New Quotes for EB 1

[oudysseos]

the spirit of EB is to equally portrait every faction

The two quotes in particular that you cited are almost the only ones that would represent the Pontus and Casse factions, respectively, which seems to me to be the very essence of the "Spirit of EB" that you mentioned. Of course, both of those quotes from soi-disant enemies of Rome are from Roman sources, eh? From the point of view of Mithradates or Calgacus, they were only telling the truth as they saw it.

I think that you are forgetting that war, by it's very nature, is unfair, unpleasant, partisan, not even-handed, dirty, smelly, messy, nasty, cruel and unbalanced. The peoples on opposite sides in war generally hate each others guts and don't give a rats ass who knows it. To anyone on the losing side of Roman expansion, they were indeed evil imperialistic greedy cruel murdering raping scumbag : but this would be true of anyone who had conquered others who didn't wish to be conquered. You should hear what the people of my own country (Ireland) still say about the English.

The other point is that the quotes are all part of the historical record: these are things that were actually said or written: and historical accuracy is the main spirit of EB anyway. We do try to accurately portray every faction, but that is a very different thing than making all the factions equal, because they weren't. History is not about being fair.