I haven't authored a thread in some time.
This is partly because I am packing my house in preparation for a move, partly for my participation in the Soft Sodium biQarbonate council, (Which I must of course advertise to all, even if you only serve as an audience!), and partly because I have been enjoying your latest version of E.B.
I am attempting to construct a Cassian Kingdom, and deciding on which shore on the northern coast of Europe will be the centre of a fast, decisive 'D' Day.
But I have some questions to ask, and considering they are not large enough to create a thread around each one, I thought I would combine them with many other things here.
Firstly I will say I have noticed a pattern here, where at the beginning of a release, complaints are made on several obvious bugs.
The reporters of these problems are well aware of the efforts of the developing team, yet they are disappointed by what they have encountered.
So, no doubt with a feeling of self-percieved, rude ignorance, which is justified depending on perspective, they report it here.
Now there are some who have done this in a truly insulting manner.
But there are others who have queried and gestured most politely, and appeared as helpfully as they could.
And many times these members were met with harsh returns by developers who, whether irritated for previous insults or not, replied with comments that were very selfish in themselves, and too expectant.
To me, it was a shameless way to attempt to heap guilt upon those who wanted only to perfect this mod as much as possible.
And perfection, or a position as near to is as can be achieved, is the objective of the Europa Barbarorum team.
Yes, this mod is grand, worthy of payment and brilliantly studied.
But the praise that it recieves will be invalid and dull if it is sought and demanded too readily by the developing team.
And you do all know that I am a supporter of this mod, and that I enjoy it as much as the most avid member, so I try to radiate it's entertainment to others especially through roleplay in that respective forum.
But to play the part of neutrality, in previous arguments on the respect or disrepect shown by complaining members - both sides were at times far too aggressive towards their own colleagues.
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Secondly, I will ask my questions regarding gameplay:
Has anyone ever experienced, with or without the addition of BI.exe, the Cassian faction launching a naval assault on the continent?
How do you use spies effectively to create anti-government movements in other cities?
(My own spy can bring them to rebellion, but on one turn the public order stands at 20%, then immediately following it is 140% and I am thrown out within the next 3 turns)
Are there going to be new models created for the stone projectors?
Will the onagers that kick in the manner of an ass be returned to Romanae in later stages of the game - in later versions?
In several faction progression reports I have seen the Chremonidean League in control of the Crimean peninsula, Syrakousai and Kyrene.
Does the faction itself aim for these places by naval warfare, or is it simply rebellion?
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Thirdly, I ask for slight assistance from mostly avid Romani players.
I am in my Classical studies learning Latin by myself.
This, although seen by many of my family members as a very impossible task, has been very possible.
From a university in Texas I have found lessons in the language, and have begun to learn many of the basic inflections and memorised many verses:
Cvm hostes adessent, pro se qvisqve in vrbem, ex agris demigrant, vrbem ipsam saepivnt praesidiis.
When enemies appeared, for self everyone in city, from fields withdrew, city itself surrounded with guards.
Salvs popvlis svprema est lex.
Welfare people supreme as a law.
In learning the inflections, when I first downloaded your mod, I read your subtitle, "Qvisqve est barbarvs alio!", as, "Everone is a barbarian sometimes!".
Both understandings I think are truthful!
I have found it a most joyful and mentally distressing language to learn, it is the first I have attempted to understand, and in doing it alone with many sheets of paper not only have I a true written challenge for the first time in my life, but I also have found that I have a talent in being a linguist.
While I don't intend to become a great multi-linguist, I would like to learn Latin and Classical greek.
So my inquiry here is are there any very helpful and diverse lessons online that I may find?
These lessons from the university of Texas are very easy to understand, and there is a small, depleted dictionary in addition.
I am determined to learn, and I was curious to see if anyone here could offer me a place upon the internet I could continue learning.
I have already found many libraries which house great amounts of classical work - I recommend to everyone here these works:
On the Art of Horsemanship - Xenophon
An Apology - "
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing - Aristotle
Rhetoric - "
The Gallic, Civil, Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars - Caius Caesar (Or one of his lieutenants
The Annals - Tacitus
The Histories - Tacitus
These are the most informative and most entertaining I have read this far, the first I mentioned here by Aristotle, is the product of his faculty's attempt to find the bodily organ which houses the soul.
Everything he writes is very well proven in most cases, and though when reading the first paragraphs you may be cynical of his beliefs, you may have your mind changed.
The Rhetoric is greatly important for anyone who wishes to improve their skills in persuasion on any scale, and should be included in basic schooling!
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This is enough to encompass the topic of one thread, and is most of what I have to address to and ask of this forum.
And I thank all that reply and comment.
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