Skin colours in EB (don't worry, I'm NOT racist!)

[Maion Maroneios]

I completely agree with you, my friend. I am Greek myself and I can tell you most Mediterranian people have darker skin, as did people in ancient times. In fact, I think people had even darker skin in the past, you know with all that labour and working in the sun and such.

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I think people had even darker skin in the past, you know with all that labour and working in the sun and such.

Except for the rich...

[Maeran]

Okay, but why twice?

[Brynjolfr]

Okay, but why twice?

A mistake... sorry... just delete the other thread!

[Cadwalader]

I am all for that suggestion, myself. However, I don't think the EB team were motivated to make them white because they are white supremacists.

[Brynjolfr]

I am all for that suggestion, myself. However, I don't think the EB team were motivated to make them white because they are white supremacists.

I don't think that either.

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I am all for that suggestion, myself. However, I don't think the EB team were motivated to make them white because they are white supremacists.

YOU ARE WRONG!!! WHITE POWA FOR THE WIN!!! HAHAHAA ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Actually i think the reason is that skinners are lazy. Especially me. If it depended on me all units would look exactly the same.

[TWFanatic]

It is my understanding that in Ancient Rome, most commoners were white and flabby while a tan was a sign an aristocrat because they had time to sunbathe.

I'm not too worried about it though. I'm with Steven Colbert, I don't see race.

[Maion Maroneios]

Except for the rich...

Not necessarily. The Hellenistic aristocracy spend their time working on the fields, hunting, riding their horses and training for war. This all happens under the sun

[Watchman]

Aristocrats don't work the fields, they have servants for that. It's pretty much per definition that they don't engage in - nor have to - in physical labour to support themselves.

For the sake of comparision, Medieval European nobility were pretty much every man jack of 'em warrior aristocrats who spent a lot of time outdoors, hunting for example being both a popular pasttime and regarded as training in skills relevant in war. Yet, do you know where the concept "blue-blooded" comes from ? Because the aristocrats didn't spend enough time under the hot sun to develop the rugged tan the peasants got, instead their skin remained pale enough that the veins vere visible under it.

[Maeran]

I thought it was because they looked like lobsters in all that plate.
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[Brynjolfr]

I think romans looked like this:

http://www.livius.org/a/1/legio/legionary_bonn.jpg

[antisocialmunky]

That's a nice picture, no LS for a change.

[Wolfman]

I think romans looked like this:

http://www.livius.org/a/1/legio/legionary_bonn.jpg

@Brynjolfr
I believe the original romans looked that way too. Just like I believe the southern gauls tended to be darker than the northern gauls as was personified by Caesars description of the Tarbelli vs the Belgae and Celtae. Another example being modern day Northern and Southern France. But I think something else that should be looked at is the roman policy of invading areas that did not belong to them and then mixing with and subjugating the native population and forcing them into roman armies. So not everybody in the Roman empire was a true "roman". I would imagine that by the end of the Roman empire you didn't have a lot of romans who could say that they were of 100% pure roman stock.
P.S.
I agree with you I think some of the units are to fair.

[Hooahguy]

I think romans looked like this:

http://www.livius.org/a/1/legio/legionary_bonn.jpg

too..... shiney.......
lol

[Vorenus87]

I think romans looked like this:

http://www.livius.org/a/1/legio/legionary_bonn.jpg

naahhh

they looked like this ....Have you ever been in Pompei ?..the 90% of the subjects in the frescos have reddish-brown hair and ligth skin...

http://digilander.libero.it/agenziag...%20AGRIPPA.jpg

http://www.archart.it/archart/mostre.../rompic141.jpg

anyway the italians differently from greeks,portoguese and spaniards , have the same skin tone of the central europeans (except the southern:sicilians,calabrians etc..)



so the romans in Eb are perfects..