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    Default Re: Some help for modding the dacian faction.

    Sure does. Of course Trajan's colum is significantly later than EB and IIRC (I'm very unsure of this) major stone fortifications don't seem to be common in dacia until contact with the romans takes off. Either way though EB's Dacians won't be hiding behind piles of logs forever, once we can get someone to start doing these things for us it will get done (we haven't even gotten proper Oppida walls in game yet, but we obviously plan on having those too). Maybe Shifty can do this eventually.
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    Is it possible to model wooden walls on top of earth ramparts and then have a ditch in front of it to make everything save the gate impossible to attack with a ram due to the incline? I always thought that would be an interesting improvement in protection as the difference between the palisade and the wooden wall is negligible - in fact, the only reason to upgrade is so you can get to the stone wall.

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    We were actually just talking about what we could do about that. I don't think we have any firm conclusions yet though, other than we have to do something to make there be a real difference and hopefull make city assults harder.
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    Sarmisegetusa was the heart of the culture ,trade and mining ,it was sorroundet by a net of citadels as a spider net ,a very well fortyfied stronghold with mountais all over . The city fall to the romans in 106 AD only through treachery ;the plan of the water supply was sold to the romans , otherwise Sarmisegetusa Regia would had never fall. The romans came and took the gold and captured only 14% of Dacia the rest was owned still by the the free Dacians (86%).They kept only what was vital to them to keep extracting the gold from mines.
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    Dacian wall, looking very much like a Chinese wall, belonging to the years of the Dacian - Roman clashes or even to an eariler period. There is no "waste" of walls, and the whole building has two rows of fashioned calcarous rock, brought there from the Magura Calanului quarry (40 km) where to this day hundreds of thousands of such calcarous stones lie about neglected. What human force and what technology (the archaeologists could not find any stone axe in the neighbourhood of the quarries and of the Dacian walls) could carry out such project? The answer is still unknown.
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    It was magic.

    That or maybe they just prized their tools so much that they were very careful with them and didn't lose them often around the quarry. But magic seems much more attractive. Orpheus was up in this neighborhood a little, right? His music was said to have been able to move stones into place to build things.

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    Be serious Teleklos. I am warning you...
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