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  1. Sticky: Re: [Official Anouncement] Ancient Empires Beta 1.0 Public Release

    You guys are wonderful and I love you and I am going to name my firstborn Ancient Empires. Now to find a woman that will agree to this.
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    Sticky: Re: How far from done are the other factions?

    Sounds good, thanks for the answer. Looking forward to trying out a different style of play with barbarians. On a side note, when (GMT) does AE come out tomorrow? Would love to wake up and then spank...
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    Sticky: How far from done are the other factions?

    I am going to play my first campaign as Rome, because Rome is just the bees knees. All of the bees, and all of their knees. So I don't mind waiting a bit to play as dirty barbarians, but I am...
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    Sticky: Re: Ancient Empires: Official Update - Part one

    Excellent. I was actually thinking of making a mod to remake the integrity system to be something similar. My idea was reduced integrity per turn (reduction based on food available in the region,...
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    Sticky: Re: Ancient Empires: Official Update - Part one

    Those aren't portraits of the wives, those are the empty slot picture. Rather than just the ring, that is the "not married, get yoself a wife" icon.

    What has the team done with the Integrity...
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    Sticky: Re: STATE OF THE MOD - A.E. - PROGRESS UPDATE 14.12.17

    I just tried to start a new Charlemagne campaign today, and couldn't get into it. I have been itching for some Total War, so I am very glad to hear we could be getting a partial release soon. I also...
  7. Thread: campaign

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    Re: campaign

    The really important question is "Which will come out first?" Ancient Empires mod, M&B2 Bannerlord, Half Life 3, or zero-point energy? It is anybodies guess!:dedhrse:
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    Re: Please stop asking for extra stuff!!!!!!!!

    Hi culd you do sum of the fly units from Warhammer?I am pretty sure romans had draguns. kthxbai

    Oh or eeguls, the romans liked eeguls.
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    Re: So, a new Roman Total War

    Problem with Troy is we have no idea how they fought. Seemingly with spears, but they weren't hoplites yet. Chariots probably, but no idea what kind of tactics were used with those chariots. Not the...
  10. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    Holy :wub:, what?

    What does Hermaphroditos have to do with battle?

    "Rode until their balls fell off"? What? Where in the hell are you getting this? Yes, riding bareback does tend to do damage...
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    Re: Women and war

    Life expectancy was low because of infant mortality. A life expectancy of ~35 doesn't mean people are dying off in their 30's. The longevity of people prior to the industrial revolution was ~10-15...
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    Re: So, a new Roman Total War

    You keep saying this, this "makes more business sense" because more people are playing Rome 2, but you are missing a key thing I have pointed out repeatedly; the Roman era, from mid-Republic to...
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    Re: So, a new Roman Total War

    I am willing to bet the next historical game will be the East. Mongols maybe, rise of Qin perhaps, there are lots of great periods in Chinese and Far Eastern regional history.
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    Re: So, a new Roman Total War

    The rise of Rome is FAR more popular than the fall of Rome. Bringing Rome in its golden age to Attila is likely to bring more people to Attila, where adding more Rome to Rome is much less likely,...
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    Re: So, a new Roman Total War

    People have taken that artwork far too literally, I think. It is pretty clearly a Germanic warrior, but beyond that we really can't say anything for certain. Remember that the Suebi in R2 have the...
  16. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    Being skeptical of an ancient source is pretty standard fare, and I think we would all agree there. If Tactitus wrote about 200,000 Celts at Mona, we could definitely discount that number (or assume...
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    So, a new Roman Total War

    https://www.totalwar.com/blog/a-total-war-saga-announce-blog/

    "another spiritual follow-up to Total War: ROME II, like Total War: ATTILA, and moves the time period forward in much the same way." ...
  18. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    So, basically "I don't like Tacitus or what he says, so I completely discount it as something it pretty clearly isn't".

    How the hell do you get "cult ritualistic suicide" from "On the shore stood...
  19. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    I don't support it. Which I have said multiple times. The first post is asking for women within units, within some cultures. I don't think that is in any way needed, and would be a waste of time, but...
  20. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    No, Germanic people didn't recruit women into their army. I don't think anyone has said that here. They probably showed up here and there as last resorts, as happens elsewhere, but not as soldiers in...
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    Re: Women and war

    Ok, so as I suspected, you don't have any idea what you are talking about. Yes, men are naturally better at throwing things, but not by enormous amounts. A female jav thrower in track and field, or a...
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    Re: Women and war

    Did you even bother to read my post? Or did you just read me disagreeing with you and discount everything else?

    Yes, women have worse hand-eye coordination, though not by NEARLY enough to make...
  23. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    I don't think women are so much worse at it that they can't throw weapons effectively enough, it just takes them more training than men. I mean, women do just fine shooting bows and throwing knives...
  24. Re: Question about military reforms and mod progress

    As I have said in a few places, I fully intend to make a submod. At the very least converting some of my mod over to AE (I REALLY like the changes I have made, and from the sounds of AE I think they...
  25. Re: How is the structure of Republican Rome going to be handled?

    He went to war with the Optimates, the political "party" in control of the Senate at the time. Pompeii was their choice because he had his own veteran legions, both in Spain and in the East. They...
  26. Re: How is the structure of Republican Rome going to be handled?

    I could see civil war between political parties, just like Caesar against the Optimates. Or Marius against the...proto-Optimates, we will call them. But between families doesn't make a whole lot of...
  27. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    Nice cherry-picking of the definitions. Note the "engaged in or experienced" part. By your definition, drone pilots would be warriors, but the Japanese National Defense Force has zero warriors,...
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    Re: Women and war

    "Your examples are hypothetical, miniscule, and the very definition of exception to a rule."
    Which I stated immediately. They are a minority, an extreme minority, and exception to the norm.
    "Women...
  29. Thread: Women and war

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    Re: Women and war

    That simply isn't true. They make up a tiny minority, and they are exceptions. You even agreed "a few sparse accounts of others". That is all he asked for. "and hastily join the ranks of levied...
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    Re: Women and war

    Wow. OP is asking about historically accurate female warriors. You didn't even bother to read the post, did you? You just read "women and war" and turned into a triggered MGTOW.
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    Re: Women and war

    That is the argument they make. Thing is, no woman would survive childbirth without their bodies creating and saving up endorphins throughout the pregnancy. A woman at war, or just farming, or...
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    Re: Women and war

    Women show up quite often in war throughout history, but almost never as SOLDIERS. And that is a big difference; they mostly show up in cultures where there is a lot of tribal in-fighting, raids and...
  33. Thread: campaign

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    Re: campaign

    Ahh I see. Yeah, that sounds difficult. You said there are a LOT, does that mean a whole lot of buildings, a lot of differing effects between buildings, a lot of chains that branch, or all three?
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    Re: More building slots?

    No, nations do not use temples as barracks, but they absolutely are the meeting places of fanatics and zealots, or just adherents, and those often in history become military units. But, again,...
  35. Thread: campaign

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    Re: campaign

    Yeah, like I said, very tedious. Is it mostly just stat balancing at this point? Costs and effects and build time and such? Or are you working on a lot of the building effects seeing what works, but...
  36. Re: How is the structure of Republican Rome going to be handled?

    An idea, though probably a lot of work, would be to make a separate "empire" faction for the barbarians, kinda like the Ostrogoths in ATW vs the Ostrogoths in The Last Roman campaign. There are mods...
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    Re: campaign

    Building effects as in just db editing and testing them out? If so, sounds like you guys are really quite close to an semi-public test. Building effects are pretty tedious, but not a ton of work....
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    Re: More building slots?

    So here is the problem; this is the third different explanation we've gotten from your team on this. Petellus said "no recruitment chain", Willhelm said (summed up) "city recruitment for base units,...
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    Re: More building slots?

    Sorry, I can't make out a lot of what you are saying. I assume English is not your first language.

    Of course I still like my personal desire and opinion over others. That is how personal desires...
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    Re: More building slots?

    I see. Ok, that (maybe) fixes the issue RTW had with that, and a lot of R2TW mods had (I think most of us agree barracks buildings are boring, unless they do something significant other than unlock...
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