Quote Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk View Post
I'd always fight the island battles, then make about 150 cannon galleons, bombard their island to smithereens, then destroy the galleons, then build a massive invasion force. Repeat till you conquer the world! too bad the Celts couldn't use cannon large cannon galleons lol.
I always fail at naval battles, what ever happens. Happens on Rise of Nations as well, I have massive, metal armada smashed by wooden tiny flotilla. That's why I always refused to fight Archipelago.

Quote Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk View Post
.So much technology was lost due to the oppressive Christian Dark Ages.
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I think the Christian monasteries were important in preserving a lot of knowledge that would have been lost, but whether that was due to faith, or the fact that they were the last bastions of civilisation is debatable. However, once you got into the Renaissance, the church started to become oppressive when it came to new ideas, e.g. Galileo, Copernicus etc, as it challenged the ideas of, uh, the Ancient Greeks (Read: Harry Stotle)