Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
Hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread, I'm also curious about the pontic factional objectives.
I can understand the bosphoran sea conquest and around Anatolia, but having them to conquer the eastern adriatic isn't as logical imho.
Overall it's an area larger than the later ERE, quite ambitious for such a small faction...
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Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
Isn't it based on the kingdom's maximum size under Mithridates XYZ back when his gambit for regional superpowerhood was still going well and hadn't yet ran into the rather major log of the Roman empire and its somewhat idiosyncratic approach to any and all challengers ?
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Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
@ Zaraz:
I'm wondering too. Especially if you compare where the gov2 areas are ...
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Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
That would account for mainland greece and maybe part of macedon, not the whole eastern half of the adriatic sea...Originally Posted by Watchman
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Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
What I forgot to post before:
the pontic V.C. regions in Europe (save for the Polish/Northern Ukrainian & Austrian provinces) are pretty identical to the maximum (European) extense of the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th/beginning 17th century, IIRC.
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Towards the end of the book, the Moties quote an old story from Herodotus:
"Once there was a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: In one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns."
"The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. 'You will not succeed,' they told him. 'No one can.' To which the thief replied, 'I have a year, and who knows what will happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing.'"
Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
Is that relevant in anyway, or just an aside?
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Re: Pontic bodyguards overpowered?
Guess, t'is more of an aside. Well, I do know that much of (real life) Pontic expansion plans, but I have a good memory for (historical) maps.
It would be nice if one of EB-team could give an explanation about the Pontic V.C. regions & V.C./gov2 regions.
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Towards the end of the book, the Moties quote an old story from Herodotus:
"Once there was a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: In one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns."
"The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. 'You will not succeed,' they told him. 'No one can.' To which the thief replied, 'I have a year, and who knows what will happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing.'"
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