Female Characters

[Cute Wolf]

Please no.... because as far as I know, every woman who dress up as a general / warriors, won't have "sexy breast shaped" cuirass as their armour, but standard muscled armour, the same which men also worn. And their face will be completely covered in Thrakian / Montefortino / Anything else helmets, and we can bet their feminine traits will be mostly hidden. Not to count that at this era, no shampoo for their hairs, and men also grow long, coarse hair like them, so they are mostly indifferentiable from unbearded and unmoustached men when clad in heavy armour. You then could always pretend (if want to do it in roleplay), just like the trait of "secretly female" in catholic priest line at M2TW.

[Subotan]

You probably should censor the language...

But yes you find interesting things when googling.

I thought it was pretty funny.

Were there amazons in Vanilla Rome ?

I'm so glad and thankful for forgetting stuff sometimes ....

Yep, in Hyperboria.

Please no.... because as far as I know, every woman who dress up as a general / warriors, won't have "sexy breast shaped" cuirass as their armour,.

Of course not. I've seen examples which lack that curiass. On this very forum in fact.

[lionhard]

BOUDICA FTW!!!!!

lmao wat a joke topic

[antisocialmunky]

To be quite honest Boudica < Zenobia < Cleopatra < Tomyris in terms of success...

[Subotan]

To be quite honest Boudica < Zenobia < Cleopatra < Tomyris in terms of success...

Ahem.



<3

[Brennus]

I have recently finished a paper on the role of Celtic women during this period and based on my research there is no reason why women could not play a dominant political role in Celtic society, even to the extent of leading in battle e.g. Boudicca, Medb, Cartimandua, the Vix Princess (Halstatt I know but the point still stands).

[Horatius]

I have recently finished a paper on the role of Celtic women during this period and based on my research there is no reason why women could not play a dominant political role in Celtic society, even to the extent of leading in battle e.g. Boudicca, Medb, Cartimandua, the Vix Princess (Halstatt I know but the point still stands).

Every society has exceptions, the Rennaisance era had Queen Catherine de Medici, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Dark Ages outnumber virtually every society in terms of warrior women thanks to the warladies of the Franks.

But the question of was it socially normal I think should be decisive.

I would love to think these ancient societies had equality, but the women you mention seem to have been an exception, like Livia, or the mother of Coriolanus (forgot her name) or Cloelia.

Even the Greeks had large numbers of powerful women (more so then one would think) but wouldn't depicting women equally in game give a very ahistorical impression of woman's liberation?

That said some ancient societies did give women remarkable degrees of rights, a few even made the husband legally a nobody in relationship to his wife, but for female emancipation that is something I know is a product of the later 19th and early 20th centuries, unfortunately not earlier.

Add to this problem a simple gameplay problem, wives, all of these powerful women were wives, Boudicca (one of your examples) was a widow (and not incharge while her husband lived) who only came to power because of an emergency where leadership and charisma rather then social place was decisive. Is it physically possible to change the way wife mechanics work ingame?

Don't get me wrong I would love to see some female characters, I even suggested spies and assasins.

[antisocialmunky]

Ahem.
<3

Congratulations, you posted a picture of someone who has nothing to do with the Classical Period.

[Subotan]

Point being?

[jirisys]

Please no.... because as far as I know, every woman who dress up as a general / warriors, won't have "sexy breast shaped" cuirass as their armour, but standard muscled armour, the same which men also worn. And their face will be completely covered in Thrakian / Montefortino / Anything else helmets, and we can bet their feminine traits will be mostly hidden. Not to count that at this era, no shampoo for their hairs, and men also grow long, coarse hair like them, so they are mostly indifferentiable from unbearded and unmoustached men when clad in heavy armour. You then could always pretend (if want to do it in roleplay), just like the trait of "secretly female" in catholic priest line at M2TW.

I thought it was pretty funny.

Yep, in Hyperboria.


Of course not. I've seen examples which lack that curiass. On this very forum in fact.

mmm... so their, things, (you know what i mean ) would be pressed tight on an armor that is more hot on the inside than a desert (IMHO) and jumping around with no support, either that or women with big... were abnormal in those times, IDTS (i don't think so) i think everyone has seen the Venus from Milo, and they're not cherries (but not watermelons either... yum watermelons... )