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Mount and Blade Discussion - Sargoth Town Square / Re: Mount & Blade Bannerlord - Screenshots!
« on: November 21, 2013, 02:57:44 PM »
Vaegirs: their whole NATION is an ambush waiting to happen. 
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M&B Mods - The Explorer's Society / Re: Torches and Flaming Skulls...
« on: November 20, 2013, 05:34:47 PM »
I'm pretty sure there must be something there that's leading to it thinking the file ends early - so in other words the file has ended and it can't find the hunting crossbow, so it claims it's not defined.
Does the error go away if you remove the skulls again?
Does the error go away if you remove the skulls again?
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
« on: November 20, 2013, 12:30:39 PM »
Ahh, the leather. Clever. Wrong, but clever.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
« on: November 20, 2013, 10:31:33 AM »
It's all one riddle.
Leather balls don't rustle and aren't used to carry things, so not that.
Ditto the sun doesn't do either of those things.
Leather balls don't rustle and aren't used to carry things, so not that.
Ditto the sun doesn't do either of those things.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: November 19, 2013, 11:10:11 PM »
Edition
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a letter (new)
« on: November 19, 2013, 11:09:46 PM »
Interesting; for this you shall receive the crown of knowledge.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: November 19, 2013, 09:41:07 PM »
Bronze
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Stories and AARs / Re: Upcoming Strategy AAR (Input and Suggestions Welcome)
« on: November 19, 2013, 09:40:42 PM »
Skull: Gladiatorial games. At their peak, the average death toll across the Roman Empire was eight thousand a year, and big spectacles could occasionally off thousands in a single festival. To my mind, even worse morally than sacrifices.
Also, whilst it's true the Byzantines didn't refer to themselves as such, it is a convenient distinction to use for the point after the fall of the Western Empire when the East was predominantly culturally Greek. It makes more sense than Eastern Roman Empire (because the West by that point was nonexistent), is more specific than just calling them the Roman Empire, and avoids confusion with the Germanic/Italian Holy Roman Empire. It's also the term used in basically all academic discourse on the topic. So I think it is a valid & useful term to use (and if we replaced all historical terms with correct self-referential terms, we'd literally never stop; I think the only time it's really worth doing so is if the term perpetuates a racist or ethnographic stereotype, or is otherwise likely to severely hinder people's understanding of the topic. "Byzantine Empire" fits neither of those categories and is moderately well defined.
Also, whilst it's true the Byzantines didn't refer to themselves as such, it is a convenient distinction to use for the point after the fall of the Western Empire when the East was predominantly culturally Greek. It makes more sense than Eastern Roman Empire (because the West by that point was nonexistent), is more specific than just calling them the Roman Empire, and avoids confusion with the Germanic/Italian Holy Roman Empire. It's also the term used in basically all academic discourse on the topic. So I think it is a valid & useful term to use (and if we replaced all historical terms with correct self-referential terms, we'd literally never stop; I think the only time it's really worth doing so is if the term perpetuates a racist or ethnographic stereotype, or is otherwise likely to severely hinder people's understanding of the topic. "Byzantine Empire" fits neither of those categories and is moderately well defined.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
« on: November 19, 2013, 09:09:21 PM »
Okay, since Khan doesn't seem to be coming up with one, I'll give you all another riddle:
Brighter than a songbird
But rustling like a mouse
Floating like a swift so free
Higher than a house
Once a beast of burden,
Carrying a load,
Then set free to toss and roll,
Down along the road.
Brighter than a songbird
But rustling like a mouse
Floating like a swift so free
Higher than a house
Once a beast of burden,
Carrying a load,
Then set free to toss and roll,
Down along the road.
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Stories and AARs / Re: Upcoming Strategy AAR (Input and Suggestions Welcome)
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:48:37 PM »
Rome especially had no place to be moralising to anyone over human sacrifice (although they certainly did so). Yes, the Carthaginians probably sacrificed children to keep the gods happy. The Romans ordered huge massacres of innocent people on many, many times that scale purely for public entertainment. At least the Carthaginians could argue for some sort of compelling necessity of their actions (albeit wrongly), which Rome undeniably could not. So yeah... obviously I don't like child sacrifice either, but at the same time I don't believe that any ancient nation can in general claim any sort of overall moral high ground on average, and Rome is if anything in the worst position to make such claims.
As to the Punic wars... yeah, Hannibal wasn't a demi-god by any means, and in some ways he's overplayed (I'd say his mythos is overplayed; as a field battle commander he was to my mind unquestionably the best tactician in the ancient world, but was a poorer campaign commander than Caesar, Alexander, Philip II, or Epaminondas certainly). I think it's also fair to say that Hannibal was playing with a very poor hand, and that undeniably Rome was politically stronger and its soldiers better trained. But yeah, Hannibal was a rare genius in the field but couldn't force the issue, and once Fabius and Scipio started really utilising Rome's manpower and political advantages Carthage just didn't have the control and organisation to win.
As to the Punic wars... yeah, Hannibal wasn't a demi-god by any means, and in some ways he's overplayed (I'd say his mythos is overplayed; as a field battle commander he was to my mind unquestionably the best tactician in the ancient world, but was a poorer campaign commander than Caesar, Alexander, Philip II, or Epaminondas certainly). I think it's also fair to say that Hannibal was playing with a very poor hand, and that undeniably Rome was politically stronger and its soldiers better trained. But yeah, Hannibal was a rare genius in the field but couldn't force the issue, and once Fabius and Scipio started really utilising Rome's manpower and political advantages Carthage just didn't have the control and organisation to win.
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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hiya
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:10:05 PM »
^ And this happens every damn time.
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Poetry and Artistic Writing / Re: Poems
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:09:42 PM »
Looks like a poem and sounds like a poem. 
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:06:29 PM »
Shields!
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Stories and AARs / Re: Upcoming Strategy AAR (Input and Suggestions Welcome)
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:06:09 PM »
Now see, I have a massive affinity for both Carthage and Byzantium (in each case the forgotten power - Carthage in the ancient world gets overshadowed in popular culture by Romans and Greeks, and Byzantium does in the Middle ages by Latins and Arabs/Turks). So I accept the Byzantine love but will have to challenge you to a game of something one of these days to teach you a lesson in Carthaginian brilliance.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a letter (new)
« on: November 19, 2013, 07:52:09 PM »
Definitely two letters there.
Anyhow, I shall avoid calling down the maddened croud on you just yet. (I know it's usually crowd, but dictionary.com claims this is legitimate. )
Anyhow, I shall avoid calling down the maddened croud on you just yet. (I know it's usually crowd, but dictionary.com claims this is legitimate.
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