|
Veloxyll posted:Clearly we need to take over the 2nd Rome first. Take over both Romes and become Triple-Rome.
|
#
¿
Apr 26, 2015 03:39
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:52 |
|
|
There is a lot of debate over the exact numbers of people involved in a lot of ancient battles, though for some we actually have very accurate records from one or more sides so there were definitely some battles where tens of thousands of people met in combat. How common battles involving numbers that big were is very hotly argued about however with some historians thinking it wasn't uncommon and others thinking it was very abnormal. That said, the game's troop counts are a bit low. It would be pretty nice if instead of making the troops prettier CA focused a bit of effort into making the engine more efficient at running large numbers of troops.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 27, 2015 04:00
|
|
|
Well another thing is of course that some really big battles lasted multiple days as far as anyone can tell with the two armies basically forting up opposite each other while a semi-permanent skirmish happened between them. Again how often this happened is hotly debated but there are a few reliable sources that indicate it definitely did happen a few times. The Rome engine isn't really equipped to deal with something like that, but if done properly it could potentially be quite interesting to have proper battles rather than the large fracas we get at the moment. Obviously having every fight like that would be hideous, and I have no idea how you'd implement it but it's something to think about with regards to Rome and meatspace ancient warfare. Neruz fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Apr 27, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Apr 27, 2015 05:21
|
|
|
Yeah even so soon it's pretty obvious that the world is going to look very different from the normal CK2 start. Missing out on Egyptian Visigoths is just a drat shame though.
|
|
#
¿
May 2, 2015 12:11
|
|
|
Use an orange outline around the bird, will look better than black.Pea posted:It looks more like an orange to me. The Citrus Wars began in 512 and did not finish until the late 1300s when both houses agreed that the symbol could be an Orange and a Grapefruit at the same time.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2015 04:11
|
|
|
PBJ posted:So something like this, then? Little thicker and darker, try the same colour orange as behind the arrows and about another pixel of width to the outline.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2015 05:48
|
|
|
Yeah I could imagine someone waving that around as a coat of arms. The bird does look silly but then again some old coats of arms were pretty goddamn silly looking.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2015 07:12
|
|
|
PBJ posted:It actually looks similar to the House of Sverker's CoA, except with a raven instead of a dragon. I just looked that one up and hahahaha that is supposed to be a dragon? How on earth did people ever take some of these coats of arms seriously.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2015 07:26
|
|
|
Yeah the Sassanids are Zoroastrian, which is also one of the best if not the best religion in the entire game 
|
|
#
¿
May 6, 2015 03:33
|
|
|
Hitlers Gay Secret posted:What're you talking about guys, Islam will just pop up under whatever religion controls Arabia. But what if Muhammad is born Jewish?
Neruz fucked around with this message at 04:58 on May 6, 2015 |
|
#
¿
May 6, 2015 03:49
|
|
|
i81icu812 posted:So the Roman Empire is razed to the ground and the barbarians in the north are the bastions of settled civilization? Seems counter-intuitive.... That is kind of what happened though.
|
|
#
¿
May 8, 2015 07:14
|
|
|
Sometimes I really wonder what it must have been like to live in the ~6th century surrounded by all the old Roman buildings that in all likelihood no-one knows how to build anymore.
|
|
#
¿
May 8, 2015 08:06
|
|
|
Luhood posted:I'm not sure how close #3 is to OTL, but I like the idea nontheless! That sort of stuff happened all the time, at one point Odin and Thor became melded with God and Jesus respectively for example. This audiobook talks about that and other 'dark ages' things that went down and some of them are pretty amazing. And of course that's not even getting into Odin's modern-day incarnation; Santa Claus.
|
|
#
¿
May 23, 2015 01:05
|
|
|
Merdifex posted:Sunset Invasion You find the concept of an Aztec Empire reverse-engineering Viking boat-building techniques to launch an invasion of Europe to be implausible?
|
|
#
¿
May 24, 2015 10:05
|
|
|
Alternately the Goths might strangle the Karlings while they're still in the womb and ensure that lineage never comes to exist
|
|
#
¿
May 30, 2015 01:35
|
|
|
I guess that would make the land Gothia instead of Francia, or possibly Gothica? I'm not quite sure how that works linguistically.
|
|
#
¿
May 30, 2015 01:40
|
|
|
I see, so yeah assuming that Ofaloaf doesn't decide to migrate somewhere else (which is entirely possible, I've had games where I ended up migrating five times) we'll be getting a Gothia instead of a Francia.
|
|
#
¿
May 30, 2015 02:08
|
|
|
How about we leave it up to Ofaloaf to decide when someone needs to stop backseat modding? I think he can probably handle that responsibility; he seems like a reliable and competent person.
|
|
#
¿
May 31, 2015 16:03
|
|
|
Rodyle posted:New ck2 expansion is about Steppe Nomads. Interesting, presumably the Mongols are going to get even more terrifying.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 2, 2015 16:42
|
|
|
After five loving years standing outside those walls they just wanted to go home.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 3, 2015 14:29
|
|
|
It's not fear that the Karlings inspire; it's hatred because they are just loving impossible to get rid of and they always manage to screw up something.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2015 04:05
|
|
|
Look at those fuckin' bonuses. What did the Karlings ever do to deserve bonuses like that? Nothing that's what 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 8, 2015 01:17
|
|
|
dublish posted:I want every Rome faction to have separatists, and the separatists to have separatists of their own. There will be more Romes than there are Alexandrias. Fractal Rome is the best Rome. It's Romes all the way down!
|
|
#
¿
Jun 9, 2015 03:56
|
|
|
It's also worth keeping in mind that the Roman Empire probably had very little excess food available, especially the WRE with its hideous mismanagement and corruption. Only a fairly small reduction in overall food production could have produced massive famines throughout the cities even if the actual loss of yield was only a few percent overall.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 20, 2015 11:56
|
|
|
Vikings in India is really only slightly more impressive than Vikings in America; India would be a longer trip but it wouldn't require any open ocean sailing since you could coast hop all the way there.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 29, 2015 04:28
|
|
|
Avoiding open ocean sailing is a really big deal though; in fact during that era for anyone but the Vikings it was totally impossible since they had invented the means by which you could navigate without sighting land and even they had issues with sailing further than Greenland. That said, an overland trip or even a coast hopping trip down to Persia would have plenty of its own perils, but at least you don't have to worry about open ocean sailing.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 06:35
|
|
|
Yeah I excluded the Maori since they won't really have any impact on European history until well after the Vikings are gone I'm not sure a bunch of Vikings would be 'defenseless' but yes a trip to Persia is pretty drat impressive, just not quite as impressive as a trip to Canada.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 06:57
|
|
|
The irony is that as silly as it sounds people totally did sometimes carry their boats across certain areas of land so they could boat on a different bit of water. I can't imagine it was done very often, or with very large boats however.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 10:13
|
|
|
I don't know if the Vikings ever did it specifically but I'm fairly sure there are at least a few recorded accounts of people sailing up a river to a certain location and then carrying their boats overland (possibly pulling said boats on log rollers or carts first?) to a different body of water. I suspect it was probably only done regularly by people with relatively small boats, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone desperate once tried it with big ones.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 10:29
|
|
|
Well there you go the Vikings did indeed do it after all
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 11:09
|
|
|
Supposedly IRL it was actually a fairly profitable and well traveled trade route, which I think is amazing. 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 12:19
|
|
|
Sometimes I wonder why exactly we decided the best way to simulate technological progress was 'pay a bunch of dudes to read scrolls really hard until they invent gunpowder.' 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 30, 2015 12:53
|
|
|
The ole' Billy Goat Gruff defense, a sound strategy.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 7, 2015 23:38
|
|
|
The Byzantines still aren't as absurd as the (real) Holy Roman Empire, which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire At least they were actually East of Rome, making one part of their name correct.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 10, 2015 02:21
|
|
|
Lord Cyrahzax is the Opposition; he opposes whatever is happening, that's what the Opposition is for after all 
|
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2015 05:22
|
|
|
There is however a secret society of lp cultists that is definitely not a cabal.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 31, 2015 05:57
|
|
|
Children are supposed to be hives of disease; that's how their immune system gets practice
|
|
#
¿
Sep 23, 2015 06:08
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:52 |
|
|
Makes sense, languages change with time too after all.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 27, 2015 01:37
|
|