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    Default Re: Gaesatae way too overpowered

    Quote Originally Posted by mucky305
    Now, this guy was a skinny drug addict, so I can only imagine what a 6'2" 225 llbs p.o'ed Celt that has trained his whole life for war could do on a chemical cocktail. *shiver*

    I will not say anything about the stats, i think they are slightly overpowered, but the team had enough discussion about stats even during the time i was a member, so i think they decided it right.
    BUT we should stop thinking that Celts were on average this height, even the good trained and probably well fed warrior elite of the celts.

    Swamp and mooor corpses in today's Germany and Denmark tell us a other story about the size of celts, germanics and romans.

    It is often noted, that germanics were taller than celts and those were taller than romans.
    If the average germanic men reached 175cm - 178 cm (archaelogical findings) and the average roman soldier (not citizen, even here we talk about roman soldiers in the pre-imperial time era, before the most roman units were made of mercenaries from foreign lands) reached ca. 160cm - 165cm, we can guess how tall a typical male celt had grown.
    Something between the two numbers i guess.
    But 6'2 is definately a super-size man and not the average.
    Sure exceptions existed, like for example Teutobod, War-chieftain of the Teutones and numerous others, but we should still stick to the average height of warriors during this time.

    Note:
    I once had dicussion with Alin and other team members about different height-sizes of units.
    Has this feature been dropped?
    Last edited by SaFe; 04-25-2007 at 16:12.

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