You know your an EB nerd if...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Isn't that a contradictio in terminis, though?

[iwwtf_az]

...you drag your nasty anciliaries onto your best friend who is in the same room(province), and in turn, drag his good ones on you.


...if you actually feel better than those lowly people who just play vanilla, while glancing at the other forums of EB(i just found out there were)

[pezhetairoi]

...you keep a turn-by-turn detailed record of all actions fought, all casualty numbers per battle, all units recruited and building constructed, and have an A3-sized pencil hand-drawn EB 1.0 province map on your bedroom wall with your current empire shaded in on it and updated every day. And you refuse to refer to historical units by anything other than their native-language names, even with people who only know the english versions.

...I do all that, by the way. Many's the look of utter confusion I've gotten when I talk about 'hoplitai' and 'phalangitai' and 'gaeroas' and 'principes'. Priceless.

[Cyclops]

...Priceless.

Yes, extraordinarii.

[[EB]Demulon]

...you acknowledge that, although you many not be charismatic or vigorous, four years in a center of high learning will likely give you positive traits for the future.

...you grow a beard and long hair to resemble your Celtic ancestors.

[PigLatin]

...you can't watch TV with your RTW hating girlfriend without keeping a pen and paper handy to scribble out notes of army composition and strategy.

It's amazing I still get layed!

[sgsandor]

When you go into taverns to pick up chubby women to get the casual adulteer trait
When you drink at the same tavern and tlk to the old dude in the corner and pick up drunken uncle trait
When you look on ebay for "semi accurate armor and a gladius" to command your legions properly
When you actully get the bartix jokes(still working on that it needs its own thread already)
Scream for more wine from your blasted slaves and your mom tells you "to go get your own soda"
When you lose a battle you throw all your clothes into the middle of the room to make your own funneral pyre
When you find your self in class drawing up battle lines and tactics on your class notes
When you see beautiful women you think to yourself "we do more then take a city, we take their holy places their women folk"
When you stop using soap and switch to olive oil to get "Romanized"
When you drink too much you scream quotes from the EB loading screens
When you greet people as "citizen"
When you seriously consider getting "Quisque Barbarus Alio(sp)" tattooed on your person
When you think of intresting questions to ask on the board

[sgsandor]

@ Pig latin that is amazing!

[runes]

i've found myself muttering BAZ BAZ BAZ on more than one occasion

[NeoSpartan]

...When you make your own EB Gallic costume for halloween HOWEVER you have it ready to wear in ur room. Later you put it on while the screen loads to fight a MAJOR battle. ( 1/2 the time u go the gaesatae version for a change)

[Mouzafphaerre]

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If you dream a huge riot in Arsé, in which your old governor with decades of experience gets killed, yourself barely manage to get away, hardly saving a close friend and your favourite teeny concubine, and think about the blurry future of your campaign against Roma if you relocate your talented general back to govern Arsé.

(This was last night. )
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[pezhetairoi]

You, Mouzapherre, are scary. I only ever dream of being a hastatus. :(

[Arzeal]

I started to shouting battle speechs and EB loading screen last Friday when I was really druken, walking on the stress, wonder why a town watch (patrolling police looking at me) can do his job properly w.o a weapon and shield and a torch ...

[Anarzius]

...

[Hax]

You refresh this page about twice per minute, to see if someone else has posted.

Chaonion Agema! I did figure out the Thureophoroi and the Somatophylakes Strategou though.

Edit: It is spelled twice on the EB site: Chaeonion Agema (Epeirote Elite Phalanx)
and
Chaonion Agema

[Mouzafphaerre]

You, Mouzapherre, are scary. I only ever dream of being a hastatus. :(

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Even scarier is a partial coming true of the dream. Last evening my faction leader, located in Segesta, died, dropping the happiness to . I had to do a huge rotation of generals and lost my heir to pirates doing that.

No saved teen concubine though.
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[Bava]

Edit: It is spelled twice on the EB site: Chaeonion Agema (Epeirote Elite Phalanx)
and
Chaonion Agema

The tribe is called Chaonians, so the e is prolly a typo.

Btw, we have the C. Agema and the Mollossian Agema. Any chance we´re going see some elite ass-kickers of the thesprotians?

[Achilleus]

You play football with your friends or watch an NFL game and you start thinking about the offensive and defensive lines like a phalanx, the linebackers/defensive ends like flanking infantry, the wide receivers and cornerbacks like cavalry, and the safeties and QB like generals. Then you get mad when you get penalized for smashing into the rears of the engaged linemen (cut blocking) or aiming at the neck where the gap in the armor is between the helmet and the pads. Next, you shed all your armor a la gaesetae and start busting out a tribal war cry like they do in rugby: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kd0kDxP04eI

Just kidding on some parts! But the whole strategy thing