EB is not Historical?

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

It would be nice if a new Roman reform (Tiberian Reform) were introduced into EB, which would only become possible to get between 9 BC and 13 AD, and with very high eligibility requirements, which would introduce the lorica segmentata for praetorian cohorts only (since the main use of the armor during the Pax Romana would be to look nice and shiny on parade.)

So lorica segmentata would become a reward for a successful Roman campaign.

[Ca Putt]

considering that the team even thought of dumping the imerial reform(tho i assume they sorted that by now and are not argueing anymore) in EB2 because it's acchived too late and seldom the chances of that happening are VERY slim. tho personally I'd be ok with some of the legionaries wearing it by chance(as M2TW gives this option) but not a whole regiment full of LS legions.
tho one could make a unofficial submod :)

Ludens, what I think annoys many here is that people bump in here with a bunch of lukewarm facts and claim that they know more than the EB-Team or the community(as it apparently has not pointed that out before. And most importantly they don't go into an existing thread and argue with the others or they first read existing threads, they open up a new thread and claim their ideas are absolute and that it has to be changed, not a suggestion, a demand. at least that is waht angers me every time I read one of these posts. As I'm not part of the EB team I'm not as enraged as when it'd be MY mod/share of the research.
from a mod I worked on I remember people always comeing up with how wrong my ancient greek would be as I write Oxybeles instead of Oxyvelis and so on. or that my research was not conform with the discriptions from Age of Empires: Mythologies(the DS tough version).
so rant over^^

[stratigos vasilios]

*deep exhale*

[bobbin]

Come on everyone give the guy a break, most of us would have thought the same things at some point in the past.

@TotalWarlord: Please don't use "gay" as a swearword, it is a pretty offensive use of the word.

[Tellos Athenaios]

When it comes to the hoplites, I didn't. My first idea of what hoplites looked like was from a cartoon by Marcia Williams which I got as a present when I must've been about 8 years old or so. The original English version is "The Illiad and The Odyssey" (the Dutch translation is "De Trojaanse oorlog en De reizen van Odysseus").

[anubis88]

You must admit tough that it is really peculiar that a first post from someone is about such a topic... It's really very wierd isn't it?

[Populus Romanus]

As for lorica segementa, that is innaccurate. However, underhand hoplite spears is a topic of some interest of mine. However, I am busy right now and am unable to post.

[fomalhaut]

You must admit tough that it is really peculiar that a first post from someone is about such a topic... It's really very wierd isn't it?

right, they made an account solely to discuss the innacuracy of EB. In that much effort he could have read the FAQ

[Ludens]

Yes, it's been made sufficiently clear that the OP did not make a good impression. Can we move on?

Ludens, what I think annoys many here is that people bump in here with a bunch of lukewarm facts and claim that they know more than the EB-Team or the community(as it apparently has not pointed that out before. And most importantly they don't go into an existing thread and argue with the others or they first read existing threads, they open up a new thread and claim their ideas are absolute and that it has to be changed, not a suggestion, a demand. at least that is waht angers me every time I read one of these posts. As I'm not part of the EB team I'm not as enraged as when it'd be MY mod/share of the research.
from a mod I worked on I remember people always comeing up with how wrong my ancient greek would be as I write Oxybeles instead of Oxyvelis and so on. or that my research was not conform with the discriptions from Age of Empires: Mythologies(the DS tough version).

Understood, and I agree. But what Bobbin says is true as well. We all start with misconceptions about history, and because we know so little about it we assume them to be solid truth. Of course, if you're not familiar with a topic, it's best to ask rather than assume you know better. But it's a quirk of human nature that the less we know, the more we think we know. Check out the Dunning–Kruger effect for the extreme version of this.

[Arjos]

I agree on that, but so many people just ignoring sticked posts is soooooooo annoying...

[fomalhaut]

it's due to the large number of stickied posts, reducing the value of each one. one or two sticked posts would make each much more important and much less to read, rather than 1/4 the page like we have here.

[jirisys]

But it's a quirk of human nature that the less we know, the more we think we know. Check out the Dunning–Kruger effect for the extreme version of this.

Heh heh... I have that!

~Jirisys ()

[fomalhaut]

then you must be american ^_^

[Ca Putt]

ha, thanks ludens! I'll going to use word a lot :)))))))

and yes I do agree with bobbin aswell :)

[jirisys]

then you must be american ^_^

No, I'm just smawt.

~Jirisys ()