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Shakrith
24th Jun 04, 2:39 AM
I have a good idea for a mod: imagine if all the great empires of ancient times existed at once, in war?

Armies:
Roman Empire: Very high morale, good at close combat, but with no archers. Only siege engines and javelins.
Chinese Empire: Lots of cheap melee troops, moderate morale, very good gunpowder weapons (cathayan fire rockets, explosive arrows, bombs...).
Carthage: Rabble of troops, but quite fast and have big things such has war elephants.
Macedonia/Greece: Good troops, some cavalry, some archers, very standard. Have some cool weapons like Greek Fire throwers.

Anyway, I was wondering if any budding mapmakers/programmers/artists could help. I can do Latin/Greek voices, help with Romans, Greeks and Carthaginians, just need people who know about China and people who can make the mod itself.

Spex
24th Jun 04, 7:10 AM
Latin as such is a dead language

I really do wonder how u want to know how it sounded

Shakrith
25th Jun 04, 1:40 AM
What do you mean "how u want to know how it sounded"?

I have a fair knowledge of latin; it is the language of classicism and many great works of literature. The Roman empire was one of the greatest ever known. It adds an air of class to have voiceovers in Latin. What is your gripe? Anyway, "spex" is a characteristically latino-etruscan name!

Spex
25th Jun 04, 3:49 PM
i didn't try to be offensive
just saying it cos i had 3 years of latin (i hardly remember anything, its like 9 years ago)
the only thing i do remember, was that latin as language as such is nowhere spoken. Though a great deal of todays european languages retain their roots in the old roman empire's tongue. I was just wondering how you would construct the verbal spelling,(analysing the different languages and trying to find a comon sound?)
:beer:

Shakrith
25th Jun 04, 6:35 PM
Well Golden age/classical latin has many guides from that time of how to say it, Greek is the real one you have to worry about (because we only have some Roman teaching things and they're not too great- other than that, we work it out with great etymological difficulty!)