A few questions (five in total)
Q: Why is there an expantion coming out for Rome Total War if it is already good?
Q: Is there a bug in the game that makes all the faction not playible?
Q: Why did Desicive Battles (on the History Channel) go off after just 10 or less shows?
Q: What happend to Alexander the Great?
Q: Why is there no Giaus Julius Caesar or Hannibal Barker in Rome Total War?
Re: A few questions (five in total)
A. RTW has a lot of bugs in it.Originally Posted by clayton ballentine
A. No, the factions are made unplayable for a reason.
A. I dunno, I don't live in America.
A. He died in 323 B.C. and his empire was divided between his generals into successor states.
A. Hannibal Barca, not Barker. I dunno why they're not in there.
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Re: A few questions (five in total)
OK and a few more questions-----------------------------------------------
Q: Why are there no movies of battles on the game?
Q: Why can't you make a wall of Pikes?
Q: Why can't you attck any city instead of just there capitals?
Q: Why is there no blood like in STW (Shogun Total War)?
Q: Why can't you are generals hard to kill?
Re: A few questions (five in total)
A: Because CA is cheap and cut movies after STW
A: It's call a phalanx, there's a phalanx button
A: It's called functionality vs plability. Too many cities = LAGGGGGGG!!!!!
A: Because they probably dont' want an M rating so they can' sell their games to the largest audience.
A: Practice good grammar and this will be understood so it can be answered.
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Re: A few questions (five in total)
Q: Why are generals hard to kill?
is that better!
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Because of the suicidal general bug (Or is it a feature now?)
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There are historical characters in RTR.
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Like who. I waited 40 SEC TO POST THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!There are historical characters in RTR.
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the expansian is covering where the game leaves off (the fall of rome) and i dont know about the shows and alexander and stuff
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@asm
Perhaps, although you could equally argue that Christianity is a perversion of a Jewish sect and thus, as far as other Jews are concerned, separate.
I did have a quick search before I first posted to check out what biblical/torah scholars were saying about the Jewish messiah and dying for sins. I didn't see anything about it - most of the discussion was about whether the prevailing belief was that the messiah would be a political/military figure or a spiritual one.
BTW, whilst bowing to your obvious knowledge of the subject, nothing you posted confirms that Jews thought their messiah would turn up, preach a bit and then die in pain for them.
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I do completely agree, the most of the latter Jews did think their Messiah would be a military figure. Several men even tried to crown Jesus as their King to try and reestablish the Davidic Line of Kings. They wanted him to overthrow their gentile conquerers.
According to Ancient Hebrew Cannon,"all the things written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms," many things about the Messiah were prophecied. How he'd be born, how he'd live, how he'd die.
They specified when he'd be annointed as the Messiah(bapitism).
However, I believe that Isaiah 53 is the most complete and straight forward narration of his life, I could be wrong though. It's very detailed about what the Messiah would do.
However, I think what you're getting at is a more secular point of view. To this, I have to say that modern Judaism and ancient Judaism are two distinct animals.
While old Judaism was based on the Law of Moses with a Levitical priesthood, modern Judaism is based on the Mishnah, a set of laws that superceded the Bible after the destruction of Jerusalem . After 607 BCE, the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, the temple was destroyed but rebuilt afterwards. However, the Levitical priesthood was disbanded sometime after the return of the Jewish exiles after Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon. Also, Judah(what was left the 12 tribe kingdom after the Assyrian destruction of the Northern 10) became a vassal state of the sucessive world empires(Persia, Greece, and finally Rome) and the Davidic kingship lost.
Without a legitimate kingship, the religious authority assumed a governing role just under the appointed local governors(Pilate and King Herod come to mind). The Pharisees and Saudecees gained political power. With this, Judaism lost it's religious backbone and became a political tool much like Christianity to Constantine. People including Jesus battled with these two factions because THEY had perverted the Law by tacking on needless and secular points.
These include the buying of animals at the temples for high prices. Charging people to be cleansed in the temple baths. They even mandated the cleaning of hands before eating so to keep 'clean.' All these things Jesus rallied against.
After the fall of the temple and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the Jewish faith was shattered with no center. More traditional elements of Judaism such as the Saudecees gave way to a Pharitic view point of Judaism. Thus the modern form of Judaism emerged. The Mishnah came to power. A collection of RABBITIC LAW AND TRADITION that perverted the Law. These things include the second classing of women(wake up everyday and thank god you're not a woman) and the influx of Arab, Greek and other local influences.
To rationalize these laws and harmonize them to the Law of Moses, the Palestinian and the Babylonian Talmuds were written.
Thus, Christianity is actually more of a continuation of ancient Judaism with it's center pillar of the Bible, though both are rather far from being pure anymore.
The reason you keep finding the Messiah being talked about as a 9 star Jedi General sent by God is that modern Judaism is not ancient Judaism anymore. It isnt' the same thing anymore. While the Bible tells of a humble Messiah taking away Adamic sin though death and then acting as God's executioner, the thoughts of men say that the Messiah will save the Jewish people and be incarnate as a greater David.
I'm not trying to piss off anyone so please don't flame... I'm sure I'm wrong on some points, but I'm just trying to make the point that Judaism changed after the Diaspora and the mission of the Messiah after it.
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