people wouldn't be my friends anymore... -M

[Ibrahim]

you know you play too much EB when you point out every single little historical innacuracy in ancient-civilization movies

guilty of that..

then again, I've been doing that since long before EB, so it could be a natural trait.

[Hax]

Trait: Plays too much EB.

[General Appo]

Effects: +10 Awesomness

[AlexanderSextus]

Now, you see, if that happened to me, those people wouldn't be my friends anymore... -M

They aren't!!!!

[General Appo]

Well, Julius Ceasar is a bit gay. Vercingetorix, now that´s a real man´s name.

[Celtic_Punk]

you know you play too much EB when you point out every single little historical innacuracy in ancient-civilization movies

i did that before EB...

Well, Julius Ceasar is a bit gay. Vercingetorix, now that´s a real man´s name.

damn straight!

[Matinius Brutus]

Well, Julius Ceasar is a bit gay. Vercingetorix, now that´s a real man´s name.

And who kicked whose ass?

[SwissBarbar]

Julius is not his first name, its his family name no one would call him Julius Caesar

[Lovejoy]

When you name your cat Nizagan-i Eranshahr :P

(when you know what Nizagan-i Eranshahr is:D)

[General Appo]

Julius is not his first name, its his family name no one would call him Julius Caesar

What, Gaius is better? That´s like, Gay Us. Which sounds really gay. Yeah. Go Gauls! Go soap!

[SwissBarbar]

actually in his time, in the hellenic/roman culture it would even not be a shame to be gay..

but gjc was a womanizer !!! the only gay thing he ever did, was f*** the gauls a**es

[General Appo]

Untrue, it would have been extremely shameful for a Roman to be homosexual. Would have been looked down upon in most Hellenic cities too, for that matter.

But yeah, it´s amazing how lots of young people use the word gay as just any derogatory term. Well, not as much amazing as sad.

[SwissBarbar]

what about paiderastia f.e.

[Hax]

What about that King of Bithynia?

[General Appo]

Yes, and the fact the good old Gaius through his entire life got mocked and insulted for that supposed incident should tell you a little something about how the Romans looked on homosexuality. True, they were a lot more liberal about it then say 19th century Britain where even a rumour could ruin your entire political career, but it was far from open practice or anything.

[Ibrahim]

well, it wasn't that Caesar was gay at all; the problem was apparently that he recieved the King of Bythinia, not the king of Bythinia recieving Caesar, the bad thing being that Caesar was supposed to dominate the passive, not be one, as he was a roman male "aristocrat". the pajoritive terms used by the romans (usually derived from greek), origionally referred to those who were passive parts in the acts. just look at the terms Pathicus, or Cinaedus. also, a good reading of Catullus should tell you plenty.

and gaius is pronunced guy-oos (oo is short u).

[Gleemonex]

Yes, and the fact the good old Gaius through his entire life got mocked and insulted for that supposed incident should tell you a little something about how the Romans looked on homosexuality. True, they were a lot more liberal about it then say 19th century Britain where even a rumour could ruin your entire political career, but it was far from open practice or anything.

Then why did the ridicule only flourish when he was making political enemies? And how much of the ridicule was from the mere act of homosexuality, rather than the idea of a proper Roman envoy 'bottoming' to a foreign puppet-king?

-Glee

EDIT: Bugger[1], Ibrahim beat me to it.

[1] Pun Fully Intended

[General Appo]

Ibra, have jesting been completely lost on you? I know how Gaius is pronounced, and I don´t think Julius Ceasar is a gay name, and I couldn´t care less if it was.