Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

This, plus comics.

 

Wait, have they said that those are the only playable ones? Reading the respublica's description -- well, I like the new faction logo. I'm curious about how they're keeping the same 3 families from RTW, although at least properly named this time. gens Iulia all the way, of course!

 

Parthia better be one of them. Fond memories of hit and run attacks on the Ptolemaies and Seleucids.

 

Yeah, I heard about the single faction thing earlier but the retention of the families is new to me. I really hope they do the politics right; as flawed as it was, I lked the Senate in RTW. Mostly for the hilarious flavor text on the diplomacy screen and your Senatorial/popular standing screen. The actual gameplay of the Senate faction and the electoral system was whacked, though.

I am pretty excited about the fact that this time you can choose to be the savior of the Republic instead of destroying it through dictatorship and/or imperium. I always hated the fact that I could never win in vanilla RTW by being the Senate's champion and bringing the other families to heel.

RC-1991 -- I forget, have I ever recommended Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series to you? It seems particularly relevant given your capstone thesis topic. It's an immaculately researched historical fiction series about the late republic, starting prior to the Social War. You might find it interesting. Of course, you should avoid pulling anything from the novels into your actual work but... it's good recreational reading.

 

I mean, EB's a lot more fun than vanilla. It removes the political aspect entirely, which makes me really sad, so you have to just pretend that different families are vying against one another. But the nice part about it is that you CAN play multiple gentes all at once, because of how they depict family members through traits instead of hardcoded names.

 

I'm not a gamer which is probably a good thing because I'm working on the backlogs on my Kindle and my Netflix queue.

 

Yeah, my backlog is pretty bad as well- easily 50+ games across various systems, almost a foot tall pile of comics, probably about a dozen TPBs, about 12-15 SW books, 2 or 3 non-SW books (though I rarely read anything but SW due to time constraints) and maybe 2 dozen DVDs (and we'll not mention the uncountable discs worth of bonus content I would have liked to have poured through at some point).

And, of course, I'm going to make it worse for myself in the future, as I slowly compile a list of every movies I haven't seen that I might have an interest in over in this thread (I've taken care of the 00's so far, starting on the 90's currently, then I'm going to work my way back to the 80's, 70's and "other").

 

yeah, it's going to HAVE to be at least one of those two and I suspect both. Macedonia is nice and all, but -- well, wait, they haven't announced the Greek Cities yet. And while they're supposed to be independent factions now instead of one weird superfaction, seems weird we'd only get Hellenistic but not Hellenic factions as playable.


In other news: today I woke up to the fun experience of water bubbling up from my floorboards when I walked around, accompanied by an ominous squishing sound. Then the building super showed up and blamed me for a leak that was happening on the floor below. Luckily, I remembered an odd dripping sound from last night and had the presence of mind to look around and discovered water warping on MY ceiling and walls, and successfully avoided the super breaking through my walls to find a leak that was actually upstairs.

I am victorious on all fronts.

 

I knew it was a trap!

 

Also, this just happened: ahahahahaha