Julius Ratus

There is a new tabletop miniature ruleset comming out soon, set in the Ancient and Medieval periods. Its called Field of Glory. The website is fieldofglory.com. I think the miniatures will be made by the Wargame Factory, out of Boston. Their website is wargamefactory.com. Has anyone else heard about this? It looks pretty good and so I will probably pick up the rule book off of amazon.com tonight.

I enjoy all of ancient history, but the period from the 1st Punic War to Actium is my favorite. Outside of Rome I enjoy pre-Roman-conquest Greece and Assyrian history, as well as various later and earlier periods.

I wrote a response to this before my PoS work computer decided to take a crap. So heres the shorter, less eloquent version. Point 1 -- Who broke the sound barrier is an historical question, not a scientific one, and so has different sets of proofs. A scientific question would be whether or not the sound barrier can be broken. The experiment can be replicated. Either Chuck Yaeger could hop back in a plane and do it again, or I could fire a 180 gr 7.62 x 54mm bullet out of the 20" barrel on a Mosin Nagant at the range. In either case, the sound barrier is broken, and the experiment in replicated. Can you replicate ecolution? Point 2 -- I don't find such a concept unpalatable. Can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that we evolved from Homo Erectus? Could Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Homo Erectus have been paralell sprecies? It is almost certain the 'modern man' and Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis lived side by side. Did one really evolve from the other?

When it gets down to it, religion requires faith, and science requires proof. The Creationists have faith to back their religious theory. The Evolutionists, on the other hand, do not have proof of evolution. They have evidence, but they do not have conclusive, solid proof. Unless they can document evolution in it's entirety, and replicate their experiments it is not sufficent proof to be declared fact. I know this is impossible, but science has rigid standards and they must be upheld. My own opinion: I find Evolution credible, but largely unprovable. It has logic but no solid proof so I view it as a philosophy, not necessarily science. Religiously, I have faith in God, so if the scripture supports Creationism than I believe in it. Either way, I do not find either theory mutually exclusive of one another.

Like the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, kill all evidence that you had to try... Enough being silly. I don't actually consider it a genocide. The sacing of Carthage and other such cities was done to show other states what happened to them if they resisted Rome's dominance. Same thing with the Assyrians. It was a threat, and had to do more with politics than race. The Romans didn't seem to care about the race of their foes, just that they were foes. They tolerated other states that submitted to them, take Pergamum for instance.

Hey Klingan, your paper looks fascinating. Unfortunately I don't have time to read it here at work. I printed off a copy and hope to write more later.

The MiG 29 has always been my favorite airplane, alongside the Ju-87 Stuka. Nice work JP.

House and Dexter are the best two tv show now that Rome's gone. Ihave also been wathing Letters from Iwo Jima. It was a fascinating battle and I'm a big Ken Watanabe fan. IMHO he's the best Japanese actor since Toshiro Mifune died. Flags of our Fathers had way too much drama and not enough shooting.

How long can you hold a nation responsible? The Germans have been held responsible for the Holocaust for over 60 years. They still pay reperations, and yet the NSDAP hasn't held power since 1945. All of it's upper hierarchy are dead. All I'm saying is that the hypocrisy needs to stop. Also, the Kurds have ben fighting for freedom for years and are always getting screwed over. When they rose up during the 1st Gulf War the U.S. sold them out by not aiding them. Now in our current war, the Kurds are aiding us in Iraq, despite our past betrayal. I have friend and another co-worker, both who fought in the current war. Both say that the Kurdish areas were the only areas they didn't feel endangered in. If the US won't back the Kurds in this current round of aggression, then we are only showing what fair-weather friends we really are.

Seriously though, should the Turkish genocide of the Armenians and Ionic Greeks be totally overlooked? Genocide is genocide. Just because the Turks want to play European now dosen't mean they should get off for free. If we are going to cherry pick which slayings are genocides, let's let Hitler off the hook, both Stalin and Mao killed more. Otheriwse, lets hold the Turks accountable. They should be forced to give back Ionia and Constantinople to the Greeks, The rest of Armenia to the Armenians,and let's finally create a Kurdish state. Hell, they are the only group in Iraq who want to create a stable nation. If we are not going to let these people be free, next time an Arab or Iranian calls for Israel's destruction, don't make me hear the complaints.

I am all for more space exploration. When Spain funded expeditions to check out the edge of the earth, they reaped the benefits for a century as the strongest nation in Europe. In addition to working with Europe and Japan the US should work more closely with the Russians. They may be broke but their space stuff generally works (excepting Mir). When our expensive shuttles were down, the venerable Soyuz rockets were the life line to the space station. Besides, they were the first in space with Sputnik and Gargarin (not to mention Mila(?) the dog).

hey! I'm a loony too! Discipline me! BTW, I voted yes, all cool people belong in asylums.

Hell if I know, but God gives us three score and ten, any more is tribulation.

Ave! I would drink a beer to you, but one more and I'll fall of my chair...

Hope he wasn't your doctor!

Thanks, A. I didn't even know there were any documents left by the Carthginians. BTW, what is the Codex Heidelburgensis? An ancient text written by Cro Magnons?

I've never played EB so I cannot comment on it. I just got RTR and have not much experience with it. As for the three houses thing, its there to give the possibility for civil wars later on in the game.

A supporter of Cloius boffing Milo's wife? This is just too good to be true! I would say this would count as 'gross immorality'.

Napoleon was considerable older than Alexander when he died. Besides, Alexander never invaded Russia .

Hey all, I've been loving this thread, but since it hasn't been updated in a few days I thought I would bump it up to the top. The Venerable Augusta has the next turn. If she hasn't posted a new picture by tommorrow, I will usurp her position like I was Cyrus with 10,000 Greeks at his back .

I think that he heroes of old got their status because they were just that, heroes of old. Th distant past tends to make giants out of men. Look at Alexander. Today he is the greatest conqueror of all time (to some). In his own time he was just a man. On Greek (whose name escapes me) stated that he couldn't possibly be dead, for the whole world would stink of his corpse. Try finding a line like that about Achilles.

Definately not by the writers of the Gospels. They were all Jews, and so were unlikely to be anti-Semites.

Germanic auxillia.

Vespasian?