Real life picture of RTW Cataphracts!!!

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Intranetusa 16:44 06-19-2007

Real life picture of RTW Cataphracts!!!

Real

vs RTW

bovi 17:42 06-19-2007

Nevermind.

Reverend Joe 17:45 06-19-2007

All righty. Can we see a real-life picture of an EB kataphract now?

Thaatu 17:57 06-19-2007

Looks like a parade cataphract to me. Depends on what you call "real"...

Pharnakes 17:58 06-19-2007

I have to admit that I can't actualy see what is so bad it.

bovi 18:18 06-19-2007

The "real" picture does not have horse armour. I must confess I first thought he meant EB cataphracts, but I see now it's RTW. So the camel cataphracts could actually be such in the game, it's been so long since I played vanilla I can't even remember if they were there.

Wolfman 18:27 06-19-2007

http://antika.avonet.cz/upload.cs/d/...cataphract.jpg
EB cataphract.

http://www.itsadventuresouthwest.co....s/act_TANK.jpg
RTW cataphract

HFox 18:39 06-19-2007

Lol

mAIOR 18:55 06-19-2007

I think rtw catas are more like this:
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/images/elep_1.jpg
:)

NeoSpartan 18:56 06-19-2007

Originally Posted by Wolfman25:
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/p...ataphracts.jpg
EB cataphract.

http://www.itsadventuresouthwest.co....s/act_TANK.jpg
RTW cataphract

I don't get it...

Wolfman 19:04 06-19-2007

Perfect mAIOR!

Sakkura 19:30 06-19-2007

That city in the background doesn't look completely "real" to me.

Wolfman 20:05 06-19-2007

It looks like a painting. It probably a stage

Watchman 20:47 06-19-2007

Later on "cataphract" could also mean simply an armoured cavalryman, not necessarily on a barded horse. "Clibanarius" got equally vague pretty fast by what I know of it, although it usually signified heavier equipement.

Anyway, the problem with the vanilla RTW catas was that they were from something like very late Parthian or early Sassanid times, ie. nearly half a millenia out of date for RTW...

I'd peg the gear in the first pic of the OP to be essentially Migration Period or thereabouts chronology-wise; weren't helmets of that design popular around that time ?

atheotes 20:49 06-19-2007

katatanks from RTW

What a nightmare!!!

Imperator 21:45 06-19-2007

So what exactly is the point of this thread? To suggest RTW was secretly really accurate? I think not. Even if the cataphracts DID look like that (which I doubt, since that picture looks pretty fishy to me) we can agree they weren't bright purple and were NOT ancient Rohirrim.

Pharnakes 21:54 06-19-2007

Were the cataphracts in vannila overpowered or something?

Watchman 21:58 06-19-2007

I remember wiping out the two or so Parthia starts with by luring them into the pikes of those cruddy levy phalangites and then just repeatedly charging their derrieres with FamiCav (the early-campaign light model too), so not really. The bow-and-mace BI Clibas were way nastier.

mAIOR 22:13 06-19-2007

I agree those guys were my eastern nightmare. I could take hords easilly (AS
really I don't know why they sent 8 stacks to my ambush in a row). RTW were strong but you could get rid of them easilly (I prefered Urban cohorts with cretan archers armies)... But, in the hands of a skilled player they were deadly!

Cheers...

Krusader 22:31 06-19-2007

I've seen the RTW vanilla cataphract of a illustration done on Late Roman cataphracts in some triumph.

Ahh here it was:

NeoSpartan 00:19 06-20-2007

Originally Posted by Watchman:
....

Anyway, the problem with the vanilla RTW catas was that they were from something like very late Parthian or early Sassanid times, ie. nearly half a millenia out of date for RTW...
....

Now that explains it....

Beefy187 00:51 06-20-2007

i remember i used to have like 2 stacks of pure cataphract army as seleucids

smashed soo many Scipii armies in Africa

russia almighty 01:00 06-20-2007

Wolf your link leads directly to the main website , not the actual page.

Wolfman 01:06 06-20-2007

strange. It was working before. I'll see what I can do.

Edit: Try it now. The address changed thats why the link wasn't working

russia almighty 01:12 06-20-2007

Speaking of vanilla katatank stories I have steam rolled even phalanx pikemen with a head on charge .

Lowenklee 01:56 06-20-2007

Well, ignoring the issue of it's accuracy, it's a beautiful picture. What city is that in the backround, is this from a film?

Reverend Joe 02:35 06-20-2007

Why the hell would you even bother putting someone that heavily armored on a completely unarmored horse?

"Well, I could aim for the freakin' tank, or I could aim for the soft pile of unarmored flesh he's riding on... Hmm, decisions, decisions..."

Wolfman 02:49 06-20-2007

I haven't heard it put any better Reverend Gonzo ( chuckles )

antiochus epiphanes 02:55 06-20-2007

Originally Posted by Wolfman25:

http://www.itsadventuresouthwest.co....s/act_TANK.jpg
RTW cataphract

thats a british abbot self propelled howitzer. not exactly a tank.it mounts a 105mm howitzer.
and what mAIOR posted is a german elephant tank destroyer.

sorry im a tankophile

Wolfman 03:08 06-20-2007

I'm thinking of changing it from that to mAIOR posted. A panzer. And get away from me you pervert

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