Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post


Yes, I do remember the old vanilla RTW catas. What a blunder it was. Just like sticking a picture from 300 into the battle of Thermopylae. And I am not talking about "References in Poupular Culture" (I hate those sections) Anyway, that surprised me quite a bit, and that was not so long ago either.

Perhaps we should go to every article about the battles of Late Antiquity in Wikipedia and stick some appropriate EB screenshots, eh? Illustrations, especially the accurate ones, are always nice. Visual aid, that is the key!


that was sad. but I was referring to the part that this guy posted :

Quote Originally Posted by Sir Edward View Post
Well I took the liberty of deleting the offending material (and yes I also spotted the purple cataphracts someone here inserted). The great thing about wikipedia is anyone can edit it and that means YOU! *points through the monitor*
So now that we have all basked in the glory of how wonderfully enlightened we all are on this subject, and how foolish others may be, I got to ask why not take the time to correct it? As the adage goes it's always easier to tear down bridges than build them up. Yes we can all spot where wikipedia got it wrong, but can we be part of the solution.
which came conveniently after this:

Quote Originally Posted by Zradha Pahlavan View Post
This article is the single stupidest-but funniest- thing I have ever encountered on the internet that attempts to take itself seriously. Assuming the guy who wrote it wasn't laughing his ass off as he wrote it...
I'm surprised he didn't say that elephants were invincible behemoths and cataphracts wore purple...
some guy had added a textual description saying that cataphracts had purple capes conveniently after the latter's post..and sir edward caught it.