M2TW loading screen quotes

[FactionHeir]

Yup, I noticed over 40% are from Machiavelli. Those are mostly quite good, but what to do about the other 60% (or 30% if you insist that half of the rest are somewhat good)?

[Aenlic]

There's a proposed mod over in the mod section to make all the quotes from Monty Python and Black Adder and many more instead.

It's hard to beat:

"Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

"Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

"I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

EDIT: Found the thread for the opening quotes mod suggestions - https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=73289

[SirGrotius]

Greek and Roman antiquity lend themselves more so to quotation than does the Middle Ages.

[FactionHeir]

Good pint Grotius, but I'm sure there had to be a select few scholars who said things which would make good quotes, even if fewer than in the Greek and Roman period.
M2TW even uses shakespeare quotes (although not in a good way and no good ones), so any more modern writer about medieval times or warfare would be fitting.

Thanks for the link Aenlian, looks like someone took up that idea a few days before I did :)

[Shahed]

From this period, there are so many to put in. Machi of course makes a dramatic entry but there are so many others which which could have been included. Sloppy .... sloppy !

PATCH !!!

[Whacker]

[quote=Aenlic]very amusing things from a very amusing quotable movie/quote]

I formally demand the following's inclusion in a future patch:

"Must be a king. Why? 'ans't got all over 'im!"