Fried foods, candy, gambling, pretty lights, and dead Greeks

[lord of the mark]

Coming up this week, a happy holiday to all.


"In the days of the Hasmonean Mattathias, son of Johanan the high priest, and his sons, when the iniquitous Greco-Syrian kingdom rose up against Your people Israel, to make them forget Your Torah and to turn them away from the ordinances of Your will, then You in your abundant mercy rose up for them in the time of their trouble, pled their cause, executed judgment, avenged their wrong, and delivered the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of few, the impure into the hands of the pure, the wicked into the hands of the righteous, and insolent ones into the hands of those occupied with Your Torah. Both unto Yourself did you make a great and holy name in Thy world, and unto Your people did You achieve a great deliverance and redemption. Whereupon your children entered the sanctuary of Your house, cleansed Your temple, purified Your sanctuary, kindled lights in Your holy courts, and appointed these eight days of Hanukkah in order to give thanks and praises unto Your holy name. "

[Datajack Franit]

I study dead Greeks

[KrazyHorse]

Fried foods, candy, gambling, pretty lights, and dead Greeks

I like all those things.

[Blaupanzer]

Happy Hanukkah!

[Proteus_MST]

I see lots of dead greek on my screen now,
as playing the romans I just defeated Pyrrhus` army in Rome Total war (with RTR PE-Mod)

[Seeker]

Ughh...most of the historical battles in RTW were pretty easy....but I kept getting my ass kicked as the Romans in the Battle of Cynoscephelae.

Usually legions vs Macedonian phalanxes is fairly simple: Legions turn faster and can flank them in the open.

But in Cynoscephelae the phalanx is all lined up on the top of a ridge, with a steep mountain on one side and a steep hill in the middle with some peltasts around. Their cavalry is better than your cavalry.

So first I tried to do what the advice thing suggests and defeat their little support force in the right valley first, then return and try to cross the hill and hit the big mob from the side or rear. Lost many times, their cavalry just destroyed my triarii and hastatii, and their peltasts killed my elephants, etc.

So then I tried withdrawing and combining my forces. The damn Greeks will not come down off their mountain, they will just send harrassing peltasts and their crappy mercenary cavalry.

Finally, I got them by just sending everyone, regardless of losses or whatever, right to the hill in the center. Attacking uphill the Macedonians are useless, their cavalry got killed by elephants and one Triarii was able to kill three Macedonian phalanx before they broke. I used my general's bodyguard just for rallying and pursueing fleeing peltasts.

[Spec]

Thought this thread was about las Vegas...

Spec.

[Sava]

I thought this thread was about stuff we should ban.