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**fightermedic** · 05-08-2011, 18:01

Originally Posted by Tux

Yeah, didn't knew Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't Deutsch.

well since he is in fact a Austrian guy i wouldn't be too suprised if there would be running a good part of eastern european blood in his veins ;)
just wild speculation from my side of course :D
people living in germany of course ALL are (and allways have been) fair and blue eyed.. couldn't imagine it any other way :P (for those that didn't notice: beware! sarcasm!)

**fomalhaut** · 05-08-2011, 21:37

weird how hitliers propaganda can still affect our perceptions of an entire people who live in the boundaries of a state :P

**moonburn** · 05-09-2011, 00:44

Originally Posted by fightermedic

well since he is in fact a Austrian guy i wouldn't be too suprised if there would be running a good part of eastern european blood in his veins ;)
just wild speculation from my side of course :D
people living in germany of course ALL are (and allways have been) fair and blue eyed.. couldn't imagine it any other way :P (for those that didn't notice: beware! sarcasm!)

it´s almost as absurd as calling bayern part of deutschland they should be called upper austria :\

anyway i was just making a remark i noticed the hairknot but the fact that today germans have like everyone else intermingled with others and no longer have per se those phisical caractheristics doesn´t mean that in the past such "interminglings" where normal and to find someone wich "southern" caractheristics in a sweboz warband seems wierd to me also tux what is it written in that modern axe :?

**Ca Putt** · 05-09-2011, 11:19

well not every germanic was blond(or red haired) it was just much more common amung Germanics(and celts) than romans and greeks to have blond or red hair, which explains why "we" were often discribed as blond.

tho I found a different "wrong" detail. As EB stands for Historical accuracy I think you should refrain from giveing a suebi unit a swedish chainsaw, Dolmar would be the logical choice. ;)

**stratigos vasilios** · 05-09-2011, 11:36

A clubman model got finished. ~Tux

Hopefully not with a chainsaw...

**Tux** · 05-09-2011, 12:21

Originally Posted by Ca Putt

tho I found a different "wrong" detail. As EB stands for Historical accuracy I think you should refrain from giveing a suebi unit a swedish chainsaw, Dolmar would be the logical choice. ;)

Damn and I hoped mirroring the text would hide that...

Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios

Hopefully not with a chainsaw...

As you wish, something even better:

**stratigos vasilios** · 05-09-2011, 13:23

Originally Posted by Tux

As you wish, something even better:

LOL! Outstanding from you Alin.

**LusitanianWolf** · 05-09-2011, 13:40

Originally Posted by Tux

Damn and I hoped mirroring the text would hide that...

As you wish, something even better:

Photon Man on EB? How will the e=mc2 trooper look? Gaesatae with a FGM-148 Javelin? XD

**Gustave** · 05-09-2011, 14:45

Originally Posted by LusitanianWolf

Photon Man on EB? How will the e=mc2 trooper look? Gaesatae with a FGM-148 Javelin? XD

I think he's the big daddy

**athanaric** · 05-09-2011, 16:52

Originally Posted by moonburn

it´s almost as absurd as calling bayern part of deutschland they should be called upper austria :\

Austria is only a part of Germany where they speak a funny dialect. Similarly, the Czech want to hide the fact that they're actually Germans by speaking an obscure language.

anyway i was just making a remark i noticed the hairknot but the fact that today germans have like everyone else intermingled with others and no longer have per se those phisical caractheristics doesn´t mean that in the past such "interminglings" where normal and to find someone wich "southern" caractheristics in a sweboz warband seems wierd to me also tux what is it written in that modern axe :?

Intermingling is as old as humanity itself. Some basic traits and features do exist though and have probably existed since Homo sapiens first settled this part of the world. For example, Northern Germans are not only fairer (by colour, I mean) on average than Southerners, but also tend to have different faces. Southern Germans have a greater variety of colours ranging from light blonde to black-haired types, even darker skin. They can resemble pretty much any ethnic group from Scandinavia to Spain to Afghanistan. By contrast, most Northerners look a lot like Scandinavians. I'm fairly certain that these characteristics, though perhaps a little less extreme back in EB's timeframe, predate the modern age.
Also, Schwarzenegger IMO displays a typical look of Alpine/Southern German types.