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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 14, 2014, 07:10:45 PM »
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Total War Mods - The Engineer's Shed / Re: Return of Atlantis
« on: March 14, 2014, 04:16:49 PM »
Playing the games we put so many hours into making? Strange and dangerous idea, there. 
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 14, 2014, 04:10:40 PM »
Finns
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 14, 2014, 11:10:59 AM »
Huns
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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Help expand our Game Reviews section!
« on: March 14, 2014, 01:07:37 AM »
Fellow Exilians,
We're looking for members new and old to come and help expand our Game Reviews section of the site. We currently only have a handful of reviews out of the myriad PC games we've all played - and that's something we should definitely change. Reviewing a game for Exilian need not take long, it just involves picking some ratings and writing a couple of paragraphs of text. The result is something that can be indexed, read and used by many fellow members to improve gaming experiences for everyone.
Come along, discuss reviews, and help out - there's never been a better time!
We're looking for members new and old to come and help expand our Game Reviews section of the site. We currently only have a handful of reviews out of the myriad PC games we've all played - and that's something we should definitely change. Reviewing a game for Exilian need not take long, it just involves picking some ratings and writing a couple of paragraphs of text. The result is something that can be indexed, read and used by many fellow members to improve gaming experiences for everyone.
Come along, discuss reviews, and help out - there's never been a better time!
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Hetairos / Hetairos: A Tabletop Adventure Game (Chat Thread)
« on: March 14, 2014, 12:14:56 AM »
I've started working on a small adventure game called Hetairos. It'll be set in a slightly odd Greek-fantasy setting, with a random map generation system, very simple combat rules, and a small set of character archetypes etc.
More updates soon!
More updates soon!
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 14, 2014, 12:08:29 AM »
Peace
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Questions and Suggestions - The High Court / Re: Election Results
« on: March 14, 2014, 12:08:18 AM »
No problem 
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Guess Who Will Post Next... II!
« on: March 13, 2014, 04:04:52 PM »
DD!
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Funny Videos
« on: March 13, 2014, 03:51:24 PM »
Good heavens. How are you, sir?
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Questions and Suggestions - The High Court / Re: Election Results
« on: March 13, 2014, 02:33:33 PM »
Belatedly moved to vote.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 13, 2014, 10:50:04 AM »
Tower
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: The Classical Phalanx - over-arm or underarm?
« on: March 13, 2014, 10:48:17 AM »
Hold onto that thought and I'll get back to you in a couple of weeks.
*yay mysterious hinting*
*yay mysterious hinting*
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: The Classical Phalanx - over-arm or underarm?
« on: March 13, 2014, 10:39:03 AM »
My own opinion is that an overhand (thumb-backwards) grip would have been relatively unusual and that for most purposes the control of the underhand would have been more important; a high underhand grip with the spear rested between the shields makes most sense to me as the "tight" formation, the overhand seems too unwieldy and the armour design seems to very much discourage overhand fighting (as it exposes the armpit, for example, which I consider a very major point against overhand being usual). The issue with the idea that overhand would be used when the formation was mobile is just that it'd then be quite hard to switch quickly into the shieldwall; seems more likely that the formation would move with it underhand then switch into a wall and slowly start pushing when they got close.
Of course there would be variation though, probably quite a lot of it. And you'll get people like Wolfy whose preference is for overhand because their muscle distribution favours it.
That said I should note that I consider the above a personal opinion not really a historian's opinion; if I get a chance to read some actual papers on the subject I'll get back to you on the latter
Of course there would be variation though, probably quite a lot of it. And you'll get people like Wolfy whose preference is for overhand because their muscle distribution favours it.
That said I should note that I consider the above a personal opinion not really a historian's opinion; if I get a chance to read some actual papers on the subject I'll get back to you on the latter