Question about Pahlava

[Kull]

This unworthy one humbly submits that he never, ever, ever thought that ye were winging it. He will now preform the Six Respectful Dances of Gratitude and Appreciation.

I fully understand - your post was a simple, reasonable question. I just wanted to use this compendium of past discussions to make the point that we DO go the extra mile - and beyond - in search of historical accuracy. It's a very accurate example of how we do things.

One more example, and I'll let it go. One of our Team Members (Dux Corvanus) went out to the Iberian coast and collected some murex sea snails. He then extracted the glands and made a tiny amount of the famous Phoenician Purple dye. And why? Because he wanted to know what it REALLY looked like - and we were later able to use that information when discussing the correct colors for some of our units.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

We could start a thread where the public has to guess which one is correct:

EB members, for the sake of accuracy, have:
(a) while filming, killed several hobos to ensure the death animations were correct
(b) extracted glands of murex sea snails to obtain the exact color for the cloth of some EB units
(c) measured the average height of several most common forms of steppe grasses to use in determining the height of same in game
(d) dressed "up" as Gaesatae and visited several small north Italian towns to judge the reaction of locals and determine appropriate amount of (or lack thereof) intimidation and fearfulness to use in mod for the unit

[Corinthian Hoplite]

Hmmm... b)?

a) what's hobos?
d) that would only make the locals have a good laugh :P

[oudysseos]

My wife thinks that I am the biggest geek of all time because I am laughing uncontrollably at a forum post for a video game.

Hobos- Now I can't even say the word without giggling.

You guys rock.

[Conqueror]

We could start a thread where the public has to guess which one is correct:

I am so voting for (d)!

[Watchman]

I am so voting for (d)!

The two most common questions Vladimir Nabokov was asked for the rest of his life after he got Lolita published were "Why'd you do it?!" and "How many years did you get?"

[Krusader]

We could start a thread where the public has to guess which one is correct:

EB members, for the sake of accuracy, have:
(a) while filming, killed several hobos to ensure the death animations were correct
(b) extracted glands of murex sea snails to obtain the exact color for the cloth of some EB units
(c) measured the average height of several most common forms of steppe grasses to use in determining the height of same in game
(d) dressed "up" as Gaesatae and visited several small north Italian towns to judge the reaction of locals and determine appropriate amount of (or lack thereof) intimidation and fearfulness to use in mod for the unit

Aha. So that's where Ranika went...no wonder we havent heard from him in a while.

[Tellos Athenaios]

It could all be true...
EB is often connected with insanity...
(c) sounds like something shifty could have done for his beloved nomadic factions.