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  1. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    We need something to guess!
  2. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    Ah, you're very close and I won't snatch it away now. Turns out there is a little town in Thuringia whose flag looks almost the same as that of Spain. Westerngrund is not correct, though: It used to...
  3. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    You don't see (the flags of Spain and Andorra)
    OR
    You don't see the flag of spain and you don't see the flag of Andorra
    ?
  4. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The wisdom of Bastet is truly unending. These are indeed the three castles of Ribeauvillé/Rappoltsweiler in Alsace.

    @Morty: There is no river actually close-by, unless you count the Rhine several...
  5. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    Sorry, Sept, and thanks, Morty :)

    https://i.imgur.com/B9pR0ph.jpg
  6. Thread: Guess where?

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    Anguillara Veneta, Italy. The town where the Bolzonaro/Bolsonaro family comes from.
  7. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    I don't really have any specific ideas, so I'll start with some general observations.

    The Brazilian flag is very obvious, but indeed so obvious that it could be a red herring - Brazilians meeting...
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    Poll: Re: Which version of Skyrim do you play?

    Another answer: Enderal. The game Skyrim should've been.
  9. Thread: Guess where?

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    https://i.ibb.co/nkz6H9g/slate.png
    https://i.ibb.co/yFfs2k8/shale.png
    Lost in translation...
  10. Thread: Guess where?

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    Hmm, there is slate, it is probably reddish (who knows? Best wishes from deuteranopia.), so maybe it is Red Slate Mountain, CA.
  11. Thread: Guess where?

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    I think the script is chinese and while it could be japanese Kanji, I don't see any Katakana or Hiragana, so I'm boldly ruling out Japan. As such it could be somewhere in China/Taiwan or Singapore or...
  12. Thread: Guess where?

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    Hmm, I've searched for diverse combinations of dying warriors and horses/guerriers mourants and chevaux, but found nothing so far. Maybe narrowing down the region is key here. I'd say Burgundy is...
  13. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    Indeed. Like many Cistercian abbeys it lacks large towers and only features a small bell-towerlet atop the crossing. Cistercians considered large church towers a symbol of clerical hubris and (at...
  14. Thread: Guess where?

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    It is a (former) abbey, but not Maulbronn. The style is indeed high gothic, though. Something about the church (or rather something that is missing) may point you to the order that built it to...
  15. Thread: Guess where?

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    https://i.ibb.co/hCk3WTT/vbvbvbvbvbvb.jpg

    I hope this is large enough a picture. ImgBB keeps downsizing the stuff I upload without telling me. Tell me, if I need to upload a higher resolution.
  16. Thread: Guess where?

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    The Ci'En Pagoda in Taiwan?
  17. Thread: Guess where?

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    The Dutch really have the best forts, they have all the best forts.
  18. Thread: Guess where?

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    Correct. Guess which character I've been playing in Troy... :P
  19. Thread: Guess where?

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    https://i.ibb.co/ScbXkQw/lolololololollo.jpg
  20. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The Felsen-Eremitage near Bad Kreuznach, the only (former) cave monastery north of the Alps.
  21. Thread: Guess where?

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    This looks like some sort of cave church. The style of the arches and bas-reliefs of knights looks more romanesque/early medieval than gothic or anything later. The Latin cross on the the upper left...
  22. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    That's right. The Karren is the mountain next to Dornbirn, the neighbouring city of Bregenz, and has an excellent view over the Alpenrhein and the eastern end of the Bodensee.
  23. Thread: Guess where?

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    Consider from what height this photo must have been taken from and the topography in the Hinterland of Lindau.

    PS: You are getting close, though.
  24. Thread: Guess where?

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    I have recently been to Austria.
  25. Thread: Guess where?

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    Nope, though the Latitude is almost the same.
  26. Thread: Guess where?

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    No locks around there, as far as I know. The first step is really to identify the lake in the background.
  27. Thread: Guess where?

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    You're right. It seems I have been tricked by imgbb, which rendered a lower resolution than I uploaded. I have updated my post with a better version of the photo. Hope that's better now :)

    No, but...
  28. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The latter should be your starting point. Combine that with the visible Flora and Geography and you should be able to quickly narrow this down.
  29. Thread: Guess where?

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    Noone? The blue thing in the background is relatively well known.
  30. Thread: Guess where?

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    Ach, I want to go back to Croatia... Dalmatia and Istria are just too beautiful.

    I want to know the place this photo is taken from:
    ...
  31. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The templum augusti in Pula, Istria, Croatia.
  32. Poll: Re: Which mechanic to increase the late-game difficulty do you prefer in Total War games?

    I never liked the Mongol/Timurid Invasions in Med II and usually countered them with "Secret Service Spam", using all my agents to murder all of their generals before they could take a settlement....
  33. Thread: Guess where?

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    It is indeed Guedelon in Burgundy, and as such strictly speaking a 20th/21st cenury castle, since it is currently being built as a research project. They hope to find out which of the historically...
  34. Thread: Guess where?

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    https://i.ibb.co/3RCBBxT/gugugugugugu.jpg
  35. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The Sultan's Palace on Zanzibar?
  36. Thread: Guess where?

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    Ah, I was suspecting that a bucket in italics might point to a bucket in italy, but didn't know of the particular Bucket of Modena.
  37. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The curved narrow street and the late-romanesque style of the belfry remind me of the eastern Adriatic coast, like Dalmatia or Istria, but I haven't found any matches so far.
  38. Thread: Guess where?

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    That's right :) Tel Megiddo, namesake of Armageddon and site of the first historically recorded battle. In a way, the beginning of military history.
  39. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    The category is correct, the particular guess is not.
  40. Thread: Guess where?

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    Re: Guess where?

    I was considering a somewhat wider category.
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