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More info regarding that recent find near Sparta...

""Tradition tells us that Sparta was an important site in the Mycenaean period," Haskell told Live Science.
Yet no one had found a palace in...

I disagree. I enjoy watching some intense action during the replays but Campaigns and Battles are utlimately frustrating affairs. The battles are not as immersive or engaging as the original RTW.
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Yup. I regard the original release as a scam in that they promised something they knew the Warscape Engine could not deliver at that point. The EE is okay but still feels like a fix.

I keep breaking the rules of this game /facepalm

I'll leave that battle image there anyway. Adios.

http://s28.postimg.org/eixdrr47h/strewth.png


Hint: "Strewth! That guy just lost his head, to be sure."

Is it a battle involving Pyrrhus?

[EDIT] Nope. Methinks the Gaza poster got it right.

Apologies to the poster of the picture; I had assumed all battles had been named -- assumption is the mother of all etc...

Correct, the Battle of Navarino!

Yes, Sphacteria is the island of disaster for Sparta; that was the geographic clue...

http://www.amazon.com/Pylos-Sphacteria-425-BC-disaster/dp/1782002715

An exciting and erudite refutation of that claim; which I took at face value.

http://s11.postimg.org/ezl5u8noz/Islandof_Disaster.png

Clue: the island of disaster at the left side of the picture ;)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EdZ4_PLChykC&q=antikythera#v=snippet&q=technological%20&f=false

Here's a link to the Museum exhibition about the mechanism (stumbled across it whilst researching the "corbita" merchantman or "holkas")....
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I thought Matthew's study of the mechanics of hoplite warfare, concluded that a fully armoured hoplite can continue to strike, using the underarm posture, for far longer than 2 minutes? However, he...

I like this reasoning. Chimes with an Ancient Warfare article which argues that the "pike" phalanx should be classed as light infantry, given the evolution described by JaM. Plus, if you accept...

I understand your analogy but there was nothing accidental about the dropping of those bombs; nor the psychological effect it would have on the................................... Soviets ;)


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Background information ;)



https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/07/10-things-didnt-know-weve-done-iran/

We might have had computing technology 1000 years sooner, according to this writer...

"the technological world of the Hellenes"

Rome's absence also might not be missed in the counter-factual...

I've actually found myself enjoying EE at times. Still hugely frustrating but there are moments...

[EDIT]...but I still come away from the game feeling frustrated and dissappointed: the...

I want THIS as battle music ;)

I've messed around with the EE for a bit and I think the game is now okay. I'd give it a 6, maybe a 7 if I'm not totally frustrated by...okay this is a praise thread :P Fairplay to CA for...

The battle engine is bizarro and not as good as the RTW1 engine. Which is bizarro!!!!

We keep hoping it will become enjoyable :P

Implying or stating that Putin is responsible for the murder of Nemtsov, is a conspiracy theory.

Demonizing an entire people now. Nice. [EDIT] Well, at least "a large part" of the Russian population. I suggest you go the full hog and apply Goldhagen's social cogntive model to the Russians -...

You mean a patsy? ;P

Lol....I started cracking up around about here...:D

LOL!

Wasn't it called "Digital Fix"? Ah, the English language and subtext make the perfect carrier of irony and deceit.

"The Digital Fix" review (ya don't say ;))
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I think it earned numerous awards. Before it was released. This is more than an inadequate review or CA overhyping the game. It was a "pump and dump" scam.

I'm still wondering from which dark place they pulled their 85% score. I now avoid PC Gamer like the plague (just read their latest Attila article - full of "pump and dump" hyperbole). Yes,...

Voted. From dynamic action to epic vistas, they're all great. Thanks.

Anyone checked out the latest PC Gamer article on Attila? Seems to be the same old "pump and dump" hyperbole.

Just reminding the poster above that all this mess started after the US-backed neo-nazi coup (the Western MSM sort of blanks that fact out)...

"It was the West that supported the unsavory...

Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi...yeh right...



“The ISIS Leader Does Not Exist”: The US Military’s Stunning Conspiracy Theory Emerges From The Archives

Not too sure what to make of the following (as in baloney or genuine)...

"We understand that a massive deployment of the S-400 and S-500 is taking place at the present time, and it has...

Like I said, we in the west are just as brainwashed (if not more so because it is so subtle and insidious) and if you cannot accept that fact, then we'll be continually "WMD'd" by our elites...
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Unlike Russia and NK, Saddam did not have WMDs - didn't you get the memo?



See point about WMDs, i.e. the West is just as brainwashed in my opinion :P

They made certain design decisions based on feedback from games industry reviewers in order to meet certain metacritic benchmarks. We ended up with a game getting numerous awards before the game was...

Exactly. Does not compute. Besides, he's too kind to CA regarding the bizarro battle mechanics, the real game killer.

Is the following a fake?

"Effective" State Management or Kleptocracy in Ukraine? You decide"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_F7q9eDOk

Apparently the speaker is one "Igor Berkut" but I...