what kind of people play eb?

[Ibrahim]

yeah. what kind of people? historians? people with history as one of their hobbyes? People that god intresten in ancient history from playing rtw? what age? And what do they study or work with? I have allways wondered about that

e: remember to say how you got into rome total war and why you chose EB!

I'm just an average fulān (palestinian/ american one) out to have a historical experiance really. I started playing RTW partly out of interest in hellenistic warfare (i had already learned of AS, and wanted to experiance ruling a giant empire), but mainly beacuse of two things:

1-the laptop I write on has enough memory(100GB+), so I figured i'd get a fitting game.
2-It get's off thinking about someone I knew in highschool (the sig says it all)

I started playing age 17, after I graduated highschool. and I installed the game on June 27, 2007 (8 o'clock), the day I got my laptop. I first had EB in september of 2007 (EB o.81), got 1.0 on october 12(1 o'clock in the afternoon), 1.1 by april 13 (4 in the afternoon), and 1.2 was downloaded just yesterday (two thirty in the afternoon).*

as to why I got EB, that's a very funny story; you see, I had pretty quickly got mad at CA for the arcani, head hurlers, and yes, backwarded gauls. So, looking for a proper historical mod to do all factions justice, I went ahead and saw if the game could be modded. I found out it could, and that there was already an RTR mod out there. after getting the patches and installing it properly, I watched in horror as the game CTD'd while loading itself up. I later found that there was an unusual bug peculiar to the computer, which rendered any RTW 1.2 useless. So I went searching again for a more user friendly mod**, and found me this one. the rest is history.

and you know what's funny: I hate smilies, yet I find them necessary for some reason

*I have the unusual ability of remembering key dates, so I know when all was done. yes, all this is out of memory.

**this is not an anti RTR story. that's just what happened.

EDIT: I'm going into paleontology-screw what my parents say..

[Pontius Pilate]

2-It get's off thinking about someone I knew in highschool (the sig says it all)

Get over her. There are always more fish in the sea.

*I have the unusual ability of remembering key dates, so I know when all was done. yes, all this is out of memory.

aren't you the guy with the slow reflexes though?

[Ibrahim]

Get over her. There are always more fish in the sea.

aren't the guy with the slow reflexes though?

I'm already over her..mostly

also, you'd be surprised about me. I am quite booksmart, but I have little to no common sence, usually tied to what I learned. I can come up with ideas quickly, but I can also freeze in mid-thought. I can write this post with perfect spelling, and speak classical arabic perfectly, but I tend to jumble my english and arabic dialect in speech (people can't understand half of what I'm saying). I'm quite a loner (all my friends here number less than 10), yet here am I posting here. I can be very nice one moment, unbelievebly cruel the next (asshole and sweet being the two most common epithets). I speak like a midwesterner, yet I have a good deal of british english vocabulary, form all the british in Kuwait (arse for example*). I can write a good poem without thought, but a prose work is difficult past page 3.

I'm a wierd bundle of contradictions I guess. then again, we all have issues now, don't we.

I pronounce it /æɹs/

[Maion Maroneios]

I'm already over her..mostly

Due, she ain't worth it, believe me. I got almost drunk to death this year (seriously) because of a girl. Later I found out I was so damn stupid... Just remember it's you first, everything else next.

Maion

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EB 1.2 IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'M GOING TO FRIKIN DIE!!! HOW DID I MISSED THAT!!!!!!!)
*cries*

this is the happiest day of my life