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

[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.

[Watchman]

It's not like Roman citizenship was terribly difficult to get (at least for your descendants). Heck, I'd say it was one of the main things keeping the whole shebang together that status was desirable and available...

[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..

[artavazd]

I like that map Vorenus87. I really enjoy studing about physical anthropology. I have always found Iberians (spain and portugal) Greeks, souhern italians, armenians, and northern iranians very similar in appearance. That map shows the same thing. Now going further east, into what is today turkmenistan you might find the skin tone being similar to the above people that I mentioned, but now we will have a change from caucasian features to "asiatic" mongol/tatar features.

[Watchman]

Although that map dates from, you know, 2007 AD rather than 250 BC. People were sort of moving around a fair bit inbetween in some parts...

[Sarcasm]

I like that map Vorenus87. I really enjoy studing about physical anthropology. I have always found Iberians (spain and portugal) Greeks, souhern italians, armenians, and northern iranians very similar in appearance. That map shows the same thing. Now going further east, into what is today turkmenistan you might find the skin tone being similar to the above people that I mentioned, but now we will have a change from caucasian features to "asiatic" mongol/tatar features.

Well dunno about that. I can probably spot eastern Caucasians 9 times out of ten.

[artavazd]

What do you mean by eastern caucasians? If you are refering to Arabs, they look diffrent from say Greeks Armenians and Northern Iranians. Now as you go up into Lebanon and northern syria, you would have some similar apearences, but down into Palestine, and Jordan and Iraq and down into the Arabian penninsula their appearence is VERY diffrent than Greeks Armenians and Northern Iranians.

[Sarcasm]

Well, I meant Eastern Caucasians. Did I stutter?

I can tell a difference between an Armenian, Greek, Lebanese and Northern Iranians (won't even get into certain Afghans or Arabs) and an Iberian 9 times out of ten.

It's another thing though, if we're talking about Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians and even southern French.