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Re: You are a barbarian peasant.
« Reply #150 on: July 12, 2011, 10:13:08 am »

Posting to watch and ocasionally suggest something.

I however feel the title is alittile bit odd..
This may be the real world version of a barbarian, but still.. did they even have peasants?  ???
I guess I should do some research on this?
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« Reply #151 on: July 12, 2011, 10:39:26 am »

In antiquity, Barbarians were mostly everybody save the Romans and Greek (Except if you asked the Greek, who though even the Roman were barbarians). Which doesn't mean 4/5th of the world was busy fighting in a fur thong.
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Re: You are a barbarian peasant.
« Reply #152 on: July 12, 2011, 10:42:18 am »

Yes but.. peasant? really?
Anyway.. let's not derail this with my.. overthinking.  :P
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« Reply #153 on: July 12, 2011, 10:42:57 am »

Well, they also need to eat, don't they?
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Re: You are a barbarian peasant.
« Reply #154 on: July 12, 2011, 03:03:36 pm »

i agree
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« Reply #155 on: July 12, 2011, 06:47:38 pm »

I guess it depends on what your definition of peasant is. It's a lot less complex than "You are a Scytho-Sarmatian Steppe Semi-Nomadic Tribesman".


PS. I'll have to decide the rest tomorrow. I'm thinking of some kind of super interactive commanding battle mini-game type thing for down the road.
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« Reply #156 on: July 13, 2011, 01:25:27 pm »

You belt out a truly rousing speech:

"He's not a Roman. He's just an unlucky warrior that was taken from his friends and family and sent to guard the Empire's borders by Roman scum. His place is not at our feet waiting for a worthless death, but at our side, armed and fighting the Roman that he so despise.

The Romans' armies are the strongest, the best equipped and the largest in this world and the next. Even if we spent the rest of our life hacking and stabbing, we couldn't kill them all. Only by causing their armies to crumble, their legionaries to desert and their auxiliaries to revolt can we hope to kill the Roman Beast.

My loyalty lies with you my Lord, and your orders are my Law. But I think your interests are better served by letting this man live and fight for you than by killing him. However, I am a mere peasant, and if you still wish this man to die despite my advice, I shall happily kill him for your Lordship."


You think you see a tear roll down the Saitae's cheek. He reaches his hand out to the groveling prisoner and pulls him up. He replies:

"You may secure the prisoners' freedom only if you survive the upcoming assault. I trust you will lead them to glory or death..."

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Re: You are a barbarian peasant.
« Reply #157 on: July 13, 2011, 01:37:23 pm »

So we now have a small squad of people, and. . .im not really sure what to do. Prepare them and us for the upcoming battles?
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« Reply #158 on: July 13, 2011, 01:41:05 pm »

Yeah, nothing else to do.

"Thank you my lord, I shall not deceive you."

Assemble the prisoners somewhere and ask them who speak Scythian. Try to break them into 3 groups of different ethnicities, while making sure each group got leaders that can understand you and communicate (maybe with subleaders) with all of his men.

Also check what equipment is available.
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« Reply #159 on: July 13, 2011, 01:41:38 pm »

Yeah yeah I'm busy so I haven't addEd anything yet. I'm also typing from a smart phone.
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« Reply #160 on: July 13, 2011, 02:51:46 pm »

find some new equipment the best armor we got is a roman helmet and our best weapon is a worn handaxe... theres got to be a outfitter or a supply wagon somewhere in this camp
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« Reply #161 on: July 13, 2011, 02:53:04 pm »

And what will we pay with? We're a peasant, and armor is really expensive.
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« Reply #162 on: July 13, 2011, 03:51:25 pm »

(...another interesting game!)

Maybe we could get some leather armor, something cheap but better than nothing.
If we are successful we'll loot some roman armor.
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« Reply #163 on: July 13, 2011, 04:49:21 pm »

And what will we pay with? We're a peasant, and armor is really expensive.

This is part of why the Romans were so successsful. They equipped their soldiers after the Marian reforms. Almost every other nations' soldiers had to find equipment themselves.
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« Reply #164 on: July 13, 2011, 06:15:25 pm »

I'd hate to say it, but there is always the option of selling some of the prisoners into slavery.
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