Long live Hannibal (dedicated to romaioi-lovers)

[Moosemanmoo]

Rome was massacred in the most civilised manner by my Makedonians as I roleplayed letting my Gallic mercs loose (why get my nice shiny pikes bloody when they've just been cleaned?)

Arretium has a full stack (where the hell were they two turns ago when Rome needed them?)
At least they've ran out of Samnites

[Jebivjetar]

Rome was massacred

Thant sound like music to my ears... like mantra in my mind... mmmm...

I want you to have this for your good words and brilliant deeds:

[Mikhail Mengsk]

Hannibal was probably the best general in the ancient world, its manoeuvering and enveloping tactic were amazing, and even at Zama, where all the odds were against him, he almost turned the side of the battle with ANOTHER completely innovative tactic.

Publio Cornelio Scipio considered him as a master, and made further innovation to Hannibal's tactic, but in the end Hannibal countered his own tactic!

Isn't this the mark of a GREAT general? Sure it is.

For all the people who say "he was a bad strategos" i say: if he was such a bad strategos, how the hell could he survive so long, almost alone in the heart of Rome's hearthland, turning many and many cities and local tribes by his side? Sure he lost in the end, but only because Carthage was unable tu support him properly, and because Rome's sheer power was simply too much to be defeated by a state who relies mostly on mercenaries for wars.





But it was NOT greek, otherwise i would not like him XD

[Jebivjetar]

Haiku:


Above the Italy
fear is tearing the sky apart
And the fields are burnt and sodden with blood
The dead are screaming in the whisper of the wind


Cannae happen yesterday
...what else should I say...

[johnhughthom]

Jebivjetar (what kinda crazy name is that anyway?), your mad thread makes me chuckle.

[Moosemanmoo]

Jebivjetar (what kinda crazy name is that anyway?), your mad thread makes me chuckle.

But I get baloonz look
Crazy eh?

[Jebivjetar]

But I get baloonz look
Crazy eh?

You deserve it.
You kill romaioi dogs.

[Jebivjetar]

Jebivjetar (what kinda crazy name is that anyway?), your mad thread makes me chuckle.

Well, jebivjetar in Croatian language is a phrase which you use to describe a shallow person, person who acts like she knows much (but she doesn't know much at all), a person with unsure character etc.

You can translate "jebivjetar" literally as fu_k (jebati) plus wind (vjetar) and you have something like "the person who fu--s the wind"

I use it because is a silly and funny word in my ears.





EDIT: and yes, i want people to chuckle on my words, i opened this thread for laughing about my lame-expressions at the first place! :-))

[Aemilius Paulus]

Well, jebivjetar in Croatian language is a phrase which you use to describe a shallow person, person who acts like she knows much (but she doesn't know much at all), a person with unsure character etc.

You can translate "jebivjetar" literally as fu_k (jebati) plus wind (vjetar) and you have something like "the person who fu--s the wind"

Same in Russian. Jebati or Yebati is the f-word and veter is wind. Did you know that in 15th to 16th century the word "fuck" merely meant "to beat" such as in the sense "to beat in a competition"? Falcons were called wind-fuckers back then.

[Maion Maroneios]

For all the people who say "he was a bad strategos"

I believe nobody with a right mind would call Hannibas a bad Strategos.

Maion