On The Year 0 Does It Say Anything About The Birth Of Jesus?

**westy159** · February 12, 2006, 06:49 AM

Ive never been in a campaign long enough to reach the year 0 but for the few that have does it say anything about the birth of jesus?

**tFighterPilot** · February 12, 2006, 07:22 AM

Well, I found this in the year 14 AC

{TROUBLE_IN_JUDEA_BODY} The client ruler of Judea appears to have gone slightly mad. He has ordered the slaughter of all new-born infants within his lands. His disturbing order was promulagated after a visit by three Zoroastrian philosophers that caused him many sleepless nights.

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · February 12, 2006, 08:26 AM

Is that important, anyway

? People rarely get beyond 100BC unless they are trying to play with more historical realism.

**General4Hire** · February 13, 2006, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is that important, anyway

? People rarely get beyond 100BC unless they are trying to play with more historical realism.

as you see from a couple other posts, this is just flat out inaccurate. Hard and Very Hard campaigns can, and often do, run hundreds of years.

Of course, when you choose medium/medium (or less) and reload the game after huge losses, and expose the protectorate/money glitches...yeah, obviously you "progress" much faster, but in reality you're not campaigning...you're "labbing". It's not a real campaign in my mind unless it was on hard/medium (campaign/battles) or above, and is done without ONE reload, cheat, glitch, anything. I've seen people build up the Julii on a VH/VH, and wind up in a 265 year war with the Egyptians. No exaggeration....265+ years. That's 530+ turns. And we're talking about GOOD TW players. That's WHY they got into this situation...most people on VH/VH campaigns are vanquished entirely in 100-200 turns.

**Scarecrow** · February 12, 2006, 08:54 AM

Im up 58ad on a brutii campaine

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · February 12, 2006, 10:46 AM

Then you're an exception. I finish all my long campaigns until 150BC.

**Lusted** · February 12, 2006, 11:17 AM

It doesn't. Jesus did make an impact in the timeline portrayed by RTW.

**John I Tzimisces** · February 12, 2006, 11:26 AM

There is no year zero, never was, nor will be. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD.

**Scarecrow** · February 12, 2006, 12:33 PM

eXc|Imperator this is true

**Marcus Scaurus** · February 12, 2006, 03:13 PM

In fact, Jesus was born in 6 BC.

**Scarecrow** · February 12, 2006, 03:25 PM

He was?

**Marcus Scaurus** · February 12, 2006, 03:33 PM

Yes. It has something to do calendars. The Roman calender was quite accurate, and some Byzantine monk managed to calculate Jesus' birth date. But the calender wasn't entirely accurate so after some calculations done by modern historians, they have concluded that Jesus was born in 6 BC.

**Flogger** · February 13, 2006, 02:14 AM

I thought it was 7 BC?

I don't think there is such a historical event, but you could mod it in yourself.

**NobleNick** · February 13, 2006, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Flogger

I thought it was 7 BC?

There is still some disagreement among the experts; but I believe the generally accepted date is 4 BC. And the above is correct: There is no year 0.

The reason Jesus was born 4 years "Before Christ" is that the calendar was set up with respect to the best known date of His birth. Later, (much later) archeological and other evidence show that the date was off by about 4 years.

Jesus' life had a very significant impact on the Roman empire, much more than the Romans would have liked, to the point where Emporer Contantine declared himself a Christian, about 321 A.D. (if I remember correctly. Does the game go this far?) in an effort to unify the then crumbling Roman empire. He had his army --so the story goes-- marched through the river and declared them baptized Christians, also. To make the Christian religion acceptable to the formerly pagan masses, the statues of Zeus, Neptune, etc. were moved into the church and renamed after Paul, and various disciples like Peter and John. And Venus, the Goddess of sex? You guessed it: she became the Virgin Mary....

**westy159** · February 13, 2006, 01:16 PM

Ok. Anyone know what year Jesus was crucified?

**Sitarus Originalus PM-30+** · February 13, 2006, 05:08 AM

i have never play till year 0.... hmmm i will pay attention to that.

**Tabell** · February 13, 2006, 02:12 PM

In about AD 30

**Scarecrow** · February 13, 2006, 02:50 PM

yeah around 30 ad

**Solar** · February 13, 2006, 07:03 PM

I don't see why the life of jesus would be an event for the central roman government. They barely took notice of it at the time, as he was in their eyes just another jew who claimed to be a messiah. Of course that would change with time and with the expansion of christian religion, but who's to say this would even happen if (as is often the case in RTW campaigns) Judea is not under roman control by 30ad?