Vilageidiotx

Radical Feminism, Misandry & the Rise of MGTOW

And Franco was sly enough to sneak out the back door when the shit hit the fan.

NRP Ideas.

I've known @Dinh AaronMk since we were making history missions in Spore back in 2009, so I know he is very capable of carrying the research, and have I known @Pepperm1nts long enough that I trust he is capable of knowing what details to look for. @Nerevarine says he is knowledgeable about the Roman period, and i've been a nerd about researching history since I was a child. I think we got a good team to do the necessary research.

NRP Ideas.

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I hope you get decimated for thinking the romans would just abandon their formations and latin like that. They didn't for the last 600 years, why now? Sure the shield designs and politics change, sure some modifications to strategyto deal with new threats, but radical changes in how the roman army structured itself I don't recall being a thing.

Barbarians are made civilized pepper, not emulated.

@Nilesapa

Sort of. Not quite though.

The Roman military formation had been built based on Roman presumptions about war, and it changed quite frequently. They adopted manipular shield walls after the Samnite Wars, abandoning the Greek Phalanx because the mountain-based Samnites could employ skirmishers to break phalanxes. Sword infantry was more maneuverable, and so they used it.

While moving across western Europe, they developed the form of infantry warfare that everyone recognizes as uniquely Roman, and it worked quite well because the Celtic and Germanic peoples they were up against liked a heroic form of warfare where personal achievement was more important than coherent battle lines. When the Romans fought Carthage, they had more trouble, and they were forced to adopt a navy.

But the most important change to Roman warfare came about when they went east and discovered Parthia. Now, if you've seen a movie with mongols or huns in it where the archers fire their bows while running away from their targets, that is often called the Parthian Shot. The reason it has this name is because the Romans, who often dominate historical writing at the time, learned its existence from warring with the Parthians.

And the way they discovered this was pretty bad for them.

The Romans had not developed Cavalry simply because it didn't have a place in their early society. Italy wasn't the type of place that naturally bred an interest in horses, and you need a horse culture to breed a cavalry culture. But when they went east and ran across horse-based militaries, they had a hard time keeping up, and it took them a long time to develop a decent cavalry base.

It will.

Continue.

To be.

A problem.

For them.

Now, the way this is going to evolve is that the Roman military will began employing cavalry in more and more central roles, until by the time the west has fallen cavalry will be the cream of the Roman military and the infantry will become something more akin to the battle lines of the medieval ages. It helps to understand that too, the expensive professional armies of the late Republic and earlier Empire will increasingly be replaced by poorly paid conscripts from the country with little chance of advancement, and by foreigners who lived rougher lives and were willing to be paid less. This is to say that they won't nearly be as strong.

On the other hand, the Romans will be recruiting their best soldiers for the cavalry, and they will arm them to the teeth. They also end up employing large numbers of mercenaries from the incoming steppe tribes to act as cavalry archers, because that Parthian shot will last long after the Parthians are gone.

NRP Ideas.

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Well, no, not really. The Empire survives, but society and technology still changes.

@Pepperm1nts

To get an idea of what the military would look like

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To get an idea of what the actual people might look like.

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The 90s Nostalgia Thread

We had a Mac in 1998, and the Mac isle at Best Buy was pretty shit back then (this was when Apple was between niches, having lost their steam in the earlier market but just before they rebranded themselves as 'Hip'), so I didn't really get into PC games until 2000 when we got a PC. I didn't get into Rollercoaster Tycoon until I bought it in a bargain bin at Staples in 2003 or so. Despite that, it had aged pretty well. Shit was sweet.

NRP Ideas.

The thing with Caliph to remember though is that the title effectively means "successor" and is designate to those chosen to be the successors of Muhammad. So if during the time of Muhammad there'd be no "Caliph" since there's no one to succeed him and his mission. But if during the Rashidun that followed him, there'd be Caliphs. Elected Caliphs prone to being murdered because tribe dies hard.

@Dinh AaronMk

If we are RPing in the time in which the Islamic invasion is starting into Syria, it would be during the Rashiduns.



Looking at that, an RP during Mohammeds lifetime would be relatively bland if we are focusing on the Roman world. Especially since the conquests of Mohammed are difficult a draw a border for, since most of that land was nomad filled deserts where the claim is based on where the Muslim tribes happened to be concentrated.

NRP Ideas.

If you do go this route, I would suggest making it so multiple people can RP the bigger Empires. Maybe split the Romans into dioceses and handpick who is the Emperor? You can also split the Arabs into tribes and the Persians into noble clans, hand picking people to play the respective Caliph and Shahanshah as well.

Post the most atrocious,cringeworthy,awful fan made content for anything you can

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Not nudity, because nobody is naked. But it does make one sort of hot and bothered by looking at it, you know?

People come and go in Spam but some things never change

And the amount of dolphin tits

Hint:

Its 0

@BrobyDDark

NRP Ideas.

It could be a mixture. The western frontier experiencing a lot of Arian goths, Monophysites in Egypt, Nestorians in Syria, and Orthodox Chalcedonians spread throughout the Empire.