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Dari
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Topic: The Battle of Carrhae Posted: 03-Sep-2004 at 11:52 |
Its going to be shown on the history channel at 9PM. Go Parthians go! I assume their going to talk about Crassus follies, ect...so watch it tonight.
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Sabzevarian
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Posted: 03-Sep-2004 at 15:04 |
Damn why is that never on here
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Tobodai
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Posted: 05-Sep-2004 at 14:05 |
man that was cool, I was especially happy that they did this battle as you know my affinity for both heavy and ranged cavary.
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Dari
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Posted: 05-Sep-2004 at 16:12 |
Alrighy the Queen Tobodai, I had no idea.
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ihsan
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Posted: 05-Sep-2004 at 16:49 |
Oh, I wish I could watch it
Did they display the Roman legionaries accurately? Were they wearing the proper chain armor?
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Dari
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Posted: 05-Sep-2004 at 17:28 |
They were wearing Scottish kelt armor of the skirty ness.
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warhead
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Posted: 06-Sep-2004 at 21:34 |
no, its displayed inaccurately, they were using imperial age armour and shields rather than those during the late republican era.
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Roughneck
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Posted: 06-Sep-2004 at 23:31 |
Originally posted by warhead
no, its displayed inaccurately, they were using imperial age armour and shields rather than those during the late republican era. |
I'm no expert but even I thought they didn't look like the right armor. Now, the whole game is supposed to take place before the Empire, but I'm assuming that those legionaries are the standard unit in the game, so they use a unit as standard when it doesn't even belong in the game.
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Lannes
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Posted: 08-Sep-2004 at 16:28 |
Originally posted by Roughneck
I'm no expert but even I thought they didn't look like the right armor. Now, the whole game is supposed to take place before the Empire, but I'm assuming that those legionaries are the standard unit in the game, so they use a unit as standard when it doesn't even belong in the game. |
A well-made chain armor piece can look very similar(in the way that it is equipped) to the segmented armor of the Early Principate, so it is possible that users didn't get a good enough look to see the details of the soldiers(I missed out on this episode).
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Dari
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Posted: 08-Sep-2004 at 21:16 |
Doesn't matter much, its a goddamn game. Besides, it doesn't make a difference for all those dead Roman soldiers.
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Tobodai
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Posted: 08-Sep-2004 at 22:40 |
Originally posted by Dari
Alrighy the Queen Tobodai, I had no idea. |
now Im a "Wang" lol
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Dari
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Posted: 09-Sep-2004 at 22:00 |
Wang chun you are.
In any case, Roman armor didn't save them in the later centuries against Sassanian archery or their Savari (calvary units).
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ihsan
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Posted: 10-Sep-2004 at 03:01 |
This is how the Roman troops during the time of Caesar looked like:
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Degredado
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Posted: 30-Sep-2004 at 14:28 |
Are those helmets accurate? They look more like Augustan legionaires to me.
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Posted: 30-Sep-2004 at 15:56 |
Originally posted by Degredado
Are those helmets accurate? They look more like Augustan legionaires to me. |
They're accurate. It is really quite hard to say which style they were, could be Montefortino or Coolus(though the latter had not been in mass use for around 30 years before Caesars' wars).
But yes, the Imperial-Italic helmets used later on in the First century BC were very similar in appearance to earlier helmets, as they were based on those Greco-Etruscan models.
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