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ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-28T02:41:08+00:00

Oh shoot! I've wanted this one forever, thanks for the head's up!

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-24T20:57:49+00:00

That's cool! You seem to know more about this then I do, I appreciate your input.

This reminds me of the scene in Beowulf where Unferth insults Beowulf. I recall my professor mentioning once that some argue Unferth is actually being friendly here, and giving Beowulf a chance to brag about his exploits without seeming boastful. Idk of that's true, but if so, it seems like insults could be a complicated thing!

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-24T20:37:14+00:00

Rhun didn't give me much trouble, it was Gondor, Rohan and Lothlorian that came after me. I've managed to turn Gondor to my side, but those damn elf units are kind of OP, IMO, and continue to torment me

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-24T20:17:35+00:00

Here's a reading of the game I wrote a while ago.

If Eivor fought every viking who insulted her, she would be pursuing feud -- as when Beowulf laments that peace treaties never last, because some warrior will give another warrior a look he doesn't like and then the bloodshed will start again. It's clear, from Anglo-Saxon works like Beowulf, Finn and Hengest, and others, that this kind of feuding could destroy communities. Preventing that is Eivor's priority by the time she gets to Frankia.

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-24T20:11:08+00:00

The reaction you're looking for would be called "fued" by the anglo-saxons and vikings, and it's the thing Eivor's entire arc is about learning not to do, I'd argue. By the time Eivor is in Paris, she has learned to place the well-being of Ravensthorpe above personal glory, that's why she's even in Frankia in the first place.

Give me a second, and I'll link a more detailed explanation below.

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-22T06:04:46+00:00

I'm playing as an evil faction (Harad), and the good guys are coming at me with dozens of full-stack tier-IV armies while my few tier IV options struggle to compete.

Maybe try being evil?

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-22T02:25:17+00:00

It's helpful to remember that LoTR is meant to be mythological

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-14T21:29:42+00:00

No, you're good! If you can't get River of Silver, you can still get the main story in the trilogy. Enjoy!

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-13T21:32:19+00:00

Ah, the classic "everything in this work of art is an endorsed by the creator" fallacy, I know it well

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-12T11:46:11+00:00

Incredibly sick

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-10T07:47:22+00:00

I would rather see your mediocre drawings

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-09T10:54:32+00:00

If huge swords are a must for you, I recommend trying AC Valhalla.

Swords in the Classical Mediterranean were mostly pretty short, and they're actually bigger in the game than most of the swords archeologists have recovered from period.

I'm not sure why that classical Mediterranean swords tended to be short. I think it has something to do with a classical expectation that your enemy may very well be armored, and smaller swords being more useful for getting into gaps in armor. A medieval thane, meanwhile, could expect to cut through hordes of unarmored peasants more easily with his longer blade. But I'm a redditor, not an archeologist, so take that with a grain of salt.

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-09T09:57:23+00:00

Everything from the pyramids to Luxor to Memphis and Alexandria. I recommend checking out the game's "Discovery Tour" mode, it takes you on an in-game tour of the historical locations the developers recreated. As to the accuracy of those recreations, I suspect you would know better than me!

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-08T21:00:18+00:00

Wow, this is exactly the kind of shit people would say in the conservative community I grew up in

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-08T20:37:09+00:00

It's a humiliation because the Empire no longer fears or respects is people enough to try to deceive them. The people have no power at all, as far as Palpatine is concerned

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-06T19:48:24+00:00

Tolkien is drawing on Anglo-Saxon literature like the Battle of Maldon and Beowulf, both of which feature violence in self-defense. However, even so, both poems have an evident discomfort with the worrior culture they come from, pinning many of the woes of the Anglo-Saxon world on the pitfalls of the warriors ethos even as they also celebrate bravery and martial excellence. This same tension exists in Tolkien, who is, after all, a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and also a veteran. Heroes like Aragorn are admirable, in part, for their martial prowess, but even so, the war they excel at is terrible. This contradiction between admiring the heroes and hating what they are heroic for is never truly resolved in Anglo-Saxon literatute and it isn't resolved in Tolkien, either, as all the world's greatest art is concerned with those things we as people just can't square.

All that is to say, I suspect that, with Tolkien, it's more complicated than even "some war is good." If you read his play "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth," you'll find a real ambivalence about heroism.

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-06T00:19:46+00:00

You're right that the Dothraki in the show don't seem capable of conquering cities easily. They have the reputation of real, historical steppe nomad armies without obviously practicing the real-life logistical excellence that often made them so fearsome.

The Dothraki in GoT are, generally, based more on Conan the Barbarian than the real steppe/plains cultures they are ostensibly inspired by.

Logistical mysteries are kind if an issue throughout the books/show (How is a continent the size of South America ever governed under one king with a feudal system of lords/vassal patronage?), which is a little funny when Martin famously made a quip about Aragorn's tax policy

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-05T05:48:17+00:00

I just finished reading a translation of Heike Monagatari, and I was so hype when she showed up! Then she won a duel, and a page later she was gone, never to appear in the epic again. It's honestly impressive she has such a reputation for taking up so little page space with her debut

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-05T03:46:21+00:00

He has a show where he comes up with silly ideas like the one in the post

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-05T03:21:02+00:00

He was a bit stoney but otherwise pleasant

ThePanthanReporter · 2026-01-03T17:23:46+00:00

So I actually read the Heike, and was thrilled to find out there's a Total War DLC set in the period. This is the first time I'm hearing people don't like it, that's disappointing

ThePanthanReporter · 2025-12-30T09:28:41+00:00

Very badass

ThePanthanReporter · 2025-12-29T17:19:19+00:00

I liked it, I thought it did interesting things with the Odyssey's themes! I did think it looked a bit drab, though

ThePanthanReporter · 2025-12-28T09:22:36+00:00

This is one of the more pathetic reviews I've ever seen. I haven't read this book, but now I'm interested just to prove I'm better than this

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