Daily Roman thread.
How could a society that was so shitty at the micro-level produce such enduring art and architecture?
>>615925
Shitty at the micro-level?
>>616121
>>616136
So you mean the people who were the literal salt of the Earth, pillars upon which any state rests, were respected and given a say in government? Wow, who would've fucking known.
> Let's not stretch ourselves too thin
>>615886
>tfw the Roman Empire will never reunite
>>616671
CVCKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgRmnmyNKaU
Jump to 26 minutes. Enjoy Based Ovid.
>>615925
Because they stole it all from the Greeks.
>>616737
Begone with your anachronistic concepts of "race-mixing". This is ancient Rome were talking about you stupid snownigger.
Btw you were considered well to do in upper class Roman society if your wife had multiple lovers. Men would brag in the baths about how many lovers their high status wife attracted.
I eagerly await the "Life of rome" mmorpg beta opening, but I dont think it will be what I want it to be at all.
I essentially want a deep immersive historically accurate elderscrolls game set in ancient Rome and with no magic. Be a merchant, Join the leigion, maybe campaign for political office...
Fuck I need to learn how to lucid dream so I can experience that.
>Issa is more playful than the sparrow of Catullus. Issa is more pure than the kiss of a dove. Issa is more loving than any maiden. Issa is dearer than Indian gems. The little dog Issa is the pet of Publius. If she complains, you will think she speaks. She feels both the sorrow and the gladness of her master. She lies reclined upon his neck, and sleeps, so that not a respiration is heard from her. And, however pressed, she has never sullied the coverlet with a single spot; but rouses her master with a gentle touch of her foot, and begs to be set down from the bed and relieved. Such modesty resides in this chaste little animal; she knows not the pleasures of love; nor do we find a mate worthy of so tender a damsel. That her last hour may not carry her off wholly, Publius has her limned in a picture, in which you will see an Issa so like, that not even herself is so like herself. In a word, place Issa and the picture side by side, and you will imagine either both real, or both painted.
>>617574
Wait what??
>>617574
Learn to code and you can make it.
>>616751
You're just being a jackass but marriage was respected so little at certain points that you and your wife would basically be business partners and the business would be breeding. After which, both would return to their prefered lay/fuckboi/hunk and live happily.
>>618239
I recently downloaded flashdevelop and tried a tutorial, but I can't even get it to work properly, I also need to download a compiler or something and I followed the instructions but it doesn't work and every time I try to load a file with it it goes into a recursive loop and keeps reloading more and more flashdevelop.exes, I'm a useless sperglord
Do you know of something I can download and just start coding something very simple, preferably for free or shareware
Name a better bro than Agrippa.
You can't.
>>616671
Soon brother.
>>618230
http://store.steampowered.com/app/381620/
this, fim-senpai
an ancient Rome MMORPG should be a ruthless jewing and plundering simulator like EVE online but with swords and anachronistic leather bracelets.
Is it true that Latins were slaves to Etruscans?
>>616737
>Snowniggers are still assblasted
>>619085
Thank you based Anon
>>619228
Yeah they were raped by etruscans
>>619557
Until the Romans raped the Etruscans.
Both figuratively and literally.
>>619085
Why are they so few games set in rome? The closest i can think of excluding strategy games is age of decadence
>>618785
lol i was joking calm the fuck down u fucken normie
What do you lads think of total war rome 2?
>>620790
Bretty gud.
I liked it more than rome 1 desu
>>619085
>finally a rome game not set in republican or early imperial era
I came
>>620790
i got it off the last winter sale. modded, it's better than the first desu.
>>620790
When it first came out it was so fucking broken. I'm just glad its playable now.
Been arguing whether or not I want to pick up Attila the next time it comes up on sale.
I was never hugely interested in late antiquity but this board is making me want to play it.
>>618058
:')
Military question: How effective was Roman cavalry? It seems that their Infantry always did the work while the cavalry is seen as the weaker unit.
>>621134
They employed mercenary cavalry often. Their native cavalry perhaps wasnt the best tho.
>>621128
My favorite was Napoleon.
Shogun 2 had so much potential and its still really good but I wish they would redo it and add some of the features of the later games.
The mechanics of the game are just too rigid to properly do the period and conflict justice. Generals don't make the difference they need to nor have the flare they should. Agents are useless. And the politics of it are all wrong. But they're all easy fixes. Shogun 2 had and has the potential to be the greatest of them all.
Fall of the Samurai was brilliant. I really want them to do an early modern Total War (just prior to WWI) or Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
>>621134
Cavalry was always the weakest part of their armies and generally left up to auxillaries when it could be. Probably had something to do with them being the richest members as they could actually own horses and thus the least willing to die.
One time we told Caesar to put the legionaires on horseback and he actually did it. The absolute madman!
>>621128
Medieval 3 when! I've been enjoying the age of charlemagne expansion, I honestly can't pick an overall favourite though.
>>621152
I just feel that the medieval period is more interesting for a total war game since all factions are relatively balanced while in rome its a couple empires vs small groups that are just trying to avoid total subjugation. Not as exciting imo
>>621159
For a sequel I just wish that CA would have some need for historical accuracy
>Spain
>Russia
>>621168
>CA
>Historical accuracy
>Integrity
>>621168
Yeah but do you expect normies to know what kievan rus and castile and aragon were?
Rt: medieval 2 with the europ barborum 2 mod ist the best rome game imho
>>618785
code academy is a good starting point for absolute beginners
>>621388
>unironically coding
>>615886
>tfw noone is selling a Capitoline Guild of Millers t-shirt
Motherfuckers.
>>621390
>codifying your laws
>>621415
>>616748
Fuck this meme chart and fuck /lit/ for making me read more than 2000 pages of collective greek wankery so that i can read a 100 page book by Nietzsche
>>622130
Did you seriously read every book on that image? All that you really need to read of the Greeks is homer and maybe Herodotus and some plays. You're a massive fucking pleb too if you don't appreciate Greek literature
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i have a question about gladiatorial games: when did they stop? what made people enjoy them less? how related are they to medieval tournaments?
>>623273
Disrupted trade networks, a paucity of wild animals and the church forbidding the practice. Also a smaller Urban population
You'd get similar things like fights and things but it be much smaller scale; bair-baiting, watching two warriors pummel the shit out of each other
They aren't related in anyway to medieval tournaments. Tournaments were mostly used to keep people sharp and in practice for battle, eventually becoming a bit more of an entertainment.
If you want something similar to a medieval sport the Roman cavalry troops would often dress in elaborate clothes and streaming banners and generally show off.
>>623440
*bear-baiting
>its late and I've had surgery today
