I have NO problems about people daydreaming about ERE. It does keep an M2TW campaign going when you have to face plate armored knights with "byzantine spearmen"
What I DO have problems with is people who present themselves as saviours, Last emperors
of a supposed ERE noble family or people who supposedly live in Istambul and say it would be better if ERE still survived, etc.
In a philosophical discussion we could discuss these things ad infinitum. What was good or bad or for whom.
However,
Right now, it is important to accept the fact that History is history and bygones are bygones. ERE's time has come and passed. It is NO LONGER around, TURKEY IS, and discussions that have any other implications
are just not relevant.
If I were a Turk and saw one of the dearest cities of my country being called constantly by another name, a foreign name or people wanting to restore a
DEAD empire to existence, how would I be supposed to feel? Understanding? Up to a point maybe, but NO more.
In that sense I completely sympathize with them when they say "Istambul not Constantinople", as the song goes.
I must ask you therefore, to treat BC as a game, to be enjoyed to the fullest. It is a fantasy given form NOT REALITY. An Indian may play the Rajput faction and conquer the world in the name of his gods, A Turk may conquer all asia and restore the mighty seljuk empire, An Italian would conquer all of the MidEast with the Outremer state.
Yet, if we all entrench ourselves in our culture and religion, a big part of the fun will be lost. I am an Orthodox Christian and one of the first factions I will play is Muslim Oman or Muslim Sindh. Why?
Because they are COOL FACTIONS, because it is a GAME, because I LOVE DEM UNITS.
Maybe, just maybe I will get out of that campaign a more learned person, one who truly appreciates some part of the world, I never knew existed. Appreciate some of the uniqueness of those places. And that is something priceless. An interactive way to learn history by slaying thousands of computer generated individuals.
Funny jokes and smilies aside, THIS is exactly the mentality you should have if you are to enjoy this faction, or any other.
Col. Roy Mustang asked me (jokingly, I got that don't worry!
)
Quote:
FINE THEN WHATS YOUR EMPIRE THAT IS GOING TO BE REVIVED EH???
the long lost "Bactrian Empire"???
and my answer would be...
NONE. Empires are beasty things that devour people and resources like a wildfire, belch you up wounded, and then proceed to splinter up and die at a moments' notice after a civil war that "nobody wanted".
I love Baktria, as it is a very dear time in history for me. I also love ERE for the same reason. They are both dead'n'gone. They had their glories and their tragedies. I tried to help teams I respected portray them as well as they could be and I am PROUD of both EB and BC for that matter.
I really don't want to bring them back. Nobody should. Time flows forward. All we are doing is portraying a very pretty image of the past. Wonderlust is completely understandable for that matter. Loving a faction, too.
Bringing present day nationalistic agendas on a PC game is just ugly.
If you see at the posts, ERE is doing OK. People love it. And why shouldn't they? ERE story is a story of glory, of struggling against insurmountable odds, outliving old enemies and losing it all because of betrayal. What's not to love?
Think of it, those who feel saddened by ERE's destruction as dear persons to you who are dead. Think of the life they had, the things they did, and how they brought joy and light to other people. Remember them well, with a smile. This is how they would want you to remember them, if they are worth it.
In the end,
it is all about perception.
Whoever wants ERE back and Turkey vanishing in the air reminds me of a poor old widow who is hugging and kissing a grave cursing the winds, the people, the gods above and below for her fate, not wanting to face reality, hurting herself and her living relatives in the process. If she can't control it, the pain will eat up her soul.
Whoever accepts ERE's fate as that of a person who lived, flourished and died, is a good friend who remembers the good things, the bad, ups and downs, puts it all in perspective, will stop on the grave, say a prayer for the soul of the deceased, and carry on his road with a smile on his face. For he has accepted reality, and bears no grudges, neither on fate, nor on people.
I sincerely hope all those who will be playing BC's ERE are more like the latter. If you aren't, please don't bother playing this mod. You will just be saddened when it's all over and you have conquered the world and still Real world exists as you left it.
Thank you for reading this far. It was a really long piece but I had to say some things, and say them now.
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) as a BC fan and history freak had to do something. Besides all armor and weapons great civilizations forge by the arts and beauty and Istanbul probably one of the finest example of this subject.
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