The Best Mod?

[khelvan]

Civilization is not measured based on urban density, it is measured by surplus population as a whole. Rome and Carthage had concentrated population centers, where in northern europe this is not the case. Gaul had a series of smaller population centers.

Edit: Personal attack removed. Dsryow, if you back up your statements elsewhere, I will respond to you here. I tore apart your lies about EB, and so you have now taken it to be your mission to follow me around and try to poke holes in any of my arguments you can? I will not give you the satisfaction.

Conon - on Rome not building siege engines until the first century BC; all our secondary (i.e. historian) sources agree on this, that make reference to it, and we have found absolutely no primary evidence to contradict it, though anecdotes such as the one you refer to also exist to support the opposite point. These secondary sources state that Carthage was building its own siege weapons, and that the sack of Carthage was one of the primary ways for Rome to acquire them.

In addition, the Irish historian I describe in posts above provided me the information on Celtic siege engines. He works directly with the as yet untranslated (though he is working on them) ancient histories of the Goidilics and other Celts. His work is not yet published. I trust his work over any historian that does not have access to the same materials. I have encouraged him to publish his work, but he isn't ready to do that, yet.