A Sneak Peek Preview of RESTITVTOR ORBIS

[Diocle]

Good link! at one point he says that the Spanish finds cannot be considered coming from a previous age, so the Cordbridge finds belongs really to the time of the end of the III and early IV century.......but I'm reading more....Thank you! +rep

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Always glad to pass on finds!

[Diocle]

"....Respecto a las corazas que tratamos,quizá la nove-dad más remarcable sea el hallazgo de restos “Corbridge”en Astorga,datados en una época tan avanzada como es el tránsito entre el siglo tercero y el cuarto. Nosreferimos a una bisagra documentada en la UE 6001 delas excavaciones realizadas en la Plaza de Calvo Sotelo,10 (fig. 4,9). Este descubrimiento confirma la pervivencia de los protectores segmentados del tipo “Corbridge” hasta prácticamente los inicios del Tardoimperio. Debemos de tener en cuenta que el ejemplar de Astorga no puede ser interpretado como residual de una época anterior...."

If my Italian can help me to understand :

"this discovery confirms the provenance of Lorica Segmentata of the type 'Cordbridge' up practically at the beginning of the Late Empire. We have to consider that the exemplar of Astorga cannot be interpreted as residual from an earlier era..."

So if I understood: Yes the fragments really are from a LS belonging for sure to the Late Empire, previously described as the end of the III century, or better: the last quarter of the III century or the first quarter of the IV century!

NUNTIO VOBIS GAUDIUM MAGNUM:
HABEMUS LORICA SGMENTATA IN QUARTO SAECULO
(WE HAVE L.S. IN IV CENTURY!!!)

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Good understanding, Diocle .

[Diocle]

Gratiae, Gracias, Grazie Pseudo Romanus! Thank you good sir!

I like very much the idea of LS in the IV century! It's like a dream that becames true.

[Sertorio]

Any chance we will see units similar to these pictures ?
They belong to a picture of the battle of Nisibis in 217 AD featuring the II Parthica. There is also a very a very similar picture on "THE ROMAN ARMY" by Chris Mcnabb from Osprey. The legionares are using Segmentata, mail or scales, leg greaves, ovar or rectangular scutum, spathas ,lanceas,and lte imperial helmets.
They now wear long sleeved tunics, breaches and boots.

[julianus heraclius]

Yes

Here's a couple of examples:

[First Citizen Gallienus]

Wow, I berly noticed but it looks like that Centurion has both a spatha which he is using at the moment AND a gladius still in it's sheathe.

[Diocle]

Only this: Please I'm too old to wait! Give the mod now! I hate even the sound of the name Rome 2! I want RO!! Please gimme RO! I want my old dear copy of RTW with RO! I'm almost crying now,...please I want RO!!!!! julianus if you care about my mental healt give me Restitutor Orbis before I die for the tragedy that is Rome 2!!! Anyway the pics are WONDERFUL! Copmliments to julianus and Joar!

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Agreed! By the way, Diocle, did you get my email with the attached finished The Janus Eagle?

[Diocle]

Agreed! By the way, Diocle, did you get my email with the attached finished The Janus Eagle?

Happy to read that also you are waiting for RO more than Rome, Nobilissimus!

By the way even if I confirm that Win 8 is perfect, even if I repeat that my new machine is also perfect , even if I officially refuse to admit any issue with them both ,......please SBH listen to me:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I'm in the **t! .... I'm lost in this new machine , she is devouring me, when I think that I have understood something that is the moment of the tragedy, it's like a nightmare, but more horrid! So sorry SBH, my loyalty is unbreakable! But my intellect is weak, so, be merciful with the old Diocle, I belong to another age when we lived happy and free without these hellish damn machines!

Side note: We are talking of 'Pteruges' and 'Padded cloth under armour' in RO, while CA is making the most childish and idiotic game about Rome of the whole tragic human history!

Actually I don't know if we are mad or the true mad are those guys working on Rome 2.........

[Gäiten]

Side note: We are talking of 'Pteruges' and 'Padded cloth under armour' in RO, while CA is making the most childish and idiotic game about Rome of the whole tragic human history!
Actually I don't know if we are mad or the true mad are those guys working on Rome 2.........

Hmm, I have thought so far this will be Ryse: Son of Rome

[First Citizen Gallienus]

So I suppose it's historically accurate for some legionaries to have had those white pteruges under scale armor like that one guy does eh?

[Sertorio]

We know paded garment was used under the armour, i believe we can find pteruges on paintings of the late empire and we have no proof against or reason why it should not be used. paded vests used over or under armour were used until and during the ERE.

[Knonfoda]

Yeah, padded armour - whether linen, felt, cotton or even leather - with and without pterges/pteruges could be used with scale and mail, and possibly even under breastplates too.

[Knonfoda]

Have I missed something in regards to subarmalis and Rome 2? Why is everybody linking the two together?

[Diocle]

@Knon you haven't missed anything, I was linking RO with Rome.
As to say:
We, here are talking about interesting minimal details about historical accuracy in a wonderful incomingFREE Modfor RTW 1, called:
Restitutor Orbis, and until now it seems a magnificent game!......
....meanwhile the guys of CA are building a very expensive game called Rome 2.
And , until now, this new game called Rome 2, seems a total crap!

Now I've been clear I suppose.........what I want to say is: you don't pay and you get historical accuracy, beautiful units and a wonderful work by people who is doing the job only for cultural passion, and when you pay you get '0' Historical accuracy and chilish gameplay, as to say CRAP, by people who are professional workers belonging to one of the most important companies of PC gaming called SEGA, with a budget of billions of $!

MALA TEMPORA CURRUNT!


Side note: Please note my colour choices, I mean the perfect link between the word 'crap' the brown colour and the relation of them both with Rome 2 but also with the colours of TW Center upgraded (and not working)! I'm an artist!

[Stath's]

Fantastic and realistic units, excellent!!

[First Citizen Gallienus]

Money talks. Merit walks.

[Knonfoda]

I still don't get that line of reasoning though. Again, that's like saying if vanilla RTW was like say, IBSAI, RO or EB it wouldn't have sold. I think it would have exactly the same at least, if not more, copies.

Game developers need to find their balls again, assuming they have any to begin with, and stop playing it safe with that kind of mentality.