Countdown to Open Beta - Swêbōz

**Teutobod II** · 07-03-2005, 00:06

it says here in the description "Their weapon, the frame, is a spear with a short sharp ending"

but in the pics they have long blades ?

by the way, the Germans (and northern barbarians) should be a head taller then the Romans and other southeners whos average height was about 150 cm then

**Steppe Merc** · 07-03-2005, 00:21

It's a bit hard to show height difference, since all of the people of the unit have to be of the same height. And needless to say, while Germans may have been larger due to the larger amount of meat in their diet, not all were giants.
But the german guys and the unit guys can answer it better.

**The Wizard** · 07-03-2005, 01:13

Besides that, Romans really weren't that small. Just overall smaller then the Celtic and Germanic peoples.

~Wiz

**Tux** · 07-03-2005, 09:13

Originally Posted by Teutobod II

it says here in the description "Their weapon, the frame, is a spear with a short sharp ending"

but in the pics they have long blades ?

by the way, the Germans (and northern barbarians) should be a head taller then the Romans and other southeners whos average height was about 150 cm then

I don't know about that description problem, Safe knows to respond to that.
Were working in increasing the unit heights but not extremely as some germans were, and not all german units will have the same heights so the youths units will be smaller than the older.

**Teutobod II** · 07-03-2005, 18:33

the average height of the Germans back then according to skelleton finds was about 172 cm while the Romans only measured 150 cm

I am asking because I saw LOTR screenshots with dwarves and hobbits - and they were smaller then men...

**SaFe** · 07-04-2005, 07:25

@Teutobod.
My records says 176 cm average for germanics, but i can confirm we are currently working on height differences.
For romans i think your numbers are a bit too low. Their soldiers were the strongest and i think we can assume that they were above the height of the average roman citizen. I think 160 cm sounds more realistic.

**Teutobod II** · 07-12-2005, 22:34

here I go again...

there are no Germanic wonders mentioned ?

the suncircle of Goseck maybe which is supposed to be the oldest found so far (nearly 7000 years)
http://www.kreisgraben.info/print.php?sid=13

or the Externsteine
http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/ge...ernsteine.html

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 07-12-2005, 22:53

There are multiple germanic ones. Don't remember why we didn't include any there. Must have been either that they weren't ready or we didn't want to show them all or something. Don't worry though, they've got more than a couple.

**pezhetairoi** · 07-20-2005, 04:11

Could we PLEASE have a pronunciation guide for the Sweboz names and accents please? I can't mouth these without getting the distinct sour sensation that I'm mangling them...

**caesar44** · 07-20-2005, 10:57

Originally Posted by Teutobod II

the average height of the Germans back then according to skelleton finds was about 172 cm while the Romans only measured 150 cm

I am asking because I saw LOTR screenshots with dwarves and hobbits - and they were smaller then men...

150 cm ??? seems a little...small... do you have some links ?