Quote Originally Posted by sunsmountain
@Hurin_Rules

Poor soul, but i bet the interest of your students in ancient Roman history has tripled due to Rome: Total War. It is then up to you to correct them where necessary, but as i recall:

- The Romans DID destroy Carthage
- The Romans DID use Legions
- The Romans DID build Aqueducts

And i'm not really sure the game is trying to teach them much more than that. A good teacher knows how to pose questions and deal with answers in a way to arrive at a shared truth, instead of conjecture. The primary ingredient for this is motivation, which is hard to instill in kids these days. Would you not rather thank CA for doing half the work for you?
I thank CA for more than that. I thank them for making a very fun game. But that doesn't mean I can accept them asserting things that are not true.


Sounds like a good history lesson. One that the RTW fans in your class would love to follow, and actually be interested - for a change - in the subject you teach, namely history.

Now from what I read in CA's comments, they are not stating these things as fact. Because of my general knowledge, I know 120 men of Head Slingers are fantasy (you can actually prove this using logistics/chemistry reasoning), and considering the source (see your previous post), this affects the credibility of ALL their OTHER work (by deduction).

This contradicts your statement about assertation on the part of CA. How can CA state horse artillery as fact when they are then also stating Head Slingers as fact? Or do we need a list to separate trustworthy statements from untrustworthy statements? From the same company/source??

Perhaps you are unaccustomed to having your historical source (the interpreter at CA) alive instead of dead, and this may cause confusion in your scientific mind. Rest assured, though, that CA does not intend to disrupt your classroom. I would be worried more about commercials, and their effect on creating fact out of fiction.
What I can't understand is why they are willing to admit that 'chosen axemen' and head hurlers are fantasy, but are not willing to do the same for the other fantastic elements.