Europa Barbarorum Status

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

i do not agree that u have made it more historically acurrate i belive u have made less historically accurate and the units name in the orignal game are histoically accurate and u changed them wen there is no need. i have information in book and of the internet that proves that. i think u just want to mess around with game with no really looking at the real evidenceof history i agree u have done a good job but u havent looked at all the history and have made many mistakes.

And this one... ...no comments...

[Dux Corvanus]

Quick everyone, get ready to write this down! Apparently modern English was in use several thousand years before we thought, during the time of the Romans!

Actually, thureoporoi comes from ancient English, "Thou art porous", in clear allusion to the drinking capacity of such troops. Other equivalences:

Argyraspid= "Are you rapid?" (Because they were so feared)

Tsorim= "Sore I'm" (Punic underwear was very rough)

Arche Seleukeia= "Hark! Sell ur kajak!" (Because of boat trade in the Sirian coast)

Sweboz= "Swede booze" (Germans bought alcohol in the far north)

Baktria= "Bacteria" (Bio war is unfortunately an ancient matter)

And so, and so... An they say we're misinformed...

[jerby]

WHAHAHHA, great Sig dux. great

[Craterus]

To be fair, littlegannon has a point.

I have searched:

Tsorim Carthaginians Phoenecians

Sweboz (I don't have the characters, but I copied and pasted from the thread) Ancient Germanic tribe

into Google.com and nothing came up. What sources were you using to find out the the Carthaginian people were called this? I'm sure there would be some information on the Internet regarding there ancient names but I couldn't find any.

I'm not denying that EB is good, because it is and I look forward to it. I also respect the modders for all the work they have selflessly put in, I'm just enquiring your sources.

[Meneldil]

lol, don't bring the silly TWC debate here.
Google is in now way a good mean to find accurate, historical informations.

The fact you don't find something on google doesn't mean this thing is fake

[cunctator]

I don`t think you will find reconstructed ancient names written in latin letters in the internet. Why not trust the EB team if they have some ancient language experts?

[Mongoose]

just because something does not come up on google does not mean it's false

I'm not mad...i just like using larger letters


EDIT: woops, some one beat me to it...

[The Wizard]

The internet is a good source now? Maybe for your average book report you need to deliver tomorrow, while you haven't ever heard of the book before you looked in your agenda...

But for historical information? Specific historical information such as is needed for a mod for a game mostly concerned with military matters? Ancient texts and art? Etymology and anthropology on ancient peoples and languages?

No. The internet is a good source for your average school history project, such as "Alexander the Great did this and then did that and this is why" (even the last part being doubtful), but not for the historical accuracy we're looking for.

Now, littlegannon, I'd like to see your sources. We cannot take you seriously if you do not present them.



~Wiz

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Oh crap. I just entered my grandma's name into google, and there were no hits. I better call her right now and tell her she doesn't exist. And anyone who says she does, well i think u just want to mess around with me adn you are teh liars.

[Dux Corvanus]

Alternatively, for a quick search, you can go out and ask randomly to anyone you see in the street:

- "Tsorim! What do you think? Answer!"

-"Huh?"


-"Are you insulting me?"


-"Ok, I'm out at 7"


-"No, thanks, I got one yet"


-"Besides, a quick search on Google just gave us this:"


- "Demonstrated: Tsorim does not exist! TV says so!"


Long live the mass media access to culture...

[Big_John]

i think gannon is just kidding.


i hope anyway....

[cunobelinus]

have copied and pasted your names for some factions into Google and nothing comes up
Tsorim - fake
Sweboz - fake
Aediu (Gaul) is real
i admit some of it is true but most of it isnt the game before was very true to history other than parthia that isnt they were fether over .i think that u have a done a good job expanding but it aint true some of it adn u should change it to make it true to history !

[sharrukin]

have copied and pasted your names for some factions into Google and nothing comes up
Tsorim - fake
Sweboz - fake
Aediu (Gaul) is real
i admit some of it is true but most of it isnt the game before was very true to history other than parthia that isnt they were fether over .i think that u have a done a good job expanding but it aint true some of it adn u should change it to make it true to history !

You have to remove the vowels as Punic script has none.

Thbo Tsrm Adrnm Wod Tsornm
Mark McMenamin

Paperback, February 1996

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:2...=en&lr=lang_en

"THBO TSRM ADRNM WOD TSORNM [All about Phoenician Coinage]."

[Sarcasm]

Hey, and it's googled too! Whad'ya know, it's *real*......

[sharrukin]

Hey, and it's googled too! Whad'ya know, it's *real*......

Everyone knows that if it's not on Google it never happened!

[Lord Tomyris Reloaded]

the game before was very true to history other than parthia

Yeh, I mean- everyone knows the green Romans employed secret-service ninjas, Egyptian chariots were kings (or pharoahs, as you will) of the road c.270 BC, a good ole British clean-out involved chucking their collected heads* onto some other poor sod's turf, and about 50% of most armies were composed of dogs and women (though often it was hard to tell which was which- then again the same could be said of the men and the pigs- though only one was used in Greek barbeques of the period. I think.).

*Which apparantly held the soul of the person decapitated. Whoever owned the head would own the soul, and thus earn a slave in both this life and the next. Ah, let's be lenient and give those slaves to our enemies instead, eh?