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Thread: Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

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    Default Re: Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
    I thought that was really, really obvious. Especially so because:
    a) You said it ();
    b) It doesn't even look like Latin.


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    Default Re: Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zaknafien
    youre right, theyre absolutely too high, we must have overlooked it during our latest "we hate Romans" purge of making them weaker due to their chronic inferiority.


    Quote Originally Posted by QwertyMidx
    From a stats perspective they are stated as being more skilled with pila than their regular counterparts. The reasoning for that is something the Roman folks will have to explain, but as I said before I would imagine its a product of having been hurling the things for a couple of decades. I personally think it might have been a minor stats mix-up of giving them 2 extra skill levels instead of one, but since we're going to check up on the Evocata stats anyway we'll figure this out along with that.
    Makes sense.

    I'll probably just reduce their attack to 5.
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    Default Re: Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zaknafien
    youre right, theyre absolutely too high, we must have overlooked it during our latest "we hate Romans" purge of making them weaker due to their chronic inferiority.
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    Default Re: Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

    Quote Originally Posted by blacksnail


    Guys, I don't speak Latin. I totally made that up. I added the letter I to the end of a bunch of words. Suetonius did not actually say that.

    Also, "pila grande" apparently means something dirty in Portuguese!
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    It means "large penis" in Portuguese slang.

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