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    Re: The Roman army is very strong

    Well, Hannibal and his army were clearly superior to the romans until the battle of Zama thanks to the commander genius but in the others theaters of war like Spain the romans wipe relatively easy...
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    Re: The Roman army is very strong

    Well, Hannibal and his army were clearly superior to the romans until the battle of Zama thanks to the commander genius but in the others theaters of war like Spain the romans wipe relatively easy...
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    Re: Is pike phalanx not worthy anymore?

    Corner camp is the most used cheese tactics in Total War from the beggining of the franchise, make the game very boring I must say and prevent from learning anything resemble to tactics. The battles...
  4. Re: How "obsolete" were Hoplites in the DEI timeframe?

    As "spear and shield" warriors their are not obsolete at all (for, at least, a thousand years and more "spear wall" was a simple, sound tactic), as a socio-economic organization (wealth based...
  5. Re: Additional Units Mod - Empire (AUM-EMP) 3.7 for Darthmod - updated 14.3.18

    Hello. First congrats for a great submod.
    Can I disable the "war" version of the ships? This make the "normal" versions pointless because cost almost the same but are much more powerful (too...
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    Re: Cleopatra was white and I can prove it

    I think you're right Quintus, I 'don't believe in neutrality concerning some modern debates and maybe my poinst of view are to strong for this particular discussion. It's because academics are not...
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    Re: Cleopatra was white and I can prove it

    I'm amazed how race and genetics beggan to be so important in History studies in the XXI century, like in the second half of XIX and the first half of XX centuries. We know how it ends, if there is a...
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    Re: Cleopatra was white and I can prove it

    athanaric and Quintus, your points are fair enough for me, I understand the logic behind them but I don't agree in some issues.

    In the case of the ancient jews being a semitic people then they...
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    Re: Cleopatra was white and I can prove it

    Afrocentric propaganda? C'mon man, are you serious?
    Joann Fletcher is very questioned by the egiptology experts for rush conclusions and very shady practices in intepreting the source material, so...
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    Re: Cleopatra was white and I can prove it

    People tend to mix, you know, no man or woman reject love and sex naturally because the color of their skin. Egypt was conquered by Makedonia three centuries before the arrival of the romans, and...
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    Re: Desert Kingdoms DLC

    Maybe we can tone down our machism. Every time women appears in "unhistorical fashion" in a game some comments are dumb and juvenile, much more "critic" than other unhistorical "manly" features,...
  12. Re: How to use historically accurate government types as Rome?

    Roma construct a complex mix of cities and colonies with roman, latín, allied or other rights. Until much later, roman citizenship was scarcely given. This was the strategy of "divide et impera"...
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    Sticky: Re: [Tech] 1.2 Bug Reports

    Makedonian cavalry bodyguard 200 men instead 100 like other succesors states. It's intentional?
  14. Re: Ultra-Violent Leftists Attacking and Threatening US Government Officials

    This is crazy stuff, really crazy rightwing stuff (yes, I'm a man who think peace, equal rights, ecology, welfare for the people are important topics in politic, so probably I'm a violent leftist...
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    Re: Re-eanbling Population growth in CoW 1.6

    Logic and lore. Lore: In WH world some cities thousand years old are of fundamental importance for the past and future events and some outlying villages don't matter at all, so these villages...
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    Sticky: Re: Patch 1.6 beta test

    Yes, I second all this. Keep working, take your time, for playing unfinished games popping yearly you have the vanilla Total War games (sometimes good, sometimes a mess). If the 1.6 is finished in...
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    Re: Hoplites are terrible?

    Spear/sword and shield won`t become obsolete until the gunpowder spread. Pre-gunpowder military machines (of the iron age) are comparable like modern military machines with similar weapons. Tactics,...
  18. Re: Just reached Roman Polybian, what kind of army setup?

    To much philosophers and merchants, to few hardy peasants and veteran soldiers. A few centuries later Italy suffer the same fate, demilitarized and fill with slaves from the early imperial succes...
  19. Re: Chivalric orders - any way to build the knights Citadel?

    Some recruit have an anual cicle (4 turns, one turn you can recruit and then you have to wait three turns).
  20. Re: How accurate is this paper on "City-state built Empires" of Athens, Carthage and Rome?

    mmmm... comparing USA with ancient republics is unprofesional in the academic history. The characteristics of the three ancient cultures mentioned are different and the historical process of forming...
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    Re: Question: CoW - Economy, how does it work?

    Use merchants to balance your economy and take Mariemburg (or a mining heavy karak if you are near) to become rich, but merchant are the key. Keep in mind this: you need a higher level of market in...
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    Re: AP vs weapon deadliness

    For the kind of force needed to cut the bronze and the wood of the scutum the dacian dude must have a great strength and done a large swing maybe with a run for more inertia. In one on one this trick...
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    Re: Most dumb people of Antiquity ?

    Well, thanks to you for reinforce my point. I'm a "foreign"? Do you realize the number of "foreign people" in this forum and in the world? A lot, I assure you. And you will be surprise how much of...
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    Re: Help with the Vampire Counts Unit Roster

    Cairn Wrath and Ghosts Hosts ignore armor defenses (and I think the other elites too), are affected by necromancy and have moral lock. I don't play much with vampire lords but I think the special...
  25. Re: What's up with the battles? Is this even DeI anymore? (Please forgive the hyperbole)

    ˇThank you modders for all your awesome work!
    I, a humble player of TW games but a complete useless in technical affairs (I'm a history teacher), want to thank you.
    The mod is fine, you have...
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    Re: Mass Spawns ruin the mod ...

    For you... yes. That's the point in the post, seek some advice to your problem of mass stack boring attack. After play this mod for years (no always, not all the time) I found sane have a mix of TW...
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    Re: Mass Spawns ruin the mod ...

    Helps not play all battles in one day. Maybe you can play other mods or games and come back when you want kill some big armies. In the end is similar to we have done in all this years with dozens of...
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    Re: Faithful Squire?

    A couple of turns after the "faithful squire" event a new event happens. An army of beastmen appear in the small forest SW of Altdorf and NW of Auerswald trying to escape. You have a a few turns for...
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    Re: Faithful Squire?

    Ok, I spoil this...

    The reward is a badass bretonian knight
  30. Re: If Sauron and his armies had conquered Middle Earth, what would they have done with it?

    A thousand years of enlightment without the conservative medievalism of humans, the aristocratic tyranny of elves and the oppresive autocracy of dwarves. Racism and misogyny will end and the lower...
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    Re: Allied Democracies and Oligarchies

    Roma was an Oligarchic Republic not a Democracy. Cesar and Augustus overthrew the Republic with the legions in one hand and the Grachus brothers politic program in the other (distribution of the...
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    Re: [Tech] Bug Reports 1.0 Version

    Not a bug, only a minor mistake (I think). In Carthage campaign Hannibal change his elephant general unit for cavalry but the numbers remain the same, 36 horses (max units), when the other generals...
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    Re: Governor traits

    Is the market tree. You need to build level 3 (I think, maybe level 4) of market instead level 1 like almost all other mods (and vanilla) before you build almost any other building. Any building you...
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    Re: Faithful Squire?

    If you're playing Reikland then yes, and an important reward await if you finish the quest.
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    Poll: Re: Most favorite faction

    Roma invicta.
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    Re: Patrol stance: OP

    I don't thing Patrol Stance is OP (like a "game breaking advantage" OP). Besides, an army patroling a province was a powerful control measure in antiquity with his propensity to genocidal violence.
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    Sticky: Re: Europa Barbarorum Bibliography

    The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by Robert L. O'ConnellExcelent book about the Hannibal invasion of Italy with the most famous battle in the center but also...
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    Re: How is the health system in DeI?

    Today I finish "The Ghosts of Cannae" by Robert L. O'Connell, excelent book about the invasion of Italy by Hannibal. The narrative about the battle of Cannae is terrifying, never can be all the...
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    Re: How is the health system in DeI?

    Well. Alexander The Great was injured many times in his campaign and I'm sure many man are more resilient to damage. Besides, a stone maybe can kill you if the impact is in the head (if not ricochet...
  40. Re: [Feedback] Impressions, Critiques and Requests for 1.0

    In Carthage campaign Hannibal bodyguards change from elphant to cavalry but the numbers not change. So, I have 1/3 of the regular bodyguard cavalry in the most famous general (I don't remember but I...
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